russian military says that terrorists attacked a russian military police deescalation. spanish police arrested junior economy minister is the authorities turn over the region's upcoming illegal independence referendum. north korea in his first speech at the un general assembly but it's. remarkably similar to speeches from previous us. in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system

of government. even. the russian military says that a terrorist surprise offensive near deescalation zone in syria is around in a small group of russian military police. reports from syria. the rebel offensive in north. supported by tanks. armored personnel carriers and joined by hundreds and hundreds of fighters in violation of. deescalation deals. a few details of the rebel offensive. the russian military says. russian

military police monitoring the deescalation a tentative ceasefire in the area apparently it devolved into a ferocious fighting the group of the group of russian military police just twenty nine people were rounded and outgunned nevertheless they held their own as a result of the attack. police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered the russian military police units are said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian military has gone on the counterattack supported by the russian air force as well as the syrian air force they say they've killed more than eight hundred fifty hardest fight is the eleven tanks for armored personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks and. blunting significant rebel offensive.

says this was initiated by the united states. to distract the three. in its fight against isis which is very successfully in the vicinity of did. province. the pentagon to comment on the russian military claim that the attack was instigated by american special forces will bring you their response as it comes in. and then used his first address to the u.n. general assembly but went to his rhetoric seems remarkably reminiscent of things he's pretty says as he used to say on your correspondent takes a look at some of the new president's old remarks. opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue got him elected as president of the united states i will own was put

america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly moved to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump last out of the syrian government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions of the criminal regime of bashar. including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience of every decent person trying to threaten to destroy north korea right prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice

but to totally destroy north korea and then trump lashed out at iran branding the country a rogue state it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of death and destruction donald trump's speech ended up being a sort of call for countries around the world to confront those who quote threaten us with chaos turmoil and terror namely three countries iran syria and north korea two of which were named as the axis of evil by previous us president george w. bush but we know their true nature. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursued these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom so much for trust election promises offering

a new approach to world politics focusing on america's national interests and not being the policeman of the world cable moppin r.t. new york and george w. bush is not the only president whose rhetoric was similar to donald trump's at times the new president even sounded like his party opponent and predecessor barack obama in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system of government on other couples. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of all people a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful earth. we will fight together we must work together to sacrifice together i believe we must do better together and stand together for peace all of us can be coworkers with god the almighty god who made us strong as

a corresponding mentioned little earlier trump lashed out at north korea syria and iran in his address to iran's foreign minister has already reacted branding trump's remarks shameless and ignorant despite iran's compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation deal that was signed in twenty fifteen washington has been escalating tensions with the country the trumpet ministration views the deal as unfair and in july an ounce new sanctions against tehran just a week later congress passed a bill to impose fresh sanctions against the country this is how iranians have reacted to the latest harsh remarks about their country. well you know the un says iran is complying with the agreement all european countries and russia see this saying the only country that claims otherwise is the us our people need to stand together giving in to america would achieve nothing it would make matters worse than they are now. we're not afraid and we have never been since the beginning.

we have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact sanctions have made iran more independent in many fields. we discussed the potential consequences of washington's pressure on around with former cia officer jack rice as well as tehran based political analysts moustapha. unfortunately we have to realize that it's the p five plus one everybody agreed not just the brits and the french the russians the chinese the americans if we pull out of this it's the entire world who will be looking at the united states i agree that there are limitations and problems in fact you could expand upon this and it needs to be but to walk away from this deal in itself would be a huge error at this point we're on has many components of power including its nuclear industry missile power and regional prisons and military clout and influence in the region what they mean in washington is to wear off these

components of power once they do so iran would be a very easy target like iraq at the time of saddam hussein and that would mean material and fundamental violation of the nuclear deal and iranian officials including the rainiest supreme leader they have all warned that iran would give them a very tough response. thousands of protesters have gathered in barcelona to condemn police searches and arrest the head of cattle and his independence referendum proclaims that coming vote illegal in the senate a civil guard to seize promotional materials that includes more than ten million ballot papers from several catalan ministries twelve officials were arrested including catherine his junior economy minister and to learn his latest slam the spanish authorities for imposing what he calls a defacto state of emergency and accuses madrid of violating the thomas region's independence i was about to look at the one year the catalonian government has been

subjected to coordinated aggression from the police force of the spanish interior ministry i. was part of madrid's drive to block the referendum thirty. cattle and mares he would voice their support for the upcoming vote have been issued with court summons in a criminal probe and on top of that more than seven hundred other matters were threatened with arrest last week spain's prime minister been strongly attacked in parliament over madrid's actions libertyville nixie for laypeople elect sequel. to set the scene since yes my norse lessons did you know anything about that and. come to learn is road to independence has been obstructed by madrid now for years it

was you. it was. joined on the line now but alexander kirar who's an expert on spanish politics from the university of newcastle in the u.k. good evening to you ali handwrote the use of force diversity in raiding catalonia ministries arresting top officials is that over the top well it is playmaker legal because the question is where the risk to leave weinstein to act in that particular manner to it is it is legal could probably going to be

a political backlash out of a lot of things. no doubt the protesters are unhappy about those actions do you think that this could become violent. not really i mean i cannot see how these would develop into into into violence. i cannot see the government mobilized. from police and i cannot see actually a clash between demonstrators and the police that would actually develop into something properly. violence at this stage file and so i think it is completely out of christ why we seeing this referendum we've seen. before two thousand and fourteen i think it was why are we seeing it happen again when we know that the date isn't going to accept the results as being legal so why are the protesters out

there why are they going to vote. while this is the way to show strength is the way to. in a way to fulfill the promise. from the planning and. parties that before the original elections in twenty fifteen they promised that they would hold . this is this is you know to use down the line this is what it came to came to be so in terms of why vote in and why you know this is the matter is that going to make some sort of difference it is difficult to tell but it's certainly a way to send a message to to the madrid government that a huge percentage of the population is willing to be going to vote for the bottom line this is about independence i mean it's been sort of wrapped into this chris of

democracy that. you know most of these protesters want is the in the. independence of catalonia i think that's one is already autonomous in certain ways is there a compromise out there that could be reached that was said to satisfy both catalonia and the capital. it is at this very moment it is for it difficult because both the madrid and the barcelona government. have sort of entered this sank it's very very difficult for both governments to. sort of even negra said about a number of things current government is adamant that they want the independent catalonia and the madrid government is that a mental suffering to rise in tyrus punish population and therefore as a concession called to say last week referendum it's illegal so at this point i'm afraid it's very very difficult to see any sort of solution in

the near future but hopefully eventually they will have to you have to negotiate in the you have to reach a solution case one hundred french speaking to is my guest dr alexander kirov the expert on spanish politics from newcastle united slot. now to more people have been arrested in connection with friday's attack on the london underground station of parsons green five people are now in custody in relation to that incident with the search is being conducted it comes after a report on tuesday claimed that online jihadist propaganda gets more clicks in the united kingdom than anywhere else in europe only four countries in fact turkey the united states saudi arabia and iraq had more political commentator john white says that brits expect the authorities to do more. the most what do you know obvious conclusion to be drawn from the revelations published in the report is that there

is a bigger market in the u.k. for this type of material than anywhere else due to a good radicalization of a section of the muslim community in the u.k. and this conclusion tends to be supported by the fact that we've had four jihadi inspired terrorist attacks in the u.k. and twenty seventeen this is going to be a more and more important front in the struggle and so this will be increasingly an important front in the struggle and the authorities clearly will have to up their game because whatever they're doing to combat it at this level it's clearly not reaping the kind of results that people would like to see and expect to see now top british broadcasters being flagged for an embarrassing mistake in its illustration of iran the sensitive story our correspondent. explains. russian embassy here in the u.k. had some questions for the b.b.c. following an article that seemed to lump together online jihad as propaganda and what appeared to be the russian flag specifically in an article they published on

their website the b.b.c. had used an image depicting the same colors as the russian flag which is white blue and red and to this the russian embassy in the u.k. had tweeted saying hey b.b.c. what does the russian flag have to do with online jihad is propaganda in u.k. change your graphic designer or your photo bank now the official twitter account of the b.b.c. did not react to this tweet however they did change the picture on in the article which now depicts isis militants and isis flags but it has to be said that this is far from the first time when the russian embassy twitter account sort of chases the british press specifically one example comes to mind when they had commented on a times article that talked about quote cyrillic language which probably meant cyrillic alphabet and another example we've seen a case where the mirror had used images from the traditional russian pancake festival where he was sent to be an exclusive investigation into russian football

hooligans and so certainly this is not for the first time and it probably won't be the last we have reached out to the b.b.c. for cold until news story the organization told us that it used to still keep each of computer coding which was later changed to ensure better reflection of the story . moving on an american actor morgan freeman has released a video in which he brands for dinner putin a spy who seeking revenge on the united states and calls on donald trump to come clean over alleged russian meddling in the u.s. elections we have been attacked we are. at war imagine this movie script a former k.g.b. spy angry at the collapse of his mother manned plots of course for revenge then he set his sights on his sworn enemy the united states branom your stance by and this is no movie script well that video is intended to promote a new organization that's been created by fellow artists it's called the committee

to investigate russia auntie's dung hawkins takes a closer look now at the hollywood initiative. hollywood legend morgan freeman is those stranger to dramatic movie scripts like this one welcome to the cia support at a time of the creasing tension and if this is going to. america we're going to listen to each other. and strangers. suspect the truth playing a cia director at the center of a tense standoff between the usa and a hard line russian president sound familiar it seems the boundaries between hollywood fantasy and real life politics are increasingly blurring indeed freeman himself supported hillary clinton's presidential bid i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. to law school you could have joined a high priced law firm but in spirit she worked to reform to canal justice in south carolina exposed racism in alabama schools registered latino voters in texas

and provided legally to families in our. early lives work has been about breaking barriers and so would her presidency now he's waving to the russian election hacking scandal his latest video is part of a new initiative called the committee to investigate russia a lot of pretty big names from the film and media industry such as hollywood director rob reiner teaming up with the government elites as if the multiple investigative committees already looking into alleged russian meddling weren't enough here's a team of true patriots the media does talk about a lot and for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be penetrating into what we what i refer to as the real americans i mean patriotic americans that wave the flag speaking of patriots rob reiner has made it pretty clear what he himself thinks of donald trump supporters how do you explain the millions and millions of people who

actually like what they hear from donald trump and are taking messages and orders from us in the media how do you explain that what. there are a lot of people who are racist my g.i. position is clear here's another member of the committee a familiar face to those following the russia us election hacking saga james clapper former director of national intelligence investigated moscow's meddling but didn't find enough evidence to prove collusion between the trump campaign and russian foreign nationals but is still convinced the russians did it after all it's in their blood the russians who typically. genetically driven to co-opt. purgatory to. gain favor or whatever are true or. you would think it's in their d.n.a. . or during the soviet era or no meanwhile reaction to the launch of yet

another group to investigate the russian hiking allegations has been met with skepticism freeman introduce your russia gate site is essentially build the reviews . ok mr freeman so long as it's your four children enlisting to charge at the spetznaz might i add that this propaganda is far america can do better in the warmongering department send there saying so we await their latest findings perhaps one day they will be the subject of their very own hollywood blockbuster. with just four days left until germany goes to the polls in its general election the big parties are doing all they can to win over any last minute support but while the main rivals grab all the headlines there's a whole raft of small parties passing by almost unnoticed among the the party the alliance for basic income and the urban hip hop party on these peter oliver has more. it's fair to say that the race for the chancellor's job hasn't had the

excitement that say the u.s. or french elections of hard over the last twelve months but here in germany one party has been committed to giving us a bit of a giggle depart time i simply meaning the party of the german satire party and they've become known for their blissfully absurd on a fast oprah post depart time supports the implementation of all encompassing universal total justice at least twice as much as the s.p.d. any complaints about suppose that injustices will be suppressed with the utmost force then there's their posts to campaigns when the anti immigration alternative to germany party put these up saying make the peace over burkas. they said they preferred what i think we can see what they prefer and.

there are also some new rules now hate speech towards islam must now be delivered facing mecca there will also be a minimum refugee quota of eighteen percent for this and other groups criticism of gender madness must always be gender neutral if authorized to no chance of making it to the police that this time around what. is on the board is a member of the european parliament things of that back in twenty courting the party's leadership told us what they stand on the major issues facing the world today. we would advise that people should have

a license to tweet for that they have to pass a test similar to getting a driving license they will have to prove that they have enough sense should you not meet those standards you would be denied access to any social media forever when you put it like that they don't sound too bad to me you've got to hand it to the sure the joke is for adding a little for volatile to the federal election peter all of our party early. so let's take a look at the latest polls and it looks as though the current ruling party will be staying part angler michael christian democrats they maintain a commanding lead the social democrats look set to be the next to cross the finish line to close around thing though for third position in the run up to the vote r.t. has been speaking from people to people across the political spectrum here's the vice president of the free democrats as for the gang could be king. that's a knowledge is to be avoided you don't we go aren't taking we're calling for a continuous constructive dialogue instead of saber wrestling we want to sit down

in the negotiating table and listen to the different parties positions listen to russia's position and in turn explain our doubts if is should be minimized not fanned his hands a detroit game show once wisely said as long as people are talking they aren't shooting each other this should be all go a dialogue and teamwork europe and germany need russia and vice versa we should conduct dialogue rather than fuel fear that.

they stay with us here at all to international john if the latest news headlines at the top of them. seem wrong but i. just don't. get to see a pallet just to. add to. it against. the trail. when some find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. here's will people been saying about rejecting the navy seals exactly it's full on ourselves well the only show i go out of my way to launch it was the really packs upon our little league yeah because the john oliver of our three america is doing

the same we are apparently better than blue nothing better than some a c. anybody would ever heard of love redact of the night not the president of the world bank though very popular in a seriously send us an e-mail. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last abang turn. it up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could 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 day. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one

different i speak to you now as there were no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. after those who were going on the run as drazen may speaks in the un twenty. four hours after u.s. president all trump threaten north korea iran russia and china there is another hurricane warmed by climate change threatens the western hemisphere coming up on the show how can you counter terrorism if no one listens we speak to them and

commission to assess london's preparedness for a general jack about why his warnings last year weren't heated by the u.k. government and twenty four hours after the met police service was briefed on the criminal investigation into granville tower the chair of the all party parliamentary group on the safety of government negligence led to the deaths of over eighty people but britain felt in england's capital city bus from the headlines mass migration. and lie down lies on boris johnson in britain. more coming up in days going underground just before donald trump came to the podium to live or his address to the un general assembly in the past twenty four hours he had to cope with a c.n.n. exclusive the chair of his election campaign and defector himself was being wiretapped by the us government before his election that's a wiretap from u.s. authorities proven by documents known to a senior iranian revolutionary guard corps commander to be collaborators with

islamists in syria. in the future we may be able to get permission from authorities to release documents that will further disgrace the americans as the papers reveal what they did in iraq in syria but unlike tereza may end his own un ambassador nikki haley it appears that donald trump could well have been shocked by the obama record of supporting isis now qaeda linked groups in syria somewhere there may even be documents proving u.k. collusion with forces implicated in last week's attempted underground train bombing in west london trump has reported because the bomber of funding for cia backed islam ism in syria and sure enough as nato countries have done the same maybe six hundred thousand have returned to their homes in syria no longer in fear of the white helmets and others people are going back to areas largely in the country such as the left holmes damascus where there is broadly speaking it less within the

context that syria is broadly been a deescalation in violence so what was it all for and why does mainstream media in nato countries not care to cover syria now that their sponsors no longer arguably back empire imperialism and terrorism they're still trump has a long way to go before he gives a speech like this yes we express hope from the outset that countries will be added to the group of nonaligned countries that struggle against imperialism colonialism and neocolonialism in some cases it is blindness provoked by the hatred of our revolution against our revolution but other world classes of latin american countries and others and he's a son of a more deplorable it is the product of the doesn't glitz of mammon che guevara at the un they're using the word deplorable but in a different context to those who court donald trump would never get to give a speech at the united nations incidentally we hope to be speaking next week to the brother of che guevara fifty years since his cia assassination as for decades.

alleged u.s. terrorism against cuba it's washington suggesting that there's been an attack on its personnel in havana but for britain terrorism is something else not so much the eighty killed in iraq which the u.k. invaded in twenty three more the attempted bomb attack on the london underground on friday which thankfully killed no one joining me now is a member of the u.k. joint committee on national security strategy who was commissioned by the mayor of london dura porter and counter-terror preparedness in the british capital lord toby harris thanks so much for coming on the show so you were commissioned by the mayor of london city and just remind us of some of the one hundred twenty seven recommendations your report made very clear i propose for example more barriers physical barriers on roads and bridges where there were likely to be large numbers of people i recommended more c.c.t.v. on trains and in stations and the better integration of that c.c.t.v. coverage into police control rooms he said more barriers when this studio is very

close to the westminster attacks on bridge attacks of course occurred after your report was published the barriers went up within days of those attacks your report was an october twenty sixth seen the terror attack was always in june this year unfortunately it needed some appalling incident like the westminster bridge attack and then the london bridge attack for people to block those bureaucratic barriers that's one of the reasons why this is something where you can't just sit back you've got to keep on the case so you was so clear about this i mean you and the people that helped you write this report was a bit outraged that the government could see clearly that your recommendation was correct when it came to preventing say the kinds of attacks we saw on westminster bridge and in london bridge because it was frustrating i mean one of things i'm hoping is the fact that those recommendations have been proved to be so to be a legal case for the relatives will say well then the other things i've recommended

they should get on. and move on i do know a lot of work is going on on the recommendations i get frustrated perhaps it's because i'm no longer right at the center as or as to how long some of these things take but they always take just a couple of days because that's all only too well i suspect that they were closer to agreements than we might have realized because what they hadn't actually been done and your point is quite right because it was then done ok we are very clear in the reports that after going through so many different technological. ideas of how we can keep blunders save you say seeming to save some need jerk a term to try to increase the number of bobbies with guns is not going to be the answer but theresa may. immediately after the attempted attack in west london on the underground said we would have soldiers on the on the streets of london with the cross soldiers right there on the streets what they're doing is they're back

filling the role of existing armed officers so the people guarding the palace of westminster or roll palaces or some of the diplomatic protection roles that the police carry and those jobs some of those jobs are being replaced by soldiers which means that the existing on what is whether we have the police to do that well obviously it's a question of using the resources in the most efficient way i'm certainly not saying that the current level of policing resources can be reduced any further what i am saying is that you don't make people. much safer by simply having more police on the street all the time ok but then when you are writing this report if we think about to the context of a report written in october last year. twenty thousand police officers being hurt that's across the country the number of police officers that have been cut in the worse much less but of course some cuts are in the pipeline those cuts will go

ahead and the metro police will be able to maintain their existing presence on the street there's no correlation between cuts in london police and the need for the army to be on the streets of london well the reason they are merely well the reason the army are there is because the threat state had moved from. severe up to critical when it's critical that means additional measures are taken over and above what they are in what i suppose we got to consider as normal times that means extra police patrolling at that time we had the better police federation or near saying the cuts were dangerous and in fact we had him on here saying that there's a danger that the police would not be able to react effectively to work and i think that i think it was several levels of this the first is that preventing terrorism in the. broadest sense means having a proper understanding proper connection with all of your communities one of the things that's happened in the last few years and this is a real cost has been the reduction in the number of neighborhood police officers those are the officers who are in direct touch with local communities now that's

a retrograde step it hasn't happened as much in london as it has happened outside but of course terrorists are mobile they can come in from luton they can come in from the north of england or of course they can carry out terrorist attacks in manchester it's illegal rewarded our prime minister base in london needs more resources was running the brain minister probably want to hear another i'm sure the problem is that didn't want to hear that but what it reflects is that there are cuts in policing and cuts in the police budget in the pipeline and my concern would be and it's clearly the concern of the american under that if those cuts were to go through that really would cause serious weaknesses in our ability. to deal not only with terrorist incidents but also with day to day crime and other problems in the capital british media been wall to wall coverage by this attempted attack in west london to raise made it a sit down interview on american television and immediately started to talk about going to terror measures in the context of. the internet. is that one of the major terror measures we can do to talk to facebook well i think it's important to

talk to facebook to fit to talk to social media to recognize the way in which terrorist ideology but also terrorist methodology is spread on the internet but the prime thing is to make sure you're keeping tabs on the individuals who make might be tempted down the route of armed extremism to intervene at a much earlier stage and that does require resources recourses sources in policing resources in intelligence and it may also require resources within communities to support those who are perhaps a strapping explosives on yourself or attacking people with knives is not an option and is certainly not something which is part of the teaching of his about racism a name check facebook obviously others are available she also was a city girl and was visiting criticizing her she was implicitly will be directly criticizing the president of states because donald trump of course immediately said or seemed to say that the suspect involved in west london was known to scotland yard why is it every time actual the suspects in all these attacks are known to the

authorities because they are using that kind of intelligence but often what you find is that yes they come to the attention of the authorities at some time and we've all come to the authorities in one way or another. about your product but i mean people come to the attention authorities they may be on the second third fourth outer ring or somebody whom they're interested in now after the event people are wonderful at looking back it's why didn't you do this the reality is that simply not possible it's simply not possible to keep track to monitor the movements of seven hundred people or seven thousand people whatever number you able to criticize this because it's massive aliens and all they've done is increase the size of the haystack to make it harder to find the needle well that's the risk that if you spread it out too thin you can't find anything i mean i suppose what you said earlier about community policing and the idea of law enforcement as part of a community people have been saying this guy. the thing for years what if i mean if they couldn't even put up a temporary barriers to report when is this type of much more profound level of

counter-terror measure when. well what i hope is that the response to my report mez office that they want to publish a progress report i think about a year after the report was initially published without being my space next month but it's important that and i'm sure a lot of assembly will do this if nobody else keeps track on what is actually being dubbed the progress which has been made i think the. well i'm available to be talks to if they wish if they wish to talk to me you said in the report as regards threats rises in london this adds significant levels of complexity to the intelligence picture and we've of course britain has been overtly supporting groups allied to al-qaeda and isis in syria that's the job was very quick to cancel the funding of the cia program that was allied to those islamists. what you think of the charges that this is blowback for britain's foreign policy well i think these

attacks would be happening whether there was the blowback from foreign policy or not there's no question even if this turns out to be syrian well the individually others have been libyans maybe of syria and we don't know whether they are the people we're under direction or simply inspired by what they read there's an interesting correlations which has been observed elsewhere in the world between people's mental health states and those that get lured into this particular type of activity i think we need a lot more understanding of what an individual into being a member of society perhaps a disaffected member society but somebody was then so disaffected five attacks in the first few months well i'm sure that's been horrible of the have to recognise that as. as the area of dying has crumbled more people have returned some of those have returned to this country and perhaps some of those have slipped through the net and not be monitored probably. thank you. after the break. does the bell toll for tourism a ahead of the u.k.

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you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back if there's one thing that arguably separates u.k. prime minister to resume and president trump it's trump school of a keynesian infrastructure investment maybe they'll be chatting today about it when they meet in new york because years of post city crash austerity have led to tragic symbols of under-investment in britain from our in the poorest part of one of the richest areas on earth to the big ben clock tower that under theresa may be said to be silent for years we caught up with conservative m.p. and chair of the all party parliamentary group on fire safety david amos in the shadow of big ben to ask him about clocks wrecks it and what could have saved the lives of eighty people in london this summer david amos thanks for coming here on

their dream can i just start before we go into more serious matters arguably what's wrong with the clock up there when it is serious matter as far as i'm concerned it's the most iconic clock in the world on the member of the administration committee where we were overseeing the restoration of parliament and for two years it seemed as if they showed the general election when we were away from this building for two months to make a move on big ben the announcer during the recess yeah i mean we did not agree to big bang be in silence when it was. four years is it four years it's going to be years before we can start allowing people to climb to the top graded words here actually being kind. of a british infrastructural spending program is was a is emblematic. in this way and i would say to them get

a life so many of these flags are just behind us any danger i mean that brick city has voted european union any danger that they should fear for a secret rollback to remaining drazen may of course was. i think it's being. in a totally in that way and i think that the go it's going well. and all the main. participants in the negotiations. david davis liam fox one or two other ministers have given categorically assure says we are leaving the european union and we're not going to have one leg in. it and i know you're on the record for saying i think you said on this program after the immediate aftermath of the grenfell catastrophe in the west london you said almost politicize it what faith do you have in this inquiry that. a.

committee that i had the privilege to chair we we've now had a very good meeting with the ken noite who's leading up the advisory committee and he gave us some details. of how they're dealing with the issue of clarity but as far as i'm concerned we colleagues who feel strongly on it we are not going to stop until. sprint is off its retrospective played in tower blocks and the onus must go back to the local forces and housing associations and it's crazy that any new school is built without having because it. clears save lives now can gave us an added explanation he was talking about spray elements he doesn't talk about sprint per se all sorts of building to the overall effort to keep people safe in their houses we're going to

look at that very closely. but it's is. not going to change our views we do think it should be just. and we do think that they should be in every single new school staying with this as it were deep politicized procedural context what do they think of you in there when you go up to the grand filled out is often said that a review kind of review you were recommending before the dreadful tragedy a review could have prevented the seven if you. got a very good relationship with the prime minister on this issue a very good relationship sadly job it and a very good relationship with alec sharma. i don't think chief advisor there was the one who was supposed to do the review well you're talking about the former member of parliament for one of the court. and. it's not his fault it

definitely was his fault and it was going to happen i mean look into be deeded going to lose just say. well there you are as we conducting the review ages ago i mean he was telling him but he hadn't been minister for long but i should point out even if you had happened it wouldn't stop. because it would have happened while you're on the record could well have done of course but you know if if if the whole thing had been carried out earlier of course it would have stopped but i'm talking about this particular minister had been decided with the review would have gone ahead the timing with the bat stopped graham and what do you think of this judge that's been named your full confidence in him he said all it's supposed to be is restricted to the immediate causes of the and the means by which it spread that's going to make five other wider context i was involved in the remit i've never met

the charge but i have. chatted with people who do know him very well in the legal profession and they say he's first class but this is not something you know he's come on the grid. as for moving out a single lives from westminster to milton keynes hundreds of miles away. but i really think it's for the local community in kensington and chelsea who've been affected by them really to give their views on the issue and it's their forces to be not the member for south and west or any other member of parliament and i'm sure the judge is aware of that and i understand he very much aware of. cynicism as to the approach but i'm optimistic that he will lead did well and that we'll get a very quick result i hope that the recommendations that that's the biggest challenge with until we get there is recommended well last time we go

recommendations they would act at all if we can all. this i would be a whole if this time they're not listened to and i as a member of parliament pledge that i'm going to ensure that the recommendations are listened to and action is taken but as of now buildings could go up in flames because we don't have those recommendations well listen to i think very quickly he's sharing with everyone all these tell blocks all the information the tests are down so it would be absolutely irresponsible if the local forward in the housing associations didn't act on the evidence that he's continually shared with them we must act on the side to err on the side of course they were helicopters they might agree the way thank you very much my pleasure.

the chair of the u.k. all party parliamentary group safety and a member of the administration committee so david amos there but now from big ben to big lembit or at least a liberal democrat m.p. mr lim bitter what an amazing song. each that was in the twenty four hours by one of the most powerful politicians in the world what do you make of it i'm surprised you said that yes he's getting on in years but i thought he was statesman really powerful thought about the poor and also put britain right in the center of his agenda put britain in the underwater germany britain. i mean it is more about iran russia and china it wasn't you talking about i'm talking about vince cable is he giving you oppose in the shadow cabinet the new period has been agreed that the states action could be a by election by the action going on don't hold your breath or your let's hear from some dole trump no a true leader or a complete rocket man is not a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready

willing and able but hopefully this will not be noticed. donald trump there speaking at the general assembly rocket man suicide mission and certainly very redolent of f.d.r. and churchill and stalin are both talking about rocket man on the suicide mission for himself his whole regime that could be him or kim jung on the loose the you on anyway of course. breaks it a lot seems to work i don't know what he wants a break to take us to this story that from a tweet from the canary laura burke says he can't understand why we're all still talking about that three hundred fifty million pounds but twitter quickly provided the answer is the b.b.c.'s political editor out there like b.b.c. that's right and this is what she says woke up and we're still talking about three hundred fifty million pounds twenty seventeen everyone obviously referring to the referendum where the city is said to be roughly a third of a billion pounds

a week to spend on things in the u.k. national health service yes but she's nursing health care not that last the n.h.s. was where the money was going to go the argument was it might be something like half of that with the rebate she's saying why are we talking about it the story. laura is not about the money it's about the fact boris has resuscitate using the foreign secretary boris johnson to resign. amber rudd to said boris johnson is a taxi driver should resign after a load of the more johns the former chancellor said she should resign over the deporter it's all a bit ironic isn't it and that's called for laura's resignation to iraq that resignation sure they all resign all of them could resign the british government has a. now you're being silly and we just go to something silly and we go to something more important from the un itself this is obviously true this is more important news center says there will hunger rising again driven by conflict and climate change that's what the un report says this matters because this is the first time that hunger and starvation are up in a decade according to their estimates millions of people now not having enough to

live on malnutrition and death obviously affecting people of all ages including children and the quotation here is that this is from their heads of five year in agencies this has set off alarm bells we cannot afford to ignore we will not end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by twenty thirty unless we address all the factors that hang on big multinational companies rely on wars this review and report seems to say that one of the major drivers to this disaster is violent conflict which is immensely profitable and climate change climate change is caused by a big well to national energy companies a what are you saying here well a lot of us are making money and all of that is true all of that is true you can argue about the climate change point but there's no doubt oh of course irregularity well and i only want to know that if a lot of other what do you get a hurricane a rear then it's power again and there's a you can't distract me from this story it's not just about climate change it's also as you said yourself about war if you make billions in the arms industry the

question is does that also mean you have a moral responsibility to expect some of the consequences of that including starvation now if you are all back together the u.n. should say yes but that gets awkward. point the finger at some of the biggest arms sellers including the us in the u.k. well that's an uncomfortable truth ok that's not resolved in this discussion all right but this from the south china morning post a slightly different take to the one we're getting in mainstream media about the dreadful ranger refugee crisis it is a very interesting take the south china morning post as new diplomatic missions signal china's support for. the crisis now this is a complex story because it involves a nobel peace prize winner who is the acting leader of mine mark she doesn't look to some nights he's taken enough of an initiative to try and deal with the issue now china established its first diplomatic days in office last week in the country there which is still struggling to attract foreign diplomatic missions even the

placed yangon where most things are a new one is and this is a new what is it that says the first diplomatic mission but isn't the point here that when the burma is a military government was abusing the human rights of there will be later western interests chevron they were all there nothing was being done. to power a kind of power and it's the chinese and indian oil pipelines and now we get wall to wall coverage of the arithmetic proportion of human rights abuses going on there now that china is getting involved much less comfortable especially with india there so we're actually seeing the development of another big hot spot between superpowers and that's one of the reasons these refugees are at the hands of superpowers rather than the local situation as well of this conversation one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees muslim refugees obviously starving and close to bangladesh. thank you we'll be back on saturday discussing jealousy mangal drug and they'll be g.i. q plus rights with award winning drag queens yankee doodle rio till then give it

a try for should we do with you on saturday one hundred ninety nine years to the day of the publication of shelly's given the key words which were read out by the leader of the british labor party this. time i like the best this one. ronnie's like learns office is on banker should. take your tray earthlike you went to sleep full on you. maybe they are you. drive to medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had planned. to commit suicide watch all who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the

doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was literally all to what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's. the one word that describes american politics today is divisions the line that divides liberals from conservatives is deep and even worrisome to make things worse there are some of the same dividing lines within the major political parties can these breaches the mend.

heavily outnumbered group of russian military police repose a surprise attack by terrorists in syria according to russia's general. spanish police arrest catalonians junior economy minister is the authorities turn up the heat over the region's becoming a legal independence referendum. slums around syria north career in his first speech at the un general assembly but it's overall remarkably similar to speeches from previous esus. in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose

our system of government on africa. very good evening to you my name is you're watching international. the russian military says that are no terrorists surprise offensive near a deescalation zone in syria attacking government forces. that the main target of the ambush was a small group of russian military police who despite being surrounded and massively outnumbered managed to repel the terrorists. as the reports from syria. the rebel offensive in north hamad was apparently huge action magnitude supported by tanks by artillery by personnel carriers and joined by hundreds and hundreds of jihad

fighters in violation of all established and deescalation deals in northern in. a few details of the rebel offensive. russian military says. around and kept. russian military police monitoring the deescalation a tentative cease fire in the area apparently it devolved into a ferocious fighting the group of the group of russian military police just twenty nine people were rounded and outgunned never the less they held their own. as a result of the ambush a platoon of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours and was forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered the russian military police units are said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian military has gone on the counterattack supported by the russian air force as well

as the syrian air force they say they've killed more than eight hundred fifty hardest fighters the eleven tanks four armored personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks and. blunting this significant rebel offensive. says this was initiated by the united states which distract the three peat it in its fight against isis which is very successfully in the vicinity of dead ended dead. we asked the pentagon to comment on the russian military claim that the attack was actually instigated by american special forces because as yet received no response we also asked writer and commentator abdel bari atwan for his thoughts they actually the american they have a plan b. the don't want the syrian army to. soar which is very close to being

a iraqi border they don't want to talk to create or to allow some sort of connection between or passes between the iraqi army and the syrian army in that part of see it again but you still see that this is this is the most dangerous thing it seems that america and they actually would like this court this world to be closed for ever and the same time they don't want to let the syrian army took control there is or simply because it has oil fields it has gas fields and also it is very strategic position and if see the an army one that is all war this would be the last war on the sea of interest that is so maybe the americans they would like to prolong this war well as long as they can. thousands of protesters have gathered in barcelona to condemn police chiefs and arrest head of cattle on his independence referendum the dread proclaims that kevin

vote to be legal and the send the civil guard to seize promotional materials that include what ten million ballot papers from several catalan ministries of officials were arrested including catalonia his junior economy minister to lonely leader slammed the spanish authorities for imposing what he calls a defacto state of emergency. is madrid of violating your thomas regions independent. of the media the catalonian government has been subjected to coordinate aggression from the police force of the spanish interior ministry i i . it was part of madrid strive to block the referendum thirty seven catalan mayors had voiced support for the upcoming vote been issued with called summons in a criminal probe on top of that more than seven hundred other mess threatened with

arrest last week spain's prime minister was strongly attacked in poland over madrid sanctions. evil nixie hall. yes minus the lessons did you notice that and this might read now still being just that we could not bold. that we have not bright. day for preventing. all the possibility is that we could to bolt and we can affect this vote then simply take out the bullets for boarding. enter in. for the rest of the. taking out the now to the most heavy action to enter the government all sides and. to take the people out asked the people and the responsibles. this is not

a question to work say yes or not it's a question of democracy do they. need government or spouse the red line which is the difference between the democracy and the. catalan is road to independence has been obstructed by madrid now for years. thank you it would. be to were. two more people have been arrested in connection with friday's attack on the london

underground station of parsons green five are now in custody in relation to the incident with for the search is being conducted comes after a report on tuesday which claimed that online jihad this propaganda gets more clicks in the united kingdom than anywhere else in europe only four countries turkey the us saudi arabia and iraq more political commentator john white says that brits expect the authorities to do more than most what he is an obvious conclusion to be drawn from the revelations published in the report is that there is a bigger market in the u.k. for this type of material than anywhere else due to a growing radicalization of a section of the muslim community in the u.k. in this conclusion it tends to be supported by the fire that we've had for jihadi inspired terrorist attacks in the u.k. and twenty seventeen that this is going to be a more and more important front in the struggle and so this will be increasingly an

important front in the struggle and the authorities clearly will have to up their game because whatever they're doing no to combat at this level is clearly not reaping the kind of those opes that people would like to see and expect to see. british broadcaster has been flagged for an embarrassing mistake in its illustration of a sensitive story and the situation explains an embassy here in the u.k. had some questions for the b.b.c. following an article that seemed to lump together online jihad as propaganda and what appeared to be the russian flag specifically in an article they published on their website the b.b.c. had used an image depicting the same colors as the russian flag which is white blue and red and to this the russian embassy in the u.k. had tweeted saying hey b.b.c. what does the russian flag have to do with online jihad is propaganda in u.k. change your graphic designer or your photo bank now the official twitter account of the b.b.c. did not react to this tweet however they did change the picture on in the article

which now depicts isis militants and isis flags but it has to be said that this is far from the first time when the russian embassy twitter account sort of chases the british press specifically one example comes to mind when they had commented on the times article that talked about quote cyrillic language which probably meant cyrillic alphabet and another example we've seen a case where the mirror had used images from a traditional russian pancake festival in what they presented to be an exclusive investigation into russian football hooligans and so certainly this is not the first time and it probably won't be the last. we have reached out to the b.b.c. for comment the organizations told us that it used the stock image of computer coding in that case which was later changed to ensure better reflection of the story. donald trump has delivered his first address to the u.n. general assembly but to much of his rhetoric seemed remarkably reminiscent of

things his predecessors used to say on new york correspondent kelly morbid looks at some of the new president's remarks. opened up his debut in the green marble hall of the united nations with some of his signature rhetoric which many people argue got him elected as president of the united states i will own was put america first but from putting national interests first this speech quickly moved to a globalist agenda with a list of condemnations of other governments rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity trump lashed out at the syrian government reiterating claims that damascus has used chemical weapons the actions of the criminal regime of bashar al assad including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens even innocent children shock the conscience

of every decent person trying to threaten to destroy north korea prompting a walkout from the country's ambassador the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea and then trump lashed out at iran branding the country a rogue state it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of death and destruction donald trump speech ended up being a sort of call for countries around the world to confront those who quote threaten us with chaos turmoil and terror namely three countries iran syria and north korea two of which were named as the axis of evil by previous us president george w. bush but we know their true nature. north korea is

a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursue these weapons and exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom so much for trumps election promises offering a new approach to world politics focusing on america's national interests and not being the policeman of the world cable mop and artsy new york and george w. bush he's not the only president his rhetoric was similar to trump's at times the new president even sounded like he's a policy opponent and pretty decisive barack obama in america we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone i do not think that america can or should impose our system of government on other couples. in remote corners of the world citizens are demanding respect for the dignity of all people a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful earth.

we will fight together we must work together to sacrifice together i believe we must do better together and stand together for peace all of us can be coworkers with god the almighty god who made us all. despite it runs compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation deal that was signed in twenty fifteen washington has been escalating tensions with the country i mean president hassan rouhani fired back at trump saying he regretted that a newcomer to politics could destroy the agreement. i gather you know how awful it would be a great pity of this agreement were to be destroyed by rogue newcomers to the world of politics the world would lose a great opportunity but such unfortunate behavior will never impede iran's course of progress and advancement. will trump of ministration views the iranian nuclear deal is unfair and in july announced new sanctions against tehran just

a week later congress passed the bill to impose fresh sanctions against the country meanwhile u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said that washington needs its european allies to make the case to iran that the deal has to be quote revisited this is how iranians reacted to trump's latest remarks about their country. the u.n. says iran is complying with the green light all european countries and russia see this saying the only country that claims otherwise is the u.s. our people need to stand together giving in to america would achieve nothing it would make matters worse than they are now. we're not afraid and we have never been since the beginning. we have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact sanctions have made iran more independent in many fields. ok let's bring in a guest now a former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiation team in an author of several books

on iran they are for c.r.b. is my guest. president says that america's allies won't accept it if the deal even so though is there anything they can do to stop it. i highly doubt that and we heard from the french president marc wrong yesterday saying that. canning the iran nuclear court would be a big mistake and just today there is a meeting among the seven nations who are thought. with respect to the implementation of this and any complaint that any party has for the first time in iran's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state. are sitting out on the same table along with mr la rove and other participants in the j.c. p.o.'s signing and hopefully disappearance would be an ok zhen where the us will

hear not just from iran but also all the other parties that insist on and maintaining the oil and that hearing to this turns contrary to what we heard from president trump yesterday which is that the odds basically with mr tillerson is only real or insists on renegotiating aspects of it which is not favored by china russia and others. over said that it's unlikely he would meet with donald trump's team in those circumstances how can they resolve any disagreements. well unfortunately mr trump did a lot of harm by severely demonizing iran before the war community is today eliciting that very powerful increase counterpunch by mr rouhani today with his rational discourse emphasizing political moderation and highlighting iran's peace

related activities in syria and elsewhere and i think that the gap between iran and the u.s. is now widening as a direct result of you know no for he. is running a mark in washington led by mr trump and his envoy at the united nations was really ignorant about the details of the u.n. nuclear agency and the matters are very few cation at certain and yet somehow been able to gain the upper hand and hopefully this will not continue indefinitely given the fact that mr tillerson has a more rational approach to dismantle but the u.s. iran relations is now on a downward spiral not because of anything that iran is doing about it because mr trump is basically giving a lot of concessions to mr netanyahu the israeli prime minister who is a statue at the wall scared has been eclipsed after the signing of the g c p and.

with the palestinians that said sorry wants to deflect attention by a result activities manufactured nuclear crisis i think so i guess our cover for c.r.b. here is a former advisor to runs nuclear negotiation team. i just four days to go until germany heads to the polls in this general election the big parties are doing all they can to win over any last minute supports while the as the main rivals grab all of the headlines there's a whole raft of small parties are passing by almost unnoticed and among them other vaguer party the alliance for basic income and the urban hip hop party it's all about has more. it's fair to say that the race for the chancellor's job hasn't had the excitement that say the u.s. or french elections of hard over the last twelve months but here in germany one party has been committed to giving us a bit of

a giggle. simply meaning the party of the german satire party and they've become known for their blissfully absurd on a fast oprah post depart times supports the implementation of all encompassing universal total justice at least twice as much as the s.p.d. any complaints about suppose that injustices will be suppressed with the utmost force then there's their posts to campaigns when the anti immigration alternative to germany party put these up saying they prefer the king over burkas. they said they preferred what i think we can see what they prefer and.

there are also some new rules now hate speech towards islam must now be delivered facing mecca there will also be a minimum refugee quota of eighteen percent for this and other groups criticism of gender madness must always be gender neutral if authorized to no chance of making it to the police that this time around there is on the board is a member of the ripping apart of it things will get back in twenty four thing to parties leadership told us what they stand on the major issues facing the world today. we would advise that people should have a license to tweet for that if they have to pass a test similar to getting a driving license they will have to prove that they have enough sense should you not meet those standards you would be denied access to any social media forever

when you put it like that they don't sound too bad to me you've got to hand it to these children jokers but adding a little for volatile to the federal election these are all of our party. so let's have a look at the latest polls and it appears that the current ruling party will be staying put and glimmer of christine democrats they maintain a commanding lead the social democrats look set to be next across the finish line but it's a closer run thing for third place in the run up to the vote and has been speaking to people right across the political spectrum is the vice president of the free democrats that's analysis the of our immediate look we got into it and we're calling for a continuous constructive dialogue instead of saber wrestling we want to sit down at the negotiating table and listen to the different parties positions listen to russia's position and in turn explain our doubts fears should be minimized not fanned his hands a detroit game show once why he said as long as people are talking they are

shooting each other this should be our goal is a dialogue and teamwork europe and germany need russia and vice versa we should conduct dialogue rather than fuel fear. american actor morgan freeman has released a video in which he brands the dealer putin a spy seeking revenge on the united states and calls on donald trump to come clean over alleged russian meddling in the elections we have been attacked we are.

at war imagine this movie script a former k.g.b. spy angry at the collapse of his mother man plots of course for revenge then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy the united states bled him your disgust by this is no movie script. that video is intended to promote a new organization created by fellow artists called the committee to investigate russia on the stand your hawk in takes a closer look at the hollywood initiative. hollywood legend morgan freeman is those stranger to dramatic movie scripts like this one welcome to the sea port at the time of the crease intention and it is going to. become. american to. strangers we suspect the truth playing a cia director at the center of a tense standoff between the usa and

a hardline russian president sound familiar it seems the boundaries between hollywood fantasy and real life politics are increasingly blurring indeed freeman himself supported hillary clinton's presidential bid i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. to law school you could have joined a high priced law firm but in spirit she worked to reform to canal justice in south carolina exposed racism in alabama schools reduced to the latino voters in texas and provided legally to families in our. own lives worked out about breaking barriers and so would her presidency now he's waving to the russian election hacking scandal his latest video is part of a new initiative called the committee to investigate russia a lot of pretty big names from the film and media industry such as hollywood director rob reiner teaming up with the government elites as if the multiple

investigative committees already looking into alleged russian meddling weren't enough here's a team of true patriots the media does talk about it a lot and for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be penetrating into what we what i refer to as the real americans i mean patriotic americans that wave the flag and speaking of patriots rob reiner has made it pretty clear what he himself thinks of donald trump supporters how do you explain the millions and millions of people who actually like what they hear from donald trump and are taking messages and orders from us in the media how do you explain that what they're. there are a lot of people who are racist my guy position is clear here's another member of the committee a familiar face to those following the russia us election hacking saga james clapper former director of national intelligence investigated moscow's meddling but didn't find enough evidence to prove collusion between the trump campaign and russian foreign nationals but he's still convinced the russians did it after all

it's in their blood the russians who are typically. genetically driven to co-opt. purgatory to. gain favor whatever records were still in i think it's in their d.n.a. . or are in a soviet era or know meanwhile reaction to the launch of yet another group to investigate the russia hiking allegations has been met with skepticism freeman introduce your russia gate site is essentially build the rube use ok mr freeman so long as it's your four children enlisting to charge at the spetznaz might i add that this propaganda is far america can do better in the warmongering department send their saying so we await their latest findings perhaps one day they will be the subject of their very own hollywood blockbuster. ok you all right today

i hope to see you at the top of the hour when i'll return with the very latest news headlines.

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word that aptly describes american politics today is divisions the line that divides liberals from conservatives is deep and even worrisome to make things worse there are some of the same dividing lines within the major political parties can these breaches be mended. stocking parties in crisis i'm joined by my guest new york he is a conservative political commentator and in percival we have ned ryan he is the founder and c.e.o. of american majority all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate steve let me go to you obviously woods we've seen with the result of the last election cycle actually going all the way back to two thousand and ten is that we have these growing divisions between the parties and but one of the things that really concerns me is the divisions

within the parties as well we have. a sitting president. nominally head of the republican party has very little support in congress to get his agenda done which the american people voted for there's no doubt about that but also we have in the democratic party will hillary simply will not go away and this. new attacks on bernie sanders i mean one would have thought it would be time to start healing i mean you know and the republicans should get in line instead of aligning themselves with sometimes democrats. responding more to donors and their own political future here so you know do we have the two parties that are really kind of diffuse right now we don't have a very clear mission because we have individuals that do but we don't have the parties doing the same thing and needless to say the democrats have absolutely nothing to say go ahead. well yeah i think the democrats are are in bigger trouble

i'll get to the republicans in a second i think the democrats it's been what how many three four congressional elections in a row that have resulted in in the. where we are right now with the congress being overwhelmingly in the house republican in the senate of course i mean this is going on election cycle after election cycle and the democrats don't seem to get it now in the aftermath of the clinton wing of the democratic party notwithstanding the fact that hillary not only won't go away but now she won't rule out contesting the election if you can believe that one who is the leader they have no direction they have no might say have no leadership you've got bernie sanders he's a socialist you've got a little bit warren you've got the black congressional black caucus you've got you've got schumer you've got pelosi they're all over the place now as far as the republicans go with it but every very disheartening that the leadership hasn't learned a thing. against go ahead jump in or go ahead and part going to go ahead

though i do want to jump in again and put a highlight the fact forget about the democrat party at the federal level they have been absolutely devastated at the state level as well between two thousand and ten and twenty sixteen they've lost about eleven hundred seats at the state and federal level if you look at the governorships there's thirty four republican governors and i you know there are seventy of the ninety nine state legislatures that are now in republican hands and you have over twenty five trifectas meaning republican governor state senate and state house in republican hands the democrat party has been devastated six years again because there is no really strong message that resonates with the american people but you're also talking about there is some fresh there are some fractures within the republican party but the point that i want to make about people call it the trump agenda no republicans across the board ran on tax reform and repealing obamacare this is not just trump's agenda this is the republican agenda so when you look at the i call intentional inability to push for this agenda i'm not really sure. what republicans are thinking because guess who is on the ballot next year they are not trump and so they better figure out for

self-preservation how are they going to get some of these things done again repealing obamacare and moving on tax reform you know steve speak to that because it's unlikely because what's really quite remarkable because meds absolutely right for seven and half years they said you know let's get rid of obamacare and now it's dropping into their hands and and then you have again the divisions within the republican party you had john mccain i think out of spite more than anything else not really there it's beyond comprehension sometimes i don't know if you saw his speech i mean there were snippets of it there were real real statesmen and then he ended up really being a i'm sorry a jerk on this on the floor of the senate i mean this is the thing that i'm talking about because there is there is you know when you cut the cut cut underneath the president here and his agenda no one is winning that the republicans are winning the democrats only and the american people aren't winning either i mean i don't see

any real strong responsibility and you know i can i can take it or leave. it that's a totally different issue here but i'm talking about people ask for it from their elected representatives go ahead steve. well i like the fact to a degree that the republicans don't march in lock step like the democrats do i mean there are some things to be said for marching in lockstep because things get done but that the republicans took the credit of some of them don't i mean there's a lot of different factions within that party however having said that seeing the opportunity that's been presented with the kind of victory that donald trump won with what he has brought to the table how he's energized the country energized the base and having the house and having the senate to have people like john mccain and he's certainly not alone thwart the health care almost singlehandedly as you point out and do it with the bitterness and do it with a vengeance against donald trump and to hear people like the leadership like mcconnell go after trump and paul ryan criticize trump at every turn at every tweet

and i mean this is beyond real political differences within the republican party there are people and the leadership is included that just don't want to see donald trump they think he's an aberration and they think he's going to bring them down and they don't realize they're bringing themselves down that there's a huge misreading of the electorate exactly what i think if go ahead ned jump in go ahead. no i would argue in fact i agree with steve that they need to understand they are working against their own interests forget about the fact that there is there is some strong personal dislike of trump within the g.o.p. establishment in fact it's becoming very apparent again as i said to paul ryan into to a greater degree mitch mcconnell. there has been a certain inability and it's been intentional than our past the thing that i will say though is as you start to look at where they're at right now with the cassidy graham bill you're looking at tax reform i think they're starting to at least understand that twenty eight thousand is coming and the american people have

a very short fuse these days if they will not pass a legitimate tax reform and legitimate health care reform they're going to be in trouble next year and i would say again paul ryan has to understand there are no givens that people will simply vote for republicans because they're not democrats people want to see legitimate reform again the working class there's a reason that six to eight million of the working class that voted for obama voted for sixteen they want to see something that addresses their issues which again are jobs the economy future security immigration all of these things and the argument i make to a lot of these g.o.p. establishment people that are struggling with the trump agenda you know what follow the agenda and i think he can take them to dominance of decades if they will simply pass the three big things tax reform health care reform and immigration reform you know steve one of the things that's interesting and maybe but maybe you know this maybe i'm going to hang on here now you know one of the things that i think interesting since hillary clinton stole the primary from bernie sanders we would

have had bernie sanders and donald trump but what i think is really interesting is that really should might my mind because this i'm not really in nam merge with the parties ok i'm more interested in the outlook and that we would have had very starkly different outlooks in that race and i think it might have been healthy for the country to see what would have played out because it was the middle. more definitive but of course hillary cheated as she always does and her husband always do ok and they continue to do ok and i think this is one of the things that is very telling about the establishment parties they are not listening to their electorates on left and right go ahead steve well i think you're absolutely right i mean again i think hillary is really insignificant i think the democrats wish she'd go away and they some have said so said some of said it quietly and i don't think there's a clinton wing of the party any longer i just don't think there's i think there's

too many wings of that party and i think they're going to suffer for it big time however i do agree that if and i don't see this is what i don't understand republican leadership and republicans in congress and in the senate have to know that if they don't get things done if they don't pass tax reform if they don't repeal or replace obamacare then they're going to lose control quite possibly of the house and maybe the senate they have to know this yet the year is gone by they took their vacation they're doing nothing that the leadership is bad mouthing the president is that going to all turned around in a way team they should've known they never should have gone on vacation because i didn't do any work here let me let me go to ned before we go to the break here i think there is a clinton wing of the democratic party and it's called the mainstream media they're the ones that continue to support her failed unpopular agenda the media is doing it go ahead. well i would argue again the a lot of us have viewed the mainstream media is the p.r.

arm of the democrat party but i would say i would actually agree that the clinton wing is shrinking this is not the same democrat party that it was twenty years ago i mean it's the same name but its essence has changed i mean the democratic party right now i believe is being devoured inside by its far left donors and by its far left grassroots and i truly believe that in two thousand and twenty the democrat party will actually put up someone so far to the left of mainstream america that you will have those clear choices that we didn't have in two thousand and sixteen that's a very good point and teeth also is a wing of the democratic party i would i would argue steve i'll give you one minute before we go to the break go ahead steve one minute for the break yes no i could i could not agree more i mean you talk about how the party's changed since bill clinton he's had to apologize for signing don't ask don't tell he's had to apologize for welfare reform he's had to apologize for that criminalized the crime bill and and putting people in jail everything he did he had to say i'm sorry

a badge and how would change from the days of kennedy i mean john kennedy would would would would know what right had he is looking at so he i believe by in two thousand and twenty and beyond this party is falling off the cliff that's absolutely the case you know and bill clinton never apologized for what he should apologize for gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll take care of what's going on parties in crisis. well you know they kind of adopted because we were called liars. in this multiple makes it hard to watch it and you. will. old self the big tall fish already ninety percent of

a dot and it won't recover. content fifteen's. seventeen toms true enough to do it several times a day with the big screen and all you get an idea more of the ocean the fish. we have to understand we can all stay still and just. be with them this will be used feel more in the hours. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last turn. your at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry

but only i could 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 breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. welcome back to crossfire all things are considered on peter lavelle turn to draw mind you are discussing. in crisis.

ok now i'd like to introduce doug in washington he's a presidential historian and a former white house adviser to two american presidents and also before i want to plug his book here game of thornes inside story of a hillary clinton's failed campaign and donald trump's winning strategy all right in the first part of the program we're talking about the problems that both major parties are facing here i want to change the gear a little bit in give this to you is there such a thing is trump ism and will true if there is will trump ism survive donald trump go ahead. i peter was listening in a part of that part of that conversation earlier and i felt the one thing that was missing is that both parties republican and democrat are so corrupt there are wonderful thank you who are thank you the legislature and the wonderful people who

are serving in agencies of government then and some of them are extremely honest but there are so many deals going on i'll hire your nephew please hire my wife and pay or ten times what she's worth corrupt the level of corruption is so great who cares whether you're a democrat or republican i just want my money that's what's going on and donald trump represents a threat to both democrats and republicans and big companies who are on the make who are on the take they gave money to the clinton foundation they expected it back one hundred times over with government contracts corporate welfare now exceeds welfare for the poor so donald trump represents not so much a new party or even a new philosophy he has a great disruptor he represents us threat to the corruption that is reached a level like brazil or congo even though it's. illegal ok well what i would if i got a steve here what i like here is that you have you have to you have two visions there

you can watch the president on twitter or you could watch the emmys ok i'll decide for the viewer decide which one will lose you'll be forced to lose your lunch here but you know. steve one of the things that i think is really really important here is that like him or dislike him respect him or disrespect him trump has figured out the electorial strategy for possibly a generation to come ok and i think that's what's really significant here ok is how his appeal maybe not his love personal appeal but his approach to politicking on a nationwide scale and i think that's the most significant thing about trump ism go ahead steve. trump ism is being unafraid i knew that of the seventeen candidates up on that stage for during the republican primaries the only one that could beat hillary clinton was donald trump because i know he would say things and go places

that none of the others would if they others would act like john mccain and mitt romney and or you can say that and or you better not bring that up donald trump is unafraid and that's what's driving i think the leadership of the republican party crazy because they still think that if you act civil if you do i don't have faith and anybody don't offend an independent just played by the republican traditional playbook which loses and the media will love you and everybody will love you and that's not it donald trump is proven that does not exist anymore and people like paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and others just can't accept that and well except that they think that when trump goes somehow someday someway you know i.z. he doesn't run again or he you losers or whatever they will be back to normal they will never be normal again you know in an idiot i might think the average. voter doesn't want to be loved i think they want to have a functioning economy and solid borders ok and

a future to look forward to i don't care if i am loved ok i think that this message here again this is the media that does this this is the media that does this all the time i'm offended i'm offended i'm i'm offended by the media and what they concentrate on what two scoops of ice cream who's standing next to whom what is this all about is it's like criminology in washington it's ridiculous here and i think that's what i'm agreeing with what with doug said here is that you know in your face this is what we're going to do you're with us or you're not with us and if you don't like it voted out ok that's a simple as that we don't need a conspiracy theory like we've seen for the last year go ahead and. that's right no but there are a couple things though the dog hit upon that i think you need to consider when you're looking at american politics i actually wrote about this a few years ago it's people want to look at as a republican versus democrat i think you need to look at it more of the ruling class versus the non ruling class versus the american people i agree and if you

start to look at that framework and understand the republican establishment democratic establishment there is a certain status quo that they don't want to see change and i don't like it when it's called trump ism because the thing that i think that donald trump has hit upon that the american people have embraced is a common sense approach i said it's not republicanism or democrat as it's american ism and that's why i think that you do have the ability don't call it trump ism but call common sense american ism that will last long beyond donald trump's presidency because people are realizing we've entered a little bit peter i call of post party era where people will still register as democrats or republicans but there won't be a strict party allegiance they will want leaders that will actually come up with ideas again that the american people think put them first and not a ruling class or not other interest but the american people who provide a tax base the funds or government well in the in the last election and so it's true is that let me just go ahead real quick steve jump in i was going to say with

all due respect i don't think that people care that this guy's son is being hired by this congressman if you hire my daughter and i'll give you this i just think they want they elect people they expect them to do what they were elected to do and and keep their promises and all that other stuff gets pushed a little bit to the side i don't know if it gets pushed to the side here let me go back to here i mentioned the emmys here already on this program and it seems to me that this is. the heartland i mean rich people giving each other awards for really mediocre acting ok and other forms of entertainment and or wearing beautiful dresses you know i think the heartland saying i'd like a nice dress too i just want to decent job. ob ok and i i just think this is stark polarization in the culture right now culture matters i think the democrats don't have a clue about that go ahead. totally agree i think it's part of the secret to his election success it's the drain the swamp i mean the rich got richer the poor

got poorer under two presidents a democrat and republican at an accelerated rate and if the rich got richer because they outwork the poor or were smarter than the poor would have fixed except it but seventy three thousand pages of regulations to open a manufacturing firm in the united states you know why not because they care about meeting all these issues and conditions but because they want to keep you out and you start a hamburger joint in america today your tax money will go to subsidize your competitor down the street he'll get a one hundred million dollar interest free loan from the federal reserve you got to pay through the nose to get money from your relatives to try to get it started or a bank it's a corrupt system and it's it's reached the point that it's touched me i lost the value of my home i lose the value of my four a one ks so now i am mad i didn't

mind you would you hire in your nephew or your niece and all the corruption and tell it hit me yet but now it's hit me and i'm mad you know me you know net it's you know it's a private club but we're not invited ok that's that's that's absolutely clear ok and it's not based on merit whatsoever it's based on what your values are perceived values are ok and this is what i do group think in the elites and i throw the republicans in there too ok because they're fat and happy i like how the way things are working ok and again i were really want to go back to the media i think this is the media perpetuates this narrative. ok they don't they got the election wrong they got the polls wrong and i think they're really still very wrong but they must pay a price for it go ahead though and you look to the you know i'm all about a free press i'm also about to press and if you look at the percentages of negative coverage of about donald trump there's not even they're not even trying to be

objective they are trying to drive a narrative and this is why i've said that a lot of these people claiming to be journalists are in fact opinion this and people that are saying the reporters are actually just giving their opinions and trying to drive a narrative and that's why i totally agree with steve bannon when he said the media is acting as an opposition party and at some point that the american people are tuning them out and that's why you're seeing the rise of some of these other outlets whether it's bright board or other outlets that are trying to report news and saying we're being honest about where we're coming from yes we have a certain worldview but we're just trying to report the facts and be objective at least on some level the mainstream media has has left behind any objectivity and they are working as an opposition party and i think a lot of you see the american people going hey we want we just want to hear the facts let us make our own decisions for ourselves ok but apparently but apparently and to go out and wants to make those decisions by the way don lemon on c.n.n. doesn't believe they even exist here doug address that issue i guess i must have

you know i had eye surgery a happy year ago i guess it didn't work because i watch one clip after another you know of people dressed in black using using the bike chains to slug people in bay seem to get off the hook go ahead. yeah i think anti flu may come back to bite the democrats because the republicans have been clear trunkless been clear rejecting the k.k.k. and rejecting right wing is scream of screwups but i haven't here heard a very clear resoundingly. rejection from the democrats of and teeth a so i think it's going to stick to them i just want to say because your earlier talking about the media there's motive that media is tied up with the corporate world which is then if it's from the corruption in washington i'll scratch your back you scratch mine years ago when i worked in the white house of george h.w. bush when i first went into my office in the white house i had people coming out in

the sit down next to me saying well you're going to support this you're going to support that so why would i do that i believe in free enterprise they said because the liberals do it when they're in power if we could just sort of a do this don't do it when we get in power we'll get left behind so i was astonished that was years ago that's much worse now i want to go to stephen give steve the last word i don't know if you saw the clip about nancy pelosi to talking about dhaka and she was shouted down by people demanding that eleven million people be amnestied i think the revolution is eating itself last word steve go ahead well this is a very good lesson and one that republicans should have learned a long time ago and john mccain especially after he ran for president he became when he was running it was an enemy he was great to the media before and after they loved him before and after but when he was running they hated him no matter what donald trump or any republican does on dhaka on health care on anything if they give into the democrats this much if they let dr people stay here but they don't

let their relatives in but they don't let the parents stay but they have that thirty seconds after this legislation the democrats in the medieval say well why didn't they do this why did they do that you will never look and you will never get credit. what you do never a very spirited debate gentlemen we're brought out of time many thanks to my guests and new york and washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember. prescribed medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at the point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit some sight was all who was made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the

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