well i says this being. entirely. sure to leave behind plenty of surprises. every rep travels to the iraqi city of tal afar where government forces now face a painstaking and dangerous task of trying to make that city safe enough so people can some time return. meantime over in syria seems as many as twenty five thousand terrorists are believed to be regrouping have regrouped and now fighting on the one that includes previously backed by the united states and.

rally against take turns violent in the u.s. . the left wing rioters clashed with. one of the afternoon monday here in moscow and this is art international with me kevin for this news bulletin starting with the iraqi army's announce most of the city of tal afar has been liberated from islamic state militants but with terrorists still holed up in the basements and underground tunnels there is a long way to go yet before that city can return to anything like normal and senior correspondent reporting from there deadly surprises around almost every corner. then the islamia by the islamic state remain you'll find graffiti

like that plastered all over the bridges and buildings entire frog iraq he sent his haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting a day after the victory was announced here in thailand fighting still hasn't died down isis hygiene throughout the city and why they didn't hold any geographic areas or districts in thailand they're hiding in basements and buildings and in timers underneath the city waiting to ambush patrolling iraqi soldiers. was. was was welcome to it. well i says has been beaten in tal afar there made sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps every red 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 baboons behind the time even in the right switches. would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa 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 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. will do all we can to disarm everything but there's 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 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 the opportunity presented itself as the bopper began braving the mass in the desert in order to get away the fear of the iraqi ministry in the u.s. led coalition brits to bed soon might fall a frog missed the three and will come back the question is how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more eid guys death from taliban iraq. well meantime over the border the syrian army backed by russian forces has destroyed one of the most active islamic state groups in syria eight hundred

militants were killed in the operation in the euphrates valley a large amount of heavy machine guns it seems were destroyed along with tanks and artillery weapons that's all coming from the russian defense ministry but as i salute his ground tens of thousands of terrorists are uniting under one banner to fight government forces in syria some of these groups were previously backed by the united states picking up this story now with more detail for you it goes down off. 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 al nusra front brutal massacre torture rape there have been no boundaries and how far will go to win this war. wound generate the highly effective. gap to bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical weapons on the city this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants.

and 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 tera 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 we have to say. well i think 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 would you give your cause will give us pause about any assistance or or even frankly any. further involvement with this group so 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. middle east expert joshua landis told us that this new turn the groups already overwhelmed other factions in the area it's quite clear that the domination of the how to shama over the province has militarized that even groups like the sinking which had been allied with the united states went over and fell under the control of this more dominant jihad azour group so it is a big problem 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 that ultimate solution for their all kind of problem in syria. elsewhere rival protests in the city but said the chaos santy fascist demonstrators broke through police barricades at one point during a rally against hate there and then clashed with right wing activists. it was a. way. it was prior to the unrest police had banned steaks mosques and anything else that could be a potential weapon but it seems dozens of anti fashions protesters broke those rules one left wing demonstrator attacked a photographer and others reportedly threatened people who were trying to film the violence but some scenes were still caught on camera. ok.

this video filmed by a reporter there appears to show a group of moscow to flush protest is beating a right wing demonstrator and in a separate instance the manifolds be a trump supporter was attacked by a mob of the he pepper sprayed some of the kind of protest is six were injured in the arrests thirteen arrests were made these kind of mopin with more from berkeley but here outside of the civic center in downtown berkeley california actually 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 well these are both here that object to a number of the people involved with that recorded right wing rally not consider them to be white supremacy and fascism assemble to denounce it while the nazis may have a right to demonstrate we've got a right to show that there are a million points towards us ignore them any time

a group preaches the hatred that we've seen from the outright i think it's only human toe match that even if it's not the most mature reaction it's only human to match that with some kind of anger and aggression really want to stand for nonviolence he would take the side against people that speak for violence including politicians such as donald trump one thing that is widely present is the folks who call themselves at and t. pos some of them also would call themselves the black bloc people with masks over their faces oh you know how many og goggles there are here for a fight almost i mean they get that impression be seen repeatedly from folks try to come into the crowd begin you know begin spent sending out their message stick making statements in support of the ol trout out in the crowd going to circling up the police moving and scuffles breaking out. on 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 it's been quite a crazy scene here in downtown berkeley california as you can see the vice chairman of the libertarian party of involved spoke to us he says violence is being normalized these days 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 of settling it with violence if there's a dispute with drugs there's little that with violence and that example needs to change the violent politics is a rejection of everything american stands for if they were 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 well so recently after targeting confederate monuments the split in u.s. society is now moving into the world of big screen we can reveal one case in point

a city where men face a stop screening the nine hundred thirty nine classic go with the wind that iconic film but love them civil war was accused of being racist and insensitive these days by america's left wing writer and political activist jeffrey klein believes that as it stands at the moment these days from monuments to award winning films the country's left wing is trying to rewrite america's history. 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. based on margaret mitchell's novel gone with the wind is subsites in a southern plantation during the civil war and reconstruction period is thought to be one of the greatest love stories ever to have made it to the silver screen.

the cancellation now then after thirty four years fired up social media here we go someone sober incredulous the film was dropped this stress that art should be out of politics some tweets were accompanied by the hash tag patty mitchell mcdaniel rather that's important because she's the actress who played the housemaid back then and she became the first african american to be nominated for and to win an academy award but with the film's producer to collaborate closely with the rights groups to prevent any accusations of racism therefore jeffrey klein believes that the cancellation now actually goes against identity politics of the left. it's kind of insane that they would claim this movie is insensitive when hattie mcdaniel is the first black person to win an oscar so that movie has very historical

significance even just for that fact it's a it's a cinematic feat it progressed film forward both in terms of the art of filmmaking the art of storytelling and progressive ness i mean that a lot of people who claim this movies and sensitive care so much about identity politics they should be excited about the fact that hattie mcdaniel is an oscar winner because of this movie coming up dissatisfied with the french president rising at home and abroad will tell you why after this quick break.

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to move the news of the day to day us to friends. and racy in his signature huge surge in sales they've both been awarded nine hundred million dollar contracts by the pentagon this comes as u.s. north korea nuclear tension continues to simmer next takes a look at trouble seeming obsession with nuclear weapons and how it's sparking fears of. 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 ear for art of making

possible for us policy makers to believe that they could launch a first strike nuclear war there would be to extremely dangerous development and it reminds us that 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 trap as he sets out on his quest for an even stronger military so we are on our t. washington d.c. . french president student meet today with the leaders of germany italy and spain they're expected to cover migration defense and economy but the open dialogue with those people relations with another member states seem to be souring. i think that all one statements are another arrow 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 just today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of europe poland is not isolating itself and has not been isolated because 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 with crohn's are going comments result from lack of political experience which i can understand but i expect that she will make up for the shortcoming and will do more restraint in the future. been while dissatisfaction at home is looming over a man or micron there are those figures going down and so it stands at the moment according to one pollster forty percent for august that was conducted by a french newspaper for them less than half of those surveyed approve of his policies you can see now at the same time in their present presidencies let's contrast and compare check this out nicolas sarkozy sixty nine percent the same time france were fifty four percent despite that

a government spokesman said they don't worry the figures can be ignored him across and will quote transform the country still we are some people in paris about the president's apparent for from grace that according to the polls. so it doesn't surprise me that what he's doing is making human popular nobody supports his proposal for extending working hours. the french people are too closed minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings are forming all of us into this very rare for presidents popularity to increase so i'm not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done you want there lakshman so we need to live with that one of the main points of discontent has been micron's labor reform program it led to violent protests across the country he's also widely criticized for slashing public spending and the curbing of the military budget another ruptured housing benefits were cut it is poverty ratings is pleased that micros changes communication strategy now to make it more open so the editor

in chief of belgium's the people magazine takes a critical look next the french president right now and his policies right now. it's come to the end of the spirit race it's not a surprise everybody. will be satisfied with. your position we'll show. you the straight right polish prime minister said that mr mcveigh was to. strike because what he said. what he said made you so late he's trying to. press you. criticize in trying to raise something which is totally an acting job which would make you sick things like france that are credible she said for example the french all want any forms that do work before. now but of engineering feat for you russian engineers are currently

moving this thing over the shoulder a gigantic which is crucial or at least to the bridge that will set to connect mainland russia to crimea and it is say it's going to take a day or two you better believe it to maneuver that thing into final position the installation of the arch was supposed to be going to earlier this month it was postponed because of stormy weather looks ok now though a second we put in place next month we hear when finished that bridge will carry a motorway and a railroad to be high enough for vessels obviously hopefully underneath is expected to be fully operational by twenty nineteen if you want to see more of that mazen feat of engineering just physically transporting a huge hunk of steel is a marvel in itself check out our site there's a lot more there a lot more spectacular pictures lot more detail about it meantime for now this monday as week when i was done and dusted finatawa braze along for the coming hours to bring it up to speed on all the latest breaking stories thanks for watching international for this update from moscow.

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shape out just. to educate and in. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. what politicians do. to put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. that you'd like to be first that's what before the spectrum or can people get. interested falls in the waters of politics.

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 we speak to an organization that records. incidents in the u.k. about whether the mainstream media is to blame for a rise in islamophobia tax and is 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 a debate is going underground but first will school children 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 context you will not see passed 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. billion pound deal with a party recently allied paramilitaries to stay prime minister here for instance is how u.k. school children are educated about. all the non 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 tourism a 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 sable 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 and. with the save our schools campaign the they all started to measure the kind of imposing the last seven eight is 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 state education system or many of them. education system but the priority for them but the overnights three 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 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. savings 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 sports 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 as 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 this school's 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 oscar 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 to raise or may says more and more people are going to school and they're being funded by the taxpayer well 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 for 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 so this 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 some fastest and 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 child 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 last. the fool 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. problems and 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 rail carried away you know i was what with 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. more tolerant of christianity historically something has gone to the morals and yet to such a cetera and then my innate or all society's innate islamophobia 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 you thank. 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 n.-g. o. the records and measures and team muslim attacks in the u.k. fears that so much for coming back on the show before he goes islamophobia your reaction to tory m.p. marie morris using the n word symptomatic of selling still institutionally bigoted . 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. thinks 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 britons 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've got to be 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 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. 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 by when stream media in this country compared to your absolutely right i think you're an outgrowth of newspaper headlines 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 right extremism is and actually then in many instances these individuals are unbalanced they've 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 in being stopped in the streets by 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 happened. 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 true farai 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 has mogul 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 zionist terror that made refugees of hundreds of thousands of palestinians and that after monday's high court decision in london is britain's multi-billion dollar military support the saudi arabian destruction in yemen all but assured. me but to i'm going underground.

about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. here at us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it's one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to us there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream. has met its make. the two thousand and eight economic

crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with we curriculum is that needed austerity policy is if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good of the results she solo said to new york city's will by the. gathered in which the wider world get people to see what i do. believe will be she still climbers i mean to for legal. challenge must deal with this she was always think if they see something and not getting paid why are the same measures still in place to one of the consequences to. blue bird flu dispute who will first. of this is the truth be consider is the consequences are actually quite

acceptable to the decision makers. coined saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula that solves for trust think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be not crashing into you you trust of the doctors professional you trust the hospitals working in a trust third parties all day long but 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 a supporter i like about it i mean wealth comes and goes but watching central banks crawl into their desk and pee 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 as well and they're well aid to us and you gave the three forces in the fight against day as well the one that victory eleven years ago in the twenty six lebanon war were to reflections on the i believe it was a turning point in the middle east in history managed to pass for thirty two days and he inflicted a huge defeat on the israeli army's because the army 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 campaign

or the two blocs tools saudi arabia these moms and the machine. is used against one of the poorest countries in the words human why which is actually in the military in. the british government who told us that their foreign policy is whiter than white boards as the secretary of state in britain was a rational title include the saudi that coalition was not deliberately targeting civilians more than ten thousand civilian women must a 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 are going to be certainly good news for britain's largest manufacturing company be a system that's going to your next hour of course which has been working with a pseudo yemeni government based in saudi arabia. we have it let's go to this room where we are meets with share 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 teeth of it 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 mean to defuse that situation whether they are going to succeed personally i got 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 put in the way to

a new study shows clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition war this report is saying that the casualties highest casualties were in the poorest and least educated there is going to states yes it is a vote of merely 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 one. worst kept secret that could actually become a nightmare as it is say israel denies that it's helping and i said yes there are

there are how do we know this it was documented person we have seen a lot of pictures or binyamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel visiting that syrian fighters opposition fighters fighters a little. bit of how does the israeli public go with a photograph of prime minister netanyahu the knowing that he is helping isis and the israeli taxpayer is helping soldiers 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 the israeli why not. put into that border with the syrian army. all financial support and militia i believe is that it would be would be in a very very position. thank you. eleven years ago today israel declared war on lebanon beginning

a thirty three day conflict with as well are now fighting with u.s. and u.k. troops to combat isis day action 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 amazing is the balfour declaration as a source of pride it led to what the palestinians called day and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people one of them was the poet and a 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 we think we're there we're starring in it and yet it was a double where we're seeing hundreds of thousands of refugees drowning or risk in the mediterranean hundreds of thousands obviously a palestinian is a one man show it's. distilled in a sense in this in this one poet what is a better way to understand the catastrophe of many. except single izing one and

really telling a story deep because in the refugee camps in lebanon across 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 and the audience share the same space the same air we breathe that means that the audience and the performer are both the same creature. earlier

though i mean you you focus on one person the prime minister of britain says we should be celebrating the balfour declaration one 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 the arab world or 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 palestinians and not celebrating balfour declaration because this declaration. was displaced and and was. exactly and he was living in a you know different 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 killer is in the village destroyed destroyed limply to destroy the now there is a settlement chords. which is near the lands of for myself me i'm and i'm coming from the same same refugee family you know from other village which my grandmother other my grandfather's 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. this declaration which was will you people if people maybe maybe their excuse could be ignorance 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 would you think it would have made it you know in world press as a general rule our story has been overlooked and just. 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 does big service for be telling our narrative from our perspective. you know muse are 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 balanced coverage but this is impossible because there is no balance in nature you know the history as one is written by the victors that was always the case. in today's world in two thousand and seventeen when you have. 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 it finds 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 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 at last and therefore i worry

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violence in the u.s. city of. this monday the twenty eighth of. this is the news from international welcome to the program first off to iraq and the liberation of tal afar where you can see behind me live pictures from a village north of. the iraqi army announce victory over i saw in a couple of days ago the pockets of militant resistance and now the main target of the security forces they're not out of the woods yet as you can see billowing smoke columns of smoke in the distance where a battle is currently raging as for itself there's a long way to go. to something many terrorists are still holed up in basements

and underground tunnels and reports from that deadly surprises all around almost every corner. the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered all over the bridges and buildings entire frog iraq he sent just haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting 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 area through additional. they're hiding in basements and buildings and in timers 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 fraud they have turned the city into a sap as nightmare and coming 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. i 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. do all we can to disarm everything butt. there's 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 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 current 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 the opportunity presented itself as the proper background bring that must for the present in order to get away the fear of the iraqi ministry in the u.s. led coalition predicts the path then soon might fall a frog of them through and will come back the question is how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i guys deal. from iraq.

the syrian army backed by russian forces has destroyed one of the most active islamic state groups in syria eight hundred militants were killed in the operation in the euphrates valley a large amount of heavy machine guns were destroyed along with tanks and artillery weapons that's according to the russian defense ministry. but as i still loses ground tens of thousands of terrorists are uniting under one banner to fight government forces in syria some of these groups were previously backed by the united states because donald has the details. 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 al nusra front brutal massacre torture rape there have been no boundaries and how far will go to win this war. wound generate the highly effective. gap to bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical weapons that 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 kiev 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 at all some just in general to we have to say. well i think you know if again 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 it give you

pause will give us pause about any assistance or or frankly any. further involvement with this group so 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. middle east expert joshua landis told us that this new terror grouping has already overwhelmed other factions in the area it's quite clear that the domination. i dida shama over the province has 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 azour group so it is a big problem 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 all kind of problem in syria. a rival protests in the u.s. city about glee have descended into chaos and the fascist demonstrators broke through police barricades during a rally against hate and clashed with right wing activists. it was. a prior to that unrest police had banned sticks mosques and any potential weapons however dozens of anti fascist protesters broke those rules one left wing demonstrator attacked

a photographer and others reportedly threatened people who were trying to film the violence but some scenes were still caught on camera. ok. this video filmed by a reporter there appears to show a group of mosque the anti fascist protest is basing a right wing demonstrate on a separate incident a man who thought to be a trump supporter was attacked by a mob off the he pepper sprayed some of the counter protesters six people were injured in the unrest and thirteen arrests with his kind of mold and with more from buckley. we're hearing outside of the civic center in downtown berkeley california as you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist protesters these are people that assemble to calendar a right wing rally that was called the for today for this afternoon on the slogan say no to mark says well these are posts here that object to a number of the people involved with that recorded right wing rally not consider them to be white supremacy and fascism assemble to denounce and while the nazis may

have a right to demonstrate we've got a right to show that there are a million point four of us ignore them any time a group preaches the hatred that we've seen from the outright i think it's only human toe match that even if it's not the most mature reaction it's only human to match that with some kind of anger and aggression really want to stand for nonviolence who would take the side against people that speak for violence including politicians such as donald trump one grouping that is widely present is the folks who call themselves and teeth off some of them also would call themselves the black bloc people with masks over their faces are you know how much goggles they're here for a fight almost i mean they give that impression we've seen repeatedly from folks try to come into the crowd begin you know begin spent sending out their message state making statements in support of doll trial out of the crowd going to circling up the police moving in and scuffles breaking out.

this is just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states especially in the aftermath of charlottesville a law. different views being expressed here a lot of anger but a lot of folks that just say they're worried about their country it's been quite a crazy scene here in downtown berkeley california the vice chairman of the u.s. libertarian party told us that violence 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 of settling it with violence if there's a dispute with drugs there's little that with violence and that example needs to change the 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 is 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 splitted us society is now

moving to the world all the big screen cinema in memphis to stop screening the nine hundred thirty nine classic gone with the wind the iconic film about love in the civil war is being accused of being racist and insensitive by america's left wing writer and comedian jeff kline believes that these days from monuments to award winning films the country's left wing is trying to rewrite america's history. 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 based on margaret mitchell's novel gone with the wind is set on a southern plantation during the civil war and reconstruction periods it's renowned for being one of the greatest love stories i was a make it to the silver screen. of

a consolation after thirty four years as fired up social media some were incredulous that the film was dropped others stress that should be out of politics some tweets were accompanied with the hash tag how to mcdaniel after the actress who played the housemaid she became the first african-american to be nominated for and to win an academy award back then the film's producer collaborated closely with rights groups to prevent accusations of racism therefore believes that the cancellation actually goes against identity politics of the left. it's kind of insane that they would claim this movie is insensitive when having mcdaniel is the first black person to win the oscar so that movie has very historical significance even just for that fact it's a it's a cinematic feat it progressed film forward both in terms of the art of filmmaking

the art of storytelling and your progressiveness i mean that a lot of people who claim this movie's insensitive care so much about identity politics they should be excited about the fact that hattie mcdaniel is an oscar winner because of this movie dissatisfaction with the french president is rising at home and abroad and tell you why after the break. all the food we go from we're going to. every the world should experience. and you'll get it all the oil will. go according to just. look. i'm sure there are.

no one else seemed wrong but. just don't call. me that he's yet to shape out these days he comes to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back u.s. defense giants lockheed martin and raytheon are seeing a huge surge in sales they've both been awarded nine hundred million dollars contract by the pentagon this comes as the u.s.

north korea nuclear tension continues to simmer so maybe a context in the could trump seeming obsession with nuclear weapons and i would sparking 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 sequester and will submit a 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 to 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 con. washington d.c. . u.n. secretary general antonio guterres is on a three day visit to israel the palestinian territories is there to discuss reviving the peace process in the region but of course his visit comes at a time of rising tensions yet again between the two cross live to our middle east correspondent paula slayer paula i potentially very important talks bound to be pressure on both sides what's expected. not only is there bound to be pressure on both sides what is interesting is the increased tensions between israel and the international body as you mentioned the u.n. secretary general is in the region for three days it's his first since taking

office back in january now he's already met with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu netanyahu saying that there are a host of issues the two need to discuss and they'll do so in the coming days the secretary general will also be meeting with high ranking palestinian officials in the west bank and traveling to gaza now all of this comes against the backdrop as i say of a spike in tensions between israel and the united nations you have the israeli deputy foreign minister saying that israel can no longer tolerate and i'm quoting the united nations and israel biased take a listen. we are seeking a dramatic change in the way the u.n. treats israel it's time to place the issues squarely on the table and address it head on if the u.n. doesn't dress to go he changes behavior it will lose both support and funding. of words goes back quite some time in fact if you ask most israelis what they think of the united nations i'll tell you that they believe that the body is biased

against them you have the united nations that has called on israel. tape machine on the palestinians and at the same time you remember that the united nations security council voted unanimously to urge israel to stop with its settlement expansion project so of course it still remains to be seen what comes of these meetings but certainly what we are seeing. seemed to be on edge. ok paula when i keep watching what happens over the coming days with that visit for now they pulled us live in tell of a thanks for that. next in yemen twenty one people killed in a saudi led coalition strike on a hotel last week have been buried in the capital dozens of people died in that strike among them who the rebels but also civilians relatives of the victims blame the saudi led coalition and are demanding justice. can read about and 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. two months stands were martyred by the saudi aggressors 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 and i would demand that 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 spokesman expressed regret at the collateral damage and offered condolences to the victims' families now another strike friday killed at least fourteen civilians including six children hundreds of locals went to the scene demanding that the coalition stops its bombing campaign in the country these people and you might find the following images we're about to show disturbing to watch. this little girl who is about four or five years old is the only member of her family to survive the

bombardment she has a concussion but also a fractured skull doctors do hope though that she will be able to make a full recovery. yemeni political analyst bill rashid says that international efforts are failing and there needs to be a political solution for yemen. international accounting firms are weak they are not capable they're not responsive responsive enough and very efficient to deal with this escalation on a day to day basis comes way beyond the list of priorities when you when you talk it to compare it to other conflicts syria or libya then it's going to be a comprehensive political solution without a political solution we will be dealing we'd be talking almost on a 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. any time soon. the french president is due to meet in the coming hours the leaders

of germany italy and spain they're expected to cover migration defense and economics but as you go up and dialogue relations with another member state seem to be souring. i think that all one 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 just today to isolate itself in the functioning progress of. poland is not isolating it so easily and has not been isolated it was it seems to me that president max grown carelessly follows media reports and doesn't know what's going on in our part of europe still 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 meanwhile dissatisfaction of the home is looming over emanuel micron according to the latest poll that was

conducted for a french newspaper less than a half of those surveyed approve of his policies as things stand now at the same point in their presidencies take a look at what his predecessors were achieving cosey had sixty nine percent at this point as for francois a lot he was still managing about fifty he was getting fifty four percent despite that a government spokesman says that the figures can be ignored and the mccrum will quote transform the country so we've been asking some people in paris about the president's 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. the french people are too closed minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings are forming all of us into this very rare for presidents popularity to increase so i'm not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done you want their action so we need to live with that one

of the main points of discontent has been macross labor reform program that led to violent protests across the country he's also widely criticized for slashing public spending and curbing the military budget another rather rapid when housing by. if it's what comes. of it is plummeting writings it's believed mccrum has changed his communication strategy making it more open the chief editor in chief of belgium's the people magazine takes a critical look next at the french president and his policies. has come to be on the spirit of race still a surprise to anybody. french people on the census find the. solution with middle rank. spreading 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 he's not a true. that's. criticized for being

a true racist something which is totally to much of an joke but it was what make it say things from start credible to set for example the french. want to say that they were before. but now get news of those as they happened at the altie app on your smartphone or tablet i'm calling right back for your next news and i'll find out.

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 almost a decade how good of the results. by the few gathered in which the wider world get people to see what i. mean to for legal. challenge must. think it takes the stand how they are not 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 makers. coined saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula that solves for trust think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be not 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 i like about it i mean wealth comes and goes but watching central banks crawl into their p. themselves and cry that's what i like.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle is an american inspired attack on north korea in evitable one certainly gets that impression listening to washington's war hawks and theirs to knock occurs in the corporate liberal media is north korea a growing military threat of course it is but it is also under threat is there still time for diplomacy. across talking north korea i'm joined by my guest when one in washington is the

chief political correspondent and c p n 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 the logic he is a philosopher novelist filmmaker and investigative journalist or a gentleman cross-talk 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 says china could easily solve this problem meaning the north korean problem that unfortunate character of 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 the 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 polan in boston you know one of the remarkable things here is we we every few years we go through this you know this is north korea mania that i call it ok and they're 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 for us 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 i'm what i'm saying is that you know that there's 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 asians 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 the region and in the asia pacific it is being constantly provoke 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 west of 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 there for i mean south korea is a very affluent country as 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 meant this are going to be worried about it ok and i think that's a very cynical go ahead in washington. well 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 our weapons manufacturing the 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 its cold war forward deployment in tact 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 it is it logical argument if china did all trade with north korea how could beijing's leverage gorgons come from of course of course you know paul can you weigh in on that there because the united states

doesn't recognise that north korea respectively how you feel about the regime in north korea it does have security interest in the united states and recognize that it has north korea as a sovereign country a member of the united nations and has a right to protected so but it doesn't recognise it particularly if you look at the mainstream media go ahead and 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 as the south but if there's another war that is korean war true there will be an absolute apocalyptic collapse catastrophe in east asia. north korea has i'm to itself

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 missile against the united states all 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 you know 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 that seems quite reasonable here i did in the i'm glad you mentioned it calling the north korean regime in saying 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 a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on north korea and stay with our king.

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twenty miles away from the d.m.z. in of course in any kind of military assault north korea would be it would be turned into a moonscape 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 did 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 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 and i listen to them a lot. of their governments are of their artists of their people when i've been three years ago a spot 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 they suffered tremendously during the korean war let's remember that the media coverage biodiverse to 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. in 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 korean 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 now 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 together with cuba or bill. single handedly it's 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. many african companies even. rich going through. to help to build that acacia 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 play with let's 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 it was a gross violation of sovereignty and even a war crime i would say so wang again you know kind of explain to us how the chinese see all of this saber rattling. we need to remember that if the u.s.

has one southern border to secure china has thirteen borders to secure and then of our current or former nuclear powers and north korea is just one of the. 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 them currently under economic us 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 in there well and 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 that 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 or 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 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 or a 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. peter are they do you think in your mind 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 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 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 has 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 ask all of the nations to to write to 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 that 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 actually 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. chicago or in los angeles or far away from north korea anyway and you're you see this look i know people walk all over the nation 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 provoked an 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 big delegation will be against the u.s. but against okinawa exactly exactly 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 in something and 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 is 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 when going to the last minute of the program go ahead of course the united states argues that it is a force for good you look at the what happened after world war two there were 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 is 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 with 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. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into peg's these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of even the recession to do. a very bad idea it doesn't work

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