either way. still many do wish to join the u.s. hundreds more leave every day. with the country as a crossroads of the island is on the rise. make the headlines this lunchtime australia vote shopping right to elect the world's youngest of the. immigration party make significant gains today we'll tell you all about that. as well the u.s. increases next year's aid budgets of over five billion dollars somalia reels today for the worst terrorist attack. in catalonia the president refusing to clarify whether or not his regions declared independence from spain instead he's

asked for talks with the prime minister who's threatening to impose direct rule from madrid live report coming up from there to. my very good afternoon for me kevin zero in just one pm here in moscow this monday first those folks austria voters have made a clear shift it seems to the right on their own course to put the world's youngest leader in office people party leaders sebastian kurtz's poised to become chancellor after his center right group secured thirty one percent of the vote while the right wing anti immigrant freedom party is in line to come second with over twenty seven percent as it stands right now its leader christian structures seemed as jubilant is the winner as the first results were announced both parties stand for tightening . austria's borders on toughening up on immigration and both leaders gave similar

promises to deal with it to the point today is zero chance to take over the reins in this country and to make sure there's a real change in austria are going to start when someone says the can be more of the same i'm saying no we insist on a much needed and lasting change so the big question now for australia is what kind of coalition will be formed to make the next government horsley has been trying to find out sebastian could spring is likely to become an extensive will stand as leader of the people's party and has given no indication he will in fact form this coalition what he has said that he will talk with everyone all options are open now there are various scenarios of course being played out on the one hand you could have a coalition between the people's party and the social democrats this does seem highly unlikely because this has been dubbed the do it is campaign in australia's history and this is largely because these two large parties have liberal charges of

espionage and racial incitement against each other the supposed needs then the freedom party to form a coalition with sebastian knows that what it would mean is that you would have a white leaning government now this would be a huge blow to the european union it would also be a strong vote against in the book politics but it certainly would be constant also of the same we see happening of course you it where more and more voters are vote buying. i believe the full say we've got to be. who are. all of the arts is it a. good look now many european leaders had the course already congratulated he will become europe's youngest and leader and i think talking to people here on the street this is. see that these election results were predicted

they certainly match the polls my thinking behind. well it's always the same. but the thing of the problem with the refugees of course and best of the main reason for going right your. lot problems problems with immigration is. we service your effort g.'s and many people afraid to debate about the refugee issue was very in was over percentage in the election campaign. because it's just that some of the people and i would say maybe half of the talk in the election campaign was was about the right to things so. yeah but definitely it was something where the right wing parties gained a lot of games lots of votes. we're told to the president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna who believes it's best to get says tough

stance on immigration the one in the election he was responsible already for closing as we call it the western balkan route that led from turkey. up to germany and to scandinavia he was the one who organized that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then also. the number of migrants decreased very much and in so far he was not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more or less the cornerstone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by until america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning. the toll from somalia's worst ever terror attack is still being counted it's now

thought that more than three hundred have died and hundreds more have been injured in twin blasts in the palpable for the weekend emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the roads this lunchtime they say the true number of casualties may never be because of the intense heat generated by that initial trial. that. it's not just eastern africa suffering from the threat from extremists the bigger picture is it's a problem occurring continent wide because of the president troubles but

increasingly u.s. presence of late at great expense to american taxpayers because frances and the aga reports you remember trumps america first tagline right well u.s. tax dollars are currently being spent on a military intervention in africa one thousand five hundred troops are now stationed in the region so what are they fighting in africa terrorists ok and how's that going well apparently not all that well at least not in niger the growing foreign military footprint in the country appears to have set a local backlash against both the government and western countries anna gets worse for u.s. soldiers were killed as they tried to advance deeper into the african islamist territory niger by the way happens to be the country housing the largest contingent of u.s. troops in africa. there were just a hundred of them in two thousand and thirteen under obama administration but now with america first it's eight hundred u.s.

troops so a pretty broad mission with the government of new year in order to increase their capability to stand alone and to prosecute lone extremists in the region and according to a white house document as of june this year there are now three hundred u.s. troops in cameroon that's an additional whole fifteen more troops since december twenty sixth team now that's a serious increase that no doubt requires a serious budget right no way you may say but oh yes just this wednesday the acting assistant secretary for african affairs asked for five point two billion tax dollars as it's the required budget for african assistance in twenty eighteen ok but why so much money because of the size of africa because the time and space and the distances when it comes especially crisis response type activities we need access in various places on the continent five point two billion dollars that's a lot of money for putting america first. syrian army is clearing the remaining

pockets of terrorists or province having now repelled most of the city made it had become the terror groups de facto capital having large me deserted it's full of boston and rocket arabic channel got some really rare access to see what life is like now in my seems many residents fled before ice was finally driven out describing how they risked their lives trying to escape after losing everything to the years of missed homes and belongings was seized during a brutal rule that i got it i won't i was jailed for six days for smoking a cigarette a rest would be made if they even smoked tobacco they also had a so-called morality police known as the his would if i shaved for that. good he was genuinely interested twice because of the length of my being they were too. on another occasion i was jailed for wearing trousers. and similar

stories been heard across syria to see residents themselves fighting back in some cases case in point in the city of seattle a mere women there took up. r t followed their battalions efforts. on the.

need so when i've been to the model been a. snapshot of life across the border iraqi government forces have launched an operation against the kurdish held city in the north the prime minister said his forces would a quote impose security there at midnight on sunday moving in on oil fields on an airbase held by. the governor called on residents though to come out and defend their lands tensions a spike this since kurds voted for dependence for rock at the end of september as sons of the most washington of both sides for. yes collation saying they support a unified iraq. talking of unification or not next story very pertinent to that the

president a couple only of the big developments here on this now has until thursday is the latest we hear to definitively state whether the region is going ahead with trying to break away from spain the deadline was now deadline set by madrid for a yes or no answer elapsed earlier monday but the catalan leader refused to clarify the position now leaders in madrid are pushing for a decisive and so for later this week that benoit i'm with you it wasn't difficult for him to say yes are now on declaring independence it was a very easy question with a very easy answer catalonia has until a second deadline on thursday mr pidgen mind to give a clear response which citizens are waiting for and which the rule of law requires so that was in response to a four page letter from the cattle and leader to the prime minister requesting talks and an end to government pressure. the first request is to stop the repression of the people and the government of catalonia our second request is to meet as soon as possible to come to an agreement i didn't do it as

a demonstration of weakness but as an honest proposal to find a solution to the relationship between the spanish states and catalonia which has been tense for many years that deadline the initial well that just passed on monday was imposed after the region conducted that disputed referendum just about a fortnight ago in which the majority of the voters have turned out decided another set of them that they wanted to break away here's how events have unfolded since that vote. i. see what i say to people that we should be absolutely assured the. the government is going to block any independence declaration that might be expressed. this is really. dissipating if you disobey the law because.

all this spot not going to well in central europe the european commission president earlier warned that if catalonia does break away it would set a troubling precedent. becomes independent the same i wouldn't like that wouldn't like to see some states in the european union. for twenty eight . british european parliament member nathan gill spoke to us he says the e.u. only supports whatever is in its own interests i think it's been very disappointing the reaction from the e.u. especially had and what we've really seen here is the reality of these projects. if it pleases them they will accept independence but it's you know we saw in two

thousand and eight when a kosovo declared unilateral independence. said that this was an illegal move but the e.u. wanted it to happen politically so they got behind it and the question it's all but here they've said oh it's going to be too hard for us to control it and you with ninety eight hundred different governments you know that we have to work with the council of ministers and the council but quite frankly that is not a good enough reason when ultimately do you believe in the determination of people and the rights of people to decide their own determination for their own future. happy story coming up i'm pleased to say thousands are in southern russia for the world youth festival we got a report from such after the break. local

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along with our audience will walk. seventeen minutes past one o'clock now the world first of all all of you some students is underway in russia's black sea resort of sochi lovely place down there is a week long cultural event expected to attract over twenty thousand visitors from around the world to huge crowds there last night and follow show you some highlights from the opening ceremony well come to the nineteenth the world festival of youth and students in sochi i. came from middle east from sri lanka we are from argentina

a lot of countries as you more than one hundred fifty countries a lot of cultures a lot of people excited to meet the new people youngsters a great opportunity to come and meet as one to get to know you all around the world there's like a sense that the possibility of food right at world a world with more social justice is impossible and here we can see that it isn't we can meet people from every country that can prove their experiences what they are doing in their countries and that's what we came to do and it's really great bridging the generation gap is one of the goals of the world youth first of all not a great story next one who was there sixty years ago indeed our lovely george still works where he has been recalling his experience along with a correspondent and one of this year's participants hi i'm cost us i'm from greece i'm twenty five years old so we're going to meet george at his workplace what do you expect six years ago it was a. different war from an. awesome george.

george how old were you when the festival happened went on but if i said it cost us this place ok we're brothers yeah ok there's a difference of only sixty eight but what cost this would you like to get into a time machine and see what that was like of course because first of all i believe it was the first in the. soviet union at all people did not come in from the west because they were very wary and scared and the people from this side didn't have the money and the the and the credentials to travel abroad the eyes of the soul within and russian people in moscow at that time were opened wide in the idealism the first time they had actually seen foreigners and the same on the part of the

young participants through their eyes wide open they they had eggs suspected to see bears and all kinds of guns and things here in this country and it was nothing the people's generosity the courtesy and the warmth nice of the people was something absolutely unexpected all the participants boarded buses and trucks and after that that main thoroughfare was called prospect meta which means the avenue of avenue of peace and all along the route all the streets were lined i think we can see some pictures of that do you recognize this place george of course i was in a truck to where they really and the reduction of aid in young people it seems like almost all the most cool down the street and actually i don't know if anyone ever estimated the number of mosque which who came out of the streets but i think what do you get into into millions what did they do with the security police at that time. cordon off the elite all the people to stand on the sidewalks but that

failed how did was communicate because they didn't know the language it didn't they didn't have. to know the language of course there are interpreters but. when there's friendship in your eyes and your heart you read the main character costas do you recognize this building i actually do i don't i don't. see the concert hall so if it says festival here that means probably some of the events happened inside that play play while it was lighted song and dance groups and they must have played music right oh yeah music with music filled the streets all of moscow all along the route i don't. know any of these kids out. there and. how many trucks were there george i'll tell you one thing try to figure it out yourself how many buses and trucks were required to carry to transport

thirty four thousand the youngsters young people from the age of moscow into the center to the stadium here like saudi arabia and a very good nice costa do you think you can ask george for any advice. in their festival and you're going to be lucky. you're going to be in my shoes sixty years hence ok great there's only thing one thing i am sorry about that i'm not twenty five years old again share your experiences with other peoples sherry share what you got. don't bite each other. we had enough of that idea and weekend that. me to write nine unforgettable forty days. in. the spirit you get a up mickey i deem that i've now found it's no good.

so that's having all this waiting for quite a few stories kicking off that insult she at the moment. in the last couple of also in sochi the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov took the stage to speak he knew speech would of retaliation if he is forced to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. the story's been the room for a little while and i was the latest on it he said american news outlets operating in russia will have to do this if the restrictions are put in place a correspondent there in sochi for the youth conference but you're also listening in what triggered this tit for tat response take us back a little bit. while we're here at the world festival of youth and students in sochi and we just heard from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov now he was speaking to an assembly of young diplomats here giving commentary on various world affairs and world issues now when he was speaking earlier at an

earlier forum he actually directly commented on the situation regarding this network he talked about how there is unprecedented pressure being placed on our t. as it operates in the united states reporting the news fully complying with u.s. law this is what this is what survey lavrov had to say about the controversy regarding r.t. . the much pressure to register as a foreign agent in the united states if such a move against the most means you. have to retaliate applying the same restrictions on american outlets in russia but it was against the. taxpayers' money. now as you just heard loud rob said that there could be countermeasures against the u.s. media operating in russia in response to what's being done to our t. now at this time we understand that there are three channels from the united states that have been given a notice by the russian government that they could face some similar measure if he

continues to face this harassment now nothing is being done to them at the moment they've simply received a notice from the russian guy. that similar things could be done to them now the law that is being threatened against r t is the foreign agents registration act and essentially if you were forced to register under that they could be forced to turn over all kinds of information the information of the employees the transcripts of interviews as well as certain employees being forced to register as foreign agents and restraint did under this foreign agents registration act now this fits into a whole pattern of harassment from r.t. we recently heard harassment r t we recently heard about twitter now twitter released a report about bots and information being released and hacked accounts on twitter however in the report artie's personal information was revealed the amount of advertising that r.t. it actually purchased which is confidential information was revealed in the twitter

report so there continues to be harassment of artsy however survey lavrov has made clear that the russian federation has the right to respond and take countermeasures if this harassment of r.t. does not continue and that u.s. media operating in russia could face similar measures if there is not an end to what is being done to this network in the united states and the continued legal harassment and other other means of harassment of the network goes on and. in sochi thanks for bringing us up to speed on what. you can full of twists and turns of the story and all the other headlines making the news today at a cold war across the rest of the social media platforms i'm kevin o'keefe and i was saying boy. to do with the next live news updates for you thanks for watching the international.

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from the say yes but somebody else in. my. life a lot we. need to watch. something. that . maybe maybe maybe pull it off. here we're going underground when you have to the day that the iraqi army launched the attack to retake mosul when one year on residents attempt to rebuild their

lives amidst the rubble of nato wars that killed wounded or displaced millions across the region coming up in the show. the load flight last school bodies to socialism and them a government over britain's response to what could be a looming u.k. usa aerospace trade war and with a camera in one hand and a k forty seven in the other we speak to iraqi filmmaker. about his new film the journey and being kidnapped and beaten by al qaeda and us schools is coming up in today's going underground but first today x. goldman sachs the governor of the bank of england. and mark carney gives evidence to britain's parliament or two jobs is just handed out first there is sylvana ten re row who will be able to vote on whether u.k. homeowners have to pay more for their mortgages this autumn and if you thought her work has been in britain leaving the european union you could arguably be wrong here she is talking about the risks and rewards not of bricks it but even close the

union of the twenty eight member e.u. when it comes to neo liberal financial institutions to support more investment which is one of the objectives of the capital markets as a negative people are thinking through the cup at the market we have to consider. what we tools and then chose to put in place in the event of a crisis yes that new n.b.c. member is a remain a probably who until recently was analyzing prospects for more u.k. integration in the e.u. not less as for the deputy governor that mark carney will today be announcing a britain's treasury select committee his name is david ramsden here's what he said when asked whether he had been preparing economic forecasts for brics it's on the tenth anniversary of his advice to the labor government not to join the euro this is the first time i've spoken in public about the euro ten years or. so i think i'll probably. take that lloyd of defense so maybe i'll have to wait ten

years before he tells you about bank of england preparations for brics it what we do know is that errors in british official statistics mean a leaky bank of england is preparing britain for higher interest rates in a fortnight what will that do given british unsecured household debt now stands at two hundred three billion pounds on credit cards cough finance overdraft and other loans is anyone's guess one of the devolved to resume the i.m.f. which usually gets its forecasts hopelessly wrong says britain now faces the prospect of another financial crisis well joining me now is conservative peer lord flight the former deputy chair of the u.k. conservative party how credit. will is trey's amaze prime minister obviously her credibility has been severely damaged but i think that there's a sort of you all members of the party that leave her alone to get on with bricks it and we'll look at whatever changes we might make closer to the next general

election where you favor a w.t. you rules based into the one i want on saying is that i i think the the e.u. is simply trying to get as much money out of us as they can for some form of free trade deal which they benefit from more than us and. i'm feeling pretty fed up with that and it was negligible for them to do so yeah but basically i think our best strategy quite soon he's going to be yes a we've had enough give w.t. here i think she understands w t o and the apartment she should be beings or she should be being properly advised by a civil servants let's face it a movement of civil servants going on in white school for me every day was to number ten at the moment but you're presumably at least pleased that she said the free market is the greatest agent of collective human progress of a great and about time absolutely right and you look at all the figures and. it's amazing how free trade has got rid of poverty i have absolute dramatic and you

think anyone seriously doubts that statement yes i mean you've got in the states and hear politicians arguing to do things which are anti free trade which are protectionist absolutely crackpot and it's pretty simple doctrine why people haven't understood it i don't know but he dissolved job to preach it and i support dan hadn't as you know has set up a free trade institute and has actually got a lot of real heavies involved in that mess and i've been involved with it and i went to the the launch this week but we had to be proven. they were partly agrees with that too but says we have to rejig the free trade environment no it has obviously been the great just agent of killing i think he doesn't know what he's talking about and he is he is basically putting forward socialist arguments forty

years ago when i was a city and all my contemporaries were here this sort of garbage. i mean it is absolutely off on favre it's a long way to be that what i mean what is absolute garbage in that what race is people out of poverty it is better economic growth now if this country could grow its two and a half three percent per annum we would solve the issue of the younger generation being landed with too much debt if we go down policies that he's advocating like wilson and heath in the seventy's our growth will disappear and your generation will be loaded with masses of debt you can't afford to repay why do you think he's old favorite to be the next president of the people at all sure because we messed up the last general election campaign and actually it's a wrong reaction to the very point i'm making which is the younger generation of fear feeling that it's a disadvantage to the older generations and that if they they understood the issues

they would see what i've just said which is the best way of alleviating that is foster economic growth foster economic growth can be achieved by free market policies if you have socialist policies you grind the whole thing to a halt the thing anyone's going to argue against on cheaper nerdier lism and innovation and so on isn't it a response to the twenty eight crash a kind of contempt for the financial services industry i mean i understand the job for others on this program saying these negotiations of a bricks that they've been sold out to goldman sachs that they're trying to create a city bricks which helps. again elites in brussels and really well to some extent yes that's correct but i'd make a slightly tangent point which is that what was the real cause of it was actually clinton implementing socialist policies in the us by obliging banks to give

mortgages to people who weren't in a position to service those mortgages and then concealing the fact of what he was doing by mixing up the mortgages in a whole bundle of other things guess who didn't know what she was there but it was the bailout said it i mean you don't think the eight or not if you had to bail you had you had no choice but to bella buy one let them go to the wall because you to crash the whole economy if you don that one of that money had been put into infrastructural spending right and let the city as you just could absolutely look if you are allowed banks to fail the whole economy dries up because it depends upon the oil the flow of money so you simply cannot allow the main banks to crash ok but i mean the colony the gov the bank of england is a fleet of a coven alumina as luminous as it were it is obvious that figures like him and figures in the city are against bricks do you not believe that they are lobbying to water down britain's bricks it. some of them are yes in their own interests i mean

the single market is in reality a protected market for large the a large only go pally. business is the logical company financial service businesses you won't find many small businesses go to top of the single market at all no i think it's a be fair i don't think card is in the path of goldman sachs but he's thinking over the career he's thinking he's going to reflect his his history. but we know that these hidden forces in the midst british elites right now that are trying to overturn the will of the british people when they voted for brics which is the question which the state mandated be we so i mean i think that i mean you know ali and jacob riis mall did most of the city debates on breaks it speaking in favor breaks it and i must've done about twenty debates and i have been a great supporter of breaks it for a long time because i don't think we fit within the you know of the values that

want to stay i did say it's a mixture there question a lot of people who were in the remain camp who accepted the referendum and wanted to get on with it is in the house of lords who are a million people and we are standing thomas and in the city even there are some that still hoping to fight a rear guard action and maybe stop us existing i don't think that they will succeed and i don't actually think there are enough of them either to be able to succeed but i do think the tory government needs to get its act together and get a move on people are getting fidgety do you think the british public fully understanding these debates because the idea lengths of bias against a b.b.c. for being a really simple do you want to stay old you don't want to stay in. the reasons for stay or leave we know what they're all there three or four big issues and some people feel strongly i want to sue someone another i happen to feel strongly that you know we spent. a thousand years executed a monarchy in favor of having

a democratic system and i'm not going to accept being told what to do by second rate people that aren't even democratically accountable thank you very much ok but labour's conference will one of its largest in its history you're a radical old fashioned radical they were talking you know the stuff be they were talking when i was twenty what's your view and p.f. are you a charity secretary of the treasury around the time the blair and brown were doing this correct and the only you back call been on one with all of them completely incompetent play i mean you back or recall the principle of p f i is is actually sensible which is you well sourced building things the private sector you need to do it on a contract which. is appropriate now the the great mistake that governments made was doing things on a contract that wasn't appropriate and they got screwed as

a result so i mean you the people you blame there is brown basically it's brown and second rate people in the treasury allowed wrong contracts to be executed and what's happened is not telling you that outsourcing is wrong it's telling you that outsourcing spin dumb all over expensive contracts just funny how stable is trey's of may and her uneasy arguably coalition with the do you mean she's. certainly the in the papers it's reported that she wants to go for another term will to resume be running the conservative party next year or of the brics as well who knows i mean i think the general perception is let things settle down. let her. get on with leading breaks in negotiations and as we get closer to another election . the position will then need to be considered i think there. it is actually sort

of an implicit expectation that prior to an election in five years time that will be a new leader but necessarily the case but that's what i think most people expect you know it's like thank you thank you after the break we speak to an iraqi refugee filmmaker who was captured and beaten by al qaeda and u.s. forces but risking his life to keep iraq's film industry independence bowl is a ball going to him going underground. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate confirmations from washington washington media the media

and the. voters elected to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but not. to be poisoned by our own people that was leaked or biological and chemical products do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier or marine. that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from

exposure from the burn pits would literally send to be a pro and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay. to get the middle finger to be used to model the. delayed. welcome back one year ago today the u.s. backed iraqi army launched their offensive on the northern iraqi city of mosul formerly a stronghold for isis millions killed wounded or displaced by nato wars in the middle east so cooled liberation of mosul has reportedly left nine out of ten major hospitals destroyed most residential areas have been demolished and more than forty thousand civilians apparently killed next guest to see the devastation most of. his new film the journey though humanizes

a phrase thrown around in the mainstream media as it looks into the root causes of the reality of suicide bombing it's just been showcased at this year's london b.f. i film festival moment thanks so much for coming on you know the phrase i know the phrase viewers will know the phrase it's a suicide bomber as if. it's a dismissive. why did you choose to make a film to transform our understanding of that phrase. you know most of you i didn't choose it you know usually the story choose meet through to come to this i was in bug in baghdad in two thousand and eight preparing for my second feature film son of babylon and i opened the newspaper and i see this article with a picture of about seventeen years old female how to close being taken off and that is a policeman iraqi policeman thought to help to take the vest of the suicide bomber of had and the stories about this girl five minutes before the bomb go off she'd

come to him and she said she's supposed to bomb the police station she come to the police people say and i have only five minutes left help me to get the bomb off from me and the story shocked me i never thought about a female to be a suicide bomber i never thought about a female to be a bomb you know and then i start to think about it and then i mark i make my research and i find out until two thousand and ten was more than two hundred fifty female suicide bombers i didn't get it i didn't get us mohammed al-douri iraqi because i never thought about a female or woman like my mother my sister being on could be my girlfriend to be to be a suicide bomber you know and then i had bought my first and second draft and to be also do it was against them. because i hate them because they destroyed my contrary my nation my people my friend my mom my lost family member because of the suicide

bombing and then one day i met this female gayle i went to the iraqi. prison for sympathize been captured by the iraqi army like a police and i met this girl and she was a beautiful astonishing girl twenty years old you know very smart very clever and she was talking with me and talking with me and i looked out and she said he would be you know i felt wait a minute i'm doing a film about a suicide bomber but i'm not having give them any think so i started to look to the subject in different way and because you know since two thousand and one since september eleventh and you hear this big titles for what i get to resume or again extremism and then the status change now again islam extremism in islam you know and where we are now two thousand and seventeen and look to us everywhere in london

and baghdad in syria. and. then taking care of this. man of. this film human is ordinary iraqis about the railway station the children tell me about the children in the film because they look like they could be children in a british station under a sturdy britain we are going through a difficult time but we have a beautiful human being we have a normal life and we have a normal activity and we have normal joy and we are looking for two to have a joy in life you know those children and you know i always make a film about women and children because they're out of the victim of the war. that of the victim of the corporation i did the victim of i said that the victim of the corruption in government and all of liberated by britain and america is how we

learn of on the road we don't call it a nobody about a cop might. be two thousand and three world is a corporation we don't call it but i don't think that i don't call it but i see i made films not about that but i think because the capital is destroyed. understand we. should only be doing i mean. i grew us because we know even. in demonizing trump is a in the u.s. military or something to support. you chose to portray the u.s. military in baghdad as ignorant. and clearly out of their depth let alone cruel way in the way you know the soldiers that they have it on the base in the police conduct of that i met the person the last mohamed or my first feature film in two

thousand and four i was to sit by the american put in prison for seven days. doing a propaganda film for the american the american army yeah and then and then that was a guy called michael well that you were with al qaeda the american military thought yeah i mean because i was i was told my other three crew members of the make up the sound guy and all about using that we are doing. in the film but wasn't seventeenth of december two thousand and four and. they were putting on some to put it in the green zone area and i had this guy michael he's the guard and it was in he's checking off you know they took your clothes off and you know he knew me to you in a way and that was seventeenth of the bed and they big put me in the. you know to be to call your clothes off and then this guy he's. checking me and then he speak with his colleague and i have a very good shoes you know i bought from

a mr down and he say and i'm not going to swear but he said he's wearing you know he said look to this mother. he have expensive shoes he stole it from somewhere and i looked him i am naked you know and i said to him i didn't start it i bought for most of them and this soldier he's tough hard harsh but then he become my friend he speak with me english he to smuggle for me cigarettes some time you know he smuggle for me to consume and he become human being by the and so in the film you seen aragon did not have for our father's you know he said don't touch any cultural and you know brutalized mortal eyes you know and he said he could and then he called his wife and he called his daughter in the single her out a song to sing a song for his daughter and then he told the iraqi of the iraqi baby that the shut up as a believes in britain we hear that they're isolated cases obviously there was the brutal torture and killing by british soldiers in basra and so they're isolated

. using this film does give us a sense that actually the general treatment of ordinary iraqis by these big americans with their military equipment the iraqi people didn't really appreciate it very much i mean look the iraqi people we had we were living under a dictatorship for thirty five years and then the dictatorship britain supported when britain's above the mother of course we don't well i mean if we go to the store to be supported for ages in years during the iraqi and iranian war they support him in on a lot of way you know they build for him the nuclear weapon they pulled all this chemical weapon from where he brought it not from from saudi arabia or from from syria able to from the west you know the west was supporting him humble to put us on the mend he turned again been the story we know about it you know but we in two thousand and three when they came to iraq some people some iraqi think they could be a good. a good people lead good armies to help support but there was no there you know

we were war that i've been if you pass the american convoy and the streets of baghdad if you come a close fifty meter one hundred meters you will be shot and i saw people being shot in front of me because they're just about to pass because maybe they need to go to the hospital or anything like that you know so that's the moment in two thousand and three in june july two thousand and three when people turn and they saw the mass occupied to me because they were humble us not really in respect full way not shown us any any and that a stand of think because to be honest with you it was not any plan what happened post-war what was going to happen you know and that's the case became also happened and the consequence of this chaos you know then you have direction you have you have all this trouble but here we are facing in iraq because they weren't there before there's one not there before them because and to be honest you know what care about us honestly when you were kidnapped berg is the best card before the

americans accused your yeah they accuse you of being. bought on to a pleasure it was a film inside the film you know i was kidnapped by al qaeda in two thousand and four and then say for god in help of god and i build by the way the moment on the shoulders yeah yeah and then. give. me the they don't they don't they don't lose time with you a lot in two thousand and four they use will they do. anybody they think is disagree with him or anybody think that a pro-american brought in you are adding an iraqi government they take you one two hours and then they shoot you in they throw you on the track going to the vet and that's what happened with us and the time because they were thinking that we are doing a proper to put a government film in the you know and they question arson the trial by the haifa street they call it the street was controlled by al qaida and they were taken asking for a fast sound man and his legs in. and gentlemen they were about to shoot us but we

were lucky that the police of the time came they had on their way and we literally risked your life for independent cinema of course when did you feel what does it make you feel knowing that hollywood films its know and words work with the cia and the pentagon to make their films whereas you were attacked by everest. being a filmmaker. is important i think it's important for me as an arche as mohammad is important to have the voice but to be not influence you know you come from a counted could be easy to be influenced from different directions you know from the iraqi government or from another another you know but i try to keep myself as independent because i think like film like the journey it's not easy to be make you know i cannot persuade big producer or big company in america or here to make a film like that because i don't think they will see the interest that i see the us

are as mohamed out up to muslim that try to put trade i want even though it's going to worse a story of course is the i mean you know there's a thought of bellowing i mean he even met these children you can see them in the only london in new york and in anywhere in this planet you meet the young man in the film and you can relate to him when he go to flatten about girls and all of that it's things thirty happen and i it's my duty that i keep this voice free and worldwide i'm not influence you know and to keep myself in the band is difficult by the way it's not easy like the film take you five years of your life health you know just to make it just to sate but we have it now. many people think you are now giving back to iraq even though you lived in holland for so many years what was iraq like in the buzz few weeks when you visited mosul is now one year since. we're hearing about this this the atrocities on both sides

in terms of the liberation from. this new phenomenon that says that look when i was shooting the journey in baghdad mosul was by the doors of bugged out or circled by for loser to creed you know better clothes you know and it was not easy time and when. like three weeks before the liberation of mosul. i mean my colleague and my friend we were thinking what can we do because you know people talking about people and population most of they are supporting isis maybe they are. part of isis you know and but you know some of them and we know they have normal guys has been occupied by isis for two three years you know so we felt about we make a player and a convoy called. to celebrate the aid in mosul and we were risking

a good verb from now i says after your previous kidnapping well good but anyway this is life in this is the. right and there and we ended to go in with more than two hundred fifty artists and cultured people from. everywhere in iraq with eleven boss you know big boss you know a convoy to go to morsel and we go and the first thing we did we visit the university of mosul and we hundred more than. twenty thousand books to the university we talk about the universities destroyed the u.s. with the image that you have of a good story and you know but the beautiful the welcome from the people from mosul and they were they were really like warm and happy to see asked because for three years not visited nobody come to them you know and we came from everywhere and i can come to see them and then we had a big event attended by more than. hundred thousand people have in music

and so in film and have a cultural event you know in the time we did a fire walk and one mail from mass course and the but it's the american aircraft and the iraqi army. isis you know it was a big event was an important event it was an important message to say. that spot to fuck that was leaving the message that we do it with. you think they do and that's it for the show but we talk about the liberal elites in the new book patronized by the daily mail call this the best selling author when did that feel the social media seal was a nine hundred sixty s. of the day of the creation of the crimea the ultimate socialist soviet republic by the russian federation.

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hello good afternoon welcome has just turned two o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. the austrian voters have made a clear shift to the right today and are on course to put the world's youngest leader in office people party leaders sebastian curtis is poised to become chancellor after his center right group secured thirty one percent of the vote and he could form a coalition now with the right wing and immigrant freedom party which has twenty seven percent while its leader heinz christians track seeing this jubilant as the winner is the first results were announced both parties stand for tightening austria's borders and tightening up on immigration and both leaders gave similar promises to deal with. the void today is our chance to take over the reins in this country and make sure there's a real change in austria. when someone says the can be more of the same and so you know we insist on a much needed and lasting change so the big question for austria now is what kind

of coalition will be formed to make the next parliament has. reports sébastien kurds is likely to become and it's transparent. as leader of the people's party has given no indication that he will in fact in this coalition where he has said that he will talk with everyone all options are open now there are various scenarios. of course being played out on the one hand you could have a coalition between the people's party and the social democrats this does seem highly unlikely because this has been dubbed the do it his campaign in australia's history and this is largely because these two large parties have liberal charges of espionage and racial incitement against each other the supposed needs then the freedom party to form a coalition with sébastien that what it would mean is that you would have a right leaning government how this would be a huge blow to the european union it would also be a strong vote against in the book politics but it certainly would be constant also

of the same we see happening across europe where more and more voters are posed by . viva the pitiful saying we've got to do. all of the arts is going to cut. the deal now many european leaders have of course already congratulated could he will become europe's youngest and leader and i think talking to people here on the street there is a state that these election results were predicted they certainly match the polls might you think people did so well it's always the same. thing of the problem with the refugees of course and best of the main reason for the going right. it looked programs no problems with the limitations for service or

effort g.'s in the new paper a phrase debate about the richie issue waltz very my opinion was over center doing that action campaign. because it's it's some thousands of people and i would say maybe hottest talk in election campaign. waltz was about the right to things so. yeah but definitely it was something where the right wing parties gained a lot of games lots of old but we also talked to the president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna he believes it's a bashing tough stance on immigration that won him the election he was responsible already for closing as we call it the western balkan route that led from turkey. up to germany to scandinavia he was the one who organized that this route for

illegal migrants became closed and since then also the number of migrants decreased very much and in so far he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more almost a quarter stone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by angela america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning. death toll from somalia's worst ever terror attack is still being counted it's now known that more than three hundred have died and hundreds more injured in twin blasts in the capital on saturday emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the ruins there and say the true number of casualties may never be known because of the intense heat generated by the initial truck blast.

and it's not just eastern africa either that is suffering from the threat of extremists it's a problem occurring continent wide and because of that president been increasing the u.s. presence there great expense to american taxpayers says he doesn't francis santiago expects you remember trump's america first tagline right well u.s. tax dollars are currently being spent on a military intervention in africa one thousand five hundred troops are now

stationed in the region so what are they fighting in africa terrorists ok and how's that going well apparently not all that well at least not in niger the growing foreign military footprint in the country appears to have set a local backlash against both the government and western countries and it gets worse for u.s. soldiers were killed as they tried to advance deeper into the african islamist territory niger by the way happens to be the country housing the largest contingent of u.s. troops in africa there were just a hundred of them in twenty thirteen under obama administration but now but america first it's eight hundred u.s. troops it's a pretty broad mission with the government of malaysia air in order to increase their capability to stand alone and to prosecute lone extremists in the region and according to a white house document as of june this year there are now three hundred u.s. troops in cameroon. that's an additional whole fifteen more troops since december

twenty sixth team that's a serious increase that no doubt requires a serious budget right know where you may say oh yes just this wednesday the acting assistant secretary for african affairs asked for five point two billion tax dollars as it's the required budget for african assistance in twenty eighteen ok but why so much money because of the size of africa because the time and space and the distances when it comes especially crisis response type activities we need access in various places on the continent five point two billion dollars that's a lot of money for putting america first. the president of catalonia now has until thursday to definitively state whether the region is going ahead with trying to break away from spain a deadline set by madrid for a yes or no answer elapsed on monday but the catherine leader refused to clarify

the position and now leaders in madrid are pushing for a decisive answer no i don't know if it wasn't difficult for him to say yes or now on declaring independence it was a very easy question with a very easy answer catalonia has until a second deadline on thursday for mr pidgen montt to give a clear response which citizens are waiting for and which the rule of law requires well that was in response to a four page letter from the catalan leader to the prime minister requesting talks and then to government pressure monday's deadline was imposed after the region conducted a disputed referendum a fortnight ago in which the majority of voters who turned out decided that they wanted to break away well let's discuss this further now with mark against the international affairs commentator and joins us good afternoon. why do you think the catalan president didn't clear things up today as he was asked. well i think mr push when it's perfectly aware of the referendum that he organized

on his own behalf has no insufficient legitimacy even on it even if we take it at face value because ninety percent of forty three percent means says the eight point seven percent by my reckoning which is just over a third voting for independents and that means we really know that those who didn't turn out are probably those who opposed the referendum as well as independents it was requesting so really he hasn't got a mandate even to ask for independence on its own merits the other thing he hasn't got is control over catalonia and that's one of the key determinants of whether countries do get recognizes whether they actually have control control over the territory to which they lay claim in his case in case load of cases own government has got no control over that in effect because spain is still very much in control of its own territory in catalonia it does sound like he's in a tight spot doesn't it what do you think will happen between now and thursday then because the madrid is now saying look we want to know by thursday what you intend

to do what will happen g. thing i think they'll just be shadowboxing till thursday he will say we do not believe that madrid has the right to tell us to be its deadlines we are independents and so on and so full of madrid's therefore we won't be listening to madrid and that way he'll buy himself more time and hope for some other solution but it is a difficult situation for him because he can't roll back very far without committing political suicide in fact becoming a lame duck president of his regional government yell and what you think madrid would do then on thursday and he didn't hear any clear answer bye then. i think the spanish government will continue to maintain its position which is that any such secession is illegal even according to the catalans themselves who in one hundred seventy eight voted ninety percent is to say overwhelmingly a vote of the voters voted in support of the spanish constitution play it. because

loading was an indissoluble problem by. spain will continue to maintain of course that this is as it is and the legal process that. the cloning regional government is unilaterally embarks on a box on and we should bear in mind that in fact the problem gets followed here is for any kind of illegal secessions to work you need a big power usually western country wanting to break up your country for some reason so for example the case of yugoslavia you had a creation slovenia was supported very much by germany and austria and later we found both the cost of our being supported by the us of a in the case of catalonia there's nobody to support it no big power to support its bid to break away from spain and that for the better for everybody looking further ahead mark a to expect a science to talk and perhaps more autonomy to be given to cattle a new eventually. i think spain has to be very sensitive to the mood in catalonia

part of that mood is caused by things like the financial crisis in two thousand and five by which the housing bubble in spain burst and that was effectively blamed by the regional capital an authority on madrid so there's a kind of financial element to the discontent in catalonia which is certainly made it worse but the point is that with the movement of capital of banks of company headquarters away from catalonia and out into a definite e.u. location which is the rest of spain catalonians basically the danger of moving from one of the richest parts of spain to being one of the poorest parts of europe so i think that they do really need to consider where they're heading with this unilateral project devised by some of them ok markel it will have to leave it there but good to till she does market gas nature international affairs commentator thank you. now in other news today iraqi government forces have launched an

operation against the kurdish held city of kirkuk in the north of the country tensions spiked there when the kurds voted for independence from iraq at the end of september the prime minister says government forces were to quote impose security there has advanced on oil fields and an air base held by kurdish peshmerga forces both moscow and washington a verged the sides to avoid an escalation saying they supported a unified iraq here's how the speaker of the iraqi parliament described the situation but one that you are moving closer to an agreement. over the last two days are being fulfilled however if any of the sides take measures with the deal there will be consequences we support the presence of the army and the control of certain facilities but any action or resistance might lead to confrontation which in turn will seriously affect safety and stability. ok let's discuss this

a bit further now with a journalist and political commentator on the region highballs men get off the highway or thanks for coming on i suppose is it he will be asked to draw a link between this advance by government forces in the recent referendum that the kurds had over cook because the kurds have been there for three years haven't they in the city. well the kurds have been there for much longer than three years the area of kurds cook has been joined the control monitored by could do security forces and iraqi security forces in two thousand and fourteen when isis attacked mosul and the other areas the iraqi army totally pulled out of these areas including the security forces and the vacuum created by the by the departure of the iraqi army previously areas was filled by

the kurdish peshmerga forces today after the referendum that happened in kurdistan the iraqi army the iraqi government wants to assert its control reassert its control over these areas it was expected initially to be done through dialogue and negotiations but they seem to have taken the military step first despite repeated calls for dialogue and for doing what do we get through peaceful means both by by the international community and by the british counterparts but this seems that they have to take in the military steps and the situation now is quite sketchy i would say why do you think they took that step then that military action. i'm sorry we appear to have lost our connection there with our guest who was one we'll try and bring him back here a bit later in the program that was who was meant

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limits times and belongings to see cheering isis brutal rape me. i got it i won't i was jailed for six days for smoking a cigarette arrest would be made if they even smelt tobacco they also had a so-called morality police known as the his bar if i shaved they would tell me for that. juggalos arrested twice because of the length of my beard they would torture me cut me and feed me rotten fruit on another occasion of i was jailed for wearing trousers instead of the gel a beer their garments. similar stories are heard across syria and has seen residents themselves fight back to in the city of salem the women that took it all took up arms followed their efforts.

did the. one i've been to the model been and how did this elimimian come because he did his own. modest my mixtape fighters have fled their former defacto kept iraq under a deal brokered by u.s. backed forces washington supported the arrangement saying it would help to minimize

civilian casualties that's why whether it does go against america's earliest stance on the removal of terrorists. expect. as the push against iceland syria's rocka enters the final stage the coalition backed authorities in the city and seemingly eisel have reached an agreement to evacuate rocca the u.s. led coalition released a statement praising the chance to help minimize civilian casualties while also stressing that it of course wasn't party to the discussions as part of the deal people departing rocko were subject to searches and screening by the syrian democratic forces who the u.s. supports but interestingly as the statement puts it the agreement purportedly excluded four and i still find her as leaving the city and while nothing is said about syria and i still fighters the coalition did weaken at the end that is it is against any terrorists excusing justice we do not condone any arrangement that allows dias terrorists to escape without facing justice only to resurface somewhere else. terrorists have been hiding behind women children for three years and we are

against any arrangement that lets them continue to do so so how do you endorse a deal that does exactly that a local official reported that even some foreign islamic state fighters had in fact fled the city during the evacuation those supposedly excluded from the agreement and what about that part about no more hiding behind women and children well and s.t.'s spokesperson came forward with the information that a group of i saw fighters had left the city dragging innocent civilians with them as human shields now the problem is what can be done about the terrorists who already left rocka the us didn't broker the evacuation agreement but their statement does confirm that they know about and supported the move which allowed for certain jihad us to leave freely well they now hunt them down and kill them but such support from the coalition apparently has its limits just two months ago when damascus came to a similar deal for both civilians and i saw fighters to cross into eastern syria washington used the same exact lines but condemned the move isis is

a global threat relocating terrorists from one place to another for someone else to deal with is not a lasting solution to. the coalition was not in. in the discussions that lead to the arrangement but believes it will save innocent lives so perhaps that's not the deal itself but who's cutting it that washington objects to after all. what we did contact operation itself the comments over this and they stress that the arrangement was made by local tribal elders but added that any deal that would allow. to use in their objectives an acceptable. american soap writing in russia will have to register as foreign agents if forced to do the same in the us according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who says channel is being targeted for its work. on the much pressure to register as a foreign agent in the united states if such

a move against the most means you. will have to retaliate applying the same restrictions in american outlets that's what breaks in russia. against which are being financed with taxpayers' money now there are currently three news outlets that fit into that category outlined by lab rob in his remarks and these three outlets have received notices from the russian government about similar measures being taken against them about a possible response to what's being done to see if she is forced to register under the foreign agents registration act this could affect the way it operates in the united states the transcripts of the interviews could be turned over i'm required to be turned over to the government furthermore the personal information of employees could also become disclosed and a matter of public record turned over to government officials it's also important to note that in a recent report from twitter artie's advertising its legitimately purchased advertising on twitter was somehow equated with with bots and false accounts and

other information in this twitter report so a lot of questions are being raised but we have heard from russia's foreign minister. if this unwanted attention and pressure on our t. continues similar measures could be taken against these three networks operating in russia. reporting. across all these stories see what are websites that are. back with more news than. by then. by then the long.

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with. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day. with the country at a crossroads anger on the island is on the rise. hello and welcome across town for all things considered i'm peter lavelle donald trump's decision to start the process to end the iran nuclear deal is a big deal is this the path toward still another war also the so-called russia gate

scandal takes a bizarre turn it's almost impossible to believe. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have extra leverage he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with sputnik international regimen as always cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated. i want to continue because we've talked about it last week donald trump has started the move to walk away from the iran deal none of us are surprised by that it was widely expected but did you how he did it did surprise me a little bit. on social media e-mail and so mrs while the president was speaking i

was receiving amazing number of messages saying peter how is it possible that the president the united states is saying what he's saying because factually speaking it is odd odds with reality because you know we're moving towards a new two thousand and three moment when europe russia other nations including the middle east are opposed to a conflagration that the u.s. is building towards and there are very very few countries that support the israel. some countries and the persian goes real saudi arabia the united arab and to the speech to the actually it was. four cities you think he. supports al qaeda you know what well here's the thing that i see is these are. radical. sunni ridiculous really and to them iran and the sheer are not just bust it's.

enemy is that they have to be destroyed in what he was thinking of the use if we look at you know when you bring up the issue of. fighting isis and all that i mean in iran wouldn't be doing this in iraq if it hadn't been for the illegal invasion of iraq in two thousand and three going back to your point in this moment is two thousand and three moment what you know is this this asked the obvious question here is this the drive to war i think it is indeed a a first baby step in that direction softening everybody first of what has to be said that this. the refusal to certify what is the iranian nuclear agency review this is an american and this is literally an american legislation passed by congress in order to support and to check to put a leverage on obama's negotiation of this deal with the p five plus

one plus other has inherited yes. i think it's a first step towards war and one of the first indications of that to me is the usual neocon in the commentary in the think tanks immediately perked up their head and said oh maybe it's a pretty low bar but everything trump said seems incredibly reasonable on this to me this was shoddy to me. as soon as that was the first whiff of possible result of the neocons trotted out and suddenly discover this reality is they're saying they had to say was reasonable in foreign policy that's what i worry here the the the problem with this is of course. and it happens with american presidents it's always the domestic audience here but there are other signatories to this agreement and the iranians have made it very clear that they're not going to renegotiate this at all and the european american european allies or

they actually went to washington and petitioned trump and his function is not to start walking up with the european union is not there when partizan ing they just said the united states can't destroy this agreement because it was an agreement between iran and you know all we need to museums that they want in the same changes ok this is going to be the strategy isn't it the u.s. walks away from it and then any other country including iran because it would be a different set of sanctions they would start sanctioning european companies do you mean with the absolutely very very counterproductive for the u.s. in a number of ways first of all the relations that there is atlantic relationship is not in the best shape anyway system came to power in the us second of all their willingness or the us to. come away from expected agreements and attempt to change them by force you know it seriously impacts on american

reputation for their future and their reputation of american diplomacy because you can. if you give some fish a washington and skull to his official washington actually care about that the moving the goalpost changing the rules in the middle of the game well i mean if you take care american diplomats have to care about because american power is not in a session anymore they understand the understand that their power is declining in that even now right now it's nothing nothing ten years twenty years right now it's in decline in they have to understand that they do understand that the reputation of these states as a broker is a diplomatic broker in the world aware that it concerns the far east and the future of the korean peninsula whether it concerns other areas of the middle east of which . are doing this walk that makes a deal with north korea almost. exactly what i think it's a good thing what is going on strangely because the stupidity of this is so

astounding that finally it can bring a good result because what's going on is indeed every partition or that your rock story but on a much greater scale i mean the incompetence over george bush jr is nothing compared to the incompetence or trump so in that sense i'm not a bad actor but through much a debatable point i'm prepared you're going to have small going to on the big lebowski you know i think it goes well for our literary and i will hear this over because they thought he was important but and that time wasted a nitwit they were right there some of the cost of all that great can't get probably right political is code came out and said that nikki haley had her fingerprints on the speech what do you think my life may be nikki haley speech for new york and speechwriters had a finger in it but i seriously doubt whether nikki haley the former real estate account zelman the whole said to r t the nikki haley's experience in foreign affairs was a few visits to the international house of pancakes as i might use for i wish i had

said. that might be stretching it but this speech was obvious. bellicosity it does more than just question the us is reliability as a partner europe had an eight year honeymoon with obama and to be fair if this was hillary clinton leading this decertification they would probably be getting in line for it but it is trump and they need to be they're reminded again after george bush now again with trump that every four years they face the prospect of being. stuck with a us that they simply can't at least values wise aligned with but more than that this is a big threat once again the us is the world's biggest problem with anti-proliferation nuclear proliferation efforts around the world they keep sabotaging this again we saw libya we saw iraq saddam hussein we're seeing this occur with north

korea and now with iran iran comes to the deal with a civilian nuclear program and under blackmail from the obama regime it agrees to this this nuclear deal but they came to the table now what are other countries going to draw from this that if you even try to enter into negotiations the u.s. has no good faith in these negotiations. with the p five plus one with the u.n. security council the international atomic energy agency germany france the u.k. china and russia all agreeing that iran is in full compliance ok with all the. markets absolutely but who benefits from what trump said look who is in it is there any beneficiary is really going to ok first of all to your question about politico that the politico has of that next to can go it's well known that is not. tillerson and he has criticized him openly said that he is. and

he haley's position here so to take those. seat of the state of the state of perth likely to pay and. she's looking for you know any sort of mortgage being used as a wage and so it's a way of promoting here for this position doesn't mean she's going to get it it doesn't mean that she has computers as mark said but this is this is a way to to to. our way of promoting here now as far as beneficiaries of term again it's several countries in the middle east first and foremost is who it's saudi arabia and some other girl from other kids. see iran as their main adversary of the. and they certainly have some parts of the american national security establishment and they're either tied to those to the interests of those

countries and let's remember some are tied to the interests of foreign. nations for and allies of the u.s. and some that we're going to benefit from for from the war itself from the arms that would be made the interesting thing is looking at cable television in the u.s. is that it's another stick to beat russia radians will be backed up by the russians i kept hearing that over and over again well that's true. to what degree is it true russia signed the agreement like the europeans did in the americans and the iranians i mean they're they're respecting the parallel with russia is that they have no evidence on iran just like they have no evidence about russia getting involved in the american elections they have no evidence that iran has ever supported terrorist strikes including strikes against these so i'm not even sure israel would benefit from these kind of think that the israeli they's right here in the chaos at least rein i think that's a big point more than anything stablish meant you know these radio hawks might

benefit people like net and yup all but israel wants to be a dominant military force in the region. that's true ok but you know that is not the strongest bond that was not created themas you don't have a displeased them you know that you have iraq now that is strongly aligned with iran syria also i mean all the way up to israel's border all the way up to the goal of the occupied golan heights where i really started he's just a complete mystery to me and always fails easily we're going to go to a short period made a huge mistake i'm sure people can you were discussion on some real new state. what we want is to put an end to nuclear testing and then to move towards a world free of nuclear weapons and to do that we have to bring countries who seek

or who out of this ambition to understand that their national security doesn't depend on the possession of nuclear weapons. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner. to be poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and chemical products said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every

soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pit. literally send a v.a. probe and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay a. call for help and give the middle finger to their views to model is. delayed and i hope you die. with all make this manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real need is

really low. welcome back to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok gentlemen well into the year of investigative investigations and reports and suspicions and allegations and i could go on and on about russia gate here we have

a new twist to c.n.n. is breaking new ground here mark this pokémon go which i really don't have a great idea what that is but apparently. this is a game that you can play an app and the russians captured and controlled it in flipped elections apparently you know this is this is where russia gate jumps the shark considering news dot com i think it's what we have here out of this report actually originated in c.n.n. money of of all places which has been kind of a breeding ground for these refer these ridiculous russia good stories and what we literally have quote russian linked poky mongo quote tentacles unquote out of a quote shadowy troll more of new yeah you know i mean this has of course this is blown up in their faces entirely the internet just. you know reacted with complete

mockery goal or putin right now on the back to be could true with his shirt off and everything about it or does it actually discredit the whole russia gates henri nouwen tremendously that said to me tells me again i'm sick and tired of this because i'm tired tired of talking about allegations and there are no facts to talk about but picture this is the state of journalism this is the sad state of journalism here where you know the alternative media is criticized for click bait and trying to go. and i mean this is this is the model of companies like c.n.n. i mean just click bait mindless stories that have no basis in reality or meaningful reality there's another angle to it. been you know one of the reasons they're saying this and they've connected this book in my story to racial strife in the u.s. to. my answer to. what are they trying to do with us. where they're trying to see essentially that they are still it is in the us still is

between them. and that probably is. because not so much by issues but because the russians or the chinese or somebody else is stalking it but it you know it's you know it's you that people know i mean get out in their thousands in washington d.c. and baltimore in new york in l.a. in others american cities they know full well they're there not because russia or somebody else is going on them to do so they're not doing it because somebody is using book a month at this. town do it to get them there it's not just ridiculous it's it's a terrorist well it's not to say that it's nothing new in the nineteenth sixty's the f.b.i. smeared the civil rights movement and martin luther king as communist agents this is an old cold war and hard to know their king was actually. this is this is an old cold war card replayed for that matter who idea but the interesting thing is is

that you know the these these ridiculous conspiracy theories x. is the explanation for the failure of the of the western political elites it is the failure of mainstream media is that you know the entire approach of neo liberalism of the last forty years has created the conditions that we have on the great ground right now they just don't want to take responsibility for it must be somebody else's fault well the problem is that they occur after wall further and further. they can't get back i mean the expression in that washington post. that might help the senate committee to get to the. front in the rush inquiry and of course have to do with the russians. it has nothing to do with the elections and what that shows how it's my job defending expanded to. expression for you bottom i think to the bottom of the russian involvement there was no russian involvement you know what

imo it is that. simply americans now they have to go through something that serbs and many other nations have gone through before serbs were told me that you could meet that crimes your are they criminals all the books prove us show us the video that's no the senator said the senator said that you are criminals because i will and media says it so now americans have to go through the same ordeal that the serbs and the deviants and. clinton says it's true there really has to be a shift in my or subcommittee of the coast and they are just. doing this to say for years and. go to the board which i did switch gears a little bit. unesco the united states announced that it's going to be leaving this cultural organization israel as well here and it seems to me again looking at their rationale for it i'm not a big fan of an organization that spent

a lot of money ok i'm not but this is one of the more they do better mostly you could see the evidence of their work i've seen a lot of the stuff around the world that they invested money and protected but it seems it seems to me that the us and israel are withdrawing from it because you know sco respects the rule of law and international law and i think it's very very clear it's this it's kind of exceptionalism meets international law and this is where the. breakdown yeah it is it is pretty much just contempt for international law and it has to be said one of the better aspects of international law is you know something that you can hardly find fault with it's pretty hard to understand even the rationale but it can only be celebrated this is this the us and israel pulling out of this and it has to be said that the day after they did the first jewish french jewish was elected the head of your nasco so that you know that

brings in the question there but this only decreases the us standing it shows their contempt for dealing with any international body it's not as i remember when i said it was only hard if you think they were actually is normally part of the only part of the the media angle of to make sure that they could spin that i was i was at the you know headquarters and that was the only they showed up one person. to keep an eye on the show with all the other issues the cultural war the us in already withdrawn from so it was there for political reasons will come to this is all because of unesco support of palestine right of the last this past week could be called you know the ultimate i mean because really friendship week it started with . the revolutionary guards corps the iranian revolutionary guards corps a terrorist organization it's part of the iranian army by doing that and you would be calling the ring you not me officially a terrorist organization it proceeded with a synchronized the exit of the us and israel from going to ask and it ended with.

a speech. against iran israel saudi arabia i mean this is. of epic proportions i think i think it's very welcome going to talk about it. let's not forget the united states supports the ukrainian regime which destroys cultural aeration between ukraine and russia the way i don't follow the books actually all the books from russia that praise what they call aggressive country russia what can. of cultural co-operation can you talk about if they let the states and the e.u. will support such a regime. how israel supports cultural. peroration with the arabs we all know right specially in gaza that places like that so i think it would be you were being you know to leave that going to and of course if they support the regime which cultural sanctions what we see against russia right now what we see is what was sore against serbia what was sore against syria these are in fact cultural

sanctions they are like that mad and believe me all of the cultural things that have been destroyed in syria with the lack six years here are generally no beseeches look at the it is late in money that was spent or had gentlemen i want to i want to move on with. what what's on your mind moment it was a story from each one of you in the time we have left the in syria the implementation of the sawston our agreement turkey has moved military forces into al qaeda occupied. under escort of al qaeda i mean it's a little bit on the b.b.c. and c.n.n. right now no they're not reporting it very well but i mean you do you will find references to it this is and certainly all the experts in the area of the journalists tweeting amongst themselves or commenting on it this is all. this is the latest alias of al qaeda they're firmly in control of italy a province it's a jihadi paradise there and turkey which has illegally armed trained in south you

know these these and other jihadi proxies for the last six years the answer is not to fight al qaeda but under al-qaeda escort to take up positions against the kurdish camps and afrin this is a complete violation of the austin argument the syrian government has called for turkey to get out turkey meanwhile in the other area they control in their central syria is setting up turkish government post offices erdogan doesn't play well he needs a serious stay there. you know one of the things that you know again looking at the me. cheering on trump defeating isis in syria and iraq i find it is really just down doing the heavy lifting that russia has been involved in the last couple of years gets no airtime at all it's all the credit is given to the i think sort of weeks ago we've talked about this that every time there is a war and the u.s. centers at some point down the united states declares itself the victor and we are seeing that today again so we could predict that several years when the crisis in

syria is going to end and. you know articles books are going to be written about it people are going to find stuff about it in textbooks what are they going to eat in the u.s. where are they going to eat in london or in canada or in or in france they're going to eat there was the. kenyan. very one in the sea in the sea of the everyone who threw my shoes in the permits and since you know system now says that the iran supports this well it was from isis and from iran and from other there will not really is that isis would never have been in iraq or in syria without iranian help that it never really well for me there was more to study and you will support the announcement by the russian defense ministry that while everyone was afraid of russian troops participating in the military exercise and i wish to lead you to a yes two thousand seven hundred twenty one point the united states increased

that brigade that is stationed in war and basically it was the size of a tank division in russian troops which means hundreds of u.s. tanks from colorado in the steps or portrayed next to the russian border if we were at there at the number of we actually have a bold. need to get troops right on the border with russia don't forget four thousand nato troops now stationed in the black sea and also in. but the story line news that russia is being aggressive towards nato being aggressive towards needed by moving to within its own database that's threatening to general russia is not very. many thanks my guest here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching us here argue see you next time and remember cross-talk rules.

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