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hello it's friday october thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm in illinois you're watching our team america while president trump who has long criticized the iran nuclear deal calling it the worst deal ever says he will not recertify it at a press conference earlier today the president threatened to terminate the agreement if congress and the allies fail to amend the agreement in a major ways archie is trying to chop as explained president trump said the review he ordered of the united states policy towards iran has now been completed and at a press conference today the president addressed the nuclear deal by saying the u.s. will not served by that iran has been complying with the deal and says it is no longer in america's national security interests but he will not withdraw from the deal instead the president is passing the ball to congress to toughen requirements for iran to continue to get relief from u.s. sanctions importantly a room is not living up to the spirit of the deal so today in

recognition of the increasing menace posed by room and after extensive consultations with our allies i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions that deal which took the obama administration. eighteen months to negotiate stop iran's nuclear programs in exchange for some international sanctions that were in place for over a decade to be lifted allowing billions of dollars of iranian phones to be unfrozen which trump claims is being used to fund terrorism the regime remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and provides assistance to al qaeda the taliban hezbollah mosques and other terrorist networks it develops to ploys and proliferates missiles that threaten american troops and their allies trump also authorized the treasury department to quote further station the entire islamic revolutionary guard corps for its support for terrorism and to

apply i think since to its officials agents and affiliates and says the new strategy will also seek to address the pull of her asian of iran's missiles and weapons we will work with our allies to counter the regimes destabilizing activity and support for terrorist proxies in the region second we will place additional sanctions on the regime to block their financing of terror third we will address the regimes proliferation of missiles and weapons that threaten its neighbors global trade and freedom of navigation and finally we will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon the president added that in the event a solution is on able to be reached by working with congress and our allies the agreement can be cancelled by him at any time reporting any your turn to be chavez r.t.

. world leaders are now reacting to president trump's speech today the leaders of germany france and great britain said they want to preserve the deal to discuss this a little further we're being joined now by michael schwartz a professor of sociology from stony brook state university and author of war without end he also wrote this article called why they hate the deal with iran perfect timing for to have you on professor schwartz thanks for being here let's start off with president trump's accusation of of how iran is allegedly violating the deal so we can get your response take a listen on the other side. the iranian regime has committed multiple violations of the agreement for example on two separate occasions they have exceeded the limit of one hundred thirty metric tons of heavy whatever until recently the iranian regime has also failed to meet our expectations in its

operation of advanced centrifuges professor what do you make of that. the over the hour decisions like so much of what president trump says yes are false to begin with but also. constitute the same kind of rationale that he tends to use for outrageous actions that he wants to take which is the fabricate. facts that would appear to justify his that actions in this case they don't even appear to justify his actions but these accusations have been denied already before he made them but virtually the entire world community which has been carefully monitoring the. the agreement and says that iran is completely in

charge of it now i think the real underlying thing is that he's looking for pretexts to begin a process of ramping up the threat of an attack on iran which was the original. which was the original. aim of the united states starting in the one nine hundred ninety s. but certainly after the designation of mariana's one of the three centers three rogue regimes that the u.s. was targeting and the obama administration and slightly backed off from in the force of this agreement so i think we're. we really must take from this is understanding that he wants to start marching the road back to threats and perhaps the possibility of the long desire to tack on to read could attempt of regime regime change. but i also think that we should not take anything that trump says

too seriously because much of the commentary has. most of what he's saying right now is is symbolic at best there's no real action following from him and he actually might take requires congress and so on and so forth. and most importantly because the united states is only one party to a new red deal and the other members have already made it clear that they are not going to go along with the united states decertification of the deal. i think one of the implications of this is to ask whether this might substantially undermining the united states is ability to marshal its allies to support some of its most. reckless military and diplomatic executives so that's why i'm glad you brought that up because. the german foreign minister said margaret brielle has already said that

if truck pulled away from this deal that that it would push the a new allies to have closer relations with china and russia. have a president do you think the president has really thought about that inverse reaction to this. well you know i think most if we listen to the talking heads i think that they're right about one thing which is there's no way to know how much trapes thought about any subject. there it's definitely been proven that he hasn't thought at all about some of the things he says so i doubt that we know much about what he's thought about i think what's more important is to ask the group around him asked the question about how much the group around him misled about this. and i for one don't know i mean i think that the sign. that may be this is all just more blowing steam might be the fact that he put it in

actually explicit chappie it's about not really tearing up the agreement not really taking any risks this moves punting it to congress suggests that maybe. they decided well let's let him blow off some steam you know. that the what what do you do if so to corker call it the. personnel in the adult child care system that are actually control it's conceivable that that's the case but of course he is the president and he could do a lot of things even that they did money him to do that could move us in the direction of confrontation now speaking of confrontation obviously the hot topic right now is still north korea how do you respond to a president trying to suggest and that iran is in support of north korea's nuclear weapons program. i think that's a good example of

a probably the the adults in the truck and the crew the child care center were unable to get to him for his that that sounds like some some kind of fantasy of his i was listening today to an interview with robert literally the famous a contraception and he was saying that trump has a particular pet ology that results in him saying things that occur to him without ever asking himself with that there might be any reality check. and that does sound like it because because it's the kind of thing of saying you know he needs for the world to be divided into these two pieces right with all the bad people one side and then he can get them all it wants the u.s. on the other it appears right alone pretty soon right and we got to leave that right there professor thank you so much michael schwartz emeritus the thing with professor of sociology at stony brook university thank you for sharing your insight

with us today and thank you for having me. since sunday more than one hundred eighty thousand acres have burned in northern california's famous wine country destruction of homes businesses restaurants vineyards have been played in that area the death toll continues to climb hundred still remain missing r.t.s. natasha sweet is live in los angeles with the latest for us natasha. well manila these high winds that are expected through this weekend have residents on edge investigators say so far thirty one people have died but they do expect that number to rise as you mentioned hundreds are still unaccounted for the sheriff of sonoma county said nine hundred people were reported missing four hundred thirty seven are now deemed safe but another four hundred sixty three are still without a trace. what i can tell you we will do everything in our power to look at all the missing people and i promise you we will handle the remains with. their loved ones

. as the fire continues to grow investigators are still trying to pinpoint exactly what caused it. i don't doubt for a wider town and if there are no. lines. investigators are looking into reports of strong winds knocking down power lines between nine twenty and ten pm on sunday officials say it's around the same time most of the damage in fires broke out around napa and sonoma county hell-fire says more time is needed to determine the cause as accidental factors and even our scent can't yet be ruled out as firefighters are battling more than twenty blazes they notice these fires are different big box in the past. there they're everywhere you

know there's little pockets there's there's a. there's parts that we just can't get to this part so we're waiting for you know so yesterday all yesterday we were prepping houses and we thought we were going to be defending houses but now i think we were transitioning into that that defense mode so. well that fifty five. and people have evacuated as the fires continues or burn people only worried about what the future holds so when you have to run you have to dry my problem you know my choice we've not been you have to leave foster and you have to live with that being you have to save your life and you can't fly we've really moved out a couple days ago how concerned are you about what the poem we sure don't want to lose our property we've lived here since one nine hundred sixty so we know woes that people know possible. but the future for the vineyards is actually looking up

while many of the grapes were already harvested fire officials say vineyards actually hold more moisture of the open forest and are naturally helping to break the fires cal fire spokesman jonathan cox said fire crews use the failure to their advantage to ensure that they can stop the spread of the fire or stop the front of the fire from coming through. napa valley grape growers says vineyard save lives they say property and lives in napa county it's as clear as can be a moment one can only hope that the vineyards will work their magic this weekend the national weather service has issued another red flag warning going into effect this evening lasting through saturday at eleven pm here in california and now those winds are expected to head north and north east that's directly toward the existing fires manila boy hoping to see some rain in california thank you so much for that r.t. correspondent that asha suite in los angeles thank you. millions of venezuelans will head to the polls this sunday to vote for governors across the country twenty three

states in a speech today president donald trump condemned the actions of the venezuelan government as well as communist cuba. we are challenging the communist dictatorship of cuba and the socialist oppression of venezuela and we will not lift the sanctions on these repressive regimes until they restore political and religious freedom for their people however according to state media thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to show their support for the bowl of area process ahead of regional elections opposition leaders are hoping for party games in the elections if they do it would be the first time since two thousand that the ruling party faces a majority of opposition governors many fear of violence and protests will return to the country after that vote although royal canadian mounted police have come under fire for racial profiling recently critics say

a questionnaire that the police used to screen asylum seekers unfairly targets muslims canada's government has taken action against the interview guy but some canadians are standing behind the police screening practices are to the alex the highly bit he's writing us now from toronto with more to the story are right alex tell us what exactly was in this questionnaire that raised concern with the canadian government. it seems very obvious that the questions actually did target muslim asylum seekers passing questions like what do you think of headscarves how do you feel about isis or the taliban how many times a day do you pray how many pray are you religious how often do you go to your mosque or your place of worship things like that and even questions like how would you feel about having a female boss so all these questions in this three page questionnaire seem to be targeted at one population moving across the border and the border that we're talking about in specific is in quebec it was only one border area actually we were

there just a couple months ago and. the people crossing the vast majority of them are actually haitian immigrants and as we know haitians are not usually muslim but amongst the asian immigrants were a lot of muslim people as well so we're in the past year alone about ten thousand people across into call back this is where this happened and it's basically the government's targeting one area where the r.c.m.p. was the canadian mounted police it seems like it was just with one contingent and that this didn't go much further than that ok interesting so these questions more specific to that area only and not all across canada but obviously not everyone agrees that these questions are inappropriate what can you tell us about that side . well there was a big movement for specially most conservatives in canada for canadian values to be at the top of the agenda when allowing immigrants in so what are canadian values

again some of these questions would come into play that we've heard especially something like well how do you feel about a female boss and in canada obviously there are a lot of people that feel that way murders a lot of people that equality is number one that's of myself. you know so when you have immigrants coming in they go i wouldn't work for a female i wouldn't shake hands with somebody because of their sex etc that sometimes makes people's hair stand on end but again the conservatives took it a little bit too far in that direction so that argument just basically dissipated and now you have the backlash which is always on the other side that you can ask anybody anything about these things but ralph goodale who is the canadian public public safety minister he had this to say about what happened they pretty much jumped on it right away these questions were not appropriate they were developed at the local level but they were immediately withdrawn and the r.c.m.p. is now examining how the decision making took place so they can make sure it does not take place in the future so the questionnaire as it stands right now is being

revised by the r.c.m.p. they do want to be able to ask people questions it just seems that questions of this nature might be pushing it a little bit too far alex one question for you how do you feel about female. female and i prefer female anchors i really enjoy working with good ideas and not being sexist they're not big success or emailing answering my canadian friend our case alex the heil of vengeance or i thank you my friend thank you. recently c.n.n. aired a story about alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election by way of poky mongo their investigative journalist said that russian entities were essentially riling up b.l.m. supporters in places like baltimore and ferguson missouri so joining me now to summarize and discuss is conservative t.v. host and commentator steve malzberg hi there steve thanks for joining me this afternoon my pleasure i can't believe this story right well first can you summarize

this so called exclusive reporting for us and and what you made of it well you know c.n.n. went on with this like it was blockbuster breaking news and did serious serious faces serious questions like a real story and basically what it is is they're saying that russia using an account called don't shoot us poses black lives matter and targeted black men go users in cities like baltimore maryland and also in ferguson missouri and said hey what to enter this contest and if you win the competition you could win a gift card but you got to go to these sites and these sites were like black lives matter sites which showed suppose that police brutality against african-americans and supposedly the purpose of all this was to would rage blacks so that they'd go protest and riot i guess and the rest of america would see it and they'd say oh my

gosh what am i looking at i'm going to vote for donald trump if you could figure that out you're better than me well ok i think it's safe to say that over the last couple of years it's it's been pretty self-evident that racial tensions across america really have risen the c.n.n. report alleges it pretty much implies that this was somehow the fault of the russian state that it's the fault of the russians what do you think of that. well look here's the here's why this makes absolutely no sense first of all at the end of their report c.n.n. had to admit that they could not confirm that anybody anybody entered this contest or want to get court so we're there's a story i don't even know but this was all happening how stupid would russia have to be to even undertake this effort at a time when donald trump was campaigning for police against you know bashing cops

you just had five dead cops in dallas at the end of obama's term you had riots and protests in ferguson in baltimore and hillary was touring the country with the mothers of young men who were killed by police usually legitimately because they committed a crime and trayvon martin's mother so everybody was aware of this issue why would russia waste time if they were interested in tilting the election with this which was obvious to everyone it just makes absolutely no sense and of course cnn's conclusion was well how did russia know to target baltimore and ferguson someone must have been guiding them well by implication who would that be the trump campaign as if russia if they were doing this never heard of baltimore or ferguson on their own right and you can't make it up apparently donald trump put ferguson and baltimore on the map and twenty thinks but part of the mainstream media

narrative is also that racial tensions or anything that turned out to hurt hillary was then automatically pro trump by default is it possible that these two things could be independent of one another. well i mean i think hillary heard her cell phone laws by by like i said trashing the police before the philadelphia police didn't want to work the democratic national convention in the summer of sixteen because of hillary stance against the police constant bashing of the police so i think anybody who was for law enforcement and supporting police and for law and order was a trump supporter but but this this this notion that russia went out of their way to to foment protest by blacks so that the rest of the country would see it and trump supporters of people who support the police would then turn and say i got to vote for trump it just so convoluted and then again at the end they say we can't

prove that anybody even played this game so what are they talking about. are right here we got to leave that right there i have had a blast glad to share the airwaves with you steve malzberg t.v. radio host and political commentator hope to see back. and boom bust is coming up next here on our team america lindsey francis joining us for a preview of what's to come lindsay hey there president donald trump comes out swinging against the iran nuclear deal also japan's company still is set to apologize after lying to customers about the quality of its product also going to take a look at hollywood the fall out the business deals gone awry after the recent sex scandals that's coming right up oh that is certainly the talk of the town this week thank you so much for that lindsey. that doesn't play out a lot of the stories we just covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r.t. america check out our website r.t. about america follow me on twitter at a large scale and remember to question what. they're

. there for. the washington examiner has a weekly column called mainstream screen in which they cover the craziness of the mainstream media this week it was all about how washington post editor marty baron went on c.n.n.'s reliable sources where he actually sat that despite what many people say the media was not cozy with obama in the c.n.n. saying member and said that the reason it seems like the mainstream is tougher on the current administration is that they've created

a very hostile atmosphere so he blames trump naturally as they all do none of them seem to realize that maybe the media's constant battering of during the election actually helped get him elected and that when he was elected there was already a hostile environment because they had been so incredibly biased then in the segment bearing goes on to say it's not that we had such a wonderful relationship with the previous administration there's sometimes an assumption that the press had a warm cozy relationship with the obama administration and that wasn't the case for that claim the mainstream scream rated baron's remarks as a four out of five screams meeting it was pretty scream worthy and i have to say i agree listen i voted for obama the day after the election i was on the you tube home page doing a dance they. how happy i with but then as soon as he took office he started doing a lot of the things he said he wouldn't like hiring bankers or continuing our perpetual war but instead of taking him to task for those things like they had with bush they let him skate i watched it happen they found all over him when he started

bombing libya they pretty much ignored it instead showing videos of him doing cute mike drops on late night or selfie stick videos of him on buzz feed they did not demand that our most eloquent president ever explain why he was choosing to continue our wars they just showed pictures of him with beyond say for the zillionth time mainstream media yes you were very cozy with obama and until you see that you will continue to divide the country which maybe you're fine with because that helps to get people to tune in and that's really all you care about maybe you don't want to hear the truth because it doesn't matter to you anyway but to the rest of us who don't identify as left or right who are just normal people using our eyes and ears it's very obvious how cozy you were with obama and it's very obvious what you're up to now with the current president and it's all just pretty loathsome .

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