coming up on r t breaking news and trolls in south carolina police responded to a deadly shooting and a hostage situation we'll bring you the latest. and a record breaking four hundred refugees arrive to greece in just one day what this wave of my agree could mean for the european union. then donald trump is out of war with the so-called fake news media but could his jobs be good for their ratings media analyst line always then.

it's thursday august twenty fourth four pm here in washington i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america we begin today with breaking news in charleston south carolina where a hostage situation and a downtown restaurant has just end it let's get right to our team simone del rosario we've been monitoring the situation this afternoon so what happened according to police this shooter did kill one person he shot him in the restaurant and then held a multiple people hostage inside that downtown restaurant for hours now after failing to negotiate with the shooter police did end up shooting him and the man is in the hospital in critical condition police got the first call at twelve seventeen this afternoon it was the height of lunch rush at virginia's on king which is a popular southern cuisine restaurant and it's the heart of the business section in downtown so that section of downtown was on lockdown for hours this. watt was on

scene hostage negotiators were on scene trying to deal with the assailant there was a loud bang in the middle of a press conference around two thirty so nearly two and a half hours after this all started and then a posting career crime reporter andrew nappa tweeted paramedics just carried someone out of virginia's on king in charleston on a stretcher so soon after that moment police began breaking down the barriers in downtown according to authorities the other hostages are all ok but even as all of this scene was still unfolding the charleston mayor told media they already knew the shooters general motive. you know. again this was a scene that was taking place in downtown charleston for hours and citizens were urged to stay away if they were in the lockdown section and downtown they were urged to shutter in place so it was stopped still in downtown while authorities

rushed to try to handle this scene witness accounts say a man had walked into this restaurant with a gun and said something along the lines of there's a new king of charleston or there's a new boss in town he ordered everyone down into the back of the restaurant many of those patrons those hostages were able to slip out the back some of them crawling through the back door now one victim of course is killed the shooter is shot and in critical and the mayor said he believed the disgruntled worker had a history of mental health issues ashley thank you so much that was some reporting . clashes between police and refugees in the streets of rome are causing division within the community the incidents are the latest in the escalations of italy's a recent migrant influx so far this year some one hundred thousand migrants have made their way from libya into italy and authorities estimate another seven hundred thousand are already in the country as are sweet explained some question if this will ultimately affect the country's risk for the buildup of terrorist cells. just

one block from rooms main train station mattresses broken chairs and trash over the past few days it's where some one hundred refugees have been living in called pencey at all they took up camp after roughly five hundred squatters were evicted this past weekend who had been living there for nearly five years but they were saying it was a battleground among migrants and police used water cannons and batons when the refugees ignored orders to vacate media reported science of assigned reading quote we are refugees not terrorists in italian well it's an ongoing battle as the prime minister of libya warns that terrorists could be entering europe on boats posing as refugees this as just days after a terrorist or poorly killed fifteen people in barcelona spain and police say they've linked the suspects to groups in northern africa according to the head of the un backed unity group in tripoli quote if god forbid there are terrorist elements among the migrants a result of any incidents will affect all of the e.u.

despite this lingering across europe human rights watch criticize the police's use of water cannons however the italian please union said in the statements that officers use water cannons because of the risk of explosions caused by liquids and that officers had been hit by rocks bottles and pepper sprayed two people were arrested and doctors without borders said its medics treated thirteen refugees including one for a broken bone well since two thousand and fourteen some seven hundred thousand migrants have arrived in italy from northern africa nearly two hundred thousand asylum seekers. or reportedly stay in state run shelters in washington and toss the sweets are. staying in europe where thousands of refugees have been arriving on the shores of greece by way of turkey this comes as tensions arise between an kora and berlin turkish president to one tow turks in germany to vote against major parties including german chancellor angela merkel and the upcoming election saying quote i am calling on all my countrymen in germany the christian democrats as steve p.

the green party are all enemies of turkey support those political parties who are not enemies of turkey merkel simply responded saying quote we will not tolerate any kind of interference says this exchange between or when and mark all over the past week more than one thousand refugees have arrived in greece leaving many to question whether or no one has broken his e.u. immigration deal and the form of protest joining me now to discuss this further is former u.s. diplomat jim thank you so much thank you very for joining us jim now i want to start with why are we witnessing such a huge surge in refugees washing up on the shores of greece just over the start of this month that we've seen over two thousand refugees show up there but first i think we need a special prosecutor in germany to look at the air to one's interference with the german election this is clearly designed i think to have an impact on the election and it's clear that he's breaking his deal with the you he can turn that spigot off

on any time he wants to it was never a good deal given the merkel has been you know mom. told the mother of the growth of migrant crisis here in germany and in europe as a whole i think she's very vulnerable but as you point out you're right this is happening at least from north africa it's happening in spain we have people coming over just to sure on the beach there could be use recently if you know i think we need to be careful too we say refugees we don't know how many people are refugees or migrants who are migrants for various other reasons we keep hearing about. syrian refugees very few of these people now coming to turkey are syrians in fact syrians are going back home as it's clear the government there is winning the war a lot of these people appear to be from afghanistan and other places like this thanks for pointing that out now you do agree that the urge to win is breaking this in detail could he face any repercussions from the us know who they are so i think he's at the stronger position and everybody in europe knows that that germany is basically paying protection money to turkey to keep them to keep the flow out of

europe because obviously once the the turks let them out of there there's no way the greek islands can be can really be defended fortunately for greece which is dead broke mostly for people who don't want to stay in greece anyway but then you have countries like like hungry in poland others that are not going to accept german demands that they have been migrants to their country so really cold causes havoc in a few countries particularly germany as well as we see now in italy and spain in places like this when it comes to the deal when it was struck a lot of experts were basically criticizing it and now they're criticizing it even more saying that it hasn't brought about the improvements that have been need it to aid in these refugees and we see that agree it is now housing that the housing of these refugees and obviously their economy is not doing too well so would you agree that there's a deal wasn't a good thing in the first you know it wasn't but is the problem is that the elites in europe do not have the courage to adopt what i would call the herman cain

response nine nine nine and we're not letting them in and germany of course because you know they're very very p.c. and they don't want to appear that they're discriminating against people they don't know they're there they just turn a blind eye for example to the reports we've had of of sexual assaults against german women other where in europe for people coming from these countries who think they're entitled to behave a certain way they they just don't know how to say no so what they do is they they they try to kick the can down the road and as i say pay protection money. now out of his e.u. deal that turkey struck with the e.u. what are they getting out of this exactly were the benefits the europeans turkey it was turkey getting out of their money money's good they get billions of the euro from the europeans to manage the migrant crisis within their own borders but they can they could always take the money and break it to as we know that the heir to one in particular seems to have developed quite an animist against angle americal

rimmer the germans were shutting down turkish government promoted activities when he was having the reds referendum on changing the turkish constitution they've had problems regarding german presence at some of the turkish military bases as part of nato so it's a really unhappy relationship at this point earlier you mentioned that not all the refugees are syrians and about all refugees and they're not all refugees but some of them were afghans in the last year the european commission they excluded afghans from its refugee list about it was safe for them to go back to their country and that they could be deported from the e.u. now recently afghan migrants they were actually protesting and i'm athens greece and they were demanding that the e.u. turkey deal be eradicated and that the afghans be allowed to be back on that lesson that they shouldn't be deported from these countries what do you say to that. again i think that the begs the question of does anybody have the where with all the courage to enforce that basically the e.u. has a policy is once you get yourself physically into the e.u.

you're good they're not going to send you back they can say anything they want but if they actually going to deport these people and as far as a whether afghanistan should be on a refugee list or not i think a lot of that is politics and that in for as long as we're pretending we're making progress in afghanistan things are getting better there of course the president trump just announced his due which is the same old policy on afghanistan i suppose there will be a lot of pressure to go along with the pretense but. it really does come down to the question of whether europeans are going to say that the. the rest of the world's problems now have to become europe's problems which is the standing policy right now and are they going to find the courage to say don't do that moving forward as it pertains to refugees what should be done to help them get them back on their feet well there are a number of things what is. the extent to which we did see a big influx from syria the solution to that is peace in syria peace is coming to syria fewer these fewer these people were come of more of them will go home maybe

that's what needs to be looked at with in terms of a strategic approach to afghanistan really rather than simply more prosecuting a war and thinking we're actually going to get again victory over the taliban which nobody expects but i think part of it has to do with the fact that look the duty of a government is to its own citizens we can try to ameliorate the conditions in these countries rather than aggravating the mouse we're doing try to provide him a humanitarian support within the region but to just open the doors and say come on and we'll manage it somehow is a i think it's grossly irresponsible to danger to the people in these countries a danger to their economies i think most people instinctively recognise that but the other hand they don't want to be called so they they won't do anything about it frankly i think europe is in very big trouble thank you so much for this and i say if i was jim transformer us diplomat thank you so much. the drug administration is threatening to an act sanctions against four countries who refuse to facilitate

department of homeland security deportations these countries include cambodia eritrea guinea and syria leone d.h.s.s. spokesman david what panel has been cited saying they come from a list of countries consider quote recalcitrant or insubordinate for failing to accept the terms of the us emigration and customs enforcement apparatus according to trump himself there are at least twenty three countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the us furthermore citizens from these four countries could face a visa restrictions that would prevent them from entering the u.s. entirely. the band secretary james mattis stopped in ukraine today timing his visit with the country's independence day following teasin mad as pledge his personal support for bolstering u.s. support for ukraine to counter what he described as russian aggression are to correspondent i have heard him tell brings us the big news from the secretary's visit and how the trump administration is cozying up to the country defense

secretary mattis certainly assuaged any fears in kev's that the u.s. will not provide lethal weapons to the government strongly suggesting he personally supports the plan currently sitting on president trump desk speaking alongside ukrainian president petro poroshenko maddest emphasized the special bond between the countries. pretty soon on or. if you want. a. united states or. will. you. read. the united states understand the challenges. of addressing one side of the review or why you. believe if you were to. come here and do better understand the. soldiers face on the frontline this permits

me inform. what we. brought to me by you. through your presence. maddest went on to point out the u.s. recently approved a one hundred seventy five million dollars worth of equipment shipments to the country including a specialized defense equipment the poroshenko government has been locked in a civil war since coming to power in a clue in two thousand and fourteen at the time u.s. assistant secretary of state for european and here asian affairs victoria nuland highlighted the hefty contribution american taxpayers have made in the country since the fall of the soviet union we've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic crane. the planned critics of the plan to send lethal weapons to crane say it will only escalate the conflict as head of

the russian foreign ministries department for nonpoor for ration and arms control declared quote the masterminds of the plan to sell lethal weapons to ukraine apparently proceed from the assumption that the situation in the east of the country isn't explosive enough already and that it's needed to add fuel to the fire secretary mabus said his trip to careen was meant to strengthen the u.s. relationship with calve president trump must now decide whether or not to take it to a level which can be summed up in one word lethal in washington on your part until r.t.e. white house adviser jared nerd kicked off a renewed push by the trump administration to restart peace negotiations between palestine and israel today however a hell of sin in political analyst says quote the level of optimism from the palestinian leadership and people towards the trump administration is zero hundreds of palestinians took to the streets of ramallah today to demonstrate against the political leadership of the united states this comes after palestinians express

increasing frustration with what they say as a failure by the president of the united states to offer a clear vision for peace specifically they are calling for an end to israeli settlement construction on occupy atlanta and a commitment from the u.s. to establish an independent palestinian state. president recently reignited his war against mainstream media at a major rally tuesday were broken to a resulting redemption when dishan of chanting c.n.n. sucks for his reaction we're now joined by legal and media analyst lionel of lionel media and i want to first start with a quote from c.n.n. international chief he said if you look at the groups that trump has primarily targeted c.n.n. the new york times the washington post saturday night live stephen colbert every single one of those has a quite remarkable growth in their viewing figures and their sales figures now i know would you agree with this c n n international chief is trump

a centrally good for business. oh without a doubt and in fact you would certainly see a tremendous growth and uptick especially when you consider that some of the aforementioned new sources and media sources have enjoyed ratings that rival that of baby monitors so yes any improvement is a significant uptick but it's a great point this being made trump provides symbiosis this mutual ism you know the shark in their room or they work together trump needs them trump need c.n.n. and fake news to provide the the bogeyman the bull work for his movement so he can go to his people and say i need to look they're against me they're the enemy it's a professional wrestling the heel and the babyface you know c.n.n. they're the heel they're the bad guy c.n.n.

then turns to it's i guess stockholders and says look especially keep in mind actually that right now c.n.n. is looking at a very important and critical merger between time warner and a t.n.t. we're talking eighty five billion and that the same time c.n.n. and actually time warner they have to satisfy the trump justice department that there's nothing for this merger so they're in a real precarious situation they've got to both satisfy the bottom line you know b.p. can sort of speak but not too much but i concur one hundred percent were it not for trouble lot of these people would frankly have gone away gone by the wayside now when it comes to the audience can you speak to value when it comes to you know what trumps ads on television and when he's always that approaching c.n.n. and other news organizations calling them fake news out of this in fact the audience the audience loves this this is a true rally i know it's hard to find

a you know an antecedent and in that world of history a harry truman or somebody. the new york times sucks i mean the language is a bit crude but you know actually these are different times this president one of the i like every night came along these as i'm going to use twitter i'm going to use twitter and i'm going to speak directly to my constituents estimate one number two we live in a i hate to say it crude or more kind of base environment where what we say what you hear kids say on the street compared to ten years ago is enough to make your hair curl by by by just listening to this so that's the second part but also this is a you can call it populism you can call it whatever you want he is going to his core and he is creating an us versus them argument and let's face it there's a lot of them and very little us because if you really think about it everybody's against trump those people in that crowd that might be the only group of people the

republicans all like them democrats the media certainly don't kneel khans hillary he beat bernie he beat hillary he'd be sixteen of the toughest the best and the brightest the republicans had beat them soundly he had now has his entire staff is basically about to be shattered he's looking at potential talks of impeachment a twenty fifth amendment kind of a section eight site remove all he's got his family and his son in law being investigated by moaners grand jury i mean let me tell you he doesn't have anyone so if he can get his core his base to be behind him but for a cause something that's not just politics as usual but something that goes to the core of who they are in their country and you know let's face it this goes back to i don't want to bring up any other dictators but when you have a crowd and they're chanting something just same as a football game where they're red you know we will rock you or queen or the

star-spangled banner it creates this commonality this sense of we belong and we're on your team mr president i know we have about a minute left out which of the news media take away from this exactly. they have to understand that specifically those that number one they should look at existence coexistence what we're doing right now right now you and me poses an existential threat to mainstream corporate traditional dinosaur ossified media you heard it right there what we're doing r.t. and others poses a threat so what they should be looking at is kind of maybe what you're doing and saying i'm going to look at that model because it seems to be very very effective and all you have to do is to look around and understand immediately why that is so thank you so much why no for that and say if i was lying oh why no media thanks again thank you well bad as

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i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of. corporate media everything uses to talk about these are not . i'm going to paint a clear picture about how disturbing health for conduct is the model these are stories that no one else. might have thought you post to the american. question. all the feelings of. every in the world good experience for me to live and you get the role in. the world according to. the world cup.

in case you haven't heard any good stories about how our congress people have lost touch with regular people lately i've got one here for you now it's about democratic senator claire mccaskill from missouri and her privately she's cut a lot of trouble for that plate over the years she has to fly from washington back to missouri on it over the weekend it was an eight passenger turbo prop worth about two million dollars she owned it back in two thousand and eleven it came out she didn't pay taxes she owed on it for more than four years so she owed about three hundred thousand dollars in state property taxes she was also caught using taxpayer dollars to fly the plane around for many reasons including at least one trip

political in nature which set off an ethics complaint so the plane was big trouble for mccaskill especially because she was doing what lots of politicians do trying to sell herself as a do gooder out to just help the poor instead of as an m. vicious hard working woman going out there again earth that thing the image she was trying to create didn't exactly square with owning a two million dollar plane that she dodged taxes so finally she ended up selling the plane telling reporters i have convinced my husband to sell the damn plane i will never set foot on that plane again and she did sell it she took a loss pocketing a measly one point nine million dollars now her word choice and attitude were interesting back then when she sold it because they made her sound as if she was the victim of bad p.r. now that she saw the plane has an affront to the climate burning up the atmosphere

so she could fly around in private or to her. did she once who are not millionaires she didn't sell it because of those reasons she sold it because it had become a p.r. headache that's what her attitude and words conveyed when she sold it back in two thousand and eleven and that's what her words at a recent town hall just confirmed on august nineteenth at the kennett town hall a constituent was talking about how americans view travel as a right and flying in airplanes wherever they want is part of that and as soon as she heard claim that attitude came right back because she said would you remind that when they come after me about my husband's private plane that normal people can afford it got that democratic senator claire mccaskill thinks normal people can afford a two million dollar private plane and she's very upset she had to sell hers just for appearances she should just kept the damn plane because we all see what's really going on anyway.

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chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce offspring of tell you that will be gossip in public by file for the most important day. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with are the ones. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down lose business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer.