no. it isn't just. business because. it's not business it's you it's business like it's never been done. but ima putin says the russia will take action against the u.s. with tit for tat measures if washington moves to restrict russian media. chaos on the london underground strong reactions from public figures including the labor party deputy leader demanding an investigation and even hillary clinton weighing in . spain to revoke catalonia autonomy after the region's leader confirmed that its declaration of independence was suspended not. a controversial russian artist embraced as

a political dissident by france faces arson charges after setting a central bank building on fire in paris. we're going to need to you my name is the harvey this is r.t. and. russia's president vladimir putin has hit back at washington in the recent scandal involving russian media in the u.s. he was speaking at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of sochi let's get more on the story now across in macedonia all consuming in this for is daniel take us through then what the president had to say. well one of the most salient issues covered in a pretty long panel discussion question and answer session around four hours was of course the very salient issue of press freedom and more specifically the issue of

pressure on russian international media outlets such as r.t. in countries such as the u.s. and the u.k. in the form of threats to make r.t. america register under the foreign agents act and in the last hour when boris johnson very recently chastised labor m.p.'s publicly in parliament just for daring to appear on r.t. as guest to interview putin was very clear that any move to restrict press freedom media freedom would be highly damaging to that media environment. what we're seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down. we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets are strong words there from the russian president making it clear ending days of speculation that if

these laws should be passed if this pressure and threats should continue retaliation remeasured can and will be taken also added that u.s. sanctions u.s. actions fraud against russian diplomats and russian diplomatic facilities all over the u.s. was simply the result of a build up a long term build up of problems bilateral issues between the two countries this is what he had to say on that campaign. that isn't so sure it's the u.s. who put up with this some precedent and anti russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this then they unfolded this anti russian hysteria and now any failure will be connected to us. well as you heard in describing the campaign against star to us part of this wider issue of anti russian russophobe his theory that really began in earnest last year with the loss of hillary clinton's election to donald trump and continues now with attempts to connect russia to anything and everything

any controversial issue within the united states it was all negative though vladimir putin did also say he believes the problems between the u.s. and russia are resolvable that's not the end of the matter and that the velo forum for example presents an opportunity to discuss and debate and share ideas about how exactly to go forward in these but relations and try to really go about matters in a constructive dialogue as opposed to ramping up you know rhetoric and threats to both sides and i think stand on your hawkins reporting for us from sochi last month the u.s. justice department demanded r.t. america that's the u.s. space branch of our register itself under the foreign agents act russian authorities claim that plying this act to r.t. will have serious legal consequences and will also compromise the safety of its employees they claim the channel will have to disclose confidential information including an employee list personal data but the deadline given to r.t.

america has actually already passed it remains to be seen what actions will be taken next. it doesn't because the channel is also on the far in britain as well arty's are in the london underground they have seen an angry response from a high ranking labor party m.p. the times newspaper claims that politicians are now demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog of com investigate the campaign. reports on this from london and another case of r t scandalising apart a labor politician here in the u.k. as well as the times newspaper why all due to its ad campaign where we've seen yet another r t bashing piece of pier in the times with a headline quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off common choir and quote note how they're not even saying kremlin backed are kremlin sponsored it's just kremlin t.v. at this point and in this article is the time reports on how the deputy leader of

the labor party has requested that off course which is the u.k.'s broadcast regulator that doesn't even actually deal with advertising issues investigate latest ad campaign on on the london underground which features posters along the lines of missed the train lost a vote blame it on us but it seems that the times weren't amused they called these ads ironic using these quotations even though clearly the ads were in fact intended to be ironic and what's even makes this story even better is that this times article claims that r.t. had denied to comment but in reality it was a little bit of a different story with two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for i want to see what they meet in house. high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority that does not regulate out of two advertising campaign was developed in house by the other team and fully proved by all u.k.

vendors we are glad to say many in the u.k. are engaging with our advertising. understood thanks for the swift response. well lovi asli none of those comments for some reason ended up making it into this article and it's curious that the times reports on the deputy a labor party leader saying that he wants our t. investigated given that jeremy corbyn the late labor party leader himself was a very frequent guest on our t.v. for he became party leader including having endorsed the channel on twitter let's take a look. i am very concerned. increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involve herself in

a civil war. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law now it has to be said that this latest call from a deputy labor party leader to investigate r.t. comes just days after boris johnson who is a conservative m.p. and also of course foreign secretary here in the u.k. went ahead and bashed labor m.p.'s for being too lenient towards r t let's take a look if you study the outputs of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to validate to validate and lead you to make. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs well loved boris johnson's comments of course can also be seen as quite ironic given that his own father had appeared on r t just recently but you know it has to be said that we are seeing all of this reaction and all of this commentary

on r t in less than a week from both the conservative and the labor party and the times newspaper going out and so certainly r.t. has been getting lots of attention here in the u.k. . and it turns out that labor deputy leader tom watson who called for the probe against the r.t.i. ads by the u.k.'s media watchdog has actually been in talks to appear on one of our shows and his former fellow m.p. and host of r.t. sputnik show george galloway revealed tom watson negotiated with me for a long time to come on my r t sure and the only didn't because we fell out over an internal labor party martin namely his leadership of the coup against germany corben so mr watson was more than happy to appear on r t and i have written exchanges to prove it earned while on a visit to britain hillary clinton also jumped on to the r.t. and listing them among the alleged threats coming out of russia maybe you've even

seen the ads in the london underground from one russian state funded propaganda source bragging watch our t.v. and find out that we are planning to hack next mrs clinton has never recovered from the fact that the american voters rejected her and quite right they were to do sort to blame russia to blame paul came on to blame anyone but themselves is of course par for the course in western politicians. spanish government is planning talks on treating article one fifty five on saturday which would revoke catalonians autonomy the statement follows the cantillon latest confirmation in a late letter sent to spain's prime minister on thursday that the region's declaration of independence was not cancelled but suspended this is pension remains in place if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the catalan parliament may go ahead if appropriate with

a formal vote on the declaration of independence. this came after spain had initially demanded canta loney clarify the region's position on independence by monday but that didn't happen the next deadline for the catalan leaders to proclaim whether the region would break away expired today article one fifty five allows the spanish government to act if any autonomous community fails to obey the constitution and the government should ask for the senate's approval and what studies given to do it will then be able to give orders to that particular community but his prime minister is threatening to use the article against the catalan regional government several times. formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has declared the independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into a fresh implement it's not difficult it's just to answer a simple question have you declared the independence of catalonia or not the

referendum on independence was held october first an overwhelming majority of those who cast ballots voted in favor of secession they also saw scenes of violence as police exerted brutal force against the voters and another pro independence rally has been held in central barcelona local journalist carlos sun and dress reports from. around one hundred fifty people here in the heard of arson or not are still holding in front of the government delegation in catalonia who prepares again the policy of my hearing a local man. against. his own member of the pollution. organization that radical. and an organization that has organized out of these money has yet let some parts of these letters i think with the amount of not being . published with the horn. and now and. you can one tell after the referendum. two suicide bombers and

several gunman who killed forty three soldiers and injured nine others in an attack on a military base in afghanistan's kandahar province local journalists blouse i worry as the latest on the attack which was claimed by the taliban extremist group the ministry of defense has issued a statement saying last night around two fifty attackers targeted base in the district of maya one killing at least forty three soldiers wounding six of them are missing and clearly these sort of attacks or a huge blow to the morale of the afghan national security forces if these attacks are only increasing this is the third time this week in which the taliban have used . packing them with explosives and driving them. against major military bases i think what we're seeing is a very deliberate shift of strategy and part of the militants almost for

a year or so now where they're taking the fight to cities in creating another headache another front for the afghan government in its international allies the taliban still controls a large portion of the country despite years of afghan and american military operations to eradicate them the group is actually apparently growing claiming more provinces over the last sixteen years and says the start of this year the taliban has carried out many deadly attacks.

international relations professor jamal wakim believes that with the taliban recovering the u.s. is losing control of the situation in afghanistan. unlike other terrorist groups it was for a time a political party and it was the ruling party in afghanistan that the whole country so i believe that the taliban resurging and they are targeting. the afghani police. are on the authority that was imposed by american occupation and i'm gonna stand this of course undermines american control of this country. a controversial russian artist is facing arson charges in france following his latest and sunday night he set fire to the door of a bank in paris to have lensky was arrested on the spot and placed into a police psychiatric unit and his friends correspondent shot that david has more.

well it was here on sunday night the the performance artist who set fire to this building the bank of france and you might be able to see some of the damage behind me from that incident now he was initially apprehended by the police and later put into the care of a psychiatric unit where they assessed his mental capability on being released from a psychiatric unit he was then arrested and charged by the french base for the damage caused here in the busty to the bank of france now he is a controversial figure not just here in france but also in russia where his performance artist attracted a lot of controversy in the past for example this is a man who cut off part of his ear saying that he was true testing against repressive psychiatry in russia and another time he also said to plays to the front door of the he chew over the federal security service in moscow in november two

thousand and fifteen for which he actually received some time in a psychiatric unit after that now he fled to russia earlier this year claiming that he needed to have political asylum in france because his views were being seen as anti government in russia and if he'd stayed in russia he would have actually faced jail time he was however also facing allegations of sexual assault at the time that he fled to russia now when he claimed a political asylum and he was then granted it here in france many people back to his claim that his views were being seen as anti government and he would have been repressed in russia and put in jail but what is interesting now is he's carrying out the same sort of acts that he did in russia here in france and when you look at the headlines now and how they treating this artist they seeing him as a man who is causing criminal dalip damage so he's gone from being a political dissident to a man who is now facing criminal charges here in his new home country.

of preparing an attack on the scale of nine eleven the u.s. security chief has warned homeland security duke that the threat of terrorism is severe. the terrorist organizations be. are those want to have a big explosion like they did on nine eleven they want to take down an aircraft the intelligence is clear on that. this miracle has been following this story for us he joins us from washington samir and she says the intelligence is that sounds very worrying what's the delay and do you have to say well a senior u.s. security official elaine duke has warned that isis and al qaeda are planning to conduct a terrorist attack the scale of nine eleven to remind you that was the deadliest attack in u.s. history causing over three thousand casualties now do you believe that smaller attacks are being used to keep their members in gauged saying that

a bladed weapon attack causes terror and continues to disrupt the world but that doesn't mean they've given up on a major evasion plot do you didn't actually see any evidence to support these claims but she did use the alleged terror attack to advocate for tough internet controls now this statement came after a meeting with the u.k. home secretary amber right where they discussed the online terror concern and. to give you some context she's previously called for messaging apps like what's up to ditch in corruption which she believes it's terrorists with all that being said obviously the threat of a terror attack requires immediate concern but it's uncertain whether or not the american public will agree to that to give up their civil liberties for the sake of national security especially considering the fact that past administrations have used the terrorist terror attack to justify surveillance so that of course remains

to be seen holding that along from washington d.c. a co-sponsor of a call thank you. a series of anti draft demonstrations by an ultra orthodox jewish group opposed to military service of fifty eight people arrested in israel now they've been protesting against the jailing of two students they've been accused of dodging the mandatory service time one female officer was forced to control an angry crowd by herself i i i i i i i. i. i i i. i i i. i. i. i i i i i. i remembers of the jewish hard line

minority are exempt by law from serving in the israeli army but in september the country supreme court struck down that legislation making it more difficult for the ultra orthodox to evade the draft. hundreds of police have been deployed to the university of florida scampers that's ahead of a rally by white nationalists anti racism protesters are gathering at the site as well that is ours richard spencer one of the organizers of all this far right rally in charlottesville in virginia is expected to speak this thursday the rally in charlottesville that ended with a person dead and nineteen injured florida's governor has already declared a state of emergency ahead of the upcoming protests in florida university where the rallies taking place is planned to spend half a million dollars on increasing curative bus routes have been shut down nearby buildings have been closed counseling is also being offered to those worried by the

rally now almost three thousand people have signed up for an anti spencer event it's been posted on facebook activists have launched the petition to ban the rather that has received several thousand signatures the state itself is on edge about potential violence expected between the two sides and the event is a game raise the issue of deep divisions in american society media in the us and linking the rise of divisions and a disturbing number of hate crimes to donald trump's presidency several help groups have reported a sharp rise in complaints since his inauguration yet in some cases so-called hate crimes of turned out to be due to deliberate provocation because francis santiago explains. seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america i mean it's just pop culture these days to be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that swastikas were spray painted on his home i was horrified i thought to myself what i had to do something crazy like this and

guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities did know that a falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and a muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was physically assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerant act either in person or by e-mail or by thrown we encourage them to report it to law enforcement oh no they all wound up over nothing but another hoax the investigation didn't find any witnesses to the alleged attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails based upon the investigation there is no belief that

hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of ons in muslim threats which he had created himself playing the victim when in the me hind bars and here is one more case for you joshua which call the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi. party i looked like a neo nazi and got stabbed for it luckily i put my hands up to stop it so he only stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua bought a pocket money for the nearby store and accidently stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and reported to the campus of forty i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has

a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes lace and as he says the shoe lace and its match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so they gather there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rise in fake a crimes is that they want to scrap it there's whole they're invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's

a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. like staying with a seal watching on t.v. international don't forget we've got plenty more stories available had to all website. actually as a financial survival guide stacey let's learn about philip let's say i'm not so i get your. response based off the fight well street spot thank you for. the story that's right if you looked at slavery.

on the welcome to will the part of the united states and iran reverted to the head betrayal game of chicken threatening to abandon the nuclear deal and counting on the adversary to be the first to do that while open to still it has been the most typical feature of their relationship over the past four decades can it lead to anything extraordinary this time around well to discuss that i'm now joined by sayed hossein mousavian a former nuclear negotiator for iran and now a nuclear policy specialist at princeton university mr mousavi and it's good to

talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you and you first of all let me congratulate you on the accuracy of your forecasts in an interview earlier this year you predicted that the trumpet ministration would attempt to undermine iran by all means possible without directly with drawing from the nuclear deal and i think that's what what is going on right now the question is why now trump has already certified the iranian compliance twice refusing to do that again is that a sign of him easing into his new job or perhaps on the contrary he him feeling the pressure. during his election campaign he would promise that he would withdraw from the deal he would tear up the deal. after the election as you have seen he has done everything to on their mind and damaged. his decision was fair only to redraw to decertify and to withdraw from

the. press the world the international pressure on he was one reason the second reason many former politicians current politicians congress members. including his national security advisor the security of defense general mathis even the security of a state. they all advised him not to be draw because the international atomic energy agency for two years at least a tire has confirmed iran has fully complied with all its commitments and there is a failure on the uranium side absolutely there is no argument about the fact that

iran is indeed compliance complying with the deal at these dads the russian position but. i think many people in not only in this country but in the european countries as well are analyzing terms behavior from a political point of view what he's really trying to achieve here and he's an outstanding glee unusual person i think it's hard to understand his pattern of thinking would you risk to trying to predict what he's likely to do now that this issue has essentially been handed over to the congress look president trump unfortunately rather than a lawyer himself with the majority of the us. public opinion and us politicians a lot. over the velleman majority of international community unfortunately he has allied himself on levy to three countries which is israel saudi arabia and imrie that's why trump has totally isolated the us on the nuclear deal what he

would do i believe he would continue his most to damage to undo two on their mind a deal to prevent iran from economic benefits of the deal this is number one what he would look number two is he would do his best to bring international con consensus and international unity to far and iran in the region because now there are regional issues big issue the us allies saudi arabia is losing very badly after two years of bombing and killing destroying and killing thousands of people they have created their warst humanitarian crisis in this war and unfortunately the us have been allied with soldier arabia in this

militarists well mr must have been in all fairly is the american support for the saudi campaign in yemen didn't start with president trump present obama was also quite comfortable with that but that leads me to my next question mr trump is explicitly opposed to everything associated with his predecessor president obama and yet this nuclear deal maneuver and the ratcheting up of tensions with iran have some similarities with what obama did on syria when he essentially threw that politically difficult decision to the congress what do you think the congress is going to do now because back on the syrian both it shirk their responsibility do you. it will have the guts to kill the deal now there is a big difference between trump policy and president obama policy president obama was there in gauging iran on the regional issues though even during president trump he was supporting. the rebels in

syria or supporting saudi arabia invasion of your man however. he was after in gauging with iran like inviting iran to come to international negotiations on syria but president trump is total confrontation of all old confrontation with iran in the region do you think the congress is going to support him in this endeavor noid i believe he would weaken the us position in the region more and more by confronting iran in the region because first the world iran is not alone iran russia this syrian government iraq the government has been law they are the most powerful forces fighting isis in the region and that's why they are they are playing a big role in syria or iraq or in the region and the u.s.

coalition has proved to fade for the last five six yeah i'm sorry for interrupting you perhaps too often but again i want to bring you back to the question that i pose do you think the u.s. congress is likely to support. mr trump in his endeavor as you said to raise the stakes and pick up the battle with iran do you think the u.s. congress is going to play along when i said trump because after full confrontation with iran in the region i believe the u.s. congress or the majority of republicans they are in line with trump administration in order to. the iran in the region they have the same alignment it sold the arabia emirate israel therefore i believe the us congress would go as much as they can to bring new sanctions and pressures on iran under the umbrella of regional issue terrorism human rights and destabilizing the region they would find

such a excuses to fight iran in the region i think the us administration trumpet ministration and the congress they are in freule alliance together to fight iran in the region on the regional issues the difference is about whether there's the u.s. should withdraw from j.c. purely or not many in the congress they believe this would totally isolate the us here is there is there is a little bit difference about the nuclear deal now in what way do you thing add the rainy and should respond because we just heard the uranium foreign minister muhammad over that eve saying that the other day that he this is indeed what attack iran is considering at the moment withdrawing from the deal itself do you think the arena's should give it. to charm that easily iranians they have. the deal up to no i believe they would continue to comply iran would keep its

full commit been with the deal as long as the deal is alive if the us is going to withdraw the deal you should be sure this would be a huge damage to the credibility of the deal because many countries in the war they would be afraid to do business with iran if the congress is going to reimpose the nuclear related sanctions therefore practically if if trump redraws practically the nuclear deal would be dead because iran would not be able to benefit from. economic relation between the national community and iran would remain alone on live with the commitments and. limitations on its nuclear program therefore in that case i don't believe iran will. would remain in the deal however what your own should do i think there is

a great sympathy internationally supporting the nuclear deal iran should. shake hands with the international community to support the d. to put pressure on trump administration not to violate the bill because this is not a bilateral this is international deal it has un resolution supporting the based on new and charter all members are. responsible it is mandated for all members to implement the united nations security council resolution therefore it is an obligation for trump administration to implement the deal well mr mousavi and i would agree with you that iran has substantial international support on its side especially coming from the european countries but the europeans are also highly oppressions if of trump they believe him to be capable of reckless act and they would certainly want to prevent that

don't you think that because of that international sympathy that you mentioned the europeans would be much more likely to put pressure not on the americans but on the rainy and accommodate trump simply because they see tax run as the only adult in the room. on the regional issues i think still there is a huge potential for iran and other members of the national community to cooperate look today detroit angle of tory key turkey's member of nato russia and iran they are the most. powerful the most influential international coalition supporting peaceful management for syrian crisis. therefore this is something iran and the international community iran and europeans they can do i believe there are a lot of rules common interest between iran and europe iran russia iran china

fighting isis definitely is one of the most important issues and their war powers are there than the u.s. they recognize on the ground iranians are extremely helpful to support. their integrity and sovereignty of iraq and syrian government. second and preventing the expansion of terrorism to our their original countries is not their point of interest peaceful management of the crisis in the region is another common interest well mr mousavi and we have to take a short break now but we will be back in just a few moments stay tuned.

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welcome back. a former nuclear negotiator for iran and a nuclear policy specialist. mr mousavian the you mentioned before that the europeans see the value in cooperating with iran both economically and security wise and i'm not going to argue about but i wonder if you believe that the europeans have enough at stake to either contradict or openly break trump's policy on iran the french for example they have been investing billions of dollars into the iranian economy do you think they have spent enough money to be on your side when. the push comes to shop i am sure europeans they would continue to

support the nuclear deal because it is initially a european initiative they started nuclear negotiation in two thousand and three with iran it took twelve years until they have reached to a solution therefore europe can show they have played extremely valuable role for peaceful management or one of the most difficult crisis internationally however europeans they are showing sympathy to trum in order to to to discuss the regional issues because they say they are also against the iranian regional behavior but if this is the case if europeans they come to see it with iran to start negotiations with iran on the regional issues they would find iran cooperative like when torture started to negotiate with iran. is cooperating with iran and russia i believe that would be another positive international movement

because then you also would join in the attempts of russia iran turkey to bring a peaceful settlement for the crisis in the region like yemen like iraq like syria however at that point afraid again trump would be in problem because as long as president trump is going to stay with saudi arabia which is the source the main source of funding and supporting the terrorists everyone knows that the source of ideology of all this group isis are law in their book or are on. jeopardy or not they are all coming from wahhabi them reach the motherland the saudi arabia many u.s. officials they have said events from badness regime trump himself before election said saudi arabia is the source number one but he changed his position. after the election because he made a deal for selling three hundred fifty billion dollars arms to saudi arabia that's

why he's trying to be quiet about saudi arabia however if the europeans are going to join iran russia. for such an initiative already experience why triangle of russia towards iran i believe the europeans they would have positive guests to cooperate i think it's pretty clear that europe at this point of time. is acting really carefully so i personally believe that you're being overly optimistic in believing that the european union any countries of the european union would break openly with the united states i think their strategy now is essentially to wait out till the next american president don't you think that your hopes are a little bit misplaced here as far as the europeans are concerned because you just said that the europeans would be in favor of the nuclear deal i'm sure they would be in favor of iran keeping its and of the bargain but i'm not that sure that they

would keep the their own and of the bargain what do you think i've never said europeans will. break with the. alliance between europe and the us is extremely powerful and historical they're not going to break with the u.s. because of iran however. while the europeans are in favor of nuclear the world there is the u.n. security council or the international atomic energy agency is fully satisfied while there are there are members of the international community from nonaligned movement from african union from european union from russia to china everybody is happy with the deal and the compliance of iran therefore i think europeans they are in. position to put pressure on the u.s. congress and the us administration not to break the deal i didn't say europeans

they would break be the us up to now they have been really successful because i believe they have been very influential to convince the us congress not to reimpose their nuclear related sanctions. what i said. they would support the. are you see this opportunity the international community or all last you rupie and raul. a positive impact to try. to break the. dispute between europe and iran you. would come to the regional issues more in this case if europeans are ready to start negotiations with iran they would find iran. positive constructive reaction can i can i ask a specific question on that because i think this is an important point and this is

a point it was also raised by one of your colleagues professor joshua landis a prominent expert on that part of the world from the university of oklahoma here recently abroad then he agrees with your. idea that the main goal of this. time but mr ations new policy on the run is to hobble the iranian economy but he also says that for the first time in almost a century iran iraq syria and lebanon are on friendly terms in part thanks to iran and that in and of itself very deeply at least represents new possibilities for peace and prosperity in the middle east do you personally believe that that chance could be realized and is that something that could perhaps entice the european partners to your look more favorably at the what you call the rhenium behavior in the region. i think even many americans they also understand sixty years

the middle east has been totally dominated by the u.s. and the support. dictators corrupted the regime from shar to mubarak to men. dictators today in the region and they all understand the source of instability in the region. was the us attacking iraq the us attacking libya. the us attacking of coniston the us soldier attacks on your man everybody and many many of the understand even in the us and europe that wars initiated by december seventh i didn't ask you about the american behavior i ask you about the your very me and behavior do you think the iranian behavior could be more productive in their region because the rain and influence the increasing your brain influence is looked at negatively it could be a force for good. what i am saying saying many in the us in europe in the

international community the end wristband the past sixty years of u.s. policy have created such a problems for the middle east and they understand today is at the forefront iran is at the forefront fighting isis and the understand iran is one of the radio various stable powerful countries in the region that are their us allies are there they have collapsed or they are very vulnerable therefore they understand the importance of cooperation with iran in the region and. are completely sure their amiens ruled have open hand. for for cooperating with your all cooperating with russia and turkey to bring peace and stability in the region that's why i am optimistic if europeans are ready to start dialogue original with iran there would be a huge progress now while we are talking about the prospects for peace and stability in the region there is another potentially explosive situation unfolding

in and around the city of kirkuk where the central iraqi government is hoping to regain the control of the city they have been already reports that america for says abandoned the city do you think the deal of work here cork has already. been made behind closed doors or will it still have to be decided on the battlefield i think both i think. battlefield is very important at the same time they are negotiating i believe the iraqi government would be able to manage to cook because and it is the constitution of iraq should be respected by barzani. core they are member of iraq's new constitution breaking iraq a constitution and the international community is fully supporting iraq the constitution except israel israel has been the only country who is supporting the

disintegration of iraq israel is totally isolated. i believe this is going to be perhaps a problem in order to manage the core of the sheetrock in government dispute. more optimistic the integrity of iraq would be preserved and the rocky government would be able to resolve. in the framework of constitution which means the rock to go and rent would have to recognize the. rights for quorums in the core of the stone province of iraq however it is not going to be managed very soon now there is a theory that the united states is deliberately agang at the kurds both in syria ad in iraq to gain control over all of gas fields joshua landis whom i mentioned before road that washington recently warned syrian forces not to come north of the

your freebies bieber even to fight isis specifically for the purpose of denying the assad government the cluster of gas facilities there. apparently the idea the theory here is that they would be americans want to increase the regional library and economic leverage of the kurds as a counterbalance against the iranians and the spreading iranian influence do you think that plan may work could the kurds be an effective counter balancing force against the iranians there are many suspicious is about the theory that iranians are very much suspicious also it is not only some american expertise like what you mentioned from my friend at oklahoma university there are many others are writing and saying about this however this is not a leverage against iran this would be the biggest damage to stability of iraq to integrity of iraq. if if the u.s.

is going to support isis or iraqi. corps to dominate. or oil. sources or iraq there for iraq to go are meant would be completely distracted from the main source of income and this would be the beginning of the total collapse in iraq is everybody would lose it is not only the u.s. therefore i think the u.s. also should be very careful not to weaken in iraq a government iraq really needs a very central powerful government because iraq is fighting with isis because are making a big big mistake raising the election dependence of course the stand during the time which iraq is already occupied by terrorist groups and iraq is at

the forefront fighting isis this is not the time to weaken the central government in baghdad well mr muskerry and unfortunately this is a time to and this. i really appreciate your being here and i'm sorry for interrupting your perhaps way too often but we have a lot of issues to discuss to our viewers please share your comments and twitter facebook and you pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on will to par.

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a central bank building on fire in paris. good evening great to have you with us this hour my name is the larvae you're watching international. first this hour russia's president vladimir putin has hit back at washington in the recent scandal involving russian media in the united states speaking at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of sochi artie's done hawkins was that. one of the most salient topics covered by president putin in what was i believe a record for our panel discussion a question and answer session was the topic of press freedom more specifically the issue of pressure on international russian media outlets such as r.t. in the us and the u.k. for example where in the former there have been threats to make r.t. america register under the foreign agents act and in the last where foreign

secretary boris johnson recently chastised labor m.p.'s in the house of commons simply for daring to appear to be interviewed on this channel that issue was raised by a detour in chief. putin was very clear that any moves to restrict press freedom would certainly have a negative impact on the wider media environment it's just. what we are seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets or this process we're going to start to use part of what he described as a wider anti russian campaign and the russian news theory or in the united states which began in earnest towards the end of last year early this year with the loss of hillary clinton to donald trump to the closed door of president of the united states and continues now to this day with attempts to find

a russian link called russian traces of interference or influence in every single controversial issue in the united states he also added that the u.s. actions against the russian diplomats and russian diplomatic facilities across the united states was the result of a build up of tensions hostility and problems between the two countries. it's the us who put up with some precedent in them to a russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this than there unfolded the anti russian hysteria and now any food your will be connected to us it wasn't all negative however a lot of putin did make clear he does believe that these problems are result of all in the long run and it's for them such as the where we are today that provide an opportunity for discussion debate and a sharing of ideas to come to some sort of consensus about how to move forward with constructive dialogue as opposed to ramping up hostile rhetoric and tensions on both sides last month the us justice department demanded that r.t.

america about the us space branch of r.t. register under the foreign agents act russian authorities claim that applying this act to r.t. will have serious legal consequences and that it would also compromise the safety of employees they claim the channel will have to disclose confidential information including an employee list and personal data but the deadline given to r.t. america that has already passed it remains to be seen what actions if any will be taken next. bringing down kovalchuk now he is a human rights lawyer joining me on the line good to speak to you down we heard president putin saying the media is pushing an anti russia narrative into every negative issue at the moment is exaggerating or would you agree no it's obviously clear i mean you know russia is being blamed from everything from the charlottesville protests to the n.f.l.

kneeling card traverse city. it's really incredible i mean i have not seen anything like this since really the height of the cold war between the u.s. and the soviet union why you do that is it it's easy is it that it serves a purpose all of the above. i think there's a few things going on i think one you have a serious political social and really spiritual crisis in the united states right now that people are very uncomfortable to confront and so they blame other people for our problems and yes russia is always a convenient. scapegoat because as eric hobsbawm the historian said you know the hatred of rushes in the d.n.a. of the american people so it's easy to blame them for trump for racism for police killings or whatever you know because to actually do some soul searching on our own

. i guess is too painful for painful for a lot of people i don't know what the legal situation his here regarding auntie being registered as a foreign agent is that. a legal move to make and i presume of course if they do that to the america it would apply to other international broadcasters based on yes i think what they want to do is to be able to treat it as an international essentially lobbying group rather than a media outlet and so that they can regulate it and frankly restricted a lot more which i find very disturbing you know i remember again during the first cold war the us would always claim a complain that countries were jamming the voice of america right and they said that's not fair they should be able to hear the voice of america well then why can't we hear our tea or sputnik you know.

this is absurd and again it's very impactful on the american people who are going to have less options for news sources but i presume then other channels for example if there's a you know a b.b.c. america office that they would have to register as well as a foreign agent was that not going to be the case. i think that won't be the case i think that they are going to be selective in who they go after and maybe then our t. . will be able to have a first amendment claim here. that they're being in an equal protection claim that somehow they're being singled out but i certainly think they're going after particular media outlets. that give a different view of the world than people get here free speech maybe not quite so free speaking of speeches a lot of people thinking that president putin was going to announce he was going to run for president yet again at didn't happen this surprised you can you can you think why he would delay that i don't know maybe he's thinks there's enough tension

between the u.s. and russia right now and again putin himself is really a lightning rod for all of this anti russia's steria and maybe just doesn't want to give another excuse. for another day or two of the anti russian press downgrade to speak to pre-show. human rights lawyer is my guess. and it's not just in america r.t. is under fire in britain. the channels are diverse in the london underground you may have seen them yourself but they have been met with an angry response from a high ranking labor party the times newspaper two claiming politicians are now demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog vests that the ad campaign these correspondents in london has more than another case of r t scandalising apart a labor politician here in the u.k.

as well as the times newspaper why all due to its ad campaign where we've seen yet another r t bashing piece of pier in the times with a headline quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off common choir and quote note how they're not even saying kremlin back to the kremlin sponsored it's just kremlin t.v. at this point and in this article is the time reports on how the deputy leader of the labor party has requested that off calm which is the u.k.'s broadcast regulator that doesn't even actually deal with advertising issues investigate latest ad campaign on the london underground which features posters along the lines of missed the train lost a vote blame it on us but it seems that the times weren't amused they called these ads ironic using these quotations even though clearly the ads were in fact intended to be ironic and what's even makes this story even better is that this times article claims that r.t. had denied to comment but in reality it was a little bit of

a different story with two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for i want to see what they made in house. high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority that does not regulate out of two advertising campaign was developed in house by the other team and fully proved by all u.k. vendors we are clients the same as. we in the u.k. are engaging with advertising understood thanks for the swift response. well lovi asli none of those comments for some reason ended up making it into this article and it's curious that the times reports on the deputy a labor party leader saying that he wants our tea investigated given that jeremy corbyn the late labor party leader himself was a very frequent guest on our t.v.

before he became party leader including having endorsed the channel on twitter let's take a look. i am very concerned. increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involved selves in a civil war. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law now it has to be said that this latest call from a deputy labor party leader to investigate r.t. comes just days after boris johnson who is a conservative m.p. and also of course foreign secretary here in the u.k. went ahead and bashed labor m.p.'s for being too lenient towards r t let's take a look if you study the output of of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to validate

to validate and lead you to make. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs well loved boris johnson's comments of course can also be seen as quite ironic given that his own father had appeared on r t just recently but you know it has to be said that we are seeing all of this reaction and all of this commentary on our t.v. in less than a week from both the conservative and the labor. party and the times newspaper going out and so certainly r.t. has been getting lots of attention here in the u.k. and it turns out that labor deputy leader tom watson who called for the probe against the r.t.e. ads by u.k.'s media watchdog that he has actually been in talks to appear on one of the channels shows his former fellow m.p. and most of our show george galloway revealed this tom watson negotiated with me for a long time to come on my arty shore and the only didn't because we fell out over

an internal labor party martin namely his leadership of the coup against jeremy corbin so mr watson was more than happy to appear on our t.v. and i have written exchanges to prove it but it looks to me as though there's possibly some internal labor party politics going on in relation to this and tom watson's possibly taking it as an opportunity in order to. marginalize to push back some of the calls in wink wink at a party so i think some of the formation for what you see the tom watson complaint wacom is essentially internal labor party politics but again that needs to be seen in the broader context of a political establishment in the u.k. which is very uneasy about the rise of corbin and is very uneasy about the extent to which channels which are to you are giving air time in a voice. to. call but it's a place of politically driven day. and on

a visit to britain hillary clinton also jumped on the r.t. and listing them among the alleged threats coming from russia. maybe you've even seen the ads in a london underground from one russian state funded propaganda source bragging watch r.t. and find out who we are planning to hack next mrs clinton has never recovered from the fact that the american voters rejected her and quite right they were to do sure to blame russia to blame poor came on to blame anyone but themselves is of course par for the course in western politicians but slogans tend to be pointed and may be quite sharp but that's what slogans of for and again i believe in freedom of speech when i have been on r.t. i get a lot of emails from people whom i've never met but is emailing our t. and say thank you very much we like our tea very much we know watch i'd listen as

indeed in preference to b.b.c. because we think b.b.c. is biased especially since like syria and i know a lot of british people who get in touch with me when i speak in r t really do appreciate your channel. the spanish government is planning talks on triggering article one fifty five on saturday that would revoke catalonians autonomy the statement follows the catalan leaders confirmation that was in a letter sent to spain's prime minister this thursday that the region's declaration of independence wasn't cancelled it was in fact suspended this is pension remains in place if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the catalan parliament may go ahead if appropriate with a formal vote on the declaration of independence now this all came after spain initially demanded counter the only clarify the region's position on independence and do so by monday that didn't happen the next deadline for the country and leader

to proclaim whether the region would break away that expired today. what is article one fifty five what it allows the spanish government to act if any autonomous community fails to abate the constitution the government should ask for the senate's approval once that's given that it can then give orders to that community spain's prime minister threaten to use the article against the catalan regional government several times formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has you cleared the into balance of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into a fresh implement it's not difficult is just to answer a simple question have you declared the independence of catalonia or not. the referendum on independence was held october first an overwhelming majority of those casting ballots voted in favor of secession the day that also saw scenes of violence with police exerting brutal force against voters and another pro independence rally has been held in central barcelona local journalist color sun

and today this was their force around one hundred fifty people here in the heart of arcelor not front of the government delegation in catalonia repairs again the policy of not ever getting along with them on. against. a member of the polish and the organization that radical. and then organization to have organized are you going. to look at some classical. music others would normally have not been so that are going on has invited them on. now and definitely that platinum proposed as the citizens of catalonia one term after the referendum meanwhile the head of the european parliament says that no country in europe would recognize catalan independence that's a literature and culture expert george told us what could lie behind that stance. the european union countries are being very cautious some of them are said to the north keen to record a new democratic republic because of my trigger of secession movement

within the. but there are one or two governments that might be prepared to acknowledge and recognize the existence of. nations have the right to self-determination this is something. democratic politicians should recognize one would rather we will see what happens one as we depended visa for the completely if indeed it is ever offered a complete i think you will be i think that if article one five five history good in the problems will be. will follow suit or the declaration of independence will follow it may have been here before all article one five five is triggered. a controversial russian artist is facing arson charges in france following his

latest stunt on sunday night he set fire to the door of a bank in paris go to the pub linsky was arrested on the spot and then placed into a police psychiatric unit auntie's france correspondent shown to the screen as the details while it was here on sunday night the performance artist set fire to this building the bank of france and you might be able to see some of the damage behind me from that incident now he was initially apprehended by the police and later put into the care of a psychiatric unit where they assessed his mental capability on being released from a psychiatric unit he was then arrested and charged by the french police for the damage caused here in the past the bank of france now he is a controversial figure not just here in france but also in russia where his performance artists. tractates a lot of controversy in the past for example this is a man who cut off part of his aides saying that he was protesting against

repressive psychiatry in russia and another time he also set ablaze to the front door of the hitch over the federal security service in moscow in november two thousand and fifteen for which he actually received some time in a psychiatric unit after that now he fled to russia earlier this year claiming that he needed to have political asylum in france because his views were being seen as anti-government in russia and if he'd stayed in russia he would have actually faced jail time he was however also facing allegations of sexual assault at the time that he fled to russia now when he claimed a political asylum and he was then ranted it here in france many people back to his claim that he's views were being seen as anti government and he would have been repressed in russia and putin jailed but what is interesting now is he's carrying out the same sort of acts that he did in russia here in france and when you look at

the headlines now and how they treating this artist they seeing him as a man who is causing criminal dalip damage so he's gone from being a political dissident to a man who is now facing criminal charges here in his new home country. have been yet more colorful protests in the french capital against president emanuel micron's labor reforms the latest law was drafted in august with people in paris still demanding mccrum backtrack on the. this reform search the big boss is one hundred percent its goal is to make their profits even bigger and to harm the employees. this is a never ending of your games the employees who made this country the worlds. rich's state these employees are now on how free and are on the streets they work all day long in the bosses of the real power sites who live billions using those workers.

but this looks like a catastrophe to me i'm thinking about my children and grandchildren i want everyone to have a proper education to be able to get medical help and to have a job i want the working time to be rigi say that everyone can have a job workers in paris are challenging that new law which threaten certain guarantees on retirement french president responded to earlier demonstrations by saying quote democracy does not happen on the street or the mountain claims the law will give employers more incentives to hire workers if they can fire them without any financial risk the law is set to come into effect in january of next year. hundreds of police have been deployed to the university of florida in the u.s. where they are expecting a mass protest richard spencer an organizer of the far right rally in charlottesville that broke out in violence back in august he's holding a speech at the university right now of the were the were i love you to

her as a her as to whether he was fired we understand quite difficult to speak protesters inside the hall are trying to silence him thank you rally in charlottesville supported by spencer left one person dead and nineteen injured from the head of this latest speech and the possible protest florida's governor declared a state of emergency is that florida university where the rallies occurring designated half a million dollars on increased security bus routes were shut down nearby buildings closed counseling was even offered to those who were worried about the rally almost three thousand people have signed up for an anti spencer event that was posted on facebook activists of loss a petition to ban the rally receiving several thousand signatures the state itself is on edge about potential violence between the two sides. the event is once again raised the issue of deep divisions in american society need in the us a linking the rise of these divisions and

a disturbing number of hate crimes to donald trump's presidency several groups have reported a sharp rise in complaints since his inauguration yet in some cases so-called hate crimes have turned out to be due to deliberate provocation has been girlfriend says santiago explains seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america i mean it's just pop culture these days to be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that's why stickers were spray painted on his home i was horrified i thought to myself well the head could do something crazy like this and guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities didn't know that he falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and in muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was physically

assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerance act either in person or by e-mail or by phone we encourage them to report it to law enforcement but oh no they all wound up over nothing but another hoax the investigation didn't find any witnesses to the us attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails. based upon the investigation there is no belief that hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of unseen muslim threats which he had created himself playing the victim lana me hind bars and here is one more case for you joshua witt called the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi so apparently i look like a neo nazi and got stabbed for it luckily i got my hands up to stop it so he only

stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua bore a pocket money for the nearby store and accidentally stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and reported to the campus authorities i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes lace and as he says the shoe lace and its match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly

one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so they gather there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rise in fake a crimes is that they want to square that there's whole they're invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. you're watching r t to national greatly appreciate your time your company this evening i'll see you with more at the top of them.

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hundreds more leave every day knowing. that i'm a long way from mania. beings. with the country at a crossroads anger of the island is on the rise. i don't know i'm max ties or this is the report here only michigan and chicago will. station. again remember we are in the windy city which apparently was just propaganda it had something to do with the the world was that world's fair sort of thing and the new york observer called this the politicians and the promoters of chicago full of hot air so they

called the windy they were a windy city but that's ironic when ironically during this wind in my face it's just all hot as you know white caps on lake michigan blowing in twenty knots yeah we had to insert a cut of the white caps out there isn't it has moved all the sheep then look at the sheep the white caps on the toll it's very clever we you know it also happens here in chicago people just are was. no no no there's a lot of trading that happens here commodities trading and the volatility index is traded here in chicago and despite the volatility in the weather. it is very good at the volatility index and this is i know something that you as a former options trader knows i know a lot about but i'm going to read the headline first and this is from chad locke

normally here in chicago but he's not here in chicago today so he's not with us on kaiser report but here's a headline volatility nowhere in sight vix posts record low quarter this c b o e volatility index or vix just finished its calmest quarter in his. averaging just ten point nine four over the past three months to gauge has fallen for three consecutive quarters its longest streak of declines since two thousand and eleven according to the journal's market data group the vix uses options prices on the s. and p. five hundred index to produce a measure of expected stock screens over the next month it tends to fall when stocks are rising and vice versa so max a lot of that if you tune in to any cable news if you turn into even the mainstream news what you see is chaos it's as if america is going through the

most chaotic creasy scary time and yet the volatility index is saying this is the the calmest time in u.s. stock market history but it's priced propaganda. it's using prices to give people a false sense of security the volatility is low because corporations are buying back their own stock with free money from the central government essentially plan central planning of the federal reserve bank and as such there is no penalty for making any mistakes of any corporation out there if they make a mistake they get bailed out instantly if they want to manufacture earnings that are higher this quarter of the last quarter they buy back their own stock using free money given to them from the central government so another way to look at this is two ways one would be that the only time we've seen volatility this slow in any major economy would be the soviet union there was very little volatility in the soviet union prices were stable. and then they collapsed. and another time when you

see this type of low volatility is in the more. dead people there's very little volatility going on very little activity happening in the market because people are dead the u.s. economy is dead because competition is dead because free markets are dead because free money is being given to the lords and oligarchs and there is no small to medium enterprise thriving in america to create the jobs and real wages and g.d.p. growth that would pay down the debt and or increase the success and failure of a thriving economy and we see that in the volatility index it's like if you want the hospital and the e.k.g. machine was flat and the nurse said is there great the patient is showing no pulse . fantastic and you know that leaves are dead right the maid no no not this hospital because for every dead person we kill we get

a bill from the government we're just buying back shares in our own hospital and it doesn't matter if everyone's dead we're still making tons of money that's the american economy by the way there's also like a public toilet right here kind of stinks but you might hear some cottaging happening in the background where the hottest thing well just like skip aside out of having just skip over that we're going to go on to with the next bit of this and all the good this is what so the volatility index vix index is trading at all time lows it however is the volume of bets on it has hit it's hitting all time highs there is a hedge fund billionaire at least people suspected guns lock but they he is investing he's buying. he's betting big that volatility is going to increase but the absence of volatility hasn't tapered volatility trading itself even as the gauge capped off its quietest quarter ever last week one trader pushed through one of the biggest

vix bets in history and drove the total number of vix options treated to a new daily high of over two point six million contracts so these contracts all expire by december if the volatility index is not increased to about twenty then this person loses big time on these bets right ok as you pointed out i was a professional optimist trader for many years. oppenheimer paine webber alex brown and also a few things first of all the bet that's being made there on the long side volatility will increase expires in december if the payoff is not forthcoming from . the trader can roll that option forward to a forward months and effectively they would cost them money it's going to cost money to keep rolling this is what now seem to leave would talk about this all the

time the black swan the suit i seem to leave basically his whole. you know great strategy is to play volatility he has straddles and that would profit under volatility situations those straddles you're playing both long and short they cost money you have to keep rolling them in till you have a volatility event and then you get a big payoff the hope is you don't run out of money before there's a huge volatility event so there's traders often there will be a huge volatility event that markets will be volatile soon if they're not going to have to keep ponying up more money another way to look at this which is what i want to get to here the martin gail strategy of investing martindale strategy at the roulette wheel if you keep playing read into all you read pops you know as a winner you just have to make sure you don't run out of money before you lose before red pops up on wall street this is acceptable because they have an unlimited

amount of money at their disposal from the federal reserve bank at zero percent interest rate that's why goldman sachs can report thirty sixty ninety one hundred days of straight profits because they never take risk because they are always have unlimited free money and they can always put on the same strategy again and again and again and again so this trader they know that even if they're underwater come december they have access to unlimited funds i mean they think that at some point there will be a volatility event but my my problem with all this is that this is not available to the average joe you know this is a guy's going to make a billions of dollars on the straight eventually this should be available for everybody i should be able to go to my local bank and say put to straddle on the vix index indefinitely and finance it for free i should be able to do that too right welcome all the excellent i can do that i can mali the central bank as enabling this that's one guys do that you know there's two tier economy in america . right obviously well while this trader they mention is

betting that volatility winning will increase but not too much just up to twenty but others don't. see the calm ending volatility has fallen so low this year that the chicago board up sions exchange the c b o e has had to introduce a new lower strike prices or the level at which contracts can be executed and investors can now wager that the vix could sink as low as nine so again volatility declining down down down all is calm at least on the surface so i want to turn to another headline because this is not a very it's a parabolic line this is looking bad and that is the number of opioid deaths in america because believe it or not twenty sixteen it looks like the official numbers are not out yet but the new york times has looked at the data and it looks like heroin and opioid and drug overdoses even cocaine overdoses are up about

fifteen percent some states like ohio are up as high as twenty five percent. and this is the headline drug deaths in america are rising faster than ever drug overdose deaths in twenty sixteen most likely exceeded fifty nine thousand the largest annual jump ever recorded in the united states according to preliminary data compiled by the new york times the death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis opioid addiction now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fenton oh and similar drugs drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among americans under fifty so i think this ties in well what you were saying earlier about the soviet union was the soviet union collapse once the economic system in which people lived disappeared overnight i think

stephen f. cohen professor of russian history at n.y.u. in princeton said just. when it just disappears the state disappears the economic system disappears. we saw a massive increase in mortality rates due to alcoholism here we see a similar situation the similar sort of spike and if you look at the chart that hopefully is up on screen you see that's a huge mortality incident well francis fukuyama said when the berlin wall came down this is the end of history and what he didn't count on was massive alcohol poisoning in russia and the soviet union that almost wiped out a tire generation in america it's the wall that was the glass steagall that was separating the speck of activity from the banking activities on wall street that was torn down by bill clinton and as a result entered into the era financialization which is now creating a soviet union type playing opiate addiction and to die off

a mass die off in america yeah i mean that chart you see is you know it's flat two thousand it's a number you know from night late ninety's to. two thousand and two thousand and one then the financial collapse happened and this whole plunder started then the plunder happened in the post soviet era as well during the yeltsin era the darks yeltsin era you saw the plunder and and people were just left to their own devices but had to figure out how to operate in than this new system of plunder here in america we have a system of plunder that has happened since the commodity futures modernization act since the glass steagall came down it's been a free for all plunder but people have been just like startled into like waiting for regulators to do something to help them what how do we operate in this new system and they've just been plundered and i think that could be this sort of what you're seeing i don't know i'm not a sociologist but it seems quite remarkable that there seems to be some sort of

correlation there between these events rights of fracking bamma is like the boris yeltsin equivalent somebody who oversaw the rise of the oligarchs on wall street and across the corporate america and the whole generation gang strung out on opiates and a massive die off and then bleeding into trying to trump could possibly be you know . somebody asked somebody has to end it you know because this is intolerable but i think we have to go to the second half yes like radical bamma is the boris yeltsin equivalent anyway they go around the rank don't go away so they're out there.

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need to. be. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm nice guys are going to continue our conversation with marc bolan marc welcome back thank you good to be here we really carved out an excellent space for yourself in the financial journalism been

following you ever since the m.f. global kind of transition from a to a post rules based economy is what we have in america unfortunately today and just to reiterate an important point that a recent investigative piece in the nation magazine found that j.p. morgan had a four billion in fines for mortgage fraud with more mortgage fraud that's how they paid their fine it offered financial relief on mortgages they didn't actually hold . so to pay the fine for the fraud they commit more fraud that's what i've been saying now for five six seven years. and nobody i've been saying this many many times. but nobody seems to really want to take this on board they don't really want to admit that jamie dimon commits fraud and to pay the fine for the fraud he commits more fraud that's a serial fraudster and he's undermining america and he's on par with the opiate overdose addiction problem and deaths but nobody why does he get a pass like this i mean if the devil showed up is it because he is the devil and

people are mesmerized by the devil. i can't speak to that but i can say that you know in a world where the board of directors takes very little action is very slow to act i mean wells fargo how long does it take them to look at a situation and even reprimand the executives were in an environment where wall street wants profits they want continued stock price appreciation you know that better than anyone else jamie dimon has delivered on a relative basis there's analysis that says you could carve up j.p. morgan and it's worth more in parts than it is as a whole but j.p. morgan. dispute that so on the one hand you know investors think jamie dimon has delivered the promise land of the other hand people who are looking at the criminality of the documented criminality and wondering where the board of directors but even paul tudor jones who's got to be one of the red meat

eating carnivores in the hedge fund space capitalism through and through capitalist kind of transformed the hedge fund industry back of the early eighty's one of my personal favorites in the space of walter jones is one as a legend he has even commented that the wealth disparity in america caused by we're civis. serial criminality by the likes of jamie diamond is destroying the country why why is jamie dimon not care that he's killing his country well i think you're raising a great point here and it's really insightful because there are. our a lot of hedge fund managers who look at income inequality who look at the criminality that's taken hold on wall street i've had recorded conversations with senior bank executives who helped me out considerably during our global who are horrid by the criminality so i think the level of dissatisfaction with the criminality that is tolerated throughout the financial system is not just among radicals it is now in

my opinion i've seen the establishment elite sort of make their case that criminality has gone a little too far so at what point is a condo building going to come in on wall street i don't know but i've seen a lot of people ask for this is it like the harvey weinstein situation or area of it alleged serial rapist who's abusing women because he's a gatekeeper to the hollywood industry nobody will tell on him they won't report is alleged raping is that so in the financial industry because jamie dimon such a big player in the industry he's like the harvey weinstein of finance the hedge funds are getting kind of abused in a lot of ways but they don't report on him because he's a gatekeeper so mark. you could draw definitely draw parallels and i think that there is. there is a concern that if you speak out in the financial industry you will not get employed

your employment prospects diminish greatly if you tell the truth well that's going to whistle blowers get penalized to want to go to jail now look at the j.p. morgan whistle blower who blew the whistle on the c.d.o. she couldn't get a job on wall street she you know she had an ivy league education was not like harvey weinstein allegedly raping everybody and it wasn't reported so there are two components to this when i look at the wall street i look at blocked investigations block prosecutions but the power is so significant they can also block public discussion of criminality you know when you can block. discussion and public debates of an important issue and then block the justice system from working why isn't this being addressed well it's true that they block the public domain from discussing these issues by censoring some going on may stream media and openly discussing these topics we talk about them on our team and our see is giving

journalistic truthful analysis of these issues and so we're aided. it's really a shame because the way a democracy is designed to work the media has to bring the truth into the general public that's a lot of ways how policy leaders learn about policy leaders learn about corruption in a lot of cases through the media you can document points where the media has spoken out and then positive reactions have occurred in washington d.c. then of global there are media superstars and very little known journalists both of whom really contributed greatly and when m.f. global customers got their money back you know i think they can bank programs like our capital accounts there are also some major journalist you know a huge list william cohen was talking to the obama administration he ruled in some things the chicago journalist here who's done some things that no one knows about

there are a lot of people in the world of journalism who came to the aid of m.f. global customers and no one knows that that happened right i said for years that j.p. morgan is paying the fines for committing fraud by committing more fraud and now that it's been put in the public record and it's been shown now publicly exactly except that i get nothing but. i'm i'm i don't feel i don't want anyone else with us the troops to see f.t.c. commodity futures trading commission has just reversed course on some obama era regulations regarding high frequency trading tells about it. well i can tell you that the market macon systems are completely different you know you've been inside the markets so you know. the high frequency traders right now there are there is a different standard in order to play that game you have to pay technology fees that are just astronomical so they have created a game we used to be

a system where market makers people like you and i who had knowledge in the financial system we could we could go down to the exchanges we could make markets the exchanges used to be income equalizers there people from the south side of chicago who never would have made six figures go on in the exchange make six figures terry duffy is a great example of a guy who the exchanges have made millions so you can't do that anymore it's all very elite game of high frequency trading pay millions and millions of dollars in order to play in that in that way i love that phrase income equalizer you know when i started last in one thousand eighties it was very much the income equalisation was very much a part of the mix so you had guys coming in to shine boys you know guys from backgrounds working class backgrounds who were shining guys is who got a license that became multimillionaires but it's just not there anymore for this high tech driven high frequency trading and high frequency trading must be different than sticking it's front running but on an extremely rapid pace so it's

not different than me sticking a hose of my neighbors car gas tank in siphoning off money siphoning off gas that's a high frequency trading does business siphoning cash you know they're not making a market you're stealing liquidity you're not adding market making that's a misnomer that's false i hope people don't think that they're adding some attribute to the markets they're stealing and they're stealing in a high frequency way this rapid stealing they've they've made stealing on steroids yes or no. that's a sweeping statement and. i've got to say i mean there are a lot of issues with high frequency trading but all batted around the big issue us i always say that because in two thousand and eight during the crisis where was the liquidity where were the high frequency traders there was complete credit freeze and they had to go to the fed and get twenty trillion dollars if they were doing an honest man's work and honest business they would have stepped in and provided the liquidity and the market making to keep markets functioning but where were they

they were in the back down in the money helping the fed james cramer on c n b c o greg we did a little. the ball did get make money with that free money from the fed. because they're not because it's not honest it's not a sweeping statement as you have characterized it it's fricken honest analysis all those crooks mark. well i'll tell you what i've been involved in the markets i don't want to be on the other side of a market crash a lot of people put their hands in pockets i've seen it happen during market crashes so these are independents firms that are involved in market making and high frequency trading used to be able to set the machines to pull orders when there was potential for a crash to occur in electronic i that's what happened during the two thousand and ten flash crash and then they figured out how to manipulate. you know and that's that's where you get your spoofing and i know from personal experience my patents

all the birds all specialists that number one five zero one seven six is a technology to increase or decrease the amount of balance required to create an uptick or downtick using algorithms now i invented that and i can tell you that j.p. morgan and goldman sachs abuse that pakistan along by cantor fitzgerald to manipulate prices i know that for a fact they manipulate markets because they use my technology and they've made it they use my technology and i talk to somebody from c. and b. c. fast money about this recently to confirm that cantor fitzgerald and others abuse the technology to manipulate. it's those are the facts that were afflicted regulators on that mark. and that answer for the regulars out of a mention another scenario is short selling the banks and the way they are minute there's a huge lawsuit it's got no coverage whatsoever there's a trillion dollar lawsuit pension funds are suing the banks for how they borrow

stock and then allow it for shorts so there are a number of issues and hopefully they get straight now to hope the courts straighten him out and i hope that we as a society can start to look at blocked investigations can look at manipulating prosecutions and in these practices because they're destructive crack was told by short sales or just be a rule book called the top to be the top to the to the rule that you can't short sell you can only short sale on a and uptick. rule and they got rid of that so that opens up abuse and short selling and again the the the repeal glass steagall the top to the high tech rule uptick rule elimination the commodity futures modernization act which. point in history born in my peers brooksley born futures modernization act and just goes downhill from there got to go thanks marc for being on the kaiser report my pleasure and that's going to do it for this

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