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from all of us here at. the u.s. state department has ordered the closure. along with two. and the move threatens to take relations between washington and moscow. joining us live to give us. reaction to this. rory good afternoon well each hostile move each hostile decision that is being made

by russia or the us is followed by yet another blow in response this latest one by washington means that the number of russian consulates in america will be reduced to three and here's something very important here the one that's being shut down in san francisco is the all this diplomatic compound russia had in the u.s. it dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century well this morning when the washing foreign minister was asked about the ongoing diplomatic spat. reminded that it wasn't moscow in the first place which was behind this war of sanctions. this. story was not russian it was stilted by the us administration with the only purpose of the money and us russian relations as we understand the trying to write

trumps administration story from a sling that they're trying to come down. to washington actions that's home russia's interests while every time you hear the news about a new round in this out right diplomatic war you ask yourself how far can this go when is this ever going to end well. at least says that at this time and any time before moscow has always been genuinely n. favor of putting an end to this conflict but when it comes to the u.s. approach here's how mr lavrov puts it. you're going to. the u.s. when the conflict with this country we've always been friendly towards the american people and we're still open to constructive relationships but as you know it takes two to tango. bridge doesn't single time over time.

so it takes two to tango and at least when it comes to putting up a diplomatic fight i guess we can see a pretty impressive dance performance by moscow and washington and we understand right now we heard from sergey lavrov that moscow will respond to this decision to shut down the russian consulate in san francisco and very soon we will find out what the russian foreign ministry comes up with. to say thank you and it was back in december last year then u.s. president barack obama expelled thirty five russian diplomats over alleged election meddling well they're choosing not to respond in kind instead on the very same day that the russian president putin invited the children of us to put abouts in russia to a new year's party at the kremlin oh six months later in july this year russia then cut the u.s. diplomatic presence in the country to less than five hundred officials and that

resulted in trump extending sanctions ofter a congressional vote and washington is defending the move as a straightforward return to diplomatic parity with moscow or more details here on the program here's r.t. correspondent jacqueline from. state department claims that this is not an anti russian move but some limited towards parity and an attempt to avoid further escalation. the u.s. hopes that having moved toward russia's desire for parity we can avoid further retaliatory actions and move forward to achieve the stated goal of improved relations between our two countries but how these closures are meant to help the situation really isn't clear we've seen round after round of sanctions imposed against russia by the us including a fresh batch earlier this month. in congress that just to go with nothing and expressing again. that the two. come together say it loud and clear i've been saying it for years i think it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships with

russia that's very important and i believe some day that will happen there is a selling point really just as the new russian ambassador to the us has arrived and gotten straight to work of course we did what we could to improve our relations with the u.s. unfortunately we still haven't reached a consensus on many issues. clearly a bumpy start for him on the job but after years in the game he has fairly tough skin obviously it's tightened by the americans to embarrass him. how that he he in fact. is going to have a very very difficult to perform his duties and to establish trust.

really. in the worst possible day both countries have repeatedly expressed the hope of improving thai and yet with washington having this tit for tat approach it's not really clear if that's going to be possible. r.t. washington d.c. various analysts told us the decision to shut down the consulate was a mature and russia's new ambassador to the united states faces a tough job ahead. the decision by russia most recently to reduce the number of staff was to create parity between the two countries where russia would have as many people working at its embassies here in the u.s. as the u.s. would have been in russia so we were at a parity situation is now they're suddenly comes out of the blue and it's again destabilize that situation and at the same time we have a trump talking about what relations with russia so you have to wonder who is calling the shots here i didn't expect to i had hoped that at some point this

downward spiral in our relationships would and we could we could get back to normal this is simply one more change for tat it's rather childish i think if we had a little bit more mature leadership within the state department i think it would be helpful i do believe that trump probably has some desire to have good relations with russia but this manufactured scandal and it is manufactured of russia gate for lack of a better word has painted him into a corner and there are obviously parts of the u.s. stablish mint that do not want reproach with russia. as the u.s. led coalition attempts to retake remaining parts of syria's rocket from i so the u.n. warns that not enough is being done to spare civilian lives but we witnessing it

since he wrote no iraq is a fight by coalition and all the forces against i so we're concerned that is being done to at hue to the international law requirements for the protection of civilians. access to photographs taken by local journalists which have given a red look inside the city revealing the truth of its destruction. which. first of all let me say that what is happening now in rocca is destruction it's not liberation at all for eighty four days rocca has been under siege but this sees only harm civilians trapped inside since eisel captured the city and the siege is imposed by syrian democratic forces on the ground that is backed by the u.s.

led coalition's airstrikes these airstrikes destroy schools hospitals the whole infrastructure we as journalists have documented that more than two thousand civilians have been killed as a result of the coalition's airstrikes they do not target the places where jihad is to gather although everyone knows where they are while u.s. jets attack from the air s.d.f. attacks from the ground and at night jihadists use suicide vehicles to regain territories controlled by the s.d.f. but there is no serious combat as all. one can see that clearly from the videos posted by both the s.d.f. and the coalition that look i still has about one thousand fighters in iraq are and the s.d.f. claims to have thirty five thousand to forty thousand soldiers and they confront a mere one thousand terrorists if s.d.f. and the coalition wanted to liberate rocka they could accomplish it within ten days

. now according to the u.n. there are at least twenty thousand civilians still trapped inside iraq in august alone the coalition carried out over a thousand strikes just in that area and the u.n. adds the intensity of the yes strikes coupled with iceland's use of civilians as human shields is deeply concerning rocket based journalist and again showed details of just how grave the conditions have become. but. there aren't even basic necessities such as bread and water medicine no electricity no fuel the national hospital and the al salaam hospital were completely destroyed and there is not one left for civilians but there are two or three hospitals operating for eisold fighters the americans blew up bridges leading out of the city and in fact prevented civilians from leaving rocka although terrorists can easily exit the city

even though the areas controlled by s.t.s. from the coalition so twenty five thousand civilians from besieged areas do not deserve safe passage. the f.b.i. is denied a freedom of information request to world lease files relating to hillary clinton's e-mails the f.b.i. claims there's a quote lack of public interest for such a disclosure to be made is michael frost antioch new york attorney ty clevenger has been waiting for more than a year for the f.b.i. to fulfill his freedom of information request and reveal the files on hillary clinton's e-mails only to get this response you've not sufficiently demonstrated that the public's interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject. well whatever the f.b.i. thinks the public certainly made its interest in the e-mails loud and clear these are the three questions that are coming out of that timeline that continue to drive

the story i'm sorry when you use a private e-mail on a private server your privacy rights are out the window when you're the secretary of state of the united states of america you don't have privacy anymore she chose to do this because on her and i personally would like to know in a way reminds me of the nixon tapes shouldn't go away on the substance and voters do care about their enough all that fuss was being made while clinton was still running for the presidency but perhaps now the emails won't be as damaging especially given that clinton insists there was nothing classified in the first let me say that i am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails either standard really only problem for her is that's not true it seems she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail which are true our investigation found that there was classified information so it was not true just weeks before the of the ice said there is nothing in clinton's

e-mails the public needs to know a federal judge ruled that the state department should do more to investigate its servers for clinton's messages related to the tragic been gazi attack which left several u.s. officials dead that decision was welcomed by judicial watch this major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the benghazi scandal and hillary clinton's involvement in it as we approach the anthrax fifth anniversary yet still be a vi keep silent insisting there is insufficient proof of public interest to more conditions also mentioned by the agency earlier this year they said they are ready to release the records if mrs clinton agrees to a lease of the information or passes away we go francis and jago r.t. . well the lawyer at the center of the story gave us his take he believes the f.b.i. is actually trying to uphold its own reputation rather than back hillary clinton. well when i when i first got the letter from the f.b.i.

i laughed out loud the absurdity of trying to suggest that it was a matter of public interest i sent him back a letter with a copy of a washington post article and some google search terms to show just how many articles there were out there so it was funny at first but then i was lying about it within the last twelve hours i've actually changed my view on the significance of the story i originally thought the f.b.i. was trying to protect mrs clinton i now think the f.b.i. is trying to protect itself and i think that's because they not only did it extremely poor job in the investigation but they sabotage the investigation so at this point if their records start coming out i mean already today we had the release of records showing that mr comey had already decided to exonerate her before she had finished the investigation so if that's the case then the f.b.i. does not want the records coming out because it will make them look even worse. most of them is around the world is celebrating one of. the festival of sacrifice

and thousands of muslims also. reports this is that one of the holiest if not the holiest day of. the festival of sacrifice it is the culmination over one of the most sacred traditions of islam and that is the annual pilgrimage to mecca or it is celebrated by hundreds of thousands of muslims all over the world and sunny day in moscow several streets have been shut off around this beautiful beautiful mosque behind me just to allow as many devoted muslims as possible to join in on the morning prayer which kicks off the official celebration in fact people have been gathering here since four in the morning now this holy day. fashion control the sea i should say because

it is called a festival of sacrifice for a reason the tradition goes that the most affluent muslims are supposed to make an animal sacrifice on this day normally they go with a round and some still do and it makes some people very unhappy and they should they say that it should not be part of the celebration anymore but at the same time a lot of muslims they no longer follow this tradition they just go for a prayer and they then spend some time back home with their families and just greeting guests it is odd international thanks for joining us so far on this friday genetically modified food giant monsanto which trying to fire back at the world health organization that's in the mix of your stories in a moment. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around

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it is a conflict that's already lasted sixteen years but now more u.s. troops will be heading to afghanistan undergoing chief james mattis has now signed an order to dispatch additional forces. well loews this is to enable the afghan forces to fight more effectively it is more revises it is more in the bill as far as support alone when they say the u.s. acknowledged it currently has about eleven thousand military personnel in afghanistan that's about two and a half thousand more than previously stated the pentagon insists there's been no increase in troop numbers at the moment just a change in the way it tallies that total now the move to bolster u.s. forces comes off the donald trump analysis his grand new strategy for afghanistan

just last week however trump also provided no deadline for an end to that war also the number of additional troops to be sent to the country is also being held as top secret in addition the president wants nato allies to throw more soldiers and throw more money into this sixteen year fight. afghan strategy shakeup is raising fears of even more civilian casualties on thursday eleven civilians were confirmed dead in an alleged nato strike now there's been no confirmation so far from the organization or the western led coalition but nato does say it's still investigating. naman of the just foreign policy think tank says the new strategy will likely lead to simply more civilian deaths. lyndon johnson said it ok i know that we can win but i'm not going to be the first president since lose a war that kicking the can down the road keep it going don't you know don't

pull out and then make the next guy take responsibility for it that's a pattern that we've seen. over and over no more u.s. troops are in afghanistan no more afghan civilians will be kill you first of all because of the foreign military operation secondly the thing that makes us commander most. redcliffe in the u.s. in the use of u.s. firepower is protecting u.s. troops clear whatever rules of engagement in war well no u.s. commander will ever be punished for using any amount of firepower those two factors mean more u.s. troops equals surely more air.

the genetically modified foods giant monsanto is calling for an investigation into an agency of the world health organization that's after the body published a report claiming some of the company's products like the weed killer glyphosate are linked to cancer on santos says the w.h.o. ignored two major study is there found no connection to that disease when an organization such is the international agency for research on cancer is given authority with that comes a responsibility to be objective transparent fur and share at least in this instance their process was corrupted apparently with individuals who have an agenda . the company says it carries out its own extensive examinations or the critics of question the fact that monsanto funded the very study used to claim the chemicals used were benign in nature meantime france will vote on an extension to its current ban on life aside based on the potential dangers it poses the organic consumer

associations alexis bed and claims that monsanto falsifies its research for profit and buries the bad news. month santo has two point eight billion dollars in sales of their top selling roundup weed killer at stake here so surely monsanto is very nervous about what the e.u. could do at this point monsanto is notorious for paying for scientists to conduct research for it for falsifying data for completely ghostwriting fired and then hiring fire to put their names on it so we know that monsanto pulls out all the stops when it comes to falsifying suppressing and unduly influence thing if i am on the subject. sweden is often held up as a beacon of media freedom worldwide however growing numbers of disturbing cases are coming out which appear to put that reputation in doubt u.s. journalist researching the country's scores of so-called no go zones areas with

serious public security concerns was ordered to leave by police and mainstream media even branded him a threat to democracy in another case a nurse complaining about the deteriorating situation of the country's health care system was accused of being under a quote hidden power of influence we spoke to the editor of conservative news website situation malmo he says the country's media are at the heart of the establishment. still in sweden local media is very forward to and have big newspapers or still very important florida the majority of the people in the media in sweden has a doctorate where did journalists are. pushing for a political agenda who maybe germans are doing if you want it to finish work to swedish media they are establishment and media and it is very powerful we have public broadcast to service if bt television that is part of the government system

so people do not want to have conflict with do with the powerful media as i would have people who just go on living their lives and they don't get the. critic criticism reviews the government or aig is this stablish meanwhile top swedish newspaper expressen has been exposing private citizens who criticized the government on the internet they saw how the people writing negative comments online to then challenge them face to face however despite the day of controversy and ethical concern of a publicly shaming private citizens for simply expressing their opinions the day's editors were even on note for their actions. start with you're not you know really do or asking me at first. you know telling an article something that you wrote and ask you know why did you do it and

exposing the person who is a shock because this person is not a politician explores in this person or for real to the entire swedish our nick. carr who was shocked that swedish media. did be a very. democratic behavior you don't get exposed people because they have a different opinion and it's the problem. it's the italian trick that's been a sparkling success in the u.k. the sales of prosecco facing to new highs but a growing tide of negative coverage about the beverage threatens to turn things to side of the flat and the latest british dentists of want of a so-called prosecco smile tooth decay caused by their drinks high sugar content but italian politicians have told the media to put a cork in it they say their temples the only thing to keep britain smiling after breakfast.

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military leaders and religious fundamentalists boss a muse that known to many as the jon stewart of egypt is back and he's my guest on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king it's a return visit for my guests this evening boss jim youssef he's the cardiac surgeon turned political satirist don't know many have done that who for a time had the highest rated show on television in his native egypt he was forced to shut it down under authoritarian rule he's in america now and he's on set with me for the next thirty minutes we'll get his scalp was sharp assessment of trump's presidency so far and find out why he's pitching a morning after kit for muslims in america that he's. also author of the revolution

for dummies laughing through we are whispering that he's the focus of the documentary to rolling giants welcome back oh that nice to be back the washington times recently described donald trump as a gift from the comedy gods to professional you murderess you agree absolutely i mean look at the ratings of s n l and daily show i think a lot of people have survived in the comedy sphere and even been added to the comedy feud because of the donald trump's little trump is great for comedy horrible for america you think i was one of his roasters at a famous comedy central roast of amateur member that do you think and i know mo and i'm not sure if he has a sense of humor do you think he does know it's not just about the sense of humor i think he doesn't have the sense of being a public servant if you see how he reacts to criticism in general i mean specifically for the humor and satire but he doesn't understand the idea

that if you are running for office or you are in a public office it is part of the job of being criticized i mean if you look at him for example in his. press conferences does anybody have a good question for me does anybody playing nice can you it can you be nice to a just begging people or asking people to be nice it's not people's job to be nice and when he can solicit perience in the corresponding dinner that was a big thing that was a big it was the first president ever i mean reagan missed it because he was shocked but that's where they do you more comedy writers write all their stuff actually and he said no i'm not going to take this because i'm above criticism and he doesn't understand the idea of being a public servant and that reminds me a lot of what i saw in the middle east people people who are in any kind with or i'm not in you even have to go all the way up to the president or the king anybody . a minister or some public official they consider making fun even criticizing

someone in a political position a sign of lack of respect we're very big about lack of respect and i think i see a lot of parallels way see the blood level from doing that what do you think of his using twitter. i mean just. well. we can joke about him using twitter all you want but what he's doing is a part of cutting they undermining the media don't isn't an immediate listen to me and he is late to this while you do like feet news media so i speak to a lot of trump supporters and it doesn't matter how many facts how many pieces of information you tell them oh the media are by you who are guests in july of two thousand and sixteen and yet to do this to you boston before doll trump became the g.o.p. nominee we talked about his campaign rhetoric rhetoric america's democratic process

we will play this for you now observe all right you're looking at democracy you're a doctor is your prognosis that american democracy is that you know i think the american democracy will be able to be healing itself because used to you have institutions and constitution in place that will will actually make sure this will happen the thing is i know that you guys are very worried about donald trump being you know xenophobic creases whatever back in the middle east that's monday we are used to that but here's the here's the difference i think it's not going to be the worst thing to have these people rise those kind of hatred because people will come to understand that people running on empty rhetoric is not enough it's all of this fake patriotism all of this hate all of it will fall nothing or if he wins so what i mean people lose so was so would that mean like the you know it's not going to be like and improve our again great dictator people will understand that this kind of

rhetoric if i mean it will be painful i mean it's not going to be an easy right but even if he wins eat people will understand that their problems among going to be solved by empty rhetoric their problems not going to be sold by just saying let's make america great again i lay amazing in suspenders. when president two hundred twenty five days yes better or worse than you expected i think it's the exact exact legs not surprised by it and no surprise it's just it's the arc of the whole empty rhetoric that they built up to support anything though i support anything that he's done i can't see anything that he has done he allowed those i mean just to be fair he kind of lake interfered to allow these eight of again niggers to come in and compete in a computer or in the competition that's the only thing that they remember. i

want to see pronounce his name all c.c. . the head of egypt a fantastic guy and say he's done a tremendous job under trying circumstances. what do you make of that well. it is no surprise these are peas in a pod these are lake authoritarian people who somehow find each other it's the same thing if you look at the issue between. the like each other and i think deep down. he says how are you all these people in gee how are you passing all of these. people being on your back and i think he envisage as if this is maybe the first time in history that an american president look up to an egyptian president hoping that he'll have his place the only difference is putin has a sense of you know he is from france i've been with him he's funny he's. good i mean

putin is kind of. is a dictator that he knows what he's doing. ok you recently teamed up with the entertainment side cafe yes to pitch a morning after kid for muslims in america watch this folks on best news and i'm here to tell you that terrorism sucks right but there's this other aspect to it that we usual overlook. that day after. this is a day where people who have nothing to do with the incident get treated as if they were that actually did it but this ends today introducing the muslim morning after the morning after to protect you from anyone who may want to hurt you because they think you. know i don't know because i'm. going to stop you every day take it from targeting us why don't you open it and see for yourself the muslim or. american flags over your house and everything. to remind

people that the c.p.u. with. something like a white person. a framed picture of you in. music . she knows. a special pass through back to the simple. now i can go to any library i want and if you order now we throw in a key chain with your recording to help you get out of. town i hereby condemn yesterday's attack. by that will do for now. how do you come up with this. article i see yes. it will be available on amazon soon and. i have always talked about.

what does it look like for people like us in the morning after. because i'm really scared i mean i was in a in a restaurant with friends of mine when the chelsea bombing happened and all of my friends their reaction was a human reaction it's like is everybody ok i mean is anybody hurt and my reaction was who did it what's his name is his name mohamed are we screwed i mean this is like our reaction every time we find ourselves being apologetic every time this happens we go oh we ought to be loving people islam is a little peaceful first of all don't do it because we don't owe anybody an apology and second nobody will ever believe us in this exit and so we i don't and doesn't just affect us it affects people who look like us who by the way a huge portion of the word you know latino. african-american who look a little bit like us you have christian arabs who exist you have jewish persian who

by the way were one of the people who were affected by the travel ban because somebody in the eighty's and mr understand that there's a lot of jews also in iran so we came up with this idea so of course like there's the t. shirt there's the flag there is that so you can so you can tell everybody that your bag is safe there is a framed picture with toby keith this is how to. speak like an american i like this because this is going to look it's on an automated condemning device i hereby condemn that there's at that but they also like this because this is like a special kit. for them looking muslim so and this only has one t. shirt to say. i am not a muslim so that would be enough so late just like get out of my hair and wonder if you had this for real whether it was i think it would i mean well i think we should start accepting modems woodward is good yes and non muslims were as. we do have to

do something and put this together oh yeah i mean the people look at fate. brian carmel and blake and we're going to like that one of your dog well kathy is a new platform and they are actually getting into the used to platform and they are their own part of their products is also scary and they came up with this and by the way brian carmel was to a drive through he's jewish where the way so was a little off and he is one of the funniest people i've worked with and he me and him we come up with this ideas about like how to bring people together through humor. and the team and caffie every one of them just like wonderful people have idea yet one don't call in. it's not twenty nine ninety five problem i think you know what i think it was so. awesome stay right there we'll be right back with more politicking after this the muslim morning after care.

about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last wrong turn. your act right up to you as 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 pair. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some marshawn to view 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 it's consumed with this one different speech as there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.

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who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results you saw all of the new york city's welcome by the people gathered in which to watch the world get people to see what our june. meeting treated be in full view she was i mean to for legal. challenge must. think if they see something and not get it. while the same measure is still in place who one of the consequences who's to we can blue bird flu dismantle who will first one of this is the truth you consider this is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision maker. for a few years and this is why we're pleased to announce the debut all. radios look good

morning after pill. for anyone who looks a little bit more. the letter. would be. good. this is who. i am so sorry it's just. all the time. go back to taking that was a clip from cafe dot com starring my guest. pitching his morning after kit for muslims in america he's also the author of the revolution for dummies laughing for spring and the focus of the documentary tickling giants in the united states he's all from called the jon stewart of egypt have you met john i mean i met him a couple of times and he retired he he looks really leafed he's having this

he'd be having a great time we will have in you having a great time but like i understand you've been he's been doing this lake lake. seventeen years to be that sharp every night yes yes yes he's ok what did you think of charlottesville. that was. that was heartbreaking to see all of these people coming on one message of faith how they were in power and powered and think that they can this would not have been. happening a couple of years ago it is just to many giving voice to these people when somebody sees a president as a bully or is a racist and he gets away with it a lot of people are encouraged to follow suit but what is heartwarming is that just a few days after what happened in boston they were reduced to a cubicle in praise of the boston protest you know. what i.

normal long time do you really think that he thinks that the protesters against white supremacy and naziism were would be the other hand well i here's what i think is no other and here's what i think i would like from i think he doesn't care about what you and me or people who look at these people as research think he's speaking to his base i mean for his for his base for his supporters what they see are a bunch of liberals crying and screaming over how a president could do that and i would like to quote something that van jones at c.n.n. contributor and host and he's been here is a wonderful and very eloquent person he said tonal trump for many of his supporters are for lakewood you simpsons for many black people they know that people knew that you simpson was was pretty much in will do what happened maybe he was guilty but he

had the right any. and only trump for them he had the right enemy he's just like trolling the liberals trolling the progressives and they hate the little mite does it hurt you that the political morning console poll done last once showed a majority of americans support the administration's muslim travel ban does that hurt you. it doesn't hurt me personally but it kind of it just shows that it's fear works fear is it is a wonder is it is a very powerful tool and he that when they do that if we we don't meet all muslims but as a matter of fact they do i have been in political and in other places where i've met a lot of supporters and they believe that anybody who belongs to that religion is anti american they don't see. the difference between someone who is

radical or someone who's just you know porn after nine eleven. george bush spoke to an early muslim citizens because he at the conspiracy what you want to put georgia in death moment he knew that he is president for all americans and he would have he made of it and many muslims serve in the army and there are many people who are part of the society and because they hate was getting out of hand over nine eleven as a matter of fact one of the very first victims of hate crimes after nine eleven with an end egyptian christian he was not even a muslim he was like an owner over there and he was killed in his shop and he was christian and a couple of indian seeds were killed to the problem with he does not like when you say like the muslim but it goes far beyond the muslim men when you have like the three individuals from indian descent that were killed or eleven used christian were killed on his porch and that's why we we had this idea of like all the muslims like you know like they off our back it when when when discrimination arrives it

doesn't discriminate personally the president some are more job creation and has been put in charge of solving the middle east from oh that would be lovely oh my god question or oh he will do a great job i mean i thought of that i think he looked at the middle east it's already a mess how how bad can he get and it gets all given question or. why is that. insoluble bill clinton i don't like to drop names but he told me that the british irish was a piece of work piece up piece of pie compared to the middle east. orit's. first of all every american president he comes of for years he he to do something that would actually matter in the middle east he would have to do radical changes that could actually affect his chance to be reelected so nobody

wants to touch that file until the last year or the two terms which is not enough second you have basically two nations two ethnic groups and you have like people from lake the jewish people from all over the world to settle there you had people who lets the bear from palestinian and the palestinian people over really there they have been lent they can they're being settlements how can you solve that but it's a basis yeah. i think right at the same food aid zacky well why didn't the powers that be in the home give the like i feel like i'm in a jewish home exactly the sheer deceived food but at the end of the day i think the land is is the number one cause for all for feud and for conflicts all over and do so let's look problem of land but how can you solve i mean look i would be a little bit vice because i'm an arab and because my my my wife has a palace to come from over half palestinian but you cannot solve the problem while

you are building settlements and you are denying them in the united states solve the problem. the united states has many conference helpful the many conflicts during sentries during the years by putting pressure on the players i don't think the united states would like to put pressure on the israeli government as much as they want to put it on the palestinians because at the end of the day israel knows how to market itself and they have they're pretty much powerful beyond the president they have people in congress and the senate and the lobbies so i think it's going to be very pressured very very difficult to pressure at blick an israeli government that does not want to have peace or do you think of fake news fake news you were made go living with a fake news you want to look at fake news you come to my country and i can show you what for you can use it as a matter of fact one of the very repeated cycles of fate good news that we had

piece of news that we have actually captured the commander of the american six fleet when america tried to interfere and for many people he's still a prisoner in egypt and people believe that. you want to talk about. the army in egypt has actually claimed that they have found a cure for aids people believe that at we like i mean when when he was a fake news and i'm not impressed you come to my country with. news in america oh absolutely i mean they just like a couple of days ago this guy from fox news the guy who did this leg. videos mocking the chinese people in chinatown new york he had i saw a shark in texas and he was talking about like a fake picture that is circulated many times before anybody would like a simple google. search know that this is fake they deal with fake news as facts and. then of course one of the most circulated piece of news is like how obama is a secret muslim how he co-founded i says we've been having this lake three years

before you guys got so far ones oh it we were ahead of you guys you have a fox news in egypt. oh the whole media is fox news the only difference is it is state sponsored so all of the news outlets is owned by the state whether directly or through businessmen and it is fox news twenty four hours i mean it's even even late now the state is interfering intertainment and drama and comedy they basically are owning all of the outlets so there is absolutely no way to go outside of that control you are often heckled aren't your performances no that happened a couple of times by people who were sent by the egyptian council but that didn't happen again thank god you can visit your use the generals running a country yes what do you make of generals in this administration some people think

that in these particular gen particular generals we're better off well just a couple of days ago who was it so a very defense yet the secretary said he actually like he didn't. agree with donald trump all of the transgender soldiers up yet so he's kind of like he's talked that so i think this is good i mean this is this is the i mean you can say whatever you want about america but the the biggest thing that and that's why in that video i told you it you could have trouble but the foundation is good you will not have a general coming up with troops taking over power or forcing the prison to do whatever if he's a bad president we just leave it out but the worst thing is to bring a tank or a gun into a conflict of ideas because you would have no conflict you just have the gun you just have to thank you. and this is this is what you what i respect about like

what's happening in europe and what's happening in america it doesn't matter how bad it is you're not going to have the president being overthrown no matter how bad it is overthrown by don't we know the thirty four percent of americans support him . does the egyptian leader have that kind of support. well here is. all they do there i don't know how how on is the polls are but the problem with egypt and the middle east in general that people look at the army as the most horrible the thing ever there it's morse the army is more sacred than religion and many people supports the army or whoever is representing the army out to fear of chaos because they look at syria they look at libya look at erratic and we don't want to be this so we're better off having a dictated it keeps things together other than just fall into complete chaos and this is the kind of narrative that dictators in the middle east have proving it to

for many years it isn't me or chaos and and syria was a perfect example when bashar assad found that his position was threatened he destroyed the whole country so i either continue ruling the country or you would have no country. so you're saying that the three percent is swayed by things like that yet and i think if you would have lake of a similar poll in egypt to be much higher than thirty three percent because they are not just thinking of him as a person they're thinking of safety if he's there if the army is there it's safety cannot they don't understand that you can supersede the army from the state the army is the state is stability you cannot separate the three are you a pessimist you know. looking at what happened to me i think i'm doing pretty well . thank you for coming back thank you so much raising you thank you so it's there i like to buy the first get of course. awesome we thank you for your time today and

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so. few. you know it takes two to tango it looks like american poet. time of the time the russian foreign minister responds to washington closing moscow's oldest consulate in the u.s. the latest round of diplomatic row between the two states. is the u.n. war is not enough being done to save civilians in syria's rocka we show you images on the ground at the shocking effect that months of fighting have had on the war ravaged city. the f.b.i. did not use a freedom of information act request to release funds relating to hillary clinton's

e-mails claiming that i lack a public interest in disclosure we speak to the lawyer people trying to request. what i would you want to first got the letter from the f.b.i. laughed out loud at the absurdity of trying to suggest that there was a matter of public interest. there is to turn to pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me mccarran good to have you with us now the u.s. state department's audit the closure of the russian consulate in san francisco along with to annex is within the next two days they move threatens to take relations between washington and moscow to a new low. looks into russia's reaction to the move. each hostile move hostile decision by russia or the u.s. is followed by yet another blow and response this latest one by washington means

that the number of russian consulates in america will have to be reduced to three and the one that is being shut down in san francisco is the oldest diplomatic compound russia had in the u.s. it dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century well when the russian foreign minister was asked about the ongoing diplomatic spat this morning he reminded that it wasn't moscow behind this war of sanctions in the first place this. story was not launched by russia it was stilted by the us administration with the only purpose of the us russian relations we understand they're trying to through a trumps administration story from a sling we understand that they're trying to come down. to washington actions that's home russia's interest every time you hear about the news on a new round and this never ending outright diplomatic war you ask yourself how far

can this go when is it going to be over well at least. says that moscow is genuinely in favor of putting an end to this conflict well when it comes to the approach of the u.s. here's how mr elaborate sees it. the u.s. will seek in conflict with this country we've always been friendly towards the american people and we're still open to constructive relationships but as you know it takes two to tango. bridge doesn't. time of time so it takes two to tango and definitely when it comes to putting up a fight we have been seeing quite an impressive dance performance by moscow and washington we already heard from sergey lavrov that moscow will react to this decision to shut down the russian consulate in san francisco and very soon we will find out what the russian foreign ministry comes up with. now back in december

president barack obama expelled forty five russian diplomats over alleged election meddling choosing not to respond in kind on the very same day president vladimir putin instead invited the children of u.s. diplomats in russia to a new year party at the kremlin and july after the house of representatives overwhelmingly passed a new russia's functions bill mosco cut the u.s. diplomatic presence in the country to the same level as russia's in america now that resulted in trump extending sanctions after a congressional vote now washington is defending its latest move as a straightforward return to diplomatic parity with moscow artie's jacqueline looks at the facts. state department claims that this is not an anti russian move some limited towards parity and an attempt to avoid further escalation. the u.s. hopes that having moved toward russia's desire for parity we can avoid further

retaliatory actions and move forward to achieve the stated goal of improved relations between our two countries but how these closures are meant to help the situation really isn't clear we've seen round after round of sanctions imposed against russia by the us including a fresh batch earlier this month that trump signed off on in contrast to that just days ago he was announcing and expressing again his confidence that the two countries to finally find common ground and come together say it loud and clear i've been saying it for years i think it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships with russia that's very important and i believe someday that will happen there is a seven point lead comes just as the new russian ambassador to the us has arrived and gotten straight to work of course we did what we could to improve our relations with the u.s. unfortunately we still haven't reached a consensus on many issues. clearly

a bumpy start for him on the job site after years in the game he has fairly tough obviously it's tightened by the americans to embarrass the buzz about the t. he in fact. is going to have very very difficult to perform his duties and to establish trust. really. in the worst possible day both countries have repeatedly expressed the hope of improving thai and yet with washington having this tit for tat approach it's not really clear if that's going to be possible. r.t. washington d.c. various analysts told us the decision to shut down the consulate with him a chill on russia's new ambassador to the u.s. faces a tough job ahead. decision by russia most recently to reduce the number of

staff was to create parity between the two countries where russia would have as many people working at its embassies here in the u.s. as the u.s. would have been in russia so we were at a parity situation is out there certainly comes out of the blue and it's again destabilize the situation and at the same time we have a trump talking about what we lay shows with russia so you have to wonder who is calling the shots here i didn't expect to i had hoped that at some point this downward spiral in our relationships would and we could we could get back to normal this is simply one more change for tat it's rather childish i think if we had a little bit more mature leadership within the state department i think it would be helpful i do believe that trump probably has some desire to have good relations

with russia but this manufactured scandal and it is manufactured of russia gate for lack of a better word has painted him into a corner and there are obvious c. parts of the u.s. stablish meant that do not want reproach with russia. as the u.s. led coalition attempts to retake remaining parts of theory as rocca from i still the u.n. warns that not enough is being done to specify in lives what we witnessing essentially right now in iraq is a fight by coalition and other forces against i so we're concerned that military enough is being done to at hue to the international law requirements for the protection of civilians atiq gained access to photographs taken by a local journalist which have given a rare look inside the city where dealing the truth scale of its destruction.

what you believe. first of all let me say that what is happening now in iraq a is destruction it's not liberation at all for eighty four days rocket has been under siege but this sees only harm civilians trapped inside since eisel captured the city and the siege is imposed by syrian democratic forces on the ground that is backed by the u.s. led coalition's airstrikes these airstrikes destroy schools hospitals the whole infrastructure we as journalists have documented that more than two thousand civilians have been killed as a result of the coalition's airstrikes they do not target the places where jihad is to gather although everyone knows where they are while u.s. jets attack from the air s.d.f. attacks from the ground. and at night jihadists use suicide vehicles to regain

territories controlled by the s.d.f. but there is no serious combat as all. one can see that clearly from the videos posted by both the s.d.f. and the coalition. look eisel has about one thousand fighters in iraq are and the s.d.f. claims to have thirty five thousand to forty thousand soldiers and they confront a mere one thousand terrorists if s.d.f. and the coalition wanted to liberate graca they could accomplish it within ten days . according to the un there are at least twenty thousand civilians still trapped inside russia in august alone the coalition carried out over a thousand as strikes in the area the u.n. and the intensity of this strikes coupled with the use of civilians as human shields is deeply concerning record based journalist koloff again where it says details of just how grave the conditions have become. and got out of our

there aren't even basic necessities such as bread and water medicine no electricity no fuel the national hospital and the al salaam hospital were completely destroyed and there is not one left for civilians but there are two or three hospitals operating for eisold fighters the americans blew up bridges leading out of the city and in fact prevented civilians from leaving rocka although terrorists can easily exit the city even though the areas controlled by s.t.s. from the coalition so twenty five thousand civilians from besieged areas do not deserve safe passage. yes the eyes denied a freedom of information request to release files relating to hillary clinton's e-mails it claims there's a lack of public interest for such a disclosure to be made to go frances santiago has the story. new york attorney ty clevenger has been waiting for more than a year for the f.b.i.

to fulfill his freedom of information request and reveal the files on hillary clinton's e-mails only to get this response you've not sufficiently demonstrated that the public's interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject while whatever the f.b.i. thinks the public certainly made its interest in the e-mails loud and clear these are the three questions that are coming out of that timeline that continue to drive the story i'm sorry when you use a private e-mail on a private server your privacy rights are out the window when you're the secretary of state of the united states of america you don't have privacy anymore she chose to do this on her and i personally would like to know in a way reminds me of the nixon tapes shouldn't go away on the substance and voters do care about their enough all that fuss was being made while clinton was still running for the presidency but perhaps now the emails won't be as damaging especially given that clinton insists there was nothing classified in the first let

me say that i am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails either send or receive only problem for her is that's not true it seems she never sent or received in the classified information over her private e-mail was true. our investigation found that there was classified information so it was not true just weeks before the of the ice there's nothing in clinton's e-mails the public needs to know a federal judge ruled that the state department should do more to investigate its servers for clinton's messages related to the tragic been gazi attack which left several u.s. officials dead that decision was welcomed by judicial watch this major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the benghazi scandal and hillary clinton's involvement in it as we approach the attacks fifth anniversary yet still be a vi keep silent insisting there is insufficient proof of public interest to more

conditions also mentioned by the agency earlier this year they said they are ready to release the records if mrs clinton agrees to release of the information or passes away we go francis and jago r.t. well the lawyer at the center of the story gave his take to r.t. he believes the f.b.i. is simply trying to uphold its own reputation rather than back hillary clinton. well when i want to first got the letter from the f.b.i. i laughed out loud the absurdity of trying to suggest that that it was a matter of public interest i sent him back a letter with a copy of a washington post article and some google search terms to show just how many articles there were out there so it's it was funny at first but then i was a langar about it within the last twelve hours that actually changed my view on the significance of the story i originally thought the f.b.i. was trying to protect mrs clinton i now think the f.b.i. is trying to protect itself and i think that's because they not only did an extremely poor job in the investigation but they sabotage the investigation so at

this point if their records start coming out i mean already today we had the release of records showing that mr comey had already decided to exonerate her before she had finished the investigation so if that's the case then the f.b.i. does not want the records coming out because it will make them look even worse. genetically modified food giant monsanto is trying to fire back at the world health organization we'll tell details to come off the short break stay with us. i.

called the feeling of. every the world experience. that you get out of the old the. old according to josh. that. come along for the rye. hello welcome back now is a conflict ready last to sixteen here it is but now more u.s.

troops will be heading to afghanistan pentagon chief james mattis has now signed an order to dispatch additional forces well as long as this is to enable the afghan forces to fight more effectively it is more revises it is more enablers for support . on wednesday the u.s. ignored it currently has eleven thousand military personnel in afghanistan that's two and a half thousand more than previously stated the pentagon insists there's been no increase in troop numbers for the moment just a change in the way it is the total where the move to a boaster u.s. forces comes after donald trump announced his new strategy for afghanistan last week however trump also provided no deadline for an end to the war or the number of additional troops to be sent to the country is being kept under wraps in addition the president wants nato allies to throw most voters and more money into the fight drums afghan strategy shake up it's raising fears of even more civilian casualties

on thursday eleven civilians were confirmed dead in an alleged nato strike and there's been no confirmation so far from the organization or the u.s. led coalition but nato and does say it's investigating the reports robert nyman of the just foreign policy think tank says the new strategy will likely lead to more civilian deaths lyndon johnson said of vietnam ok i know that we can win but i don't not going to be the first president to lose a war that someone argued go kicking the can down the road keep it going don't. make the next guy take responsibility work that's a burden go his. over and over no more. u.s. troops are in afghanistan. and civilians will be kill you first of all because of you for military operations secondly the thing that makes us

commander most. reckless in the u.s. in the use of u.s. firepower is protecting u.s. troops clear whatever rules of engagement in war well no u.s. commander will ever be punished for using any amount of firepower goals to mean more u.s. who. was surely more. g.m. foods giant monsanto is calling for an investigation into an agency of the world health organization now softer the body published a report claiming some of the company's products like the weed killer glaive est are linked to cancer monsanto says the w.h.o. ignored it too it may just studies that found no connection to the disease when an organization such as the international agency for research on cancer is given

authority with that comes a responsibility to be objective transparent thorough and fair at least in this instance their process was corrupted apparently with individuals who have an agenda . well the company says it carries out its own extensive examinations although critics of questions the fact monsanto funded the various studies that claims the chemicals used were benign in nature or meanwhile france will vote on an extension to its current ban on the glycine state based on the potential dangers it poses the organic consumers associations alexis bait and may claims monsanto falsifies its research for profits and berries bad news one center has two point eight billion dollars in sales of their top selling roundup weed killer at stake here so surely monsanto is very nervous about what the e.u. could do at this point monsanto is notorious for paying for scientists to conduct research for it for falsifying data for completely ghostwriting fired and then

hiring fire to put their names on it so we know that monsanto pulls out all the stops when it comes to falsifying suppressing and unduly influence thing fired on the five ject. sweden is often held up as a beacon of media freedom worldwide however growing numbers of disturbing cases a coming out which appeared to put that reputation in doubt a u.s. journalist researching the country's schools of so-called no go zones areas with syria areas with serious public security concerns was ordered to leave by police and mainstream media even branded him a threat to democracy in another case a nurse complaining about the deteriorating situation of the country's health care system was accused of being under a quote hidden power influence we spoke to the editor of conservative news website situation malmo he says the country's media are at the heart of the establishment.

still in sweden local media is very important and the big newspapers are still very important for the majority of the people in the media in sweden has a doctorate and where did journalists. pushing for a political agenda who maybe journalists are doing if you want it to finish in her fourth to swedish media they are establishment and media in sweden it is very powerful we have public broadcasting service. television that it's part of the government system so people do not want to have conflict with the powerful media as a lot of people just go on living their lives and they don't get the. encrypted criticism reviews the government or against this stablish. meanwhile top swedish nice paper expressen has been exposing private citizens who criticize the

government on the internet they still without people writing negative comments online to challenge them face to face however despite that they control the sea and ethical concerns have a public a shame in private citizens by expressing their opinions but they leave at it says what if and on it for the actions they start with you're not hearing the door and then asking if persons in a row and you know telling an article something that you wrote and ask you know why did you do it and then exposing the person who is a shock because this person is not a politician exposing this person or for you know to do that entire swedish public it's a horrible shock but swedish media. did beat aviaries is a wrong is not. a democratic behavior you don't get exposed people because you have

a different opinion and that's the problem. well the other appears in swaps the kremlin for the classroom today officially kicking off the country's academic year but the lesson beamed into schools across the country the lesson was live streams during the only going gold rush to people's forum which around a million students are taking part in a nationwide the forum aims to help teenagers decide on my future career path for your country's leading innovates has showcased their work at the event hoping to i traverse the business brains of the future which is just too good to be going to get in touch and your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the top headlines. when all the truth seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. me.

yet to seep out just didn't come out to. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paid these are the countries with the needed austerity policies if you are in a situation or. even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy and employed see their wages decline. decade how good are the results.

i mean. why are the same measures still in place who one of the consequences. of this is the truth. is the consequence. to the decision.

prepare yourselves because the day i think it's time we. had logged into a controversy that's been simmering boiling and dominating the streets and campuses and social media conversations here in the united states ever since the tragic clash of protestors in charlotte. took a bit took the in the life of an innocent young woman and force two disparate groups and neo nazi white nationalists once again into the headlines clearly two groups who are on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum clashing with each other is nothing new or controversial but what is stirring up all the activists social media outrage are the allegations that despite claiming to stand against fascism and are members of an deep are often using the very same violent tactics of the fascists they seek to overcome this week killer prize winning journalist and no fan of fascism or the corporate state chris hedges has come under fire for his

recent article entitled how and depot mirrors the old right in his article hedges makes the case that the use of violence by the end of the movement not only gives more power to the corporate state but it also waters down and denigrates their cause edges writes what took place in charlottesville like what took place in february of february when an deep black bloc protesters thwarted u.c. berkeley attempt to host the crypto fascist million up a list was political theater it was about giving self-styled radicals a stage it was about elevating their self image it was about appearing heroic most important it was about the ability to project fear this newfound power is exciting and intoxicating it is also very dangerous however many activists and progressives don't call this dangerous they call it necessary because they are at war and they are now accusing hedges and anyone else who casts a critical eye on the tactics of and as dividing the left and playing into the

hands of president trump the all right and the white nationalist neo nazis they fight. so let's journey into the heart of this great debate as we start watching the hawks. one legal theory looks like the real that would be the last to leave the bottom if you like but it looks like you i got. the please. please please. please. please. liz while they were on the watching the harks i am tired old winter up and on top of the wallace joining us today is journalist author and host of on contact chris hedges welcome chris. thank you chris you know after publishing this article this

week you you've now been accused of dividing the left and essential in helping to promote a false moral equivalency between the violence perpetrated by the. violence perpetrated by. the black bloc how i'm curious how do you respond to this criticism over your article well the left was divided including before i wrote this article over whether to employ violence and acts of vandalism or not. number two it's my job as a writer to as stringently as i can write what i see as the truth. and whatever those consequences are. you know we have to live with it. so both of those accusations are kind of a canard. when looking at this it made me think of when were younger we have

a different view of all of our ideology and how far we would go to stand up to it and in this instance made me think of william pollack who wrote the one nine hundred seventy one book the end sold over two million copies and in it called for a violent insurrection in two thousand and thirteen he actually wrote in a guardian op ed that is anger at the thought of it being drafted in vietnam had quote blinded me to the illogical notion illogical notion that violence can be used to prevent violence i had fallen for the same irrational pattern of thought that led the u.s. military involvement in both vietnam and iraq the irony is not lost on me so chris let me ask you this is there a legitimate argument average of you made that violence is acceptable as long as the done in the name of this you know the correct set of beliefs if you're doing it for the right side is it ever acceptable is it ever productive to society. it's always tragic and. i spent twenty years as a war correspondent covering conflicts in central america the middle east and was

in sarajevo during the war in the former yugoslavia. there are moments when societies are pushed to such an extreme as was true for instance in sarajevo where they have to employ violence so in that city which was being shelled by the serbs day and night two thousand shells a day constant sniper fire forty five dead a day two dozen wounded a day. was protected by trench systems we knew that if the serbs surrounding serve forces broke through those trenches a third of the city would be slaughtered in the rest would be driven into refugee and displacement camps and that was wasn't conjecture we were that what happened in vukovar adreno valley and all sorts of other places so at that point you know especially being shelled. nobody was sitting around in a basement arguing over pacifism but that doesn't save you from the poison of violence i think when you look at foreign occupation such as our occupation of iraq

israeli occupation of gaza i used to work in algeria and land at the airport i would say welcome to our geria land of a million martyrs the foreign occupier comes in and only speaks the language of force. and they're only going to be driven out through force but what we're confronting here in the united states is is more akin to revolution revolutions are always fundamentally nonviolent no revolutionary movement succeeds unless the significant sectors of the internal security as well as the military either refuse to defend a discredited regime or defect and that's been and so what is it that the state the corporate state is seeking to do it wants to demonize the movement to keep it from brain broad based and that's what these figures do remember the. the people they're fighting in the streets come out of course defending in any way their repugnant

racism and bigotry and. they come from the same economic class largely and. and that plays into the hands of our corporate oligarchy and that you know one of the things i also want to kind of get through is is that you know a lot of the you know anti for activists or the you know the progressives that are kind of defending the actions that we've seeing you know also point to the fact that you know they also do a lot you know they really they claim that they do a lot more horror more good than harm you know like protecting you know dr cornel west in the courtroom in charlottesville from the nationalists who are kind of running the lines there you know there's also they're also running a relief aid program in houston. and they say they're getting this kind of bad rap in the media especially given the forces that they're. fighting against you know is there truth is the media kind of stepping in and clouding this issue and kind of you know hyping up the violence in order to kind of paint that picture of. yes

there is no moral equivalency between these right wing white nativist groups and i was very clear about that in my column. the numbers of hate crimes and including home asides that have been committed by these hate groups we can certainly go back of course to the oklahoma city bombing dwarfs anything that's done by anti phone but i think that when they carry out these tactics they actually squander their moral authority because they have moral authority. and they play into the hands of a trumpet ministration at a state that really is frightened of a broad based anti capitalist movement and wants to criminalize all any capitalist organizing and resistance and. groups like the black bloc or n t forgive them. the kind of images that they can disseminate to demonize the left and then carry

out more draconian forms of control the euro group you are the people movement to me has some others has resembled this idea of the past that to some extent it looks like a slightly less organized version of groups like the weather out there ground the united freedom front and the seventy asleep liberation army which had certain ideals that were very democratic that were anti-capitalist that were more socialists that were considered the sort of militant progressives yet every one of those groups were heavily infiltrated by the ira they were not violent i was not on not actually the under weather underground but yeah most of these were at some point they were steered into violent actions by undercover f.b.i. agents that ultimately the point of their fight was lost because they didn't heed the warnings of people saying look there are people in your group that are pushing you into certain things am i just being paranoid or is there

a real threat of that happening to these kids the weather underground is a good example because the weather underground came out of students for democratic society which was the largest antiwar. organization in the country and the members of the weather underground mark rather than bill ayers and others burn adorne became frustrated that they couldn't stop the war especially after the tet offensive and so they decided to carry out this campaign a bomb in which by the way when they spoke to the vietnamese delegates. from north vietnam implored them not to do it so that when nixon began his bombing of cambodia the s.d.s. was destroyed as a movement. and it did all of the things that the nixon administration wanted which was to paint the left as dangerous and. violent. and and it played totally into the hands of of the state i mean i

think we should also acknowledge that violence even when it's carried out in a i don't like the word just but when it becomes inevitable as that was when i covered the war sorry of all or when i covered the war in el salvador it doesn't save you from the poilu poison of violence it elevates those who have a penchant for violence and a capacity for violence. and i think for me that's why violence is always tragic i'm not a pacifist but i think in this case. it's a lot of people who are kind of looking at resistance as a form of catharsis and if we're going to topple the corporate state which we must do to save our country and ultimately to save our planet it's not about how we feel it's not about. joining a group of. you know one hundred black clad massed figures and projecting fear which is an intoxicated and empowering emotion that that is.

you know it's frankly just kind of infant we have to begin to dismantle and attack the structures of the corporate state you know met many people talk about fascism these guys marching through places like charlottesville are not going to achieve power we're not talking about attacking the nazi party the elements of what sheldon will and calls inverted totalitarianism or the corporate totality they already have power and yes figures like trump and people within the corporate state will use racism and white nativism and all of that stuff to further their agenda but we do we we we've kind of missed a focus here of the the the forces that we have to confront are not ascendant there are they're already in control exactly exactly and you know we

deserve a little bit of a time and you know chris one of the things also that jumps out to me is that one of the reasons you don't use violence as a whole to merely violence isn't going to change the mind of the person you're trying to change you know if you punch your races that's not going to make them less racist. and it in fact it plays totally into their hands i mean people talk about how nobody resisted in germany well that's just historically faults up until nine hundred thirty three when the nazis took power that there were street clashes consta. really between the communists even the socialists had their own paramilitary groups and the fascist went and sought it out because in the end the capitalist class and the ruling elites are always going to a saw side with the fascists when they feel capitalism is under threat which is precisely. what happened in germany and most germans were sick of what the violence that was happening in the streets which they blamed on the left yes it was

true that the fascists were the ones who incited it. but that's something that we have to understand that the state is looking for any excuse to shut down all anticapitalist even those of us who are adamantly opposed to most definitely there are and they will get this gives them this to give them the opportunity exactly what does i have to thank you for coming on the bay and. being the wonderful spokesman you are for that for this kind of thinking and that ideology thank you so much that and the new one exactly exactly like you thank you. as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook twitter and see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up sean stone gets to the bottom of the controversial pardon of sure apparelled president donald trump with award winning filmmaker cover both state to watch from the.

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voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. ordinarily presidents wait until the very last weeks their presidency to start doling out pardons and commutations but as with all else this white house does things a little differently and pardons are no except said last friday the president granted maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio a supporter of his full pardon and no not for some personal transgression or indiscretion but for refusing to comply with a federal judge that ordered our peo to stop racially profiling hispanics for an inside perspective on the sheriff john stone sat down with kevin both an award

winning documentary and documentary filmmaker who spent extensive time with the sheriff. giving or start by asking you how did you decide to feature sheriff joe arpaio in your documentary american drug war that was made about ten years ago and well you know when you're trying to when you're investigating the drug war it's easy to find people that want to come on camera and speak against it what's hard to find are people that will come on camera and speak pro drug war and all those people tend to like hide you know behind their offices and you know you never get these people to come on camera sheriff joe turned out to be the one guy. who not only would come on camera but he would talk loud and proud about it had drug war slogans painted on tanks and you know he was he was totally gung ho on the whole thing and so he just seemed like a perfect characters to fill that niche in the film so sure of julie admits that about sixty percent of the two billion american prison population are there because

of drug related offenses how does he justify this in what is his logic for the rational of lucky of these people over drugs i don't know they justifies it i think he just sees himself as like a man and doing the job he's been elected to do and you know he's carved out a role he carved out a role in the term self in phoenix kind of like so most like the perfect. if you've been to phoenix or know people who live in phoenix oh i love it i love all that by the way. but you know it's kind of like a little safe haven and it is crazy because most of all the men that i met intensity were either in there for dui or meth and phoenix has a lot of that and so you know i didn't see like the big immigration thing when i was there ten years ago so would you characterize sheriff joe is putting on an act or does he actually believe in imprisoning as many people as possible. i think it look i think he's a ham for the camera. obviously loves media attention he knows how to play it up and i think he has

a sense of like being outrageous and knowing that if he's outrageous that he's going to keep getting all this coverage that he gets and the coverage help some keep getting reelected and you know he's he's become like learn how to like play the p.r. machine and. and i am pretty sure he's figured out a way to profit from all of his prison activities you know a lot of people are claiming everything from like. making money off the old food that they were serving people to making money off the clothes in the pink underwear and and he was even selling you know pink underwear with marigot joe slogans on me when i was there he was he sells postcards with his name on it he gets it all the prisoners sign it so it's a it's a weird situation you know i myself of if i was crossing the desert with drugs in my car which i would never do i would avoid maricopa county like the plague we know the economies you talk about economies you're talking the prison economies and you know obviously that there are full fledged economies that exist for trading and

getting goods and services but how much the sheer joy actually control of facilitate the economy that is jail yeah absolutely i mean cutting off pornography i mean i when i was there they cut off men a lot they wouldn't allow the men to have catch up you know and so he is really. come down so i you know i don't know what's going on with like drugs or cigarettes or all that but. i mean he yeah you controls everything that goes in or out of there i think a lot a lot harder than other jails well he's the tories for running a tough jail he prides himself on it but how much do you think she believes in corporal punishment yeah i think he said when i asked him why do you treat the men that are still not convicted yet differently and he's like we're not running an airline here we don't have a first class and coach you know this is more equal opportunity punishment system here and so i think he looks at the jail as. one you know i don't think many people spend more than maybe one or two years in there i think that's

a maximum so he's going to make it as rough as possible did you ever get a sense of racism from sheriff joe the drugs were really like a black latino problem or an immigrant problem how i went in there with the whole opinion that it was going to be a very racist type situation but when i got there actually like a majority of the men were white i was surprised i mean there are some spandex and blacks in there but there is a mostly white man that i that i talked to and i think this is before he started his immigration patrols you know i've been watching that unfold but you know i mean you know once again if you know phoenix and like that kind of people that have voted for him over and over again for the last twenty four years you know there's definitely are racist by is there but i kind of look at him as you know i mean you can blame him for the racism but it's almost as if he was just the right man for the right job it seems to me that a lot of this language around the immigrant phobia that we've been seeing has to do

with drugs in games coming up from latin america but how much do you think this sentiment was at the heart of the american drug war. yeah i mean i definitely think you know the way keeps getting reelected is to paint this nightmarish picture colleague what trump is don. of the border. and yeah he's definitely turned those people into the bogeyman for all the you know the richer white people of phoenix who want to protect their little kingdom and and so he became the guy that guarded the castle for everybody and you know and he got all this press out of it he became a hero and you know i think in a way it's almost as horrible as that is he was kind of brilliant in the way he did his p.r. but in the sense it seems he is the personification of the american drug war fears of black people poor people immigrants anyone that basically could

go crazy and overthrow the system or harm or social system that has to be controlled you know what i found interesting is when i talked to more and more e he was first of all these ten years ago he was pro medical marijuana. you know he had no problems you know it talked about drugs but he you know if it did become like the crime issue and all that but i think you know to me the most inhumane thing about tent city or the sheriff joe prison was making people who are suffering drug addiction to sit in a place like tent city where they need rehab so you know he was definitely like anti rehab pro punishment as far as people who probably just needed medical help and for those who don't know what is tent city tent city was share of joe's little private concentration camp that he built in a giant parking lot outside of one of the prison facilities there south of phoenix and he put up a bunch of army tents and you know in the summer get up to be about one hundred thirty degrees in the summer people so their shoes would melt the fans didn't work

i mean when it wasn't hot some of the men would prefer and i you know i heard stories being inside of the jails where a guy used to put toothpaste as yours at night to keep the cockroaches out some really like awful stories from all of it so besides the heat i think some of them actually preferred to be out intensity except you know in the. at a summer so but it was in joe you used to like love to tell people that complain about the heat that that our soldiers are in iraq and it's hotter in iraq and you know how dare you complain when they're not complaining and they're fighting for your freedom and that was his logic and this is where he was detaining those presumed illegal immigrants the ones without due process those intensity that's what i've heard yeah that's what i've heard of the day it seems to me that your job actually beyond getting reelected he really wants to have national attention i mean he made a name for him so we have to obama on the birth certificate issue why does he care so much about this national persona for himself. you know after i was there he had

his own reality show i don't know if you ever saw the sheriff joe reality show so i don't know i think he's just like anybody else i think he is a good bit of a ham you know i mean he's he could have been cast on the sopranos you know i mean he's he's like an italian gangster i learned that he died when his mother was born here that. you know he talks about eating spaghetti and meatballs all the time and you know. i think he just loves the attention like just anybody else and he found a way to get a lot of attention make him so he made himself famous i mean look how famous he is since you're a jew aside how much is the american drug war really just about corporal punishment and social controls. oh i mean i but i believe at the end of the day that the war on drugs is all about just controlling the profit margins of alcohol tobacco pharmaceutical companies. that's really what it's all about i mean you know first of all marijuana. the reason they they are really fighting so hard to keep marijuana illegal is because everybody can grow it and it cures just about

everything so once that cat gets out of the bag the pharmaceutical tobacco and all companies are going to take a massive hit probably already are and it's obvious because you can see they're already aligning themselves to get in the marijuana business so you know what else do you do and so when you're fighting a war you need to. soldiers need guys who love obedience and hierarchy guys like sheriff joe you know i mean like i said i mean not everybody wanted to have their face out there because they i think deep down inside they know what they're doing is wrong or sheriff joe almost likes being like the tony soprano character he likes being like a loveable psychopathic killer. and he just filled a perfect niche for the for the places this you know big city right on the border people wanting to protect the border the whole thing i mean he was like the right man for the right job to do groucho's decision to sheriff joe. i don't know you know it's the end of the day he's eighty five years old and i don't really know how

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