better than food to see people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank so they. really seriously send us an e-mail. the iraqi army claims it is in full control. after kurdish fighters believe that the city. tightens its grip on security. independence referendum. also ahead this hour u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson at the labor party for appearing. by the dozens of his own party members and even. also. yet more protests in barcelona over the arrest of two leaders accused of organizing

the region's independence. just after eleven am in san francisco seven pm in seville on. tuesday october the seventeenth welcome to our two international our top story this hour the iraqi army say it has taken full control of the city of kirkuk. kurdish peshmerga fighters it was described as a declaration of war by the kurdish military which promised a heavy response. no

i. don't. know what i. thought they were. giving me that's been the problem you guys. oh you know. what i'm going to. not it's you're not going to darker. we're going to get more forty dollars. an hour from the. budget the god that people know there's should be others do. not care how much did that god. not i'll bury my. protoboard and i'll block. the book that. the iraqi government say is the move was to quote 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 in the

patrol was more naaman 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 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 the area coalition forces. the limits of the exchange of fire but believe in gauge when. was a misunderstanding and not deliberate elements at times it's a link up until the limits of visibility conditions clearly this is a difficult time for the united states their troops are important planners in the startler is isis so has the rocket only and although the us does not work or denies it but 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 die 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 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 has proven itself against isis has become organized and well agrees to machine that they want to strike while the iron is hot or following the takeover incur crude oil prices rose to a two week high we discuss the market boost and conflict with international oil economist mom to sell me. the immediate impact comes from the clashes in cairo

cool so far these clashes have added one to two delegates to the price of. the care cook oil field and chemical region is very important for iraq's economy because iraq's economy is dependent. ninety per cent on oil revenues and the kind of cool all you'd feel have be employed using since nine twenty 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. all in production. and we also discussed the tensions between iraq and the kurds with a former kurdish fighter and a member of the baghdad province security council this is what they told us the

united nations security council issued their rejection to the referendum the americans were very clear the regional countries were very clear and rejecting the referendum and reaffirming the unity of the state of iraq and rejecting any split or any change in the walk in. for me this is more it's not so much what the the international community thinks this is about it's the democracy at the end of the day josh invaded it's the iraq army they run they couldn't protect they couldn't protect. the people of her cook should be allayed there say there is no problem with the kurds there is a problem with a political party a separatist a person who is massoud barzani most of the kurdish part nomic. nationalists they

both agree that they should always be part of the state of iraq but it is only muscled bodies on the end his party that believes in the separate states or believes in creating this type of tension this while we are still in a war with. kurdistan as peter havey place in the fight against isis so i think this was the right wing jew who gets no two ways about it because they were the ones that felix while the iraqi army run. kurdish forces in syria have delivered a major blow to islamic state reports suggest eisel has been defeated in its former so named caliphate capital iraq.

i. know. the american box syrian democratic forces who are also fighting the terrorists there. is fully under their control however the us led coalition is less optimistic about the situation saying the city has been ninety percent cleared of ice will they still expect some resistance we are aware of the reports that isis has been defeated in iraq a however clear its operations continue and we expect our syrian democratic force partners to hit pockets of resistance as the final parts of the city is cleared iraq became islamic states the facto capital back in twenty fourteen non was the setting for much of the terrorist propaganda kurdish forces launched their assault on the region this summer but victory has come at a high price. the

u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day and. there is. constant air raids from the coalition so they can shoot civilian casualties are. at large and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians. that. every this happens in on the ground i see all the slaughter in people that have mainly been killed and houses were destroyed. shelling targets

civilians and civilians four story houses full of people all over the neighborhood certainly many have been killed among them my cousin died in iraq in the past strike earlier i spoke to beirut based journalist martin jay he told us there was a long way to go despite being driven ard. certainly there have been significant bombing campaigns which have come with a very high civilian casualty price which have had an impact against isis of but i don't think we can say i mean the war against isis we know it perhaps we can say it's more or less over but extremism no certainly not so enormous are going to rock there are huge questions to deal with in the coming months and years and you have been broken needs to be rebuilt three hundred thousand people need to be put back in their homes you know there's a massive reconstruction job ahead of them and nobody on the international circuit of the e.u. know the americans is is way going to become even suggesting they're going to pay

for it so you know it's another question where does this money come from. the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has attacked the labor party m.p.'s for appearing on our channel going as far as to call it a scandal. do you study the output of russia today and if you consider the state of the of the prince. russia this president it is an absolute it is russia today it is a scandal it is a scoundrel that members of the party your position on continuing to value date to the date moved you to meet. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programmes strong words from boris johnson that his repeated use of the word scandal as he talks about. me on the floor of the house of commons to choose day he talked about labor members of parliament pairing on our team but of course

members of his own party have appeared regularly and frequently and. since the channel began r t has responded to those comments editor in chief margaret says the money on cold johnson's remarks but not all she said that he was using his own freedom of speech to bully his colleagues for exercising that that's of course is a pretty awkward conversation it's an awkward conversation that he may be having with his own father because stanley johnson has appeared himself on r.t. he was on one of our shows going underground talking about his. book and he was asked by host action returns the whether any of the characters in his book were based on either of his sons i do notice how you take sides in this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the a bully had blown dad for mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to the high expectations people have of him wowing the crowds wherever he went he could be

serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of london character a little. bit where we all will face reality sometimes we have to be we have to be serious well you are right. now. i said absolutely nothing boris 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 today that he didn't confine 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 can hear a pin for any direct russian cyber attacks on this country so he doesn't have a specific in mind but boris johnson has in the past hinted at why he thinks russians are so mischievous he says they do it because they kept. managing editor

of duran dot com says that boris johnson's comments about r.t. followed the line of demonizing russian. somehow he thinks it's deplorable to use here the reason favorite words that people go on to o.t. and have reasonable debates about contemporary is used out report which is factual high definition and all the rest of it is somehow frankly i think johnson is just parroting the mainstream media and mainstream politics line that somehow or to use bad not because it's inaccurate because it's not not because it's unfair because it's not but because it has something to do with russia which according to the western elites is somehow over although it's frankly silly to think that in an age where free speech is truly international thanks to modern technology that one can or should strive for reasonable debate free speech and report from one of the most reputable news organizations in the world. for me moet with r.t.

coming under increased pressure from washington as well which is urging our channel to register as a foreign agent in the us russia has promised to retaliate with tit for tat measures if our t. is forced onto the list we spoke with the former russian ambassador to the u.s. on the issue and our teasdale hawkins joins me live now with more on this hi there daniel what did the former ambassador have to say then. will you know it's been a long time now that many analysts have described us russian relations that being at an all time low and it's not only the areas of international diplomacy business economy that are affected by sanctions that has now touched upon the sphere of media as well figures in the u.s. government have repeatedly described international russian media outlets such as. america as being little more effectively than propaganda weaponized bullhorns and

now they've threatened to make such outlets as all to america for example register as you say under the foreign agents act a law of recently passed many many years ago to stop the spread of non-si propaganda very ironic indeed as you say russia has responded in kind saying if these moves are to go ahead if these laws are to be passed the media outlets in russia could very well be targeted in retaliation with similar measures as well and we managed to get a comment today from the former russian ambassador in the u.s. he was a no two minds about the negative effect such moves could have on the media environment let's take a listen. let's first and foremost the injuries for the present for them and the united states because in a small town or in this statistic years and something that is unprecedented and the reason for that is absolutely clear the only reason i can come up with. is that.

our most probably was doing a good job of providing can turn into viewing the united states and for a country like doing those things that have been promoting through the press all his life always for existence is shameful. now returning to diplomatic scandals of course tit for tat expulsions of diplomatic staff in russia and the us have become was the annual event over the last couple of years but most recently we've seen a series of more serious measures namely the seizure of russian diplomatic facilities all over the art of states from new york city to washington d.c. and some are cisco as well really topping the stakes in what was already a heated situation managed to get mr hughes likes opinion on that as well. it's unacceptable. and certainly is shameful not the shameful. action by the united states because it's own property it's our diplomatic property so seizing go to the

united states has violated it is so number to get. and. some hold off for relations between the civilized countries. do nice things that we need to take into account and probably not. a strong words there so i get just like he was himself of course at the center of a scandal when he was repeatedly accused of being a spy and a spy recruiter working for russian intelligence effectively in the united states a fair vengefully because of that pressure leading to his resignation or to him by leaving the post and replaced with a new because of the pressure he did mention at the end of that interview though he himself personally would like nothing more than a return to normal as ation and to perhaps a more mutually respectful dialogue in the long run although because of these measures we've talked about earlier just

a minute ago how realistic those wishes are really remains to be seen. bring us right up to date from sortie thank you very much. to key members of the cattle on independence and. been detained and questioned all charges to dish and on your screen is live pictures from barcelona where there is a silent protest in support of the politicians accused of playing crucial rules in organizing the disputed referendum which madrid say was a sizable crowd there as well holding lights off into the air and it seems to be getting bigger as the evening progressed people perhaps coming back from work and joining it in the center of barcelona indeed it's not the first protest to take place today in the council on capital. i have to on leadership were in attendance at

the demonstration here holding a minute of silence also in support of the taint colleagues catalonia as president has slum madrid expressing regret that arrests were made for simply organizing peaceful rallies the separatist leaders called on the public to remain strong during this difficult period for the region. but we're disappointed with the judge's decision to deprive us of our freedom the sacked is a movie line with the principles of justice it's. an punish us. despite the times we're living in 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. ok let's get into all of these developments because i'm joined live by. a former and current fessor after the university of barcelona you're very welcome to the program

. madrid has constantly said that they will not stand by while the country is broken up and so i suppose constant with their stance they've arrested two people believe are trying to do just that do they have a point. well there is a tension between their main issue and right that is recognized for united nations and this punishment that is not the really democratic. war. after the death of. so there's a lot of democrats in spanish and. others on leave who are de facto organized demonstration peaceful demonstration on. the earth now has been president according to this antidemocratic.

of the democratic party. the cattle on government announced today that its president will not clarify whether he has declared independence by madrid's deadline which is thursday of this week is the other response do you think the arrest of those two leaders all. or is he trying to back out of independence. now i think this imprisonment. will push the police. suddenly to men in a lot of other cars i'm a woman to declare that soon as possible the only way to address a real and they will see a show me to cut around all the money and the spanish government is. with the clothes and that by then so that we are international doctor with the same rights with the same personality the spanish follow money otherwise we are only going to

the region. spending of rules. more people is going to the prison or more people would be for secured so in my opinion the qatari government has to decide in the coming times us will not. declare all. that's on them and go forward to do is to this point to these calls to essentially what you're seeing is a fear arrests of the two cats one leaders have really just reaffirmed their regions one for independence before the arrest there's been talk about talks between madrid and barcelona is there any chance of dialogue between spain and catalonia just briefly if you will. i think yes the change is possible but i think after declaring independence

because before we are under this kind of rules that allow the justice and the spanish government to resign. leaders so we need to over this situation and we have to ourselves. in front of the wall as a country. and even an international. date. to create a. we need to do this step although. we appreciate your thoughts this. former m.p. and current professor at the university of barcelona. the classified information suggests the final conclusion of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal was prepared before the investigation concluded former f.b.i.

director james comey his final statement ready and to clinton's use of a private server while she was secretary of state two months before the probe ended in july twenty six let's get more details now from samir account he joins us live from washington with the details hi some euro just expand if you will on what we're learning about all of this. well according to newly released documents f.b.i. director james comey began drafting his statement regarding the clinton e-mail investigation months before his official announcement now the release is titled drafts of director khomeini's july fifth of july fifth two thousand sixteen statement regarding email server investigation which is of course in reference to the press conference in which coney komi announced that the bureau would not recommend any charges now the five page document has a list of almost fifty deleted pages as well as a redacted email thread titled amid a year exam and now the email is marked on classified but the only available

content is a maze to follow up on a redacted e-mail from cole me dated may second and in the e-mail the f.b.i. official says please send me any comments on the statement so we may roll into a master doctor discussion with the director at a future date thanks jim and now with all that being said let's take a moment to review the timeline of the entire investigation overall the investigation was confirmed in august of two thousand and fifteen clinton was questioned on july second two thousand and sixteen on july fifth two thousand sixteen komi announced that the bureau would not recommend charges a day later on july sixth two thousand and sixteen the f.b.i. ruled that no charges would be pressed and in may of two thousand and sixteen two months before the announcement komi prepared his statement now this is all an interesting twist to the infamous clinton scandal where she was accused of using a private e-mail server let's take a look there is no classified materials investigation found that there was

classified information so it was not true. well in short it seems that this mystery is all coming together but one question remains how was komi able to draft a statement well before the investigation had concluded now that's still unclear but i hope we'll find some answers very soon so we're a smear ican live from washington d.c. while we cannot get the expert opinion of charles or teles a political analyst writer charles always welcome to the program what's your take on this latest revelation in the clinton e-mail investigation then. well i think it's a very dangerous set of revelations i mean i would implore people to understand the real issue is not whether or not hillary clinton and others had classified information on this private server the real issue is who allowed hillary clinton was secretary of state and the various cronies associated with her employees at state contractors to operate this private server during her entire tenure and then

to let her and her teams continue to operate and hold all of the contents that were on this server and many many months indeed more than more than one year or close to two years after she had left the post this is akin to deciding that what you're going to do is say take air force two you know after you leave and is used for eighteen months and give it back to the government at the end of the day it's very very damaging information just another intriguing thing as i'm looking through the report charles why would james comey drop the statement and then wait for two months to officially close the probe. there are no good reasons the federal bureau is the federal bureau of investigation it has amazing power particularly against american citizens particular against people with assets to get to the bottom of what really happened not was what was in hillary's book and you know it sure seems to me that it's past time for serious investigators around the world to go back and

there's a long history of james comey going three dating his role in the two thousand and one to two thousand and five investigation of the clinton foundation to ask what he what rod rosenstein what adam mckay what robert smaller and what others what conflicts they may have getting to the bottom of what was really going on with this server with the with the foundation and with a possible operation of a pay to play scandal while hillary was secretary of state i mean this wreaks a lot of questions few answers at the moment charles or tell political analyst on write her thank you this hour. and that's where we have to leave it i'm back in exactly how far is time with more global use they would argue international for programs.

that's kaiser's financial survival they say money the girl is. going to take it easy this is the central plank support dying at the moment i don't call them i don't say stop. greetings and salutation 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 vine the bowl turned into the 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 headline 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 in 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 by impulse and start you know marrying the jonas brothers are much more important or why or why bother reporting that the boondoggle of the f. thirty five was given twenty billion tax dollars worth of obsolete fighter jets when a there's russia meddling in poky money to talk about. but we don't talk about the trivial here so let's roll up our sleeves and get coverage just the real news stories of the day as we continue watching the whole. what would you get the. real thing. at

the bottom. like you know i got. the. welcome one and all the watching the hawks am i robot and on top of the lists. i know right there will be a day no one is talking about no one ever talks of normal you know they'll get lego bored maybe a headline something as big as as big as some bollywood in this and this attack this which is horribly tragic incredibly well has a over the weekend you know less you are really paying attention you would be like oh well actually heart is something happen 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 that have there are more tragic more civilians killed in other places but you know as we've said before if it's not

in a sheet metropolitan city. last year a lot of white people around people just don't pay attention to. the mother of a lot of white people in africa that are already gotten wearing uniforms and that is where this happened you can't be surprised that people are going to die in a place where you're going and 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 that a minute amount to let the american people know where where our soldiers are where . where they're fighting most definitely. they don't they don't. 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 of the waltz of those people and i hope and pray that they can recover from this small is not a bad shape yours but let's talk about that other favorite wonderful wonderful well again that we could be giving them to all 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 that's the country doing things like can help them instead we're putting all this money into ridiculous things like wasting twenty million with a b. twenty billion dollars on after thirty five's 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 of them and six percent of them are useless totally they can't do any of them they're supposed to do so yeah that we use us with about twenty billion dollars of stuff that we haven't credible to they have no they have no 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 enjoy would you like he's twenty billion dollar and search about ways to i would love to hear hundred twenty billion dollars. 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 when 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 i 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 production then distribution it's like day three a business school you might want to try things were different in the private and they say we can only agree that once you do what they have why do they have taxpayer dollars to waste it not held accountable to bed 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 have fed every single kid who goes hungry in this country and somalia

too and some other you know we have some left over for like i don't hear so many times when you were you know i brought up the number seventy five hundred dollars since your birth and the person in the united states who pays taxes since nine eleven what's really interesting though tab 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 use out of our tax money only forty one hundred for diplomacy and seventy five hundred for just you know bridging i don't want to get it i just don't understand that sometimes again i want to ask are we a war like society one point five trillion dollar you know afghanistan iraq and ask . area a 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 that one point five actually jumps up to buy a trillion dollar move like health care and you include things like that the military no one knows when you start including black budgets and cia operations just truly how big that number can be. for nearly

a week flames continue to burn in northern california only were scores dead and thousands were 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 fell to physical injury the fires are hitting california's wine country a major economic engine in the state the hardest actually has 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 case natasha suite has more out of los angeles. and tyrrell you know the largest x. factor of this disaster as you mentioned are those unrelenting when we understand that the winds carried the smoke from five hundred fifty miles all the way to the mexico

border and that's as mota satellite passed over california on friday capturing these images and you can see the thick line 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 mount st helens will not blow up in the seventies or to the satellite images of the boat over the ridges of the fires of burned over two hundred thousand acres leaving california's fire crews essentially exhausted and spread remarkably despite eleven thousand how is the state handling this crisis. well we understand that the state actually release 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 know you have about a hundred thousand people under these evacuation orders forty people that 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 to say. that 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 who was staying with us seven years old my wife and our two part dogs thrown in my car and we backed out and as we backed out the house just went up in flames so we're very fortunate to get out. this is incredible 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. but 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 this 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. while we understand at least fifteen wineries smaller wineries have been destroyed but if you think about it the wineries. in general there 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 you know if you're so much in such a 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 coming up we present the second part of the strong storms interview with program papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg about the flu turned bird documentary

series of the vietnam war stay tuned to watch. 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 of drug smuggling under the cover of the vietnam war and a war unless to a 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 pop 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 part and then an open war in. asia southeast asia later a cocaine epidemic we were fighting covert wars in nicaragua and in 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 to a degree epidemic there of heroin addiction so the fact is that r.c.i. has as you know and its. historian l. 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 that 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 is 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 so-called 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 put 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 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 add 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 have reduced troops and continued 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 and 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

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region's independence referendum these are live pictures now. where a silent protest is taking place. this is our team to national coming live from moscow every hour of the day just after ten pm in the russian capital this tuesday welcome to the program our top story the iraqi army taken full control of the city of. kurdish peshmerga fighters it was described as a declaration of war by the kurdish military which promised to every response.

no idea. but i. know i know i know there were no longer. living with mental problems you can. call border although it was long ago. but i'm going to give up on par for the next year there's not been a darker friends are gonna. be. back on i'm in an hour from the hummer above the gods there but no there's shabby others do you. know. how much did that come. about with lots not all pretty much. protoboard on the block oh and under the books for its part the iraqi government says the move was to quote increase security but the oil rich city has been under the control of kurdish forces since twenty fourth day that's when the iraqi army fled the area to escape islamic state. has more on how the war on terror in iraq has turned into

a bottle first heard three 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 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 iraq. army war 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 nasa's of locals clean the area coalition forces reports of the limits of exchange of fire but believe in 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 die 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. reste machine that they want to strike while the iron is hot following the takeover incur crude oil prices as you can see here rose to a two week high we discuss the market boost un conflict with international oil economist mom to sell in may the immediate impact comes from the clashes in kind of

cool so far these splashes have added one to two delegates to the price of oil in the care of cook or oil field. is very important then forty iraq's economy because iraq's economy is depend them to the huon over nine people per cent on oil revenue and the. fields have be improved using says nineteen twenty seven and they are continuing to produce oil and they the amount they have been producing over recent time they see the four hundred fifty to five hundred thousand barrels a day so it is almost them per cent of all in production but we also discussed the tensions between iraq and the kurds with the former kurdish fighter and

a member of the baghdad province security council this is what they told us. the united nations security council issued a rejection to the referendum the americans were very clear the regional countries were very clear and rejecting the referendum and reaffirming the unity of the state of iraq and rejecting any split or any change in be a walk in. for me this is more. not so much what the international community thinks this is about it's the democracy at the end of the day josh invaded it's the iraq army they run they couldn't protect her cooks they couldn't protect. the people of her cook should be allayed their city there is no problem with the kurds there is a problem with a political party a separatist a person who is messing with barzani and most of the kurdish parties the islamic

and the nationalists they both agree that they should always be part of the state of iraq it is only muscled barzani and his party that believe in a separate state or believe in creating this type of tension of this time while we are still in a war with isis. kurdistan has paid a heavy price in the fight against isis so i think this was the right thing to hold that no two ways about it because they were the ones that force while the iraqi army run. kurdish forces in syria have delivered a major blow to islamic state reports suggest eisel has been defeated in its former so named caliphate capital rocca.

each. on the american bike syrian democratic forces who are also fighting the terrorists there claim is fully under their control but the u.s. led coalition is less optimistic about the situation saying the city has been ninety percent clear devised they still expect some resistance and we are aware of the reports that isis has been defeated in iraq a however clearance operations continue and we expect our syrian democratic force partners to hit pockets of resistance as the final parts of the city is cleared well just a bit of background to this became islamic states the fact a couple back in twenty fourteen was the setting for much of the terrorist propaganda that came out from their kurdish forces launched their assault on the region this summer but victory has come at

a high price. the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. there is. constant air raids from the coalition so all the cash and civilian casualties are. large and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians. that the planes bombed us heavily this happens in downtown around i still

slaughtering people that have mainly been killed and houses were destroyed in a. coalition shelling targets civilians civilians four story houses full of people all over the neighborhood many have been killed among them my cousin died in rocket strike and we took the opportunity to speak to beirut based journalist martin j. he told us iraq are still has a long way to go the spike i saw being driven. certainly there have been significant bombing campaigns which have come with a very high civilian casualty price which have had an impact so i saw but i don't think we can say i mean the war against isis we know it perhaps we can say is more or less over extremism know so you know so you know in syria the way the rocks there are huge questions to deal with in the coming months and years you know to be rebuild trail thousand people need to be put back in their homes you know there's a massive reconstruction job ahead of them and nobody on the international circuit

of the e.u. no. the americans is is we're going to even suggesting they're going to pay you for it so you know it's another question where does this money come from. the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has a labor party m.p.'s for appearing on ur channel going as far as to call it a scandal do you study the output of russia today and indeed if you consider the state of the of the prince in russia this president it is an absolute it is russia today it is a scandal it is a scandal that members of the party or because it continuing to validate the date lead you to meet. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs are strong words from boris johnson that his repeated use of the word scandal as he talks about r.t. in the on the floor of the house of commons on choose day he talked about labor

members of parliament pairing on r t but of course members of his own party have appeared regularly and frequently and. since the channel began r.t. has responded to those comments editor in chief margarita simonyan called johnson's remarks but no all she said that he was using his own freedom of speech to bully his colleagues for exercising that that's of course is a pretty awkward conversation it's an awkward conversation that he may be having with his own father because stanley johnson has appeared himself on r.t. he was on one of our shows going underground talking about his. book and he was asked by host action returns the whether any of the characters in his book were based on either of his sons i do notice how you take sides in this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the a bully had blown the head for mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to

the. people have him wowing the crowds wherever he went he could be serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of london character a little serious to you who is absolutely as it were we all will face that reality sometimes we have to be we have to be serious well you are right until. you know i said absolutely nothing boris will be that happy but there is 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 today that he didn't confine his comments to r.t. he took a russia at the hole in his inimitable fashion the russians have been up to all sorts of mischief in many countries but so far we can hear a pin point any during rush hour attacks on this country so he doesn't have a specific in mind but boris johnson has in the past hinted at why he thinks

russians are so many of us he says they do it because they can we heard from a u.k. independence party m.e.p. david coburn who said boris johnson is inconsistent with his statements on the media boris johnson came out with a lot of nonsense as usual eloquent wind bagheri he said after a break to the b.b.c. we're rapidly and he breaks it down bias he praises the b.b.c. blames the russians only consistent thing about boris is his total inconsistency we have the right to watch as many. many channels as we can and we should be on as many channels as we can we should talk to the public to make up their minds what they believe and while the establishment mr johnson don't seem to want smaller parties who may have something extremely valid to say they don't want us on t.v. r.t. has always been very good at letting small parties like buying be able to speak meanwhile

. on a similar theme with r.t. coming under increased pressure from washington which is urging a channel to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. russia has promised to retaliate with tit for tat measures if he is forced onto the list we spoke with the former russian ambassador to the u.s. on the issue that he will hawkin's tell me more about that earlier. figures in u.s. government have repeatedly described international russian media outlets such as. america as being little more effective than propaganda weaponized bullhorns and now they've threatened to make such outlets says all to america for example register as you say under the foreign agents act a law originally passed many many years ago to stop the spread of non-si propaganda very ironic indeed as you say russia has responded in kind saying if these moves are to go ahead if these laws are to be passed the media outlets in russia could

very well be targeted in retaliation with similar measures as well though we managed to get a comment today from surrogates just like the former russian ambassador in the u.s. he was a no two minds about the negative effect such moves could have on the media environment let's take a listen it's first and foremost the injuries for the present for them and the united states because of a small town or initiative a stairs and something that is unprecedented and the reason for that is absolutely clear and the only reason i can come up with. it is that. our most probably was doing a good job of providing calm turned to viewing the united states and for a country like doing those things that have been promoting through the press all his life always for existence is shameful now returning to diplomatic scandals of course tit for tat expulsions of diplomatic stuff in russia and the u.s. have become a worse than you will a vent over the last couple of years but most recently we've seen

a series of more serious measures namely the seizure of russian diplomatic facilities all over the artist states from new york city to washington d.c. and some are cisco as well really up in the stakes in what was already a heated situation managed to get a mystic is that stupid in on that as well it's unacceptable. and certainly it's shameful not a shameful. action by the united states because it's own property itself diplomatic property so seizing go over to the united states has violated its own preconditions. some hold of. relations between the civilized countries and some face of the niceties that we need to take into account and probably not. a strong word. surrogate just like he was himself of course at the center of a scandal when he was repeatedly accused of being a spy and a spy recruiter working for russian intelligence effectively in the united states

vengefully because of the pressure leading to his resignation all to him by leaving the post and replaced with a new because of the pressure he did mention at the end of that interview though he himself personally would like nothing more than to return to normal as ation and to perhaps a more mutually respectful dialogue in the long run although because of these measures we've talked about earlier just a minute ago how realistic those wishes are really remains to be see. another headline stories now two key members of the cattle on independence movement have been detained and questioned on charges of sedition well on your screens you can also see here live pictures from barcelona where there's a protest in support of the politicians accused of playing a crucial role in organizing this you did referendum which madrid sais was illegal

you can see a lot of people there holding vigil which started to ride twenty minutes ago a lot of people coming after work on the main thoroughfare of barcelona. have a good sizable media presence as well seeing this protest this rally at take place in the center of the capital on capitol. well the president all of the region has slum madrid expressing regret arrests were made for simply organizing peaceful rallies catalan leaders were not attend inside another demonstration earlier in the day holding a minute of silence in support of their colleagues that attain doctor has called on the public to remain strong during this difficult period for the region. as that but we're disappointed with the judge's decision to deprive us of our freedom the sect is a movie line with the principles of justice its goal is to frighten and punish us.

system 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 story. well one person very much supporting the scenes that we're seeing now is julian assange is the wiki leaks founder described the politicians as the first high level political prisoners held over the referendum he is a vocal supporter of the council on independence latest move comes a number attempt to block the independence movement council only after madrid gave some strong warnings at the beginning of september just a reminder these are live pictures from the capital of barcelona demand for a fur of love thousands of people have come out in a silent protest over the two leaders who were arrested yesterday and put in detention by madrid authorities.

i. do about the immunity to the. the cats will be a. challenge to all co-exist. in the illegal activities they should abandon their objectives.

declassified information suggests the final conclusion of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal was prepared before the investigation had concluded former f.b.i. director james comey his final statement ready on clinton's use of a private server while she was secretary of state two months before the probe ended in july twenty sixth smear rick expanded on that earlier. according to newly released documents f.b.i. director james comey began drafting his statement regarding the clinton e-mail investigation months before his official announcement now the release is titled drafts of director komi july fifth two thousand six hundred statement regarding email server investigation the e-mail is marked on classified but the only available content is a may sixteenth follow up on a redacted e-mail from cole me dated may second and in the e-mail the f.b.i. official says please send me any comments on the statement so we may roll into a master dock for discussion with the director at

a future date thanks jim and now with all that being said let's take a moment to review the timeline of the entire investigation well the investigation was confirmed in august of two thousand and fifteen clinton was questioned on july second two thousand and sixteen on july fifth two thousand sixteen komi announced that the bureau would not recommend charges a day later on july sixth two thousand and sixteen the f.b.i. ruled that no charges would be pressed and in may of two thousand and sixteen two months before the announcement komi prepared his statement now this is all an interesting twist to the infamous clinton scandal where she was accused of using a private e-mail server there is no classified materials investigation found that there was classified information so it was not true ensure it seems that this mystery is all coming together but one question remains how was komi able to draft a statement well before the investigation had concluded now that's still unclear but i hope we'll find some answers very soon. but we also spoke to political

analyst and writer charles or tell who surprised clinton was allowed to operate this server both during and after her time in office who allowed hillary clinton wall circuitry of state and the various cronies associated with their employees and state contractors to operate this private server during her entire tenure and then to let her and her team. continue to operate and hold all of the contents that were on this server more than one year close to two years after she left the post it's sure seems to me that it's past time for serious investigators around the world to go back into the long history of james comey to ask what conflicts they may have in getting to the bottom of what was really going on with this server with the clintons with the foundation and with the possible operation of a paid to play scandal while hillary was secretary of state i mean this reeks.

the revelations of sexual misconduct by this grace movie mogul harvey weinstein have shaken the entertainment industry with more and more women coming forward over being abused by powerful executives on this nicki r. and find out russia hasn't escaped being drawn into the scandal. harvey weinstein's spectacular fall from grace seems to be all anyone can talk about and it's far from over more and more victims of alleged sexual harassment by powerful bosses are speaking out by the day 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 called trope 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 is well being a long time don't know the democratic party weinstein also made payments to the

clinton foundation and personally contributions over thirty thousand dollars to hillary clinton's presidential campaign it took hillary a while to condemn weinstein but when she finally did she couldn't resist bringing another person into the equation look we just elected a person who admitted sexual assault to the president hillary clinton they're taking another opportunity to shift the focus to donald trump but perhaps the only shook it was that she didn't find a way to mention the russians but somebody did the news website foreign policy managed to combine the words russia and weinstein in this headline well it wouldn't be the first time the focus in a major scandal has been shifted away from the subject to mosco even the american football control the sea over n.f.l. players kneeling 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 it was chicken and shards of the argument this cash weekend and pushing them off the troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in america the black lives matter protests also orchestrated by the russians apparently to see division in american society forgetting the act. racism and police brutality at least one of the ads that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black live matter ad three thousand ads purchased by russian hackers to so political chaos in the us exploit hot button racial and religious it is russian boats were also accused of amplifying the debate on fracking get america and that's an 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 an easy target just talk about how you will rush isn't and how all the opposition to them is a spouse from a bad source so when there's the next big scandal just find a way to mention and you can then conveniently shift the spotlight. to something a little of different policing in dubai is literally about to take off because these russian hover bikes could soon be used by officers to fight crime.

so that's what the future looks like one of the developers of the high tech crime fighting drone by told us what it feels like to rival. conquered the sky the next step is transporting humans were the pioneers of this was started as a noncommercial project and wanted to encourage people in popular science. that 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. ok that's it for now let's just live your life pictures from one of our headlines stories silent rally in support of two key members of the independence movement were detained and questioned on charges of

sedition by madrid. and barcelona right now. and i'm back in time with more news with our. because of this is because a report wow it's windy on lake michigan and here is chicago where 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 does the 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 the 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 when 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 this alleged rapist offering him an official title now should they pull that title back well what did they get rid of jimmy savile's knighthood. i'm not sure if they got rid of it posthumously but i thought it was really interesting because this 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 of donuts you won't hear any arrests going on for the likes of m.f. global or john korea zion or any of the high frequency traders in the background you'll hear somebody might litter and they'll 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 or blah blah blah so here's 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 dollars for ex deal that prosecutors say defrauded oil

and gas developer cairn energy johnson saying at one point i think we got away with it the phone recordings max there's no sort of indication that these h.s.b.c. executives when they 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 there were court is saying oh my god you two are too high it's going to be too obvious karen energy is going to notice that we've done this anyway they meet 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.'s deferred prosecution agreement they

made with eric holder's office during the period in which they were called laundering billions from the sun a lower drug cartel does 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 u.k. 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 the 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 as a p.c. guy 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 have 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 optional last shot shyer shot shush shush i shot and 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. my language of course is. such that i can't be exactly how i feel so former h.s.b.c. 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 benchmark fix price that cameron had agreed would be the exchange rate price to turn the dollars and just sterling as i'm saying like here is another benchmark this is the benchmark these fix the

gold fix the goal you know all these various is the fix live 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 rig it and 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 sidebands 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 at 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 of power. unli 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 in the case are the weinstein is a gate keeper to hollywood to the academy awards the abuse after edition 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 were gatekeepers to the price it was a gate keeping two academy awards with their gatekeepers to the transaction and they raped they financially raped this customer h.s.b.c. financially rapes many customers so does j.p. morgan so does lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs and what is in the business of making a market or adding liquidity is flame actually 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 the concept of financial pedophilia where the traders of being p. another for an spanx 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 now there was i guess 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 ok 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 the term 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 in the democratic twitter who are saying that this is another russia conspiracy is harvey weinstein so here on this h.s.b.c.

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 h.s.b.c. traders who were trading on sterling at the three pm fags. 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 d.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 but we've got to go to the second half yeah i mean make harvey weinstein the head of raul bank of scotland i'd love it and i'm sure the customers would love it and i'm sure margaret thatcher i mean the truth and they would love it well we've got to go to the second half on the way much more coming your way.

again max kaiser here with the kaiser report we aren't 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 is this a normal wind 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 ation 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 from the center low a mexican drug cartel that eric holder former attorney general said was too big to prosecute that got representation on the regulatory bodies here 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 there they are on tape saying that they almost got away with it and moving guilts 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 leeds 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 topic we've talked about on this show many times they 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 tits arents 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 it's 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 corporates 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 not a target they don't they never even guts 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 to turn to 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 then 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 justices going into that because that's where the 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 it 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 to them and what ok i'm going to talk about what hasn't banned by and large report ok great ok so there was a general idea that things were going bad and i'm

a globe. regulators are documented to have told them not to transfer assets out of my mouth 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 illegally there were falsified reports delivered to regulators that hid the asset transfers a someone who goes out and in was pretty much of a brazen crime and if you will if you look and you understand what happened inside and some of the compliance departments where a bank transfer went from one j.p. morgan account into their proprietary account that's an obvious transfer. the indications are that the j.p. morgan compliance department fly that and 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 prosecute their to interpol to the financial system so he gave a green light to fraud i mean here in chicago with the bond it's a response to 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 the chicago economy will just like a president that states will just elevate him to the highest standards of office or 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.

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 of what i can speak to as i have examined the trend of blocked federal investigation significantly and i can tell you that and if lobel was unique because john corps 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 the flow 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 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 and this is all sealed of course and but it's 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 the having to tell the truth and admit guilt or lie and that admits. there was

a law 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 m. of global investigator lied to a federal investigator why aren't they being prosecuted h.s.b.c. those guys on say admitted 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 it into goldman sachs and he probably had a legitimate shot and he almost did it 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 protected class of 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 eek 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 it's much more dangerous than any of those people or any of those threats can stay for another segment yes it will get into some more of this. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert like to thank our guest mark milan is 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. intellects time by all.

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