we are apparently better than. the sea diver heard of. jack the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. the iraqi army claims it is in full control of could cook after kurdish fighters fled the disputed city this comes as baghdad tightens its grip on security following and i applaud independence referendum. i. also to come the protests break out in barcelona over the rest of team captain and leaders accused of organizing the region's independence referendum and the u.k.'s foreign secretary a task labor policy and paste repairing on our channel calling it scandalous we get reaction to boris johnson's like his controversial.

new welcome comes you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour the iraqi army says it has taken full control of the city of coke cook and pushed out kurdish peshmerga fighters it was described as a declaration of war by the kurdish military which fired a heavy response. know i. know i know i could go either way. it was written across the. border although

it was wrong. but i'm going to give up on par for the next year governor of a darker conference or a check on the car seven hundred percent of what i could wash out it was a record i'm in now more from the guy behind the camera but the guy was there but no there's shabby i was decrypted. how much did the god. of the rock not all bear in mind we toured some of the protoboard on the block oh and i've read the book. well the iraqi government says the move was to increase security but the oil rich city has been under the control of code forces since twenty fourteen that's when the iraqi army fled the area to escape islamic state you need to try and has more now on how the war on terror in iraq has turned into a battle for territory gunshots and one of the largest cities in the north of iraq that had nothing to do with terrorists.

i mean it's about the terrorists not being there anymore after the kurdish units also known as and the iraqi army and cold war largely successful against i sold it is now all about showing who's boss and northern iraq and in particular in kirkuk back in two thousand and fourteen the kurds space sickly took full control of it while the iraqi army were hopelessly losing. the country to islamic state i'm not saying these latest care co clashes put iraq on the brink of a new civil war although the general command did call it a declaration of war on the people of kurdistan but here's what the u.s. central command called the takeover of a whole city after a fierce gun battle and masses of locals cleaned the area up coalition forces reports of the limits of exchange of fire but believing gauge when this morning was

a misunderstanding and not deliberate elements at times it's a link up the limits of visibility conditions clearly this is a difficult time for the united states their troops are important players in the startler is isis so has the rocket only and although the u.s. does not certain eyes are booked up your own mobilization forces also played an important role so now the us finds itself in a difficult position this is going to make it very difficult for the trump administration to resolve this issue very quickly across the border in syria similar story the kurdish units have done a great job in taking over land from dies and no matter what the government and damascus has to say they want to keep it period we will never handed over our law is clear the land that runs with the blood of martyrs belongs to the people and we will not handed over to any force the battle against isis is if not finished

it's largely finished and they've been able to come up with a plan the war of words got hotter and hotter and they have moved special forces but it's oil it's all about oil this is very important for iraq to take a city which they believe is theirs the government and to establish very quickly now that their military is stronger as proven itself against isis has become organized and well received machine that they wanted to strike while the iron is hot. well following that takeover in crude oil prices have climbed to a two week high we can discuss the market too and conflict with international all economist. he joins us now good evening to you mr salim a thanks for coming on and just firstly can you outline to us how important the region of cookies for the global supply of oil. career kook oil field is one of the

biggest in the world discovered in one nine hundred twenty seven and has been producing very significantly in iraq as you mentioned in your report in twenty forty in the caribbean forces took control of kind of cool. and since then they have been improved using oil from kind of cool and exporting it . across. and that against the wishes and the orders of the iraqi government now iraqi government forces have bought back kind of cool whether they will stop the production or not remains to be seen they cannot continue to produce for the simple reason that the iraqi turkish pipeline is out of order so the only way is still the export of the oil through

a pipeline built by the iraqi by the care dish united government to and at this stage we don't know whether we'll continue to produce that amount and send it through could stand to teddy the amount of amounts to three hundred fifty thousand to four hundred thousand barrels a day. i'm busy lot of sort of global tension at the moment not just looking at iraq but we see tension between iran and the u.s. to what impact is that having on the price of oil. the ten him between. iran and the united states does not have yet any impact on the oil price the only impact has come from the clashes incurred cool oil field and. how all of our if the united states or the

congress that he needs on the in nuclear egg deal with iran that me is the reduction of any can sanctions against iran if that happens it could impact on the oil price by making it difficult for iran to continue securing international investment as well as an advanced technology to improve its oil production so we will have to wait and see what the congress will do with the immediate impact comes from the clashes in connecticut so far these clashes have added one to two dollars to the price of oil but even without that the oil prices or the fundamentals of the global oil markets are very positive they could easily support sixty to seventy

a barrel why aren't they doing that and why the price is not going up i will tell you why because there is many people ation of cigars and this information by the by the united states energy information administration about increases in the production of shale oil and us share oil production and rising you us stocks these two elements are not correct because sharon oil production has peaked in twenty fifteen and has been in decline and us oil stocks cannot increase. at all saudi claims that they are increasing fact they have been decreasing by war seventy million veterans during the last three months for help with vaguely and there are increases there were on that point the seller may be going to have to wrap it up i'm afraid even at a time but

a really interesting to talk to that was international oil economist mamdouh salim i thank you. now two key members of the cattle on independence movement have been detained and questioned on charges charges of sedition they are accused of playing crucial roles in organizing catalonia to speak of referendum which madrid says was illegal and it provokes yet more protests in barcelona the. well catalan leaders were in attendance at the demonstration holding a minute of silence in support of the detainee's protests also took place on monday evening. i was.

catalonia presidents land to madrid expressing regret that arrests were made for simply organizing peaceful rallies separatist leaders called on the public to remain strong though during this difficult period for the region we're disappointed with the judge's decision to deprive us of our freedom the sacked isn't aligned with the principles of justice its goal is to frighten and punish us despite the times we're living in and the limitless repression of the state to try and stop this democratic wave we're experiencing in catalonia i want you to be more serious than ever we must become aware of the importance of the historical moment. well here are some more details about the two men that have been arrested one of them is the leader of the catalan national assembly an organization which does a for regional independence and it does have a eighty thousand members to the other here is the president of an organization that promotes catalan language and culture and it's also in favor of secession

meanwhile the editor of wiki leaks has been very critical the fatigue arrests that were made to genius sanjay described the politicians this is the first high level political prisoners held over this referendum is a vocal supporter of cattle and independence political commentator john white told us that he believed madrid has made a big mistake after the ugly scenes of violence we witnessed the whole world witnessed on october the first that the best friend that cut the world in the pain is actually the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy and he's a was telling me of spanish unity because of my mind to his actions. along with every step of the we have only served to force the ball fire the determination of those already supporting cattle on independence but people have added new converts to the cause mr hoyer actions well the me. and way with the constitution

are certainly important in my view because no one in qatar would accept regardless of where we stand on this question that democratic politicians elected politicians represented because regional parliament should be detained on this basis so it's a very very serious escalation and i contend it is a very very serious mistake on the part of the madrid government to take this measure will many do you see the latest move as another attempt to block the independence movement in catalonia after madrid gave some strong warnings at the beginning of september. yeah i am a. i and i i.

did i deny. the council and governments will be. charming is to walk for existence and to cease illegal activities they should abandon their objectives. i. i. i i. now with islamic states suffering heavy losses in syria and iraq many children are being left behind is that parents die fighting for the terror group where he has been able to film had an orphanage in iraq where some youngsters were clearly aware of the cause their relatives fighting for.

mama lambaste can't. ask them. about. that can. also understand shame cause for the ok for a while. yet. momoa can change hagel. must really love young. confident young. to do.

well as if life isn't tough enough for those children at the moment we have been hearing how countries are grappling with how to rehabilitate potentially radicalized youngsters when they are sent to live with other relatives. we have a moral obligation a duty now to help fix. the damage the last thing damage and the legacy of our intervention of previous governments. claim to be acting on our behalf we have to try and fix the mess we've created in a in an evidence based in a moderate way and not with bullets i don't think that we can you know straight away go all you know western intervention is to blame for this isis is to blame for this extremism is to blame for this the parents who were extreme in their beliefs are to blame for this this isn't you know i didn't write

a colossus children i didn't teach the children that their parents were martyrs but isn't my doing in that is a western intervention doing that was a doing of those who were extreme that were behaving in a strange manner when people are under threat of being wiped out then the people who took the toughest game they rise to prominence in such a society i was as i was about to explain like here when people think they're immigrants are stealing their jobs then. immigration far right parties you know come to the fore and rally people around them what you're saying is that you didn't in the area on the ground day that were killed by by a terrorist extremist radicalized muslim that what those parents should you couldn't blame them if they now came out became violent i don't want to see any child go through that and obviously we do need to do whatever we can do but the moral compass is not only on the west it just isn't for these children we need to

first hold them and put them out of immediate danger and then in co create a strong sense of identity in them as you know m i five report in two thousand and eight suggested and confirmed a world brand of islam an identity religious identity is actually a fire wall a preventative measure to political violate the less islam not more of it right now . you're watching out international have a discussion we had here a bit earlier thanks for being with us this afternoon we're going to take a quick break but when we come back we'll have a look at boris johnson's attack on u.k. parliament members and also.

with more make this manufactured consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room sick.

again that of the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has attacked the labor party and pays for appearing on this channel and even called it a scandal. if you study the output of of russia today and indeed if you consider the state of the of the prince in russia this present it is an absolute it is a russia today it is a scam it is a scoundrel that members of the party opposite are continuing to to validate to validate liberty to meet. that trying to propaganda by going on those programs. ok let's get some more details now with our smith she's in westminster looking at this story today laura boris not mincing his words there.

we've got a problem i think milor she can hear it at the moment we'll come back to her as soon as we can now meanwhile policing in dubai isn't it surely about to take off and that's because these russian hava bikes could soon be used by offices there to fight crime. or one of the developers of the high tech crime fighting drone bike told us what it

feels like to write what. it was wrong to have conquered the sky the next step was transporting humans were the pioneers of that this was started as a noncommercial projects and wanted to encourage people in popular science just leave it in you know it feels like nothing on earth use it like you would on a cross-country bike but at the same time you feel the ground disappearing from under your feet it feels very unusual. i mean mollett a few years time victims of certain crimes in london might need to think twice before calling the police that's what the authorities in the capital facing drastic cuts and police chief saying that they might have to stop investigating so-called low level crimes with more on this his. imagine you get robbed on the street and the police tells you sorry we will be able to investigate it the police here in london seem to have had enough of being stretched to their limits with a force now saying it will have to ignore low level crime the idea is to say four

hundred million pounds by twenty twentieth's and ease the burden on the just over thirty thousand police officers in the capital in addition gun crime crimes and sex offenses are up and calls to non non non have risen but some percent of all this against the backdrop of the current sort of threat and unwavering commitment to keep london and london a safe so we're having to balance the books with fewer offices and less money the met police are reassuring the public that the new approach is not going to affect homicide investigations kidnapping sexual offenses hate crime or domestic violence but rather lower level offenses such as shoplifting car crime and criminal damage.

the home office says there's nothing to worry about there is more money and more officers for each londoner than anywhere else in the country and this government will continue to ensure that the metropolitan police have the resources they need to cut crime and keep our community safe but what does the public make of all this says i she's going to encourage that people would commit more low level crimes wouldn't it because if you know that there's no repercussion for your crime. sort of leaves it open ended doesn't it we hear a lot of things going on in the street and i'm terrified to go outside to be honest with you because you don't want to get involved in something like that so if they're going to start separating that and maybe my calls that night or my

neighbor's calls that night may not be answered anymore makes me quite nervous they will start to do something more and more of. these or as a retired police officer i kind of. support new differentiate between north and jessica because as i understand they will go and report the crime but if there's no leads off towards the north think it's reasonable to investigate and start it you're going to archie. ok well let's go back to that story concerning the u.k. foreign secretary with boris johnson told the labor employees they shouldn't appear on this channel we can cross live now to our reporting or smith who i hope can hear me now good afternoon. so boris johnson as we were saying earlier not mincing his words about our. that's right and you heard those comments that he made on the floor of the house of commons earlier today but it's just the latest thing really because our team has been all over the news in the last week or so particularly the times newspaper it started with an article in the times last week which said that

concerns were growing about russia's influence westminster as people including boris johnson as we learned today have noticed that m.p.'s do regularly appear here on r.t.e. from labor from benches to tory grandees which boris is evidently the most good about r.t. has responded to boris johnson's latest comments made today the editor in chief margarita simonyan called boris's attitude banal and said that he was using his freedom of speech to bully his colleagues for exercising their ads but it's not just his colleagues that he is bullying it's his father as well it could be some uncomfortable conversations around the dinner table because his father stanley johnson appeared on our teens to going underground with tansy talking about his

anti friends and he was asked by rotund see whether any of the characters were based on his own forests. they do notice how you take sides in this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the former mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to the expectations people had a real wowing the crowds were every went he could be serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of london character a little. bit as it were we all will face reality sometimes we have to be we have to be serious well you are right you. know i said absolutely boris will be very happy but there's a rich who is this look i'm not saying that that particular character is a million miles away from another member of my family whom you have. mentioned today that boris johnson on the song didn't retain his he didn't confine his comments to he took aim at russia as a whole saying that it was quote up to all sorts of mischief but saying at the same

time that he couldn't pinpoint any instances of interfering in the u.k. . thanks familiar theme that was your smith in the u.k. thank you. things look so far today here now today we'll have more. what about the terms of h.s.b.c.'s deferred prosecution agreement they made with their owners office during the period in which they were called laundering billions for the sun a lower drug cartel those just violate that deferred prosecution will they just finally be prosecuted i'm going to bank prosecutors.

greetings and. do you ever wonder watchers why some news stories are given massive newspaper headlines and wall to wall. coverage all over the cable news well other stories just as important maybe even more so get pushed to the back of the line to wither and die on the by alternative news media these are the questions that we should be asking so today let's look let's take a look at a couple of those stories that deserve more than just a single blurb or headlines stories that should not be ignored or allowed to dry up and blow away starting in somalia where a car bombing in the center of mogadishu took the lives of over three hundred people and counting last saturday and according to the guardian one of the few news outlets to give the story any kind of major coverage the casualties included senior civil servants five paramedic volunteers

a journalist but most were ordinary people on one of the busiest thoroughfares of mogadishu in fact the guardian reports the death toll could reach as high as five hundred but where is where is the walled in all news coverage that vegas paris and orlando received after violently violent attacks tragically struck those cities i don't see that for somalia no hashtag mogadishu strong on facebook anywhere because the rules of coverage are different for countries with predominantly lighter skin and a higher gross domestic product. you know what else doesn't get the kind of coverage that say your average hollywood divorce does the military industrial complex i mean why bother with extensive coverage of a tax dollar leeching bureaucracy that according to the pentagon's own data has cost the average american taxpayer some seventy five hundred dollars per person since nine eleven when hey we can target. star jones brother much more important or

why or why bother reporting that the boondoggle of the up thirty five was given twenty billion tax dollars worth of obsolete fighter jets when there is russia meddling in poky to talk about. what we don't talk about the trivial here so let's roll up our sleeves and give coverage just some real news stories of the day as we continue watching the hawks. at the bottom. you know i got. the. welcome one and all are watching the hawks i robot and that top and. i know right

now what do you know that no one is talking about no one ever talks of no leggo blurb maybe a headline something as big as as big as some bollywood in this and this attack this which is horribly tragic incredibly has a over the weekend yes you are really paying attention you would be like oh well it's my heart that something happened it's we've talked about it before when things have happened over the last couple of years every time one of these things happens there's always other cases that have more of that have there are more tragic more civilians killed in a. places but as we've said before if it's not in a sheep metropolitan city. listen a lot of white people around people just don't pay attention. but there's a lot of white people in africa and wearing uniforms and where this happened you can't be surprised that people are going to die in a place where you're going in with weapons of war and you're waging war and you're dropping bombs you're in an environment that's going to happen but to pretend like

if it's important enough for us to be there it should be important enough for the u.s. press for the money a minute amount to let the american people know where where our soldiers are where or where they're fighting most definitely. i mean you know you look at it like this it's like clint smith the teacher writer ph d. candidate at harvard i think it's the most important question imagine if two hundred fifty plus people in the u.s. or u.k. or france were killed in a truck bomb that's just what happened in somalia they deserved to be born so yes i think we do deserve to take more the loss of those people and i hope and pray that they can recover from this small is not a bad years but yes let's talk about that other flavor wonderful wonderful well again that we could be giving the people of somalia we could be giving you know countries in africa how we could be giving them you know what we can build in roads

yeah match the country doing things that can help them and said we're putting all this money into ridiculous things like wasting twenty million with a b. twenty billion dollars on f. thirty five that are pretty much useless yes a so the u.s. military is now canceling upgrades to more than one hundred of these early model after thirty five stealth fighters that were used in the reasoning is that. they one hundred or so of them have this to be called the to be block block to be software and what that does is allow. a plane that actually has the capability physical capability to drop a number of different kinds of missiles because it has this one software it can only do like four different guns oh so we need for something like seventeen hundred and sixty percent of them are useless totally they can't do any of them they're supposed to do so yeah that leaves us with about twenty billion dollars of stuff that we have an incredible time they have no they have no they have six percent

twenty billion of these they don't work they don't have any capabilities that we paid for and there's a really. good like he's twenty billion dollar and search about ways to i would love to hear how twenty billion dollars does it is because of something called speed over quality it's because of a strategy concurrent see. greater an analyst with the project on government oversight in washington d.c. told the daily beast there's the risk but the services would be stuck with less than capable aircraft as one that the pentagon knowingly took would leaders decided to overwhelm the development and the testing of the program with the production so basically it's a deliberate strategy concurrency which is they say is designed to speed up no design not that's just doing things poorly this is what you think is the dumbest thing i've ever heard they get away with it because we just throw money at the military without any any any kind of oversight with anything in our guidelines that yukos research then development then reduction then distribution it's like

day three of business school you might want to try things were different in the program they say we can only react once you do what they wanted they have taxpayer dollars to waste not held accountable to bad that's the problem because the moment you try to hold them accountable they're say well why are you why are you preventing the soldiers you know from doing what they need i want to know why you're preventing you're wasting away twenty billion dollars that twenty billion dollars could a fed every single kid who goes hungry in this country somalia two and some up. you know we have some left over for legs i don't need your stories i'm sure you were you know i brought us a little over seventy five hundred dollars for your person in the united states who pays taxes since nine eleven what's really interesting though is the opposite of how much we spend on diplomacy a lot less it's about forty one hundred nine eleven per person so they have our tax money only forty one hundred for diplomacy and seventy five hundred for just you

know bridge and i don't get it i just don't understand that sometimes you get a real war like society one point five trillion dollars you know afghanistan iraq and syria one point five trillion dollars and you're telling me we can't feed people or take care of our elderly we should get rid of social security because who cares about old people one point five actually jumps up to five trillion dollars. include things like the military no one knows when you start including black budgets and cia operations just. for nearly a week flames continue to burn in northern california scores dead and thousands more evacuated compounded by strong winds the flames have been spreading like wildfire and sending paths of smoke hundreds of miles across the region the same winds reignited the fires this saturday causing yet more evacuations and panic while at least a dozen people remain missing and economic and sell to physical injury the fires

are hitting california's wine country a major economic engine in this state the hardest actually had the latest weather reports do bring hope that a weather system out of alaska will bring much needed rainfall later this week to help quell the flames but in the meantime eleven thousand firefighters are on the front lines risking everything to help stop the destruction our taste natasha sweet has more out of los angeles. and tyrrell you know the largest x. factor of this disaster as you mentioned are those unrelenting winds we understand that the winds carried the smoke some five. hundred fifty miles all the way to the mexico border and nasa is mota satellite passed over california on friday capturing these images and you can see the decline of smoke coming from santa rosa into the pacific ocean parallel to the northern edge of mexico so those winds like you mentioned are just very very strong still at this point looks a lot like the most. of the seventy just to the satellite images of the over the

ridges of the fires have burned over two hundred thousand acres leaving california's fire crews essentially exhausted and spread remarkably despite eleven thousand of them how is the state handling this crisis. well we understand that the state actually released you know federal emergency funds but we understand there's also one hundred thousand firefighters from neighboring states coming in to help with this effort one hundred thousand firefighters and then another eight hundred eighty fire engines one hundred thirty four bulldozers two hundred twenty four hand crews and one hundred thirty eight water tenders and first thing saturday morning there were fourteen helicopters in the air conducting water drops wow it's pretty amazing now according to authorities you have about one hundred thousand people under these evacuation orders forty people dead fifty seven hundred homes and businesses already destroyed what comes next for the survivors. yeah you know it's

a great question according to authorities there are one hundred thousand californians that are under evacuation orders right now as we speak forty people dead fifty seven hundred homes and businesses destroyed and survivors they've just been stunned by the and president of destruction wow and you spoke with two of the survivors i believe earlier greg that we could take a look i did. and then the winds came up the fire was like a fire tsunami it was like a fireball the winds were so fierce so fierce so there's very little time i ran and grabbed our grandson. he was staying with us seven years old my wife and our two party dogs thrown in my car and we backed out as we backed out the house just went up in flames so we're very fortunate to get out. this incredibly testimony as you hear there and also i don't want to miss this either you also spoke with some fire representatives or fire california fire spokesperson about their efforts and what they're doing let's let's take a look at that as well. that's pretty stunning figure that the fact that

we burned almost as much in a week that we burned all year long so it's a it's a fire season in a week resources are stretched pretty thin but the crews are still in good spirits is a late season fire and this is typically when california severs its most devastating fires. that just i mean the most fires that they normally have in a season in one we are saying that. obviously these players are having a stronger than usual impact on the economy got about forty seconds just how hard is this state you know has this hit the wine industry there. well we understand at least fifteen wineries smaller wineries have been destroyed but if you think about it the wineries in general they're accounts of course fifty seven billion dollars for the california state economy so it's a huge effort here in california you know people go there to get married in the wine country they just have the p.g.a. tour there just a little more than a week ago vacation there and there's about one hundred thousand jobs there are

winery based as well so too early to tell exactly how damaging destroyed everything is we understand a lot of groups are already harvested but as far as the wineries being you know back up and running it's still too early to tell thank you so much natasha sweet great great reporting out there all right as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com and coming up we present the second part of sean's loans interview with pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg about the group. byrd's documentary series of the be a cold war story to watch. but it is i will not be here that. much as you. give it up. you. hate.

it doesn't. just tell you the other side of the mark on the. by then got a session on the nod that i am. by then is a shift the on. a startling audience and most is going on want. so. much so it. can be most of it was revealed to the multiple injuries among current america so for them to keep sophie hold the book but the show's real year mars on the phone to the book on the if you can book a political symbol so this is the year but i don't know it's a book in a moral sense what a month. hanumant of nothing. off allowed me. somethin to work. on long enough something not set

in. the market and lead to problems with moss and that's what up to now maybe not maybe not maybe sure that's. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. this is what. three of the people. all.

half a century may have passed since the brutality of the vietnam war yet there are as many unanswered questions about the conflict as there are tombstones in arlington cemetery from allegations that the cia's air america led the charge and drug smuggling under the cover of the vietnam and a war and a war unless the white house juggling act that sought to balance strategic combat decisions with political calculations back at home the war has left an ocean of questions and its proper putting in doubt almost every single statement our government officials have publicly made on the topic to explore these questions and how many of our domestic problems are linked to the wars we find ourselves in johnstone was joined earlier by daniel ellsberg the former us military analyst and whistleblower behind the famous pentagon papers here as what he thinks were missing in the debate over vietnam. the fact that we had

a heroin epidemic here when we were fighting a covert war and then an open war in. asia southeast asia later a cocaine epidemic we were fighting covert wars in nicaragua and central america and again the heroin epidemic. going when we are fighting a war in afghanistan which by the way a lot of that heroin as i understand it goes to russia and creates two or. epidemic there of heroin addiction. so the fact is that our cia has as you know and as. historian al mccoy has brought out frequently one of the first to bring that out the cia has backed. drug gangs essentially and facilitated them in many parts of the world as part of their covert operations their clandestine operations which are to be denied and which can't be openly

financed and a lot of that financing comes from allowing or even facilitating drug dealers to run drugs into the u.s. europe and and it turns out now russia but another aspect of course is very significant when left out of the series is the draft resistance i think there's one shot of someone burning a draft card no mention whatever of the people who chose to go to prison nonviolently to send a message to the country that this was wrong that they couldn't participate in it and that it was it was a wrongful war altogether they could have gone to canada or been ceo's or gotten deferments of various kinds over four thousand people went to prison it was example of people like that that i met just on their way to prison that. made me realize that i could do the same that i could do something that would bring the

truth out and send a message to the people of all wrongful this wars if i were willing to go to prison as i was when i when i saw their example they do go into the pentagon papers to some degree but. they don't at all bring out what induced me to do that without draft resisters no pentagon papers it wouldn't have occurred to me to do that and for whatever good that did do and that's another story the people who chose to go to prison were part of that story. you know but even before you decided to divulge the pentagon papers you had a you had come to a place of realizing that the war itself was the wrong war you must have been disenchanted what was that point for you what was your breaking point to realize this is just the wrong effort wrong place completely futile on america's part well there was stages of that some of that is clear in the film not including to meet

not related to me but to the marines and the others realizing that this was a stalemated war that it was not achieving any progress in the to continue it was a quote waste of lives on both sides really that it shouldn't be continued and as somebody who was in vietnam and who used my former marine experience as a former marine company rifle company commander i walked with troops as a civilian and did experience combat a good deal and saw that war up close so i got that impression which was very widely shared inside the government and by the troops and officers what did you do about that though is another question i worked on the inside for a couple of years trying to and induce them to get a negotiated outcome solution or to extricate ourselves but in sixty nine i read the earliest parts of the pentagon papers and it came through much more clearly than it does in the film that the united states had no business killing any

vietnamese from the very beginning or supporting the french obviously from forty five and forty six on and all the more from one nine hundred fifty on that was not a noble cause it wasn't even a just cause it was criminal actually in terms of american ideals and american values of self-determination that meant to me that all that killing i've described and there were some three million vietnamese who died in that war that all of it was basically a result. of u.s. policy in the light by the way of a determination by many vietnamese for independence from foreign control and they would have above all like to do that as it was agreed in the geneva accords of one nine hundred fifty four that that happened by election and we knew that an election would result in a government we didn't like namely the ones that had achieved leadership of the nationalist cause by defeating the french on the ground in one nine hundred fifty

four fifty three and fifty four so it would have been a communist led government of unification byelection and his eyes and our pointed out everyone agreed that that would have been an overwhelming victory. the film does not make clear at all that it was u.s. policy not to hold those elections they attributed to president node in the z.m. but we had picked no didn't see him for that purpose and as you mentioned general and stale was an advisor to a cia advisor who advised him on running an election that was a mock election essentially a rigged election against the cold emperor of vietnam and and that in fact lansdale had told him that something like a sixty percent to win was quite adequate for the purpose but z.m. wasn't content with that he had to get something like ninety nine percent and in fact that that made him shoot for something like one hundred four percent of the

voters in saigon area where he was stronger to compensate for less elsewhere the point is it was the us who decided there would be no election for unification the election i've just described was for running the south essentially as a separate country geneva had not contemplated that at all south vietnam was a us creation as a country like panama you might say so when people say it wasn't ours to lose in a certain sense it was ours to lose we'd created south vietnam. as a foreign power that didn't give us a real right to it but it a psychological sense that no president wanted to be accused of having lost south vietnam any more then presidents in the more recent past wanted to moves panama to real independence so or alaska but say so. that point does not

come out in any case i did realize that in sixty nine and that meant to me that all of these three million deaths were unjustified result or a result of an unjustified u.s. policy and unjustified deliberate homicide meant to me murder mass murder and that was something that i couldn't. relate to simply as a bystander or be looked for a graceful face saving way out over a period of years but something i had to try to end as quickly as possible of course i couldn't do that and even the american people can't do that and they didn't prove able for some years through that it went on for years after the pentagon papers came out but i did hope that an informed public would would act to get us out. speaking of the disenchantment one one document that i think should have been addressed in the documentary and it's

not really touched upon by most mainstream historians is national security action memo two six three basically kennedy's proposal in september to bring one thousand visors back in sixty sixty four basically and in spite of the five to drawdown the commitment to vietnam this is a sea change as far as what could have been it had kennedy lived but doesn't get into that do you think that a lot of people dismissed do six three and seven two six three but don't you think that as a very important document for historical analysis yes and no let me move beyond that for a moment i do believe that i was as mcnamara said i think it was right about this that kennedy intended to get out in sixty five after the election he might or might not to reduce troops and continue to reduce troops in sixty four before the election i don't believe he intended to or would have gotten out before the

election and expose himself to charges from. goldwater that he had lost vietnam he wasn't prepared to do that so it's not to his credit that he chose to prolong the war through the election and of course he didn't survive the you didn't live that long and he was succeeded by somebody who was determined not to lose the war in the sixty five or ever and then by another president nixon who felt the same way i do think that of kennedy had lived it was his intention to get out and this is brother told me. no one could say exactly what he would have done had he lived that's what bobby said to me but he said i know what he intended to do and that was to get the combat troops and to end our involvement actually after the election he was the only president. chain of succession after the second rule or who even entertain such a thought and who intended to act on it and i think it would have made great

difference if he had lived likewise and actually i believe that humphrey secretly intended to get out so there's a lot of evidence for that not particularly interested in the in the film and his loss of nixon i think kept the war from being ended in sixty nine. while it's very important for us all to take in a much closer look at how we have the world around us objectifies women and men sometimes the knee jerks a little too fast this happened recently when the pick up for vets and award winning charity planned a visit to this new city south dakota v.a. hospital the group has published a yearly calendar featuring female military veterans dressed in one thousand sorties era clothing in the incredibly innocent pent up style a style that is a very large part of world war two military culture was even used to recruit posters at the time the board of the sioux city facility initially claimed that the calendar and the women's clothing might contribute to the disrespect of women

veterans in their roles as equals and perpetuate objectification of women in general now collectively the women of this year's pent up for vets calendar have served one hundred forty five years in military service they have traveled to every state in the country to spend time with a veteran stuck in hospitals and nursing homes what they are not doing is degrading themselves or weapon donning a retro hairstyle and dress doesn't the process women but assuming a dress makes these women and their work inappropriate and offensive to women is actually some pretty patronizing nonsense so here are some of that are ins and civilians who make up pick ups for about our reality every year bringing joy and financial assistance to their fellow that we salute you we most definitely do and gentlemen is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told you're alone. and so it's wall of you i am tired and i'm topical and keep on watching all those hawks out there of a great day and night everybody. we

all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen that was nuclear biological and chemical products the 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 berm 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 pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the waiting in the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger to move using the model is. delayed tonight. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's the law in austin the only show i go out of my way to find generally what it is that. really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight

my president of the world bank so they. really. seriously send us an e-mail. the iraqi army claims it is in full control of. the disputed city. tightens its grip on security following an outlaw independence referendum. on the u.k.'s foreign secretary tax labor party m.p.'s for appearing on this channel calling it scandalous. protests broke out in barcelona over the arrest of two confound leaders accused of organizing the region's independence referendum.

good evening welcome has just turned six o'clock here in moscow you're watching international now our top story this hour the iraqi army says it has taken full control of the city of kirkuk and pushed out kurdish peshmerga fighters it was described as a declaration of war that could a military which found heavy response cool. cool i i. i. know i. know i don't like either one. of the guys. i. called water although he was.

a likable guy but not if you're going out of darker garbanzos you're gonna go sort of hard work out good. luck on i mean an album from the bottom or a blood. god there but no there is there's. how much did that god. would. throw down the block coordinator the book. the iraqi government says the move was to increase security but the oil rich city has been under the control of kurdish forces since twenty fourteen that's when the iraqi army fled the area to escape islamic state if you prefer has more now on high with the war on terror in iraq has turned into a battle for territory gunshots and one of the largest cities in the north of iraq that had nothing to do with terrorists. i mean it's about the terrorists not being there anymore after the kurdish units

also known as push mariga and the iraqi army in cold war largely successful against eisel it is now all about showing who's boss and northern iraq and in particular in kirkuk back in two thousand and fourteen the kurds basically took full control of it while the iraqi army were hopelessly losing the country to islamic state i'm not saying these latest care clashes put iraq on the brink of a new civil war although the general command did call it a declaration of war on the people of kurdistan but here's what the u.s. central command called the takeover of a whole city after a fierce gun battle masses of locals. coalition forces reports of a limited exchange of fire but believing gauge when this morning was a misunderstanding and not deliberate elements at times it's a link up the limits of visibility conditions clearly this is

a difficult time. in the startler is isis so how is that iraq the only. worker denies it but up your own mobilization forces are also about an important role so now the u.s. finds itself in a difficult position this is going to make it very difficult for the trump administration to resolve this issue very quickly across the border in syria similar story the kurdish units have done a great job in taking over land from dies and no matter what the government and damascus has to say they want to keep it period we will never handed over our law is clear the land that runs with the blood of martyrs belongs to the people and we will not handed over to any force the battle against isis is it's not finished it's largely finished and they've been able to come up with a plan the war of words got hotter and hotter and they have to move special

forces but it's oil it's all about oil this is very important for iraq to take a city which they believe is theirs the government and to establish very quickly now that their military is stronger as proven itself against isis has become organized and well received machine that they want to strike while the iron is hot well following that takeover into crude oil prices have climbed to a two week high we discuss the market boost and conflict with international or the qana missed. the immediate impact comes from the clashes in cairo cool so far these clashes have added one to two dollars to the price of. the care cook oil field and care for region is very important for iraq's economy because iraq's economy is dependent. ninety per cent

on oil revenue and the oil fields have been employed using since ninety one to seven and they are continuing to produce oil and they the amount they have been producing already sent than they see the four hundred fifty to five hundred thousand barrels a day so it is almost ten per cent of the oil production. now another new seedling two key members of the catalan independence movement have been detained and questioned on charges of sedition they are accused of playing crucial role to known in organizing catalonians disputed referendum which madrid says was illegal and it's provoked yet more protests in barcelona. i thank thank you. catalan leaders were in

attendance at the latest demonstration holding a minute's silence and support of detained colleagues protests also took place late on monday evening. and. or catalonia as president has slammed to madrid expressing regret that arrests were made for simply organizing peaceful rallies separatist leaders called on the public to remain strong during this difficult period for the region as that but irrelevant we're disappointed with the judge's decision to deprive us of our freedom the sacked isn't aligned with the principles of justice its goal is to frighten and punish us without austins because then despite the times we're living in and the limitless repression of the state to try and stop this democratic wave we're

experiencing in catalonia i want you to be more serious than ever we must become aware of the importance of the historical moment. well here are some more details about the two men who were arrested one of them here is the leader of the cattle and national assembly an organization which aims for regional independence and it does have over eighty thousand members the other here is the president of an organization that promotes cattle and language and also culture and is in favor to of secession meanwhile the editor of wiki leaks has been very critical of the latest arrests juna sanchez described the politicians as the first high level political prisoners held over their referendum is a vocal supporter of cattle and independents political commentator john white told us that he believes madrid has made a very big mistake. after the ugly scenes of violence that we witnessed the whole world witnessed on october the first that the best friend that caught on in the

pain this has is actually the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy and he's a washed any of spanish unity because there's no doubt in my mind to his actions. along with every step of the way of only self to first of all fire the determination of those already supporting cattle on independence but people have added new converts to the cause midst of a horse actions while the media and one with the constitution are sadly in politics in my view because no one in catalonia will accept regardless of where they stand on this question that democratic politicians elected politicians represent and because a lot of regional parliament should be detained on this basis so it's a very very serious escalation and i i contend it is a very very serious mistake on the part of the major government to take this measure well many do you see the latest move as another attempt to block the

independence movement in catalonia now from madrid gave some strong warnings at the beginning of september. i. will responsibly deny democratic values in charge of the castle and governments will be pretty hygienist in this challenge to walk or existence them to cease in the illegal activities they should abandon their objectives.

and i didn't use the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has attacked the labor party and pays for appearing on this channel and even called it a scandal if you study the output of of russia today and indeed if you consider the state of the of the press in russia this at the present it is an absolute it is a russia today it is a scandal it is a scandal that members of the party opposite are continuing to to validate to validate and lead you to meet. that kind of propaganda by going on those programs. so that was a taste there forty said let's get more details now from your smith you see in our london bureau good afternoon to you nora so i mean he wasn't mincing his words was he boris johnson the south. no strong words and repeated use of the word scandal he

was talking on tuesday on the floor of the house of commons asking questions on a variety of topics and he was asked a number of questions on russia and then he brought up this. scandal of. accusing his labor m.p.'s of regularly appearing on the channel saying what a bad thing that was ignoring by the way that members of his own party many many party also regularly appear on this channel has responded to those remarks the editor in chief margarita simonyan called boris's attitude banal saying that he was using his freedom of speech to bully his colleagues for exercising that as that's a pretty awkward conversation it's a normal conversation that boris may be having with his own father because stanley johnson has appeared on this channel on artie's going underground to talk about his anti breck's it book host action returns the aust stanley johnson whether any of

the characters in his book were based on either of his sons heritage i do notice how you take sides in this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the a bully a former mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to the expectations people have of him wowing the crowds where every went he could be serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of character a little. bit where we all will face reality sometimes we have to be we have to be serious well you are right you. know i said absolutely nothing will be that happy but there's a who is this look i'm not saying that that particular character is a million miles away from another member of my family whom you have. mentioned. johnson jr today didn't couldn't find his comments to r.t. he took a russia as a whole in his inimitable fashion. the russians have been up to

all sorts of mischief in many countries but so far we cannot yet ok for any direct russian cyber attacks on this country he might not have a specific instance in mind but johnson has previously hinted at why the russians were so mischievous he said they did it because they could. come up ok to explore that was lower smith for us in the u.k. we can talk more about this tonight with journalist and broadcaster neil clark who i think is on the line for us to their years good afternoon i should say good evening geno what did you make of the comments made today then by boris johnson surprising that he made such a critical assessment of r.t. or not. well i think the biggest scandal in this story is boris johnson and so what he said there's certainly no scandal at all about labor m.p.'s or any other kind of

m.p.'s tories s.n.p. greens you name them going on r t the scandal is that boris johnson the british foreign secretary is joining in in this campaign which is for headed by the times newspaper rupert murdoch and he should be doing this because this is what we're seeing is a and has been going on now for quite some time is a mccarthyite campaign against r.t. in the u.k. it began against r t u k twenty fifteen when r.t. u.k. launched and back then the tactic was to try to get to pressurize of com the media regulated to act against r.t. to take it off air that wasn't successful so the new gambit now is to try to bully members of parliament particularly but once you come on r.t. try to pressurise them not to do so and to try to shame them for doing something which is clearly not wrong so it's a mccarthyite campaign and yet we've got the prudish foreign secretary joining in i think that is the big scandal here andrew year do you think his words carry much weight do you think people will actually listen to what he said. well it's

interesting where they started my call go who is a conservative m.p. very close to rupert murdoch he and the times newspaper he tweeted last week when he was talking about the scandal of labor m.p.'s going on r.t. this would have picked up traction among the neo con twitter the tweeters and blog sites etc and so now we've got the foreign secretary joining in i think that obviously they're hoping that labor m.p.'s who do go on r.t. will kind of coward and kind of start saying no because it's all about this attempt to try to destroy r.t. in the u.k. but whether or not it will succeed i don't think so because r.t. it's got a growing audience share it's the place to be it's the zite guys chinle more and more people are watching it and of course if you are an m.p. you want to get your message out don't you and m.p.'s in a free society a country that's mostly a free society should be able to go whatever channels they want to whether it's

r.t. press t.v. b.b.c. c.n.n. al-jazeera so i hopefully it won't have an impact hopefully m.p.'s will carry on coming on to r.t. year because as i said it's the place to be it's the channel where we see that jeremy corbyn has been what was a lot before i became the labor leader. and actually i think there's a lot of jealousy in these attacks on r.t. two i think that the the rupert murdoch media group jealous that people are tuning in to our team instead of sky and i think that there's a lot of bitter jealousy around here two hundred g.'s think that i'm actually these comments might actually backfire because if you're an m.p. you shouldn't be afraid of what you think of where you plan to say it i mean perhaps more people will hear barbara johnson yes speak now and say will you know i'm sorry but i'm going to say what i think regardless. well absolutely i mean if there's any labor m.p.'s who decide not to go on r.t. because a conservative foreign secretary told them not to worry that he will they really be

labor m.p.'s it's quite ridiculous i think that we are as i said supposed to live in a free society we make a big deal about the free media in britain and i think it's quite quite appalling really that we've got this neo con lobby this this on i called the iraq war cheerleaders who are based in the rupert murdoch media particularly the times newspaper who are now trying to sort of go back to the one nine hundred fifty s. . and pursued this very nasty mccarthy campaign so i think that any m.p.'s who kowtow to this will never and they should carry on coming on channels whatever channels they want to whether it's that we will see it aloud easier or r.t. we should let we should lead bullies police tell us what channels we should watch or what channels we should appear on we are off to war as i said supposed to be in a free society and at the end of the day if if voters don't like the fact that their m.p.'s go on r.t. or go on al-jazeera they could always use other kates when it comes to the election certainly not up for boris johnson to be sticking his orange and castigating other

m.p.'s for what channels they go on this is really quite mccarthyite new look we're going to have to leave it there very nice i told you that was new clark journalist and broadcaster thank you. hugh with r.t. we'll be back after a short break. here's

what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's full on. the only show i go out of my way to talk to you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is going to say we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back now in a few years' time think tim's of certain crimes in london might need to think twice before calling the police that's what the authorities in the capital facing drastic cuts police chief saying they might have to stop investigating so-called low level crimes and see chalk and reports. imagine you get robbed on the street and the

police tells you sorry we will be able to investigated the police here in london seem to have had enough of being stretched to their limits with a force now saying it will have to ignore low level crime the idea is to say four hundred million pounds by twenty twentieth's and ease the burden on the just over thirty thousand police officers in the capital in addition gun crime crimes and sex offenses are up and calls to non non non have risen but some percent all this against the backdrop of the current set of threat and unwavering commitment to keep london and london a safe so without having to balance the books with fewer offices and less money the met police are reassuring the public that the new approach is not going to affect homicide investigations kidnapping sexual offenses hate crime or domestic violence but rather lower level offenses such as shoplifting car crime and criminal damage.

the home office says there's nothing to worry about there is more money and more officers for each londoner than anywhere else in the country and this government will continue to ensure that the metropolitan police have the resources they need to cut crime and keep our community safe but what does the public make of all this is going to encourage that people would commit more low level crimes wouldn't it because if you know that there's no repercussion for your crime. sort of leaves it open ended doesn't it we hear

a lot of things going on in the street and i'm terrified to go outside to be honest with you because you don't want to get involved in something like that so if they're going to start separating that then maybe my cause that night or my neighbor's cause or at night may not be answered in one makes me quite nervous they will start to do something more and more of. these or as a retired police officer i point of. supporting you differentiate between not investigate because as i understand they will go and report the crime but if there's no leads off towards the north think it's reasonable to investigate and start it you're going to artsy. revelations of sexual misconduct by the disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein have shaken the entertainment industry with more and more women coming forward about being abused by powerful executives and russia has not escaped getting drawn into the coverage either the news website foreign policy has written about how russian media has responded saying that are

making light of the situation but unlike other major scandals in the u.s. at least moscow wasn't being directly blamed. the fall out over the weinstein scandal decades of sexual harassment claims women kucing or rape even hollywood a listers angelina jolie leave when it's true i said you know a million times my heart was racing and i was very serious with a hollywood heavyweight in the eye of the storm some political figures have been dragged in as well being a long time during the at the democratic party weinstein has also made payments to the clinton foundation and personally contributed over thirty thousand us dollars to hillary clinton's presidential campaign it's a killer of clinton a while to condemn weinstein but when she did a few days after the scandal broke clinton couldn't resist bringing another person into the equation look we just elected a person who admitted sexual assault to the presidency perhaps the only shock

a hit was that she didn't find a way to mention the russians arguably the hollywood harassment scandal is the only major issue in the u.s. not to be pinned on russia even the american football control the see the n.f.l. players nailing in protest and donald trump lashing out at them for being unpatriotic came down to this hashtag chicken and all. were caught in it well they were chicken of the argument this past weekend and pushing them off of the troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in america the black lives and most of protests also orchestrated by the russians apparently to see division in american society forgetting the actual issue of racism and police brutality at least one of the ads that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black lives matter ad three thousand ads purchased by russian hackers to so

political chaos in the u.s. exploit hot button racial and religious issues russian books were also accused of amplifying the. based on fracking in america and environmental issue that's been running for decades the powers that are looking to to have global policies need someone to blame for for the opposition that they face and they have to deal with the opposition so it's best to call them names and to say that they're just puppets of someone else and the russians provide and easy target just talk about how evil rush is and and how all the opposition to them is a spouse from a bad source and it's just it's a fiction and it's something that they rely upon to so what they have to sell so it will be a surprise to find out that hollywood's most decorated now laid bare have kremlin's hi nicky i'm reporting you watching our table be back with more for you just over

half an. hour. ya'll out here that. it is ok. i. know you said it being but you know i'll just tell you that outside of the night on the. i then got a session on the not that i. buy that it's a system on. a study not i don't listen it's going on more. so it's.

no secret was it you know the multiple injuries among the so the people you. the look of the show's real your mercy on the phone to the book and if you can book a powerful symbol for the society you're welcome to the book in the us and what it might. want to make it of nothing. off allowed me to conduct as you haue money somethin that will save you up. on long enough something not set in. the hamas in the us and then totals look not just that's what up to now maybe i'm betting on that people who are left.

this is because a report wow it's windy on lake michigan and here is chicago were things are happening so max i'm going to talk into this too because it's fluffy and it helps with the audio i think i think does this sound better sound better we're going to cut back and forth between the various. i want to show you a little tweet i saw on twitter from sky news i thought you would get a kick out of this one max teresa mayes spokes man has hinted the prime minister supports stripping harvey weinstein of his c b e following sexual harassment allegations against him so the c.b.e. is the commander of the most excellent order of the british empire so he was

awarded you know it's not a knighthood but it's just below a knighthood which is i think o.b.e. so what do you think about the fact that you know the british monarchy is granting out all sorts of knighthoods and honors to the likes of harvey weinstein before him there was jimmy savile so what do you think of it as well the. titles are handed out by the monarchy to keep the monarchy of the aristocracy in business so i mean this is part of the problem when you have folks in positions of unelected how are dictating social norms so here they have legitimized celebs rapist offering him an official title now should they pull that title back well they get rid of jimmy savile's knighthood i'm not sure if they got rid of it pos. but i thought it was really interesting because the harvey weinstein story is ongoing we have the

district attorney in new york and by the way you know you will hear we are in a city so you'll hear sirens going by arrests for ordinary joe bag and donuts you won't hear any arrests going on for the likes of m.f. global or john corey's zion or any of the high frequency traders in the background you'll hear somebody might litter and they get in trouble they'll get arrested and thrown in guantanamo bay just so you know and you'll hear wind so this is something that has to be told to the audience this is a live backdrop it's not a green screen and it's real just imagine there's a hurricane we're reporting on a hurricane so another story that happened this week while we've been traveling across america traveling across the great plains is just we see has been in the news just we see of course you and i confronted the former attorney general of the united states of america eric holder he told us that you know. he was tough on each s.b.c. because you find them some money are blah blah blah so here's

a just we see in the news however about another market manipulation for which they're being charged it just we see effects executive said i think we got away with that jury hears jurors in the trial of former h.s.b.c. foreign currency exchange executive mark johnson on friday heard nearly twenty recorded phone calls surrounding a three point five billion dollar four x. deal that prosecutors say defrauded oil and gas developer karen energy with johnson saying at one point i think we got away with it the phone recordings max there is no sort of indication that these h.s.b.c. executives when they think what they basically did is they had a client karen energy who had three point five billion dollars in u.s. dollars that needed to be converted into pounds so what the bank did they're alleging in this case and kind of they openly admit it in these audio recordings is

that they front run it that they basically drove sterling up they were trying to make it not too high and then they were court is saying oh my god you job are too high it's going to be too obvious karen energy is going to notice that we've done this anyway they made eight million dollars off this deal their client lost money and now he's suing them or the karen is suing h.s.b.c. right well what about the terms of h.s.b.c. is deferred prosecution agreement they may with eric holder as office during the period in which they were called laundering billions from the sun to lower drug cartel does this violate that deferred prosecution will h.s.b.c. finally be prosecuted how can a bank get a firm prosecution you know there's as we've been saying for a while you know the point of reporting on all this financial crime is that it spills over into the general economy so when you let's say in the. because h.s.b.c. is british company grunfeld tower for example incinerated killed

a bunch of people the people responsible they use the defense of banks use like we don't care you know we're above the law there's no rule of law joe people we don't care and they get away with it just b.c. guys said i think we got away with it they will get away with it there is no rule of law and it trickles down to other aspects of society and you've got total lawlessness and people simply throw up their arms and say well what do you want what i expect you know i'm i've got a title i'm like harvey weinstein i'm an alleged rapist with the u.k. government gives me a title i'm practically a knight you know i'm practically i'm having tea with the duchess of shaul option lost. to shush shush shush are having scones encroachments with you know some other fricken tough i have no law applied to me and of course america did the revolutionary war to get rid of these. you know i my my language of course is now such that i cannot be exactly how i feel so for me it's just

receipt for extruder frank cahill carried out the two point two five billion pound deal and told jurors last week of how he made quote aggressive trees that caused the price of sterling to rise in the lead up to an afternoon benchmarks fix price that cameron had agreed would be the exchange rate price to turn the dollars interest sterling as i'm saying like here is another benchmark this is the benchmark these fix the gold fakes the goal you know all these various is defects libel or rate all of these are fixes that were set in london all of these were. basically used to read the global monetary and financial system as you know every single contract in the world was based on all of these fixes in london and this is one of the fixes that happen so here we have an h.s.b.c. trader who is responsible for this deal he's saying. he did we get an inclusion it's a conspiracy a global conspiracy because it goes on further to note that the jury has also heard

of how johnson and scott enlisted other four x. traders in london and new york to buy sterling ahead of the deal and cashed out at the fixed price the highest price point that day for sterling to u.s. dollar a currency pair known in the four x. industry as cable so member again here we have new york involved in this new york district attorney side vance he said democrat he's a top democrat he's part of the establishment he declined to prosecute harvey weinstein even though he heard the audio recording that the police and try back to new york city the manhattan police provided an audio of of basically harvey weinstein thrusting himself onto it an actress a model and actress and they declined to prosecute here he's going to hear the same audio a crime that was committed with the help apparently and allegedly of a new york trader and will he ever prosecute it's apparently not right well ok so

you have gate keepers ok ok sorry weinstein is a gatekeeper to hollywood so the academy awards the abuse a position allegedly raped a bunch of women groped a bunch of women and was abusive toward many women and in london with the fix the live or effects or any other of these benchmarks that are used to price deals those are effectively gate keeping its operations and situations and the traders who are involved in this fast and this larceny or gatekeepers to the price it was in good keeping to academy award with their gatekeepers to the transaction and they raped they financially raped this customer and h.s.b.c. financially rapes many customers so does j.p. morgan. so there's lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs and what is in the business of making a market or adding liquidity is flame initially raping customers and they do

it on an industrial scale and as a result the economy is suffering and they should be met with the same you know in france when we were in paris there was a concept of financial pedophilia where the traders of being p. and other for pranks there the judiciary came up with an idea that they should be branded and painted in the same way we treat pedophiles that was in france there was a guest we have luke so ca he had been a former j.p. morgan i believe it was a lawyer for them and he came up with the idea that here in the united states we have a first amendment and it's sacrosanct except for in the case of child paedophilia and then how can we make that work with financial news but you know so that standard should be applied to this industry yeah so let's in the last two minutes that we have here i want to turn to the rest of serve because you know hollywood

has also invented this notion of russia gate and this is also part of this story the these sort of hoaxes and conspiracies that then get to basically provide cover for the likes of harvey weinstein by the way there are already people online and democratic twitter who are saying that this is another russia conspiracy is harvey weinstein so here on this story where they allegedly defrauded their own client karen out of some money based on this deal here we have when they were afraid of getting caught because they drove the price of sterling so obvious and sharp right before this fix was about to happen so in that dialogue the audio that the jury heard you hear them say and they said well you know it jumped his conversation with karin he said well you know it jumped a bit sterling who else was buying. karen their client asked

h.s.b.c. and we said the usual russian names other central banks all that sort of stuff johnson said on the call previously in the trial jurors have heard of how scott told a karen executive and his advisor from rothschild that trading by a russian central bank was driving up the price of sterling prosecutors contend there was no such russian and city driving up the dollar is sterling exchange rate it was trading activity of h.s.b.c. traders who were trading on sterling at the three pm fags so. another hoax exposed look i mean people all want to grasp the craven misbehavior of a just b. c. they need to put into their brains the image of harvey weinstein masturbating into a potted plant that was part of the evidence that came out during the harvey weinstein scandal that's just b.c.

and their role of the do sherry's and trusted intermediaries is served by the fact that they're like harvey with the plans that's what you've got to think oh same thing with barclays lloyds. and r.b.s. and they're they're all run by lords and knights and c.b.s. and o.b.e.'s and all these honors conferred on the sort of people who then get to be these honors absolve them and make them more powerful gate keepers i mean gate keepers by the way the original gatekeepers were the feudal sort of lord right and this is what we have in hollywood this is what we have a wall street we've got to go to the second half you know i mean make harvey weinstein the head of raul bank of scotland he'd love it and i'm sure the customers would love it and i'm sure margaret thatcher i mean a truce and they would love it well we got to go to the second half of the way much more coming your way.

in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around quite. perforations from washington to washington controls the media the media. voters elected to run this country business because. 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 noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and chemical products the 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 berm 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 berm pits would really literally send a v.a. broke 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 and. call for help and get the middle finger the movie is to model is. delayed and i hope he does .

again max kaiser here with the kaiser report we are in chicago on lake michigan it's very windy out there american marc bolan mark welcome back good to see again let's talk about the wind for a second what type of wind which is this a normal when it's here october in chicago how would you classify this unpredictable the other day was beautiful weather so cubs game tonight so the hopefully the wind turns and blows out that's always fun to watch oh fantastic all right so last time you were on mark it was oh my gosh years ago during the m.f. global financial crisis and you know we've been covering financial crises for years now that was a seminal moment when jamie diamond decided to subvert all finance laws and securities laws by getting a personal bailout corazon at the time in putting all the other creditors in the back of the boss and of course it was just part and parcel for jamie dimon but since the time this is to

a xtian is gotten in the area of financial crimes an area that you cover as a journalist it's gotten worse right it's certainly an era seen h.s.b.c. admitted the other day that they almost got away with it as a recorded conversation of them saying that so that acknowledges that they had premeditation they knew what they were doing was wrong and they did it anyway i want to focus on this for a second so h.s.b.c. this is a bank that was involved in laundering billions of this and a low a mexican drug cartel that eric holder former attorney general said was too big to prosecute that got representation on the regulatory bodies share in america even though there's a foreign entity it's a british bank it's to subvert american law subvert the american constitution and they're they aren't saying that they almost got away with it admitting guilt and yet still no prosecutions course they got a deferred prosecution. known going to jail no deterrent is that about the size of

it i think you're focusing on the right issues because what's really at stake here is there is no determines there is a great study done city university in london and wales university of behavior after financial ization and you called it accountable and i think that's what we're witnessing right now we're witnessing the seeds that have been sown by a not addressing blocked investigations and blocked prosecutions so in other words there's been no deterrence a topic we've talked about on this show many times a just b.c. clearly committing massive fraud as well as many other banks including j.p. morgan lloyd blankfein over there goldman sachs lloyd's of london other london banks barclays except for and because there's been no deterrence there is now a crime wave in america and it's spreading to other industries so you see it in the pharmaceutical industry the insurance industry the housing industry all industries

now are mimicking wall street and is contributing to a collapse of america. you hate to see that happen but you can document what you're saying so what you're saying is now out of the ballpark of truth and what can be proven. if i were in the pharmaceutical industry and i looked at what the banking industry got away with it would seem natural to me to want the same treatment i give you a quick example in chicago they're trying to court amazon they've had some discussions with amazon and a similar group says that they are not married to chicago so you know you've got i got this corporate identity where people are kind of doing what they want to do and getting away with that without any consequences yeah i think that's people say it's a victimless crime when banks steal money like wells fargo they went into people's accounts and just stole money you know they was no deterrent they don't they never even got censored for this maybe they pay a small fine but again with the jamie dimon and j.p.

morgan case it was just revealed that the money they used if a one of their big fines was used by going in and defrauding mortgage holders again and saw that are. so where is the determined and we're seeing no deterrence the number of fines that the banks have racked up since the two thousand and eight financial crisis has just been absurd so that obviously is not working and they have the source of paying those fines come from recidivist behavior they simply commit the same crimes if i commit a crime and i'm fine for that crime but there's the told not to commit that crime i can just commit that crime again is the case with h.s.b.c. or jamie diamond at j.p. morgan to pay the fine and maybe incur a new fine but it just encourages me again to commit the same fraud it's an interesting dichotomy we've got ourselves into and i know people in government who want to address this problem and it's a big problem you know m.f. global to me is the heart of the problem the investigation was documented blocked on when you block investigations i think that is the most devious method of

controlling the justice so that's not going to do that because that's where you where you as a journalist got into that with some. degree of detail the m.f. global block investigation walk us through that ok first off it's you can document it blocked in the public domain terry duffy the head of simeon group acknowledged that it was blocked in congressional testimony. there is congressional testimony acknowledging that the primary suspects were never questioned on the evidence that i delivered i delivered evidence to federal investigators in the case it wasn't targeted necessarily at john corazon it was targeted at someone who had evidence but i was being told i was not they were not allowed to question this person ok so run through the crime again just to refresh people's memory what happened at that level ok i'm going to i'm going to talk about what hasn't ben by and large report ok great a ok so there was a general idea that things were going bad and i'm a global regulators are documented to have told them not to transfer assets out

of m.f. global regulators also called john cores on john course i would not take calls he did not return regulator calls money was illegally transferred regulators have determined. unlawful transfer when he went out or legally there were falsified reports delivered to regulators that hid the asset transfers a so money goes out and in was pretty much of a three isn't crime and if you will if you look and you want to send what happens and some of the compliance departments where a bank transfer went from one j.p. morgan accounts into their proprietary account that's an obvious transfer. the indications are that the j.p. morgan compliance department fly that it was brought to the attention of it's an obvious illegal transfer. ok so you've got the farmer attorney general of america

of course a stand slips a shareholder eric holder who said that these banks are too big to. there are to interpol to the financial system so he gave a green light to fraud i mean here in chicago with the bone it's a response to the al capone reign of terror and gangsterism in the thirty's from the federal government was to say well he's too big to prosecute we don't want to protect the suitable the economy i mean a measure of almost bootlegging was shut down what would happen to chicago economy will just make a president that states will just elevate him to the highest standards of office and make him the attorney general in the story of america be quite different i'm very concerned at this point that if you let this criminality spread to other part the economy like you're saying the pharmaceutical industry if there's no accountability and the pharmaceutical industry now the biggest cause or second biggest cause of death in america opiate addiction and overdose that's a direct result of there being no deterrence for criminality as we've witnessed in the financial sector is spreading to every part of the economy the economy is collapsing it's going through of like when the wall came down in the soviet union

collapsed alcoholism spiked and the country wanted to freefall here in america the wall of glass steagall has collapsed under clinton opiate addiction skyrocketing and the country's going straight into the garbage pail because there's no attention to the rule of law yes or no. obvious you said a lot but i can speak to as i have examined the trend of blocked federal investigation significantly and i can tell you that and if mobile was unique because john kors time was not economically or systemically important he was a powerful individual and you can document how john corazon evaded regulators he was able to get out of regulation of the national futures association m.f. global also was given granted access to the fed's discount window and if global had no right whatsoever to be given that that privilege but they were granted rights

so john corazon was given a different set of rules. all the way throughout and then the investigation the investigation was documented blocked and then there was a fight that occurred inside of governments to set things straight and you know they're the unsung heroes in my opinion who. i people inside the federal bureau of investigation i know people inside regulators who stood up a give you a funny indications are that there was a point corazon got question this is all sealed of course and but there was a point where a federal investigator went off script these guys are tightly controlled about what they can ask what they can ask but he was unleashed and he put someone in a position of either they're having to tell the truth and admit guilt or lie and that admits that there was a lot now and these are the indications that i have but if you why do

a federal investigator that's a crime here in illinois the former speaker of the house was convicted for a line to a federal investigator now i don't know if that happened for certain because i don't have the documents but i'll tell you if john corazon or any other and the global investigator lied to a federal investigator why aren't they being prosecuted h.s.b.c. those guys on say it made it that they were culpable in massive fraud they said willis got away with it john corazon is not systematically important h.s.b.c. is a bank john cores and has no systemic or economic significance m.f. global was not an economic powerhouse even the corps i don't want to turn in the goldman sachs and he probably had a legitimate shot and he almost did it are almost got past the problems ok so you're saying basically here it's case of trani capitalism where in the case of h.s.b.c. because are signatories to the bank of international settlements and other regulatory

authorities that oversee global finance they are part of protected class of criminal or is karzai is not even part of the pro. the classic criminals he just pulled a few strings and he's a crony asst and a few bribes to payoff is just straight up and down kind of backroom shyster ism on a pretty epic scale where a lot of people got hurt and jamie diamond stinky little paws are all over it well i don't i can't speak to bribes i can't speak to more of a system that provides elites a way of operating in the way of making profit without any accountability and it was bad in two thousand and eleven when i'm a fool who went down and only got worse so right now we're seeing the consequences of not holding elites elite financial interests accountable ok so diamond had a billion dollars at risk at m.f. global he was sort of been in line with the other creditors and his money was yanked ahead of all other creditors died in an act of brazen illegal behavior he

committed a massive crime and he went on to commit other crimes and to pay those fines he committed war crimes so he's a serial fraudster that's undermining as you just pointed out the american economy in a way that no one has been able to do with munitions or arms is much more dangerous than any of those people or any of those threats and it can stay for another segment yes we'll get into some more of this. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max keiser and stacy herbert like to thank our guest mark alone he's a journalist look him up he's good on regis on twitter as kaiser report or you can follow me on my you tube channel max kaiser t.v. a. until next time. it is i would not be here that. much as if.

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