isis has been. entirely. sure to leave behind plenty of surprises. every rep. travels to the iraqi city of tal afar iraqi forces now face the difficult task of making that city safe enough for the people. in syria development as many as twenty five thousand terrorists now believed to have regrouped and are now fighting on the one that includes previously backed by the u.s. we've got the latest on the developing story.

a rally against hate turns violent in the city of. clashed with. demonstrate. monday morning here in moscow my name is kevin when you're watching r t international it's good to have you company so let's get on with this thirty minute news update we started with this the iraqi army has announced most of the city of tal afar has been liberated from islamic state militants with terrorist still holed up in the basements and underground tunnels there's a long way to go it seems before that city can anywhere like something normal again and as more reports next the deadly surprises around almost every corner.

of the islamic state remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered all over the buildings entire iraqi soldiers haven't yet gotten around to covering them up with being busy fighting a daily. after the victory was announced here in thailand fighting still hasn't died down isis hygiene throughout the city and while they didn't hold any geographic areas or districts in thailand they're hiding in basements and buildings and then time runs underneath the city waiting to ambush patrolling iraqi soldiers . why not let them come to a. well i says has been beaten in telephone there made sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps

everywhere intel a far they have to turn the city into a sap as nightmare and come in here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem for we know behind these. could be explosives booby traps bad news behind the times even in the right switches. one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa and exploded along with the house they had booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles when you open the door and explodes. i've just come back from tel afar and you can didn't lie down on the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and wires everywhere we don't touch anything i will do all we can to disarm everything but

there is only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for us but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i still couldn't get the car bomb out our engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion but it's strange isis folded almost too quickly. there is evidence that around four hundred families of isis fighters were allowed to leave on august twenty fifth in an unspecified direction the rumor among iraqi troops is that as many as two thousand isis fighters have been given safe passage out of tal afar into syria again this is

a rumor and we conned confirm it but it would explain the unexpectedly easy fight iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of telephone saying would still far too dangerous but having spent some time here in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when your opportunity presented itself as the battle began braving the must in the desert in order to get away before the iraqi ministry in the u.s. led coalition brits to bet might fire a frog of them through and come back a question of how much of qualified will be left to come back to more i'd guys dia . from talib iraq. meantime over the border tens of thousands of terrorists in syria uniting under one banner to fight government forces there the

rapidly growing threat is being compared to the rise of islamic state when it's emerged in the region some of these groups were previously backed by the u.s. to hugo's stand off reports. a jihadi army drafted by a group with known links to al qaida can be a good thing. or h.g.'s is a new force in the syrian civil war there are twenty five thousand terrorist fighters consolidated now in northwestern syria in perspective a comparable amount of troops led islamic state in proclaiming its caliphate in half of syria and iraq and this new force has a very familiar face there are dozens of groups many of which were previously backed by the united states most units making up h.t.s. had previously been rallying under the banner of all nusra front brutal massacre torture rape there have been no boundaries and how far will go to win this war.

while generate the highly effective. gap to bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical. this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants. you know the group that is part of the h.t.s. now is neuros in key spine chilling pictures of a child being executed apparently broad recognition over other tara factions after filming this video the boy was beheaded. this atrocity raised many questions about

washington's vetting in syria if you're able to report is this the kind of thing that would. the fact assistance. us is to. this specific group but also just in general to we have to say. well i think we take it you know if as you said if we can. prove that this was indeed what happened and this group was involved in it i think it would certainly give us pause. give you pause will give us pause about any assistance or or even frankly any. further involvement with this group so all new strains inky are two of the most notorious groups among a total of seventy in this new conflict of terror well armed and under the same command ready to strike in c.s. key syrian cities. mideast expert joshua landis told us that the new terror

groups already overwhelmed the factions in the area it's quite clear that the domination of the how to shama over the adler province. as militarized that even groups like the sink which had been allied with the united states went over and fell under the control of this more dominant jihad ist group so it is a big problem for both the united states turkey russia iran in the coming months what to do with it would probably it's it's like that there but they'll have to be a military solution to it. and not be allowed to build itself up and to use northern syria as a base from which to launch attacks against the west or the united states although they claim not to support assad are clearly looking to the syrian government

as an ultimate solution for their all cried problem. of a protest in the city but to have descended into chaos anti-fascism one side broke through police barricades during a rally against hate and they clashed with right wing activists. ah ah. ah ah. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah. ah ah ah. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah it was brought to the unrest police band sticks mosques and any potential weapons where the dozens of anti fascist protesters broke those rules they also pepper sprayed the leader of a conservative group one leftwing demonstrator attacked photographer and others reportedly threatened people who tried to film the violence six people were injured thirteen arrests were made his column opened with more from berkeley. so we're here

outside of course the civic center in downtown berkeley california and as you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist protesters these are people that assemble to counter a right wing rally that was called enough for today for this afternoon to the slogan say no to marxism now these are both here that object to a number of the people involved with that record of right wing rally talking to the white supremacy and fascism assemble to denounce it so it's quite in the first crowd that is assembled here in front of the civic center as you can see behind me here we have that the folks that generally referred to as the black bloc you know they've got goggles on now they're covered in black masks times come in an arc is a grouping we've got other people here all with different marxist groups talking about socialism and communism while we have a lot of people sign to say things like say no to hate their speech hurt from their seat to seek a you guys were causing violence in the streets nobody would be running to denounce it for protection everyone would be ridiculing the way i didn't. think.

the city of berkeley has actually rallied around the slogan for united against hate and that's been hanging from all the public buildings of the late in the stores around the city is just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states especially in the aftermath of charlottesville a lot of different views being expressed here a lot of anger but a lot of folks that just say they're worried about their country there seems to be a lot of division the far left in the far right political violence in the streets so a lot of different messages here in downtown berkeley california it seems so the vice chair of the libertarian party often vora told us violence it seems is being normalized across america. a lot of the normalize ation of violence that we're seeing is happening because even at the government level we're seeing situations in which the government settles its disputes with violence that there is a dispute with the islamic world is settling it with violence if there's

a dispute with drugs they settle that with violence and that example needs to change so one possibility will be a wholesale rejection of violence at the personal level and at the governmental level and that would be an incredible opportunity for american growth but the other possibility is an increasing cycle of violence where violence is normalize or becomes more and more part of our politics and violent politics is a rejection of everything american stands for is that we're able to settle our dispute with out violence it is one of the things that it's that america part since our founding and to see that going in this direction to me is just heartbreaking i want to see it stop. targeting confederate monuments the splits in us society is now moving to the world of big screen one cinema a memphis is cancelled the annual showing of the one hundred thirty nine classic movie go with the wind the iconic film about love and civil war was reportedly accused of being racist by america's left wing. mitchell's novel gone with the wind

it set on the southern plantation way back during the civil war and reconstruction periods. so now that consolation after thirty four years has fired up social media some are one side incredulous the film was dropped others stressing we should be out of politics some tweets were accompanied with a hash tag hattie mcdaniel after the actress who played the house made history of her she became the first african-american to be nominated for and to win an academy award back then the film producer collaborated closely with rights groups to prevent accusations of racism right from political activist jeffrey mark klein believes that from monuments to award winning films the country's left wing is trying to rewrite america's history right now it's kind of insane that they would

claim this movie is insensitive when having mcdaniel is the first black person to win an oscar so that movie has very historical significance even just for that fact i guess there's a chance that the management of the theater is afraid of that radical left groups like anti fire are going to show up and destroy the theater if they show a movie like gone with the wind because it may be deemed culturally insensitive despite the fact that it's very culturally significant i feel like most people recognize that the removal of historical statues seems to be an attempt to rewrite america's history and not showing historically significant movie would also be an example of trying to rewrite america's history. the u.n. says north korea is stepping up efforts to make a new nuclear reactor we'll talk about that or more after the break.

bitcoin saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula. think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be. professional and you trust the hospitals working in a trust third parties all day long point is the first international currency that doesn't require trust it just requires consensus to do. the protocol would you not be buying into the protocol if you're getting fabulously wealthy or

watching central banks collapse. comes and goes and watching central banks crawl into their p. themselves and try. again the us defense giants lockheed martin and raytheon is seeing a huge surge in sales they've been awarded nine hundred million dollars by the pentagon it comes as u.s. north korea's nuclear tension continues to simmer. takes a look at seeming obsession with nuclear weapons and how it could fears of a war. on the campaign trail donald trump promised to boost a weakening military as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense request and was submitted new budget to rebuild our military it is so depleted we will. now the u.s.

is already the global leader in military spending with a defense budget that's roughly the size of these nine countries combined despite this president trump says he wants more and here's how he's planning on spending u.s. taxpayer money we are committed to expanding and improving a state of the art missile defense system to shoot down missiles in flight. and we're getting better and better and better at it it's actually incredible what's taking place but missile defense systems are just the tip of the iceberg in this latest military gold rush on thursday it was announced that the us air force will develop a new nuclear cruise missile a project that's been in the pipeline for years but now given the green light thanks to commander in chief president trump and this is all great news for industry giants lockheed martin and raytheon both have been enjoying soaring stock market values ever since trump's inauguration but with the money flowing the risks are apparently being overlooked back in two thousand and fifteen former secretary of defense william j. perry said the nuclear missile project should be dropped because they can be

launched without warning incoming both nuclear and conventional variants cruise missiles are uniquely destabilizing type of weapon but destabilization seems to be the least of concerns for the new administration the effect of the trillion dollar trillion dollar plus so-called modernization would have the effect of making possible for u.s. policymakers to believe that they could launch a first strike nuclear war there would be extremely dangerous development and it reminds us of in the nineteen fifties when the soviet union was really very far behind the united states there are repeated discussions at the highest levels of the us government whether or not to launch a preemptive nuclear war since the end of world war two peace has been achieved through nuclear deterrence and the balance of power hopefully this concept isn't lost on president trump as he sets out on his quest for an even stronger military sabera khan our t. washington d.c. and yemen twenty one people killed in a saudi led coalition air strike on

a hotel last week has been buried in the country's capital sanaa dozens of people died in that strike among them who think rebels and civilians relatives of the victims blame the saudi led coalition and they're demanding justice. can read about they were just workers trying to make a living and they were talking to my will. plain it's the yemeni people want to show their anger at this crime committed against them i think had to my sons were martyred by the saudi grocers they were farmers they had nothing to do with the war i appealed to the international community to the united nations to punish those who committed this crime was that i would demand that the international community and the united nations which is remaining silent find a solution for these disparate people. the saudi led coalition described the bombardment as quote a technical mistake a spokes person expressed regret at the collateral damage and offered condolences

to the families of the victims that another airstrike in sanaa on friday killed at least fourteen civilians including six children hundreds of locals went to that scene demanding that the coalition stop its bombing campaign in the country warning it may find some of the following images coming up upsetting this morning this is a girl who's just about four or five years old was the only member of her family to survive the bombardment she's concussed she's got a fractured skull we hear doctors say that they are fingers crossed to make full recovery yemeni political analyst and says international efforts are failing and there needs to be a political solution for yemen. international accounting firms are weak they're not capable they're not responsive responsive enough and very efficient to deal with this escalation on a day to day basis yemen comes way beyond the list of priorities when you when you talk it to compare it to other conflicts syria or libya that there needs to be first of all a comprehensive political solution without

a political solution we will be dealing we'll be talking almost on air on a weekly on a weekly basis and more and more civilians will be falling without a comprehensive solution that deal with the grievances from the local level i think unfortunately this conflict on c.n.n. and any time soon. seems dissatisfaction of the french public with their president is increasing of those lines go down according to the latest poll conducted for a french newspaper less than half approve of the policies of money well across the moment forty percent at the same time in their other presidencies his predecessors nicolas sarkozy had what sixty nine percent and france were alone fifty four percent we are some people in paris about macross of power fall from grace than. so it doesn't surprise me that what he's doing is making human popular nobody supports his proposal for extending working hours i think he's supported by the rich class

and the people who won't vote for him are now seeing that he doesn't serve our interests. which i was elected on a promise for change and i think you'll be making many changes to labor laws and other things the french people are too closed minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings are forming. it's very rare for presidents popularity to increase so i'm not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done who won the election so we need to live with that one of the main points of discontent has been across the labor reform program which has led to violent protests he's also widely been criticized for significant cuts to public spending in the military budget another up to two when the government announced cuts to housing benefit across troubles or not confide to france's comments on poland's position in the met with scorn from polish politicians. i think that baldwin statements are another error in the strategy of the country and

the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margin of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of europe poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated it seems to me that president maccarone carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe still it happens sometimes. perhaps kranz are going comments result from lack of political experience which i can understand but i expect that he will make up for the shortcoming and will be more restraint in the future. is plummeting ratings it's believed micron is changed his communication strategy making it more open the editor in chief of the people magazine takes a critical look at the french president and his policies. he has come to me on the spirit of grace in the snow a surprise to anybody. french people on the sun's find the. solution on the

lips with bill shorten all right can he spreads the final polish promise to say that mr michael was out of control and should strike because what he said. what he said he may know peace later the same kind of truth to us you know criticise cold rain. forests something which is totally too much and job one person may get the same things wrong stuff credible she said for example the french all want to pay me for that they were before. i'm kevin i mean that's the newsgroup so far this monday morning of a good day. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with you i suspect it is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way

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. i'm after a town saying this is going underground as u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson travels to the middle east to try and avert a war in the persian gulf of a coffee coming up in the show we speak to oscar nominated comedian and writer just steve coogan about islamophobia the trip and whether bailing out the past mistakes of the city of london is destroying the future of britain as the government announces de facto pay cuts for school teachers and eleven years to the day the lebanese war began which would end in victory over the u.k. back to israeli army we speak to the director and star of the new playtoy celebrating about a poet whose life was turned upside down on that day plus from palestine to britain

we speak to an organization that records slim incidents in the u.k. about whether the mainstream media is to blame for a rise in islamophobia tags and his british campaign is lose their bid to block sales to saudi arabia what exactly was u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson doing in concert to mediate the push and gulf crisis all the civil war going up and today is going underground but first will schoolchildren understand tomorrow's e.u. talks in ukraine will they understand that the e.u. backed government in kiev as we know allied to far right groups associated with anti semitism after ukraine's tragic world war two history that there is a contextual nazi past to this week's ordering by donald trump of u.s. missile warships and hundreds of soldiers to the black sea maybe not here in the u.k. few even realize the historical context behind me is billion pound deal with a party recently allied. militaries to stay prime minister here for instance is how

u.k. school children are educated about nora. anon and it says the protestant majority discriminated against catholics and that the ira used terrorist attacks and that the troubles involved many high profile attacks no where is any sign of the word gerrymandering or colonialism if curricular of being attacked for being imperialist attacks on schools by government austerity are also under attack oscar nominated star steve coogan and campaigner alison ali founder of save our schools accompanied m.p.'s and schoolchildren recently to downing street to protest the slashing of education budgets this even before theresa may said school teachers will continue to face cuts in salary steve coogan a shot to fame with his creation of bumbling rightwing chapter of host alan partridge one two oscar nominations for his film philomena his latest production was the trip to spain and the rewritten version of the police's message in a bottle sung by protesting school children. we caught up with

steve demanding the founder of britain's save our schools down the somali right in front of the door of number ten downing street what do you do out here when trays i'm a she says is busy balancing the books in there. with the save our schools campaign the they all started to measure the coming of imposing the last seven eight years i think people have had enough of them to sort of fly the flag for state the state education system which has borne the brunt of many of these austerity measures and i don't know whether it's because the government don't use the education system or many of them. education system but the priority for them but over ninety percent of the people in this country used to education and it's a right not a privilege and the government needs to. provide a decent say education system which of the moment it's not doing. the material facts already even the public accounts committee says the government suffering from

collective delusion if you think you can make any further. by imposing three million three billion pounds a year because it's having material that's already teaching stuff or being laid off assistance or all the peripheral support stuff that schools need to operate are being laid off and the arts music sport things are deemed on essential bear the brunt of those cuts and those are the very subject to enhance the lives of schoolchildren and make a huge cultural contribution to the standing of this country throughout the world. the n.h.s. the loan education we are told continually in britain not to politicize austerity what do you say to that i say balderdash quite frankly i say as the fifth largest economy in the world we can surely afford to provide a world class education system for. all the states has ninety three percent of

kids who actually use the state's education system we have had these three billion a year in cuts are coming on top of seven years of funding cuts to schools head teachers are cracking under the stress of their schools a cracking and distrust of it as i've said before class sizes are exploding sometimes forty children plus per class we are not prepared to see all schools to become as steve has described it a safety net for the poorest in the slums while while the all sports and rich subjects become the province of the lucky few who can actually afford to pay for it privately futurism a says more and more people are going to school and they're being funded by the taxpayer. that's what the taxpayer should do that's the responsibility part of the. taxation system is that you found a decent decent education system a decent health service that's thing that most people agree with that's what most people's country with a poll recently said of fifty percent population would in would approve of

increased taxation to pay. these services is part and also because of recent events i think the national debate has changed it's shifted whereas the majority in this country realize that the government's responsibility is to look after the whole community to look after the many not the few and that that debate has shifted now and i think the government on the back foot about it many of the cabinet breaking ranks should ease austerity measures so there's no you there's no. unity in the government ranks about this about any of these issues to do with how education or even the sort of the safety of our our councils and civil servants and politicians behind you are horrified to hear of corbin's proposals that each private schools should be treated. for taxation purposes in a way that is not subsidized by the taxpayer is just like that's a separate issue i mean our views on that i think that we need to basically. if

something is a privilege like that then i think should be should. people who have money should pay more money so that we don't have money we need to redistribute wealth in this country because of course the system is set up so those who have money make more money it's an unfair system we need to readjust that system so that people have the. equality of opportunity and there is an even better than them in all such a society and can i just start on the subject of grenfell tower you know which was obviously an absolutely devastating chant today and made us all just. weep you know from a heartfelt place that the national audit office is such that school buildings themselves need six point seven billion pounds spending on and for those buildings to be brought up to a satisfactory standard is the extent to which the which the government has been has been getting away with quite frankly six point seven billion is needed just

bring the buildings up to scratch hospital. full before you've paid for the paper the books the teachers the all the music all the things that we started seeping last in again and again we hear again this phrase balancing the books we have to pay off the bailouts for the banks because of the twenty eight crash. it's a choice this is where you re appropriate. phones and i mean paul is the problem coming so making like michael go free schools experiment which needs another two and a half billion just to buy the land for the promised five hundred schools he said he would deliver which is the whole the whole project's been seen as a folly that money's like almost the money suggested should be cut from schools every year. fifty million on the on the project resistance of vanity projects that's just an example of of irresponsible use of public phones the whole grammar

school and which is which is a p.r. exercise because certain tabloid rightwing tabloid newspapers are obsessed with them and that again is an irrelevance it's a distraction from what we should be doing which is funding our state system properly yet just vitally britain has been involved in wars of course we do have money for that in your most recent t.v. work the trip you seem to me being kidnapped by isis israel carried away you know i was what was the humor in that was that i was there was he read it because i was doing was showing i was trying to talk about the history of islam and i see how historically the. more tolerant of christianity historically something has gone to the more than yes that to such a cetera and then my innate or all societies innate is i'm a phobia is like just rivers its head picks its head above the parapet and the final scene you have to watch it's on the sombong going on about and steve thank

you. award winning actor and writer steve coogan there what he sees as his innate islamophobia joining me now is he has mogul founder of tell mama ngo that records and measures and team muslim attacks in the u.k. for years that so much for coming back on the show before he goes islamophobia your reaction to tory m.p.'s marie morris using the n word symptomatic of selling still institutionally bigoted a but. i think there is certainly something institutionally that has not been challenged around terminology like this and yes i think there is a challenge around some of the endemic racism around language that is still prevalent we can see in this case i mean what does it say where a tory m.p. things that language like this is acceptable i think in today's world a tory m.p. or a labor m.p. any m.p. who makes comments like this can hang on to their job is clear is that you know this is unacceptable and these common should never have been made man she has to face the consequences of this. to tell the statistics having heard about islam of

attacks since so-called ices. up five hundred percent of the island bridge attacks britain's responding in exactly the way i want precisely to respond sadly this is you and i know this is exactly what they want to separate communities they want muslim community to feel victimized nice lated and the wider community is effectively to fracture and not connect with muslim communities so you know hate crimes actually feed into that we got a very clear hate crimes targeting any member of the muslim community or any member of a community particularly the muslim committee feed into his narrative the other factor as you mentioned you're absolutely right you know after after london bridge we saw a spike in hate crimes and a incidences same aftermath just a very very large one after manchester and these spikes have been continuing the only one we didn't see a spike in was after the westminster parliament attack and we're looking into that as we would we need to do some work as to why society or members of society didn't react in relation to that incident the fact is these peaks these very high peaks

are not good for communities are not good for society they're not good for cohesion and actually they may. also as you rightly said play into the very narrative we're trying to corrode and undermine which is separation ism promotion of extremist narratives these things we need to corrode and undermine but actually hate crimes and reaction to hate crimes by targeting muslims feed into that which is you started the ngo far right attacks like the one we saw entrance republic mosque treated very differently still though in stream media in this country compared to your absolutely right i think you're an outgrowth of newspaper headlines i think you're absolutely right the denial that far right extremism leads to deaths is really atrocious we know that actually three people have now been killed by extremism far right extremist and narratives three muslims but in the newspapers we see a downplaying of these issues we see a downplaying of the narrative issues of how dangerous far extremism is and actually then in many instances these individuals are unbalanced they have been you

know they've had hard lives and they're mentally ill they may be issues in their lives but we have to get down to the crux of it if we're talking about ideology of isis let's talk about the ideology of it the extremist far right communities small number but they're there in our society and let's talk about it i mean you look at today i had coming into our twitter feeds britain first's activities today reaching out to members of the polish community who i'm sure will reject the narrative but we are how we are allowing this to continue how the newspapers not saying the b.b.c. picked it up so you know or power to their elbow but actually the fact of matter is why we're not challenging this. really because of identity politics or they're obsessed with it and just very briefly no sign of any letter for british muslims and being stopped in the streets by a prevent officers with their way five business skirts to try to infiltrate communities i wouldn't know about that but i would certainly consider. what you've been stopped well i mean i i would have often i would hope i was which is where

other parties are against i would say clearly if that ever happens. it has a huge detrimental impact on the individual who is stopped and it doesn't build trust in any way shape or form i would say that but i'm also going to say this that actually if people feel that they have been targeted for whatever reason whether it's whether it's through far right or other movements reported in to us reported in to us we will pick it up we will do casework almost we have to sometimes challenge those people who think it's ok just to target members of any community particularly in this case because we were the muslim community. thank you thank you very much after the break as thousands of refugees die trying to cross the mediterranean from a major destroyed libya we speak to the director and star of the new play talk that tells one man's story of the impact of zion this era that made refugees of hundreds of pounds and the palestinians and then after monday's high court decision in london is britain's multi-billion military support the saudi arabian destruction in yemen all but assured. to him going on the ground.

seems wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with we can recall them is that needed austerity policy is if you are

in a situation of flow bloat even the recession steadies a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline the whole most a decade how good are the results. by the. jatos in which the wider world get people to see what. i mean. challenged us to. take the stand how they are getting paid while the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to bluebird. who will first. this is the truth the consumer is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision.

coins saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula that solves for think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be crashing into you you trust that the doctor is professional you trust the hospital is working in a trust third parties all day long point is the first trust international currency that doesn't require trust it just requires consensus to buy into every ten minutes the protocol and why would you not be buying into the protocol if you're getting fabulously wealthy or watching central banks collapse. while comes and goes but watching central banks crawl into their p. themselves and cry that's what i like. welcome back joining me now to go through some of this week's headlines is abdel bari atwan editor in chief of arabic news outlets thanks so much abdel for going back we're going to have to palestinian and the stars on later in the show i should

say it's eleven years. to us and you gave the three forces in the fight against his will or won their victory eleven years ago in the twenty six lebanon war to reflections on the i believe it was a turning point in the middle east in history has managed to pass for thirty two days and he inflicted a huge defeat on the israeli army's because they. considered one of the strongest in the middle east maybe the fourth of the world that is really. the strongest country in the middle east actually was tarnished by that war. emerged as a strong power well arguably amnesty international. were defeated i go in london your first headline middle east i absolutely shocked rich until our arms campaigners. to blocks tools saudi arabia these moments and the machine. is used against one of the words yemen. which is actually.

the military in. the british government who told us that their foreign policy is whiter than white cords as the secretary of state of britain was a rational title include the saudi that coalition was not deliberately targeting civilians move than ten thousand. killed by these kind of i mean now they say it is legal to bomb them it is legal to kill them it is legal to destroy the infrastructure legal does ill weapons and training the saudis arguably certainly good news for britons but when you factor in company b. systems let's go next hour of course which has been working with a pseudo yemeni government based in saudi arabia but because of this. we are meets with. in latest effort to mediate gulf crisis does he know. therefore i don't is he experienced enough and actually to handle this personally i

believe the war goes through three stages the first is the media war which is a read these quality the second is that sanction or economy which is also at its peak and the third state if the two streets are not going to work but third stage could be military intervention with two under the pretext of helping internal coup or actually to invade the country and. so i believe there is collusion there is a danger of war and the foreign minister to foreign ministers of britain united states that i am to diffuse that situation whether they are going to succeed personally i doubt well arguably trump may be more worried about massive mainstream media the united states talking about are you going to go into power because of the kremlin is southern southern lord or your lawyer this is from the world's oceans website suggesting it might not be putin the patrol in the way to a new study shows clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition to war this report is saying that the casualties highest casualties were in the

poorest and least educated there is a good state yes because they voted mainly middle states the people actually were supplying the american army with fighters and a very heavy price for that at least thirty thousand people were injured in iraq and about five thousand people were killed so those were signals this is our red card you are not allowed to do so and we are not going to vote for you or abstain from voting and of course we have to mention the millions displaced world or or killed your next story from global research quite disturbing about syria or tel aviv pays al qaeda fighters salaries the syrian what was worst kept secret that could actually become. say israel denies that it's helping and i said well yes there are there are how do we know this it was documented person we have seen

a lot of pictures of binyamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel visiting that syrian fighters opposition fighters and fighters in the neighborhood. how does the israeli public over the photograph of prime minister netanyahu the knowing that he is helping isis and the israeli taxpayer is helping they don't want hizbullah forces or maybe she's all syrian army to be closer to the golan heights border so if those people can create a buffer zone for there isn't really why not. if they've been pretty to the border with syria. all financial support and militia i believe is that it would be would be in a very very dangerous position. thank you. eleven years ago today israel declared war on lebanon beginning a thirty three day conflict with hizbollah now fighting with u.s. and u.k. troops to combat isis day in syria was victorious israel's weapons in the twenty

six lebanon war was supplied by britain which bears responsibility for the belfer declaration signed one hundred years ago while u.k. prime minister is amazes the balfour declaration as a source of pride it led to what the palestinians called knuckler day and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people one of them was the poet and his story is recounted in a new play showing now at london's young vic theatre i'm joined by the writer and star and director i mean is ours or everything's. going and we're it is amazing it's a one man show with it without restoring it and yet it was a double we're seeing hundreds of thousands of refugees drowning or risk in the mediterranean hundreds of thousands obviously a palestinian with this is a one man show it's all distilled in a sense in this in this one poet's life what is a better way to understand the. many. except single izing one would be telling a story deep because in the refugee camps elaborate on the arab world where

palestinians have been made refugees in forty eight each one of them is a complete person with a complete life and today with the syrian catastrophe looming and happening all around us and thousands of people hundreds of thousands of people being misplaced each of them is a ta each of them is a complete person with aspirations and dreams and and have been unsung talents that might be revealed later or not but every one of them is a complete person and we tend to forget that when we talk about big masses so actually reducing the prism and talking about one person and in the medium of theater which is the most intimate of all mediums to tell a story to recount a story because we in the audience share the same space the same air we breathe that means that the audience and the performer are both the same creature and of course as i said earlier though when you you focus on one person the prime minister of britain says we should be celebrating the balfour declaration the hundred years

since the signing of it this year twenty seventeen i think balfour declaration it took the right from the palestinians to to be a nation and to have their state and independence which was you know until today we suffer like we palestinians who are citizens in israel and palestinians in the west bank but as you know in gaza palestinians in the arab world are of refugees millions we are still suffering from balfour declaration and we we i hope that you know the british government. would you know would make justice with the palestinians and not celebrating balfour declaration because this declaration. was displaced and and was exiled and here it was living in a you know different. a place from his origin a village and he got you know he had a very you know hard hard life to rebuild his life from this the killer is in the

village destroyed destroyed the disorder now there is a settlement chords. which is near the lands of so for myself me i'm and i'm coming from the same same refugee family you know from other village which my grand brother other my grandfathers was the same story of and this is you know this is started with but for the liberation like the green line was to you know it's. about to happen it was it was the this declaration which was will you people if people maybe maybe their excuse could be ignorant because they're not watching plays like the ones you guys are involved it. talks about the b.b.c. educating them in these day in the village in the war to be before. before the forty eight and then later actually. what do you think make of the way mainstream media coverage palestine these days i mean the b.b.c.

did not cover was not banned even the raising of money funds from the gaza conflict. recently do you think it made it you know in world press as a general rule our story has been overlooked and unjustified. portrayed for sure you know our narrative is the one that is not being put on the table openly. and i think a play like that does big service for be telling our narrative from our perspective . you know news or segments of voice bites they're not they're not the reality in any way and the reality is always more complicated than what our t.v. or b.b.c. can cover at the same time. there is there is a need for balance to cover but this is impossible because there is no balance in nature you know the history is one is written by the victors that was always the

case. in today's world in two thousand and seventeen when you have a free press on line and you've got a completely. you know revolutionary way to get informed i think our story will start seeping through because it's like water you know it will go to the first crack at find and there's much more information out there maybe not yet in the mainstream media but will it will get to the mainstream media because there is there's no way of suffocating that story for so long world. will that really result in change on the ground i don't know we're not politicians we're theater makers. our responsibility is to tell the human stories as honestly as we can and as profoundly and. in the most complicated way to raise questions not to have answers if i'm honest i think having answer is about politics is always

a reduction of who we are we are complicated you know america and me are part of the palestinians who live inside the state of israel our relationship with the other is complicated it's not straightforward but that's great that's not a bad thing we spend our times working in the west bank. we have a very strong relationship with our palestinian diaspora that's who we are. trying to reduce the palestinians to a political headline is bad for the palestinians it's bad too for us. because it's reducing the way we perceive ourselves and that's the first thing that we need to fight against when we talk about occupation other thank you very much recovering old. the man who killed my father and raised our own expelling me into a narrow country and if he killed me i would dressed last and therefore i worry i would take my advantage but i would not to murder him if it were soon

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rally against hate. left. by monday morning ten am here in moscow good morning from me thanks for watching r.t. this our top story the iraqi army has announced most of the city of tal afar has been liberated from islamic state militants but the terrorists still holed up there in basements and underground tunnels there's a long way to go yet before the city can return to anything like normal as a senior correspondent reports next there are deadly surprises around almost every corner it seems. the islamic

state will remain you'll find. that plastered all over the buildings in iraq he sent his haven't yet gotten around to covering them up with being busy site . being a day off to the victory was announced here in thailand fighting still hasn't died down isis hygiene throughout the city and while they don't hold any geographic areas or districts in thailand they're hiding in basements and buildings and in time rooms underneath the city waiting to ambush patrolling iraqi soldiers. was. was was welcome to it. well i says has been beaten in tal afar they're made sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps everywhere intel a frog they have to turn the city into

a sap as nightmare and come in here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem for we knew behind these. could be explosives booby traps behind the time even in the right switches. would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa and exploded and along with the house they had booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles when you open the door and explodes. i've just come back from telefon you can didn't lie down on the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and wires everywhere we don't touch anything. i will do all we can to disarm everything but

there is only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for those but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i also couldn't get the car bomb out our engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion but it's strange isis folded almost too quickly. there is evidence that around four hundred families of isis fighters were allowed to leave on august twenty fifth in an unspecified direction the rumor among iraqi troops is that as many as two thousand isis fighters have been given

safe passage out of talent far into syria again this is a rumor and we can't confirm it but it would explain the unexpected easy fight iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of telephone saying would still far too dangerous but having spent some time here in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when your platoon a team presented itself as the battle began braving the merciless desert in order to get away the crew of the iraqi military in the u.s. led to release and brits to their might file a fraud of the three and we'll come back a question of how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i guys death from talib iraq next on alert and as i salute his ground in iraq over the border in syria tens of thousands of terrorists are uniting on the one ballot to fight

government forces some of these groups were previously backed by the united states to stand offs across this. a jihadi army drafted by a group with known links to al qaida can be a good thing. or h.g.'s is a new force in the syrian civil war there are twenty five thousand terrorist fighters consolidated now in northwestern syria in perspective a comparable amount of troops led islamic state in proclaiming its caliphate in half of syria and iraq and this new force has a very familiar face there are dozens of groups many of which were previously backed by the united states most units making up h.t.s. had previously been rallying under the banner of all nusra front brutal massacre torture rape there have been no boundaries and how far will go to win this war.

while generate the highly effective. gap to bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical. this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants. a nova group that is part of the h.t.s. now is neuros in key spine chilling pictures of a child being executed apparently broad recognition over other tara factions after filming this video the boy was beheaded. this atrocity raised many questions about

washington's vetting in syria if you're able to accurately report is this the kind of thing that would. the fact assistance. us is to. this specific group but also just in general to we have to say. well i think we take it you know if as you said if we can. prove that this was indeed what happened and this group was involved in and i think it would certainly give us pause. give you pause will give us pause about any assistance or or frankly any. further involvement with this group so i think we are two of the most notorious groups among a total of seventy in this new conflict of terror well armed and under the same command ready to strike and see key syrian cities mideast expert joshua landis told us that this new terror groups already overwhelmed the other factions in the area

it's quite clear that the domination. how do you to shadow over the adler province. as militarized that even groups like the sink which had been allied with the united states went over and fell under the control of this more dominant jihad ist group so it is a big problem for both the united states turkey russia iran in the coming months what to do with it lip province it's like that there but they'll have to be a military solution to it al qaida cannot be allowed to build itself up and to use northern syria as a base from which to launch attacks against the west or the united states although they claim not to support assad are clearly looking to the syrian government as an ultimate solution for their own kind of problem in syria. rival protests in

the city of descent into chaos and the fascist demonstrators broke through police barricades during a rally against eight then the classed as right wing activists. was . was was. i. was i was her prior to the unrest police but and sticks mosques that they have any other potential weapons that have a dozens of anti fascist protesters broke those rules it appears they also pepper sprayed the leader of the conservative group one left wing demonstrator attacked a photographer and others reportedly threatened people who were trying to film the violence meantime here is a video filmed by a reporter there appears to show

a group of anti fascist protesters beating a right wing demonstrated six people were injured thirty to arrest with night is colored smoke and with moving from brooklyn. bridge here outside of work the civic center in downtown berkeley california you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist grotesque there's these people that assemble to counter a right wing rally that was called for today for this afternoon was the slogan say no to marxism a lot of different forces out here now one thing that is widely present is the folks who call themselves in chief some of them also would call themselves the black bloc people with masks over their faces you know how many odd goggles they're here for a fight almost i mean they get that impression be seen repeatedly from folks try to come into the crowd began you know begin spent sending out their message state making statements in support of the trial in the crowd going to circling up the police moving and scuffles breaking out was

god god. was. that the city of berkeley has actually rallied around the slogan we're leaving i did against me that's been hanging. all the public buildings displayed in stores around the city is just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states especially in the aftermath of charlottesville a lot of different views being expressed here a lot of anger but a lot of folks that just saying they're worried about their country there seems to be a lot of division on the far left and the far right political violence in the streets so a lot of different messages here in downtown berkeley california yes he was so kind of moved the vice chairman of the libertarian party of in voter told us the violence is being normalized as he put it across america a lot of the normalize ation of violence that we're seeing is happening because even at the government level we're seeing situations in which the government

settles its disputes with violence that there's a dispute with the islamic world is settling it with violence if there's a dispute with drugs they settle that with violence and that example needs to change so one possibility will be a wholesale rejection of violence at the personal level and at the governmental level and that would be an incredible opportunity for american growth but the other possibility is an increasing cycle of violence where violence is normalize or becomes more and more part of our politics and of violent politics is a rejection of everything american stands for is that we're able to settle our dispute with out violence it is one of the things that has set america part since our founding and to see that going in this direction to me is just heartbreaking i want to see it stop. after targeting confederate monuments the split in u.s. society is now moving to the world of the big screen it seems certainly in this case i'm going to tell you about one cinema in memphis is cancelled the annual showing of the one nine hundred thirty nine classic movie gone with the wind iconic movie as it is about love and civil war it was reportedly cues that were being

racist and insensitive by america's left wing look at history based mitchell's novel black then gone with the wind is set on a southern plantation during the civil war and reconstruction periods is a reminder. there's a hollywood or are they well the cancellation after thirty four years is fired up social media as you'd expect some on one side incredulous of the film is drop the stressing that art should be kept out of politics some tweets are accompanied with a hash tag hattie mcdaniel who she will she's the actress who played the housemaid and she became the first african-american to be nominated for and indeed to win an academy award back then the film's producer collaborated very closely with rights

groups to prevent accusations of racism right from political activist jeffrey mark klein believes that from monuments to award winning films these days the country's left wing is trying to rewrite america's history. it's kind of insane that they would claim this movie is insensitive when having mcdaniel is the first black person to win an oscar so that movie has very historical significance even just for the fact i guess there's a chance that the management of the theater is afraid of that radical left groups like n t four are going to show up and destroy the theater if they show a movie like gone with the wind because it may be deemed culturally insensitive despite the fact that it's very culturally significant i feel like most people recognize that the removal of historical statues seems to be an attempt to rewrite america's history and not showing historically significant movie would also

be an example of trying to rewrite america's history some fifteen. good morning for me hope your monday is going ok a lot more to come and stay with me for at least the next fifteen minutes on t.v. we'll talk about this such as fuck should with the french president seems it's rising at home and abroad we'll tell you why coming up. coins saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula for trust think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be crashing into you trust the doctor is professional and you trust the hospital is working and you trust

third parties all day long but point is the first international currency doesn't require trust it just requires consensus to buy in every ten minutes the protocol and why would you not be buying into. what a call if you're getting fabulously wealthy you're watching senator obama's collapse of support i like about it i mean wealth comes and goes but watching stocks of banks crawl into their basket p. themselves and cry that's what i like. so news coming this morning from part of russia seems to fire a home for the elderly over him siberia's killed at least three people injured another to thirty four residents many with disabilities are evacuated from the home most needed help to leave the building the second and third floors of the facility

were made a timber apparently and were completely gutted but when you see those close in pictures the firefighters know so they've managed to at least put the fire out it's reported they started in the building adjacent to the nursing home. u.s. defense giants lockheed martin a racy and we here are seeing a huge surge in sales they've both been awarded nine hundred million dollar contracts by the pentagon and this comes as u.s. north korea nuclear tension continues to simmer next takes a look at the trump sitting obsession with nuclear weapons and how it could spark fears of a war. on the campaign trail donald trump promised to boost a weakening military as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense request and was submitted new budget to rebuild our military it is so depleted we will. now the u.s.

is already the global leader in military spending with a defense budget that's roughly the size of these nine countries combined despite this president trump says he wants more and here's how he's planning on spending u.s. taxpayer money we are committed to expanding and improving a state of the art missile defense system to shoot down missiles in flight. and we're getting better and better and better at it it's actually incredible what's taking place but missile defense systems are just the tip of the iceberg in this latest military gold rush on thursday it was announced that the us air force will develop a new nuclear cruise missile a project that's been in the pipeline for years but now given the green light thanks to commander in chief president trump and this is all great news for industry giants lockheed martin and raytheon both have been enjoying soaring stock market values ever since trump's inauguration but with the money flowing the risks are apparently being overlooked back in two thousand and fifteen former secretary of defense william j. perry said the nuclear missile project should be dropped because they can be

launched without warning incoming both nuclear and conventional variants cruise missiles are uniquely destabilizing type of weapon but destabilization seems to be the least of concerns for the new administration the effect of the trillion dollar trillion dollar plus so-called modernization would have the effect of making possible for u.s. policymakers to believe that they could launch a first strike nuclear war there would be extremely dangerous development and it reminds us of in the nineteen fifties when the soviet union was really very far behind the united states there are repeated discussions at the highest levels of the us government whether or not to launch a preemptive nuclear war since the end of world war two peace has been achieved through nuclear deterrence and the balance of power hopefully this concept isn't lost on president trump as he sets out on his quest for an even stronger military. on our t. washington d.c. . in yemen twenty one people killed in a saudi led coalition air strike on

a hotel last week have been buried in the country's capital sanaa dozens of people died in that strike among them who think rebels and civilians relatives of the victims blame the saudi led coalition and they're demanding justice. they were just workers trying to make a living and they were targeted by warplanes the yemeni people want to show their anger at this crime committed against them i said to my stands were martyred by the saudi grocers they were farmers they had nothing to do with the war i appealed to the international community to the united nations to punish those who committed this crime was that i would demand that the international community and the united nations which is remaining silent find a solution for these disparate people. study led coalition described bombardment as quote a technical mistake a spokesman expressed regret at the collateral damage and offered condolences to

the families of the victims meantime another air strike in sanaa on friday killed at least fourteen civilians including six children hundreds of locals went to the scene there demanding that the coalition stop its bombing campaign in the country warning she now you may find in the next few pictures coming up disturbing particularly. this little girl who is about four four or five years old was the only member of her family to survive the bombardment seems the doctors say she's got concussion and a fractured skull but at least they say they do expect it to make a full recovery yemeni political activist told this international effort a failing and there needs to be a political solution for yemen. international accounting firms are weak they're not capable they're not responsive responsive enough and very efficient to deal with this escalation on a day to day basis yemen comes way beyond the list of priorities when you when you talk it to compare it to other conflicts syria or libya that there needs to be

first of all a comprehensive political solution without a political solution we will be dealing we'll be talking almost on air on a weekly on a weekly basis and more and more civilians will be falling without a comprehensive solution that deal with the grievances from the local level i think unfortunately this conflict one c.n. and any time soon. the french president is due to hold talks today with leaders of germany italy and spain they're expected to cover migration defense and economy but while all that's happening dissatisfaction at home is looming over emanuel micro look at the figures there then a forty percent apparently according to a latest poll conducted for a french newspaper less than half of those surveyed approve of his policies at the same time let's go over here this other news will see how his previous s's looked well his predecessor first of all cozy had sixty nine percent of the vote at the same time france were alarmed some are behind us still ahead of the current leader

is a fifty four percent we are some people in paris then about macross apparent fall from grace. so it doesn't surprise me that what he's doing is making human popular nobody supports his proposal for extending working hours i think he's supported by the rich class and the people who won't vote for him are now seeing that he doesn't serve our interests. which was elected on a promise for change and i think he will be making many changes to labor laws and other things the french people are too closed minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings are foreign. it's very rare for presidents popularity to increase so i'm not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done he won the election so we need to live with that one of the main points discontent has been micron's labor reform program it led to violent protests across the country he is also widely criticized for slashing public spending and the curbing of the military budget another resurrected to win housing

benefits were cut across troubles are not confined to france's comments on poland's position in the e.u. have been met with scorn from watching expect maybe polish politicians but i think that baldwin statements are another error in the strategy of the country and the manifestation of how this country wants to position itself on the margin of europe's history present and future the state chose today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of europe poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated it seems to me that president maccarone carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe but it happens sometimes. perhaps with crohn's are going comments result from lack of political experience which i can understand but i expect that he will make up for the shortcoming and will do more restraint in the future. that made his plummeting ratings it's believe micron has changed his communications strategy that making it more open the editor

in chief of the people magazine takes a critical look at the french president this policies. has come to be on the spirit of grace maybe it's not a surprise to anybody. french satisfied with the position with the right can he spreads polish promise to say that mr mcveigh was out of control and should strike because what he said. what he said maybe oh so later the same kind of. press. criticized called. a truth racist something which is totally to much of an joke but it doesn't make it say things like strong stuff credible she said for example the french. want to say that they were. thanks or she was warning how the money goes good checco tell you tube channel for all the best videos and stories of the day r.t.

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across talking north korea i'm joined by my guest when one in washington is the chief political correspondent and see america in boston we have paul atwood he is a professor emeritus of american studies at the university of massachusetts and author of war and empire the american way of life and in beirut we cross logic he is a philosopher novelist filmmaker and investigative journalist or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but i always appreciate it ok weighing in washington let me go to you first here let me read a few quotes here trump says china could easily solve this problem meaning the north korean problem that unfortunate character the u.s. has at the united nations that nikki haley says time for talk is over before we get to how the u.s. and its allies look at north korea can you explain to us how the north koreans see

their dilemma of be threatening western powers and their neighbor to the south. well peter let's not forget the north korean issue was largely issue resulted from the cold war i mean the cold war largely waged by president harry truman based on an icy sixty eight document largely about the perception of soviet fear rather than factual assertions about soviet fear and then of course the invaded the north korea the korean peninsula which was one country throughout much of history up until the second world war it was one country one people one culture but then unfortunately the war happened and twenty percent of the north korean population were wiped out of this earth thanks largely due to the u.s. invasion so the memory of history is still fresh and currently the north koreans have. i'm not defending the north koreans but they do have legitimate security concerns you know one hundred sixty thousand u.s. troops stationed across western pacific the cold war architecture for deployment

remaining largely intact and also around military exercises between south korea and the u.s. so the regime of course thinking about its survival and is also feeling threatened both in memory of history and recent developments by the u.s. industrial military industrial complex poland in boston you know one of the remarkable things here is we we every few years we go through this you know this that north korea mania that i call it ok and it of course actions and reactions things that north korea does and reactions to in south korea in the united states and the actions of the south koreans and the americans because of the north korea ok but one of the interesting things here is that why doesn't if there's such great tension in this inevitability of conflict why don't the two sides to sit down and talk because the americans refused to do that why not go ahead paul. well the

united states have to go back to why the united states wants to be in asia at all ok why does the united states intervene ten thousand miles from mature and to and to answer that question you have to go back to the open door policy sounds boring but the bedrock foreign policy of the united states is the open door policy and when china closed the door after world war two initially the united states wanted to set up a client regime in china but that failed the communists took over and closed the open door and so the united states decided that career would be its first bastin against the encroachment of china and the closing of asia to american economic penetration ok but i mean let's talk about this the in this new killer thread i mean why don't they want to talk about that that's very important and that's pressing right now can you answer that boris go ahead home well you know the

the real the real threat for the united states from the beginning was always china and you know we talk about one hundred sixty thousand troops stationed across the. western pacific but there are also nuclear weapons surrounding china china is aware of that and you know the united states uses south korea as its primary base to you know basically send messages to china that. want so the united states is talking about a possible war a nuclear war with north korea because of china well that i don't know that that doesn't seem what. we well what what i'm saying is that you know that there are the chinese they have an angle in all of this the let me go to andriy in beirut i mean the chinese are not there to settle all scores in that part of the world because the united states has such a huge military footprint there the chinese have made it very clear that they want to go she should they have limited ability to push the north. marine regime and

they've offered a number of things solution a diplomacy a freeze on freezer and there's a lot of the diplomatic talk coming out of beijing so i think you know it's really incumbent upon the united states to react to that go ahead andre in beirut. yes of course actually china. is acting extremely peaceful in its own region and in the asia pacific it is being constantly provoked on several fronts and that is that the. trying to reach peace agreements like the philippines are being contaminated. even at the overthrow their governments there are of course north korea is sitting. between i mean there is a border with china and for russia and just imagine what interests of the west are if there is a so-called reunification of korea hostile the unification if there is

a war and let's say north korea is going to collapse then the western regime is going to or western the empire is going to expand right to the border with both russia and especially with china so this took on the sort of big snow on the hitlist sort of being intimidated by the worst both china and russia the two allies and the north korea would actually be. a new. hostile power because it would become one of its kind of understood that if there is a unification of korea it would be like germany it would basically. it's of the principle stand and we saw alliances and we saw that happen with nato expansion here when let me go back to you in in washington i mean this is really the crux of it all is that you know the united states is making demands for its client state south korea but you know the united states could make a major move

a good. gesture i would even say of taking out its troops what are those troops over there for i mean south korea is a very affluent country it's twice the population of the north it has it's more than able to defend itself here that would be one step in the right direction i mean the united states is tying itself to an alliance that is a really a no win win for all korea and china and russia but you know if there's a war there i don't think people in memphis are going to be worried about it ok and i think that's a very cynical go ahead in washington. peter i think partly it is etiology and also it is about like i said military industrial complex wars or the prospect of wars are good business let's not forget ten percent of the u.s. manufacturing sector are weapons manufacturing so largest weapons manufacturer in the world also i'd like to respond very quickly to china to make some clarifications because president trump recently tweeted about china quote unquote

doing nothing about north korea could do everything to solve the problem and he said they will not allow this to continue well it's really a myth because for one thing how can he or it washington expect china to do everything in turn in terms of security for the united states washington sells arms to taiwan patrolling south china sea regularly and much of the cold war for it employment intact and secondly china did do quite a lot quite a bit actually under as a member of the security council imports from north korea down thirteen percent imports of coal from north korea down seventy five percent western headlines focused largely on the overall trade volume increasing but that happened largely before the un sanctions kicked in finally president trump argument was that you know how can china why didn't china stop trading with the north koreans not using leverage against north korea well that's a physiological flawed argument if china did all trade with north korea. how could

beijing's leverage when organs come from of course of course you know paul can you weigh in on that there because the united states doesn't recognize that north korea respective how you feel about the regime in north korea it does have security interest in the united states doesn't recognize that it has north korea as a sovereign country a member of the united nations and has a right to protect itself but it doesn't recognize it particularly if you look at the mainstream media go ahead in boston well the american government clearly recognizes that they have a legitimate security interest the american public that doesn't seem to understand that because we don't have a sense of history in our country the united states intervened in a civil war in korea in one nine hundred fifty and turned it into a major conflagration in which millions of koreans on both sides of the border died where millions more of orphans and widows and the maimed were created. and you know the north korean regime doesn't want to see that happen again and uses the south

but if there's another war it is korean war true there will be an absolute apocalyptic collapse catastrophe in east asia. north korea as i'm just self with the deepest sense of security that it thinks it needs to protect itself against another onslaught by the united states it's very simple. and the north koreans are not going to preemptively launch their nuclear missiles against the united states will they can't do it right now. the only time they will you they're not suicidal the only time they'll use them is if they believe the united states is about to take them out. so essentially it is it is to preserve the regime in the in the current political order there but seems quite reasonable here i did in the i'm glad you mention it calling the north korean regime in sane on balance and all that it does not help whatsoever it's very rational to protect yourself or a gentleman going to jump in here we're going to go to

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korean peninsula because you know what we've heard from paul and weighing is that this would be a crowded catastrophic event in and very destructive here i mean seoul is what twenty miles away from the d.m.z. in of course in any kind of military assault north korea would be a would be turned into a moon. like they did during the americans did during the korean war i mean by the end of the person who they were there were no targets to hit but for aircraft by the end of the first year not the third year. how do you tell how do you explain this i mean that big callously talking about we've run out of time we do we have no more patience you know we don't want to talk about resolutions here it sounds so exactly like they're going on a war footing there and how why do you why would you expect the north koreans to defend themselves again not defending the regime but in the biz the international order of sovereign states that's what i'm talking about go ahead andre in beirut well first of all if you listen to north koreans listen to them a lot. of their governments are of their artist of their people when i've been

three years ago a sponsor of the delegation of france a clark former u.s. attorney general so if you talk to north koreans that actually they have very legitimate concerns the suffered tremendously during the korean war let's remember that the media coverage of vestal media western media coverage of the korean peninsula was always extremely biased and scandalous one of the greatest journalists of all time of the twentieth century. an australian journalist who actually went to the war and he who covered the conflict. wrote think about the thousands of for tens of thousands of north koreans being literally destroyed murdered in the tunnels burnt alive in the tunnels he even lost australian citizenship for this coverage and he was declared an enemy awful strelley and

stayed very good friends of his son and all of this with our lives so i know the entire story it was always boys the let's go back to history also and see why it's north korea so much hate it it's not only because of the standoff between north and south korea let's remember that north korea's. together with cuba almost single handedly liberate its african continent for all of the colonialism so north korean troops and i lived in africa for many years and i will say i think about it a lot the fault in the movie the fault in the goal of the fourth against south african authorities even through mix egyptian makes against israel during the war. the truth is the. doctors too many african companies even. now rich going through. to help to build that occasion system this is not discussed but this is one of the reasons the verse never forgave north korea for wrestling

the caller ok little bit legless let's talk let's let's play we're going to stay with the current tensions here on the peninsula here when let me go back to you here and i'm so happy to have you on the program to give a very clear. presentation to our viewers about how china thinks about this i mean china does not want to see the north korean regime collapse you would have a refugee problem that would create a security problem and of course as it's already been mentioned on this program is that you would have american military personnel in material going all the way up to the chinese border china has no interest in seeing that happen and it does have an interest in seeing it negotiated again china has come out with some good talking points to start negotiations is i mean has the chinese given up on it and just rolling their shoulders thinking what the americans are going to do next i mean we saw donald trump you know just attack syria based on no imperial evidence at least it was never presented to the public i mean if it was a gross violation of sovereignty and even

a war crime i would say so weighing again you know kind of explain to us how the chinese see all of this saber rattling while peter we need to remember that if the u.s. has one southern border to secure china has thirteen borders to secure and many of our current or former nuclear powers and. north korea is just one of them if there were to be a regime collapse in north korea the refugees would be a great burden to their northeast eastern chinese provinces three of currently under economic duress from the economic transformation huge problems for local population and local economy and also i do not think that the us can wage a war easily because if history is of any reminder look at the countries they invaded afghanistan and iraq recently knob the new countries well they didn't they didn't do very well and i go back and then well they didn't equip themselves very well in the korean war ok by the way go ahead go ahead keep going right. grenada

and panama back in the eighty's non of them have a w. and. or a cuba like you said and north korea back in the fifty's and sixty's beginning year decade of the cold war none of them or nuclear powered countries so i did not think that pentagon would easily go to war with the united states an estimate of how much casualty it would there be was provided by bill clinton aide back in the ninety ninety four period when he told bill clinton who was seriously considering a war with north korea he said there could be one million casualties on top of that one billion one trillion naturally economic losses so i'm not sure if the united states wants to go to war with a nuclear power have never done so ok but here it's well you know about that and that is one of the reasons why people say that north korea develop nuclear weapons program in the first place because they saw iraq they saw libya they don't want to be the next victim here you know paul. can you explain to me i mean why do we have this kind of rhetoric coming from the president from the u.s.

ambassador to the united nations i mean really it sounds like they're trying to put the public on a war footing they were talking about you know with their patients is gone would. this. diplomatic approach patients from clinton through obama. been exhausted. i mean what is the next step here are they do you think in your mind if they're contemplating a real military conflict against north korea or is it just talking points and intimidation go ahead well if they were to launch a nuclear war an assault on north korea that would inevitably lead to nuclear war. the north koreans have short range missiles capable of carrying nukes as far as japan from everything i've heard. why would the united states want to ramp up the tension on this. i don't know it's too dangerous. it just boggles the mind you know i'm always telling my students that.

allowing nuclear weapons to exist on planet earth is like leaving a loaded gun in a kindergarten soon sooner or later you know if we don't abolish these weapons they will abolish us and yet you know we continue to put them at the front of our. of our ability to threaten well they say oh it's very interesting that you're saying that it's very interesting that you're saying that it's because there's only one country in the world that is ever used nucular weapons against the civilian population under me let me go to you in beirut i want to ask and i want to go to right to die and they should not repeat that same mistake on their i want to ask you and then my other guest the same question now here why doesn't the world accepted north korea will be a nuclear power. the soviet union than russia was china adversaries why can't we live without and mitigate its negative potential ok recognize the country as a nuclear power and go from there i mean i think that is one of the only ways out

it's not the best solution i don't see any good solutions to this but the worst solution would be war ok go ahead on the way. i actually think that the walt is accepting the fact that the north korea is a nuclear power not except to the us were authority in the us and in the west north korea we keep talking about the north korean regime and how dangerous it is i don't see it as dangerous and i don't really think if you talk to people here in the middle east if you talk to people in latin america or if you talk to even people in asia they see it as something but it dangerous again it's something that this it's a big hype that the. chicago or the los angeles are far away from north korea anyway and you know you see this look i know people walk all over or indonesia philippines. you know thailand based in thailand partially nobody even think about

this issue it's absolutely no issue so it's again some kind of and never will be an issue on this north korea's provoked or attack north korea is still going to do anything to destroy southeast asia so i'm going to do and i think most likely do to attack japan unless the attack against north korea will come for a walk you know about from the u.s. basis and then of course the retaliation will not be against the u.s. but against okinawa exactly exactly and that's the thing about if you're in but if you're in most of the parts of the war north korea is not a threat it's not seen as when one of the things this brings up you know and something that i've been very critical of over the years is this in tangle ing. treaties and alliances the united states gets itself into because it ends up being wag the dog you have them with the south koreans who depending on what regime is there at the time would political flavor is that the time they can use the united states as low bridge for what it wants in its security and the japanese do the same

thing i mean another alternative and i know that this is again one very bad solution is that you know then south korea and japan. and should have their nuclear programs there do you think north korea is going to like that maybe that's going to make them think twice and is thinking out of the box here because what we've been doing the same it's this the same treadmill round and round every few years we owe my goodness north korea is going to destroy the world ok i mean we need new thinking like that going when going to the last minute of the program go ahead of course the united states argues that it is a force for good look at the what happened after world war two the restructure reconstruction of asia pacific the prosperity of japan korea but they should also bear in mind that at the same time when it takes sides complicated the situation and created more conflicts look at territorial disputes between russia and japan washington always stand on the side of their allies and when there's a south china sea dispute washington stand stood on the side of the philippines and

when there is a east china sea island dispute standing on the side of the japanese again so without regarding the historical issues of comfort women issue the korean war issue those issues were largely forgotten but they should bear in mind those historical perspectives to truly understand the realities of today and if they did that maybe western audience would think differently about this what i would say manufactured crisis that we see every couple of years and i want to thank my guests in washington boston and in beirut and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember rules. oh oh

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