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is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. i think tank called european values has released a damning report about this channel and criticized the thousands of people who've appeared as guests the institute which gets funding from the u.s. and other western governments uses lenin's quote courting the guests useful idiots and especially a chicken to discuss the report with my colleague neil harvey it's a bit of a surprise for you of the party bashing continues now in this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a good get themselves this is a report by think tank based in the czech republic called european values report is called the kremlin's platform for useful idiots in the west an overview of artie's editorial strategy and evidence of impact now what this report does is. need we

compile a list of basically all of our t.'s guests because it features thousands of people and it's not just you know a round of list not only are there seven categories in this report dividing our guests into us politicians and political figures british politicians european and other international politicians writers journalists academics and so on so seven categories and if that wasn't enough it also indicates the number of times each guest appeared on r t and links to some of the most relevant episodes it's clear that this particular think tank really worked hard at watching r t here in the u.k. in the states and all around the world he doesn't really mince its words when it comes to our team gets not only is the report dubbed useful idiots but it also calls the guests naive and oblivious to our tease intentions so certainly something that is not being too nice to people who have chosen to come and express their opinion on our network and here is why the report decided to really look into all

this the pitch this of this list is to identify individuals who either underwent a political agenda or indeed explicit support of it and instead names in credibility. and proxy agents of the kremlin is pretty clear we need to start to know the most famous neil and. what. all we need to be ashamed about a missing one the two things what have i done what have you done what have we done wrong well apart from looking at all of our guests of course this wouldn't be a proper think tank report if we didn't actually try to get our tea itself it does say that the goal is to look at the history agenda the evidence of impact of the channel that they describe as pushing program in a gender under the guise of free speech and alternative journalism now not only does this report claim to be debunking certain what it calls. it's about the

channel such as being a reliable news source saying that it's not harmful and also goes into key points such as saying that archie's whole goal is to denigrate the west and our tea is rooted in the denial of truth we can say that some of the sponsors behind this piece is mostly private donors but as well as open society which is obviously a george soros foundation the european parliament the u.s. embassy in the czech republic and we do know that the author has been doing some work with the atlantic council which of course is known for certain anti russia hype so really no surprises there will have to wait and see what kind of reactions we see from all of those thousands of people who have been coming onto our channel to express their views. going underground was given special attention in the reports we almost it's host of should return see what he sort of the useful idiots phrase. amazing that reports like this are actually presumably

being read by politicians and hopefully nor guests who still continue to appear but as regards guests the guests that they mentioned in the delineate in this report i mean does she really think and the politicians here and in the united states have learned are going to think that a young is verified because the former first minister scott alexander the former mayor of london that they're just idiots they useful idiots of course they're not in this incredibly insulting i mean there is no not too cool consistency here and at the moment we're joking about it a little but of course there is a serious side of the british foreign secretary did this week arsk democratically accountable politicians in britain that he should decide which networks are democratically elected politicians should be allowed should be appearing on that one president would be apparently is doing its job according to the regulator here in britain but not according to politicians the clearly do not want certain views

being expressed and given the oxygen of publicity to the british public. and here are some of the other names she might be surprised to see on the useful idiots list senator john mccain a vocal critic of russia is listed among the politicians who have appeared on r.t. and in the celebrity section is spelled director rob reiner he's actually now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia where other politicians on the list include u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as novels in the current american president donald trump even former first lady michelle obama got a mention. well according to the report all of these people appeared in this network show called politicking with larry david the problem is the famous american comedian has never had a show on r.t. politicking has always been hosted by veteran journalist larry king well that wasn't the only mistake either the think time says it took guests names from shows descriptions on our website which apparently led to more confusion for instance

take boris johnson it claims he appeared on artie's news think comedy show this was his appearance but it's always someone with their finger on. the international as its foreign secretary boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia kill us so. these two. purported. well to discuss this report further i'm joined by former am i five officer any think you very much indeed for joining us well your a regular guest on r.t. how do you feel about being described as a useful idiot. i think we should wear it as a badge of honor because it shows that there is a group of people out there who are not afraid to challenge the western consensus perhaps we should start a club i would say they're more seriously that i've been appearing on mainstream

media news outlets for the last twenty years around the planet and my perspective my stance has remained absolutely resolute and absolutely the same i say this have the same perspective same opinions on all sorts of different outlets and it's only when i appear on r.t. that apparently i'm now deemed to be useful idiots and i would also say as well that r.t. is one of the very few t.v. channels that when it invites me to do an interview they do not insist on a pre interview to censor and fetch water i might be about to say many other t.v. channels do because they're scared and they want to make sure that they're in control of what their guests are saying and yet i still appear on many other t.v. channels so perhaps what i'm saying is not being putin's useful idiots perhaps it's just an alternative perspective that people need to hear or based on what you've said it also let's have a look at the reports wording their reports as the guests undermine western democracy and pollute the information space i mean is really what you're up to when you're on air with us. absolutely not i'm trying to put forward my perspective my

opinions based on twenty five years of expertise within certain fields and i feel that i do that professionally and i oversee other news outlets feel i do professionally too because i get reinvited back to all of those too so it's i think just a case of freedom of expression one quote i do want to mention as well in this report they're saying that you know putin's useful idiots this malign influence on western democracies and yet within the same report there is a quote that says attitudinal influence bayati is minimal to modest well they can't have their cake and eat it either party's a huge threat to western democracy or it's minimal a modest exactly i mean seems contradictory let's also look at the bigger picture here r.t. has been threatened with closure in the us as we know british m.p.'s and. the berating by boris johnson ironically is his father's also been on this channel and he's breaking guest for being on this channel what do you think there's so much governmental pressure on r.t. basically right now. i think it's been a theme emerging from last year you know about you know russians hacking western

elections and all that sort of thing and this started with another think tank called the henry jackson society last year releasing a report again called putin's useful idiots now the henry jackson society is a transatlantic think tank founded by some of the most odious. peddlers in the west taking us into illegal wars and all the rest of it and normally they try and stick up as i'm a phobia around the west but actually last year they swerved into looking at rest of phobia and this started a cascade so then we had the proper not list of so-called alternative websites who are peddling russian propaganda that there are alternative western news outlets and they sued the newspaper that revealed this and then we have the cia report that came out in january this year which was supposed to be an amalgam of you know all the american intelligence agencies showing how the russians tried to subvert the american election where in fact most of their i mean it was turned on the on our t.v. it was about seven pages of

a sixteen page report it was ridiculous and of course we have the follow up which is this european values report so it seems to be a trend trying to demonize trying to stigmatize and trying to deal it just mice what is a very successful news channel which gives an outlet to a whole range of people from a whole range of cross the political perspective about potential alternative ways of thinking about what's going on across the world at the moment and finally i mean on that basis well let's look at the think tank itself i mean they report sponsored by among others the u.s. embassy in the czech republic and also we've heard also from other western governments i mean does that expose that the think tank in this report to you to the charge of bias. who can say i mean they're accusing ati of relative subjectivity about truth what is truth but they seem to be applying the same standards to themselves one point i would make is about the also herself monica richter and she ironically took part in an oxford university project

a few years ago which is called the free speech debate and that was a wonderful project to get involved in because it gave platforms to people like me and other experts in various fields around. the rules that can control free speech in the u.k. and we'll give interviews to it so it's ironic that in those days a few years ago she was on the side of free speech and now she seems to be opposing free speech one has to wonder why funding is what the influence is why this think tank in czechoslovakia is now coming up fighting in quite the way it is a moment and age range of twenty questions and it may show former m i five officer thank you once again for your thoughts. or perhaps some just find it hard to leave the past behind seventy years ago so the start of america's so-called anti soviet or anti russian which didn't.

believe. leaked german jerry pournelle thomas of new jersey all one fiery ago possible commoners penetration of a hollywood film industry commander you seek to determine everything for the members or reach the screen with the bursar propaganda. lately. please please. please please. please .

barros the some. believe in the cover of the jackal. which is always found at the trial of anyone who dares to expose individual coming to some to get off the validity of membership or to death it's a different empire max and not very different because what a lot of our partners of a former k.g.b. man and your applauding what i do insist. here prefers to defend the activity of the communist nations welcome visibly attacking the domestic and foreign policy of the united states she may be a problem and i will say if they object they are now carrying out the desires of the ambitions of lattimer putin. are. a bloodless coup engineered by russia with at best the traitorous indifference of the republican party and donald john trump and the military apparatus of this country

is about to be handed over to stop war beholden to sky russian stock. now the spanish cabinet is meeting soon initiate the process of triggering article one five five and suspend catalonians regional autonomy these are the latest pictures from the round table meeting in madrid where catalonia as fate is now being decided in a question of a has been following the crisis gripping spain. the constitutional crisis in spain continues on the situation here and the region of council lonia remains to be quite uncertain the spanish government has given council on leaders up until thursday to back away from proclaiming independence or to be ready to face the possibility of a direct rule coming from a treat and now the spanish government has announced that it is ready to trigger article one fifty five of the country's constitution to suspend its council on

autonomy for glory but if you see a clear and precise response in spanish work out is yes or no and we didn't get that so the requirement that supposed an initial step to begin this procedure in article one hundred fifty five of the constitution has been booted motion article one fifty five has only two short paragraphs and the in one nine hundred seventy eight constitution of the country and it might be applied if a regional government does not comply with the obligations of the constitution now this move should also be approved by the majority of the spanish senate and this article has never been used before and the country's history now old this follows the recent statement made a by the castle and leader who once again confirmed the suspension of the region's independence and we've seen a lot of protests happening here across the region of council and this capital city of barcelona at this past week now tens of thousands of people took to the streets

of the city on tuesday after a court ordered of the detention of two castle and separatist leaders further ask elating the situation and here on plus the consul luna located right and the heart of barcelona we expect to see another mass protest to take place later this saturday more news after this short break. thank you for new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media control over voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done

before. this is i believe the worst crisis in modern american history is the crisis of unfettered capitalism undermining the entire population of the country and we've seen the arab spring we've seen other hot spots in the world and ice and i feel the heat building. welcome back iran has reiterated that it's complying with the new kid deal that donald trump's threatening to scrap earlier russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov weighed in he stressed that international security would be threatened if the u.s.

end of the agreement and the north korean crisis could worsen but she didn't stop it is clear that the failure of the g c p a way iran deal to one of the five plus one members especially one of its most active members essentially the leader of the group would be an alarming signal to the architecture of international security including the settlement of the nuclear issue on the korean peninsula if you want to negotiate with kim jong un and your goal is to avoid war and try to be able to have a diplomatic resolution the worst thing you can do is first threaten to destroy his country and the united nations and secondly screw around with the deal that has already been made because the message is don't make a deal with the united states they won't keep their word. well last week the u.s. president announced he would decertifying the deal that means congress now has sixty days to decide whether it wants to reimpose sanctions upon iran or agree new legislation relating to the accord don trump said he wants his country out of the nuclear agreement even though it's widely acknowledged iran has not violated the

terms we agreed on the fact that iran is instead vocals launched the year pure deal on the nuclear deal the agreement is delivering they are important for compliance technically watching all violations of the nuclear rights i'm all for agreements but that is a bad one they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement they are not living up to the spirit of their agreement. well their own deal was hammered out back in twenty fifteen by the so-called p five plus one group consisting of russia the united states china france germany and iran it followed nine years of intense talks and was hailed as a major breakthrough the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog spoke exclusively to r.t. he told us it's important to preserve the deal. the settlement and deal about the iran was a great achievement and it was achievement in israeli or by the p five in the security council and we have seen that before in the question of the syrian

chemical weapons there was also a settlement and there is also now some sort of agreement on syrian peaceful car outcome of syria between the p five so it's very important to preserve this these these precedents of agreement really between the p five and the security council and if that were to be damaged in the iranian gaze that would be very serious i think for the future authority of the security council. now human rights activists and n.g.o.s are urging the greek or thora t. to improve conditions at their refugee camps as winter approaches there's growing concern that ill prepared asylum seekers may be left unaided to face freezing conditions where last week a five year old girl died from the cold and a lack of medical support at the morea refugee camp on the island of lez boss just hours before her death her parents were reportedly denied extra blankets well like

other refugee camps in greece moria is notorious for its conditions more than fifteen hundred people including children and pregnant women are living there many without any source of heating well in winter temperatures can drop below zero as a result dozens of refugees have died in the last few years the e.u. has pledged to give more than a billion euros to greece by twenty twenty to help it cope with a migrant crisis over a million refugees have reached greece a main entry point for europe since twenty fifteen but as the influx threatens to overstretch the country's resources the response has been questioned. economic challenge to governments which think we simply can't cope with the influx and haven't got the administrative resources talking nice proper relief for refugees a bill proper caps the official accounts of the you has

a whole having not been signed off by the court to board it as that the only county in the last twenty three years we know that the e.u. is very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been true does be true for the market crisis and it's tonight during a migraine crisis in the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. and. a lot of the money is into ability b.-o. prosy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid not renowned for the. put it it misses of efficiency or credibility. well for more on these and all our other stories. i'll be back in just about half an hour with the latest headlines. when i'll grow. the.

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