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in the capsule thanks for joining us this hour. the french president is proposing military action against libya he claims it would help the migrant slave trade. we are proposing to hear from police. military action. this. political transition well human trafficking is indeed a huge problem for northern africa but it's not a new one for years numerous human rights and immigration organizations have been alarming the public they call is and more than slavery and no one argues that this problem should be for the french president and the proposal to try to sold with militarily has come as a surprise to you remember france already was part of

a massive military operation in libya designed to resolve the crisis of two thousand and eleven france played then a very crucial role france was saying you need. to bomb tripoli and france was considering its actions very successful in libya were a member that after the believe we're in the leader moammar gadhafi then the president nicolas sarkozy proclaims officially that now leave is on the way to democracy. thank you. do you know how do you think you're the world you would get rid of a dictator and you would choose freedom the united states is committed to the libyan people you have won your revolution we came we saw very few died. but if we look at the facts and what is really happening right now we leave it on the ground we can say that the truth is for all these years has troubled the region

with a level of violence and distance elicitation just be dramatic. the c's thousand and eleven military operation has ventured to dramatic disability and a rise in the level of violence throughout the country and this is why are so many will not cause proposal to try to want another military a racially levy or maybe our question of whether this time it will actually work to help bring balance back or it will not work. based journalist martin j. believes micro misplaying europe's foreign policy chief taking on too much responsibility madness i think is the wackiest ideas come up with so far in six

months in office i mean he's positioned himself to be a sort of a middle east peace broker or something you can be very much on the international circuit you chosen the middle east. but i think his idea is is just insane i think is he's really trying to be he's actually really trying to take over the job of the e.u. zone from policy for frederica marina because that's really her role so i don't really understand why he's going ahead with this plan he seems to be under a certain amount of pressure to resolve the immigration crisis but you know he along with e.u. leaders are not really looking at the real root cause of the problems it's only in the recent few years since libya has imploded since the disastrous decision but france and britain america to go ahead with the u.n. plan in two thousand and eleven that's made things a lot worse and it's been more than six years now since the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi was deposed and killed following the western incursion into the country we spoke about the current situation in libya with gadhafi is former top

assistant. a billion dollar libyan african investment portfolio he also managed to get a few private funds this is what he told us. for the hardest it's not right to see gadhafi better to see the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the un has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after because after he claimed there were one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him and. an accomplice of the older than i was government official now it was how i dealt with sarkozy as an official the french media pie and other media outlets claimed that some people met with me and then there was

a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. alone. nothing is known about that there are a good half you statement not better believe because after all. a lot of i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie he has taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's. the international federation of journalists has slammed the stripping of r.t. america's press credential is on capitol hill that decision was made on wednesday by a congressional committee that cited the chattels new foreign agent status as the spot early assurances from the state department that no such restrictions would be imposed or here's the letter r.t. america received from congress. the executive committee of the congressional radio

and television correspondents galleries exercised its authority to withdraw all the news credentials of the r.t. network this action was taken in response to the registration of the r.t. network as a foreign agent. when the united states it tells us the register under a foreign agent request impacts or affect the ability of them to. report news and information we just have to register it's a simple as that seems to be the opposite of what heather nauert said because as of the moment we've received this letter which is essentially telling us that our ability to operate as a news agency and function and report on events on capitol hill a vital place in the us political system the legislative branch of the u.s. government that ability is now in question now at the moment we have this letter telling us that we need to turn over our credentials now this comes in the

aftermath of r.t. being pressured and forced to register under the foreign agents registration act now this is a law that was passed in one nine hundred thirty eight to combat the influence of nazi germany and efforts and propaganda efforts by the nazi government back in the one nine hundred thirty s. now it follows months and months of pressure that have been placed on our see recently artie's status in the united states with you tube and their ability to do premium ads and taken away without any real notice twitter has banned advertising by r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. which are jesus' name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move in the champions in their job reporters only know so i repeat of a bill for as this for been through up in this country when you tell americans you can't do some. of the what helmets rescue group use again it was without water to

the swiss press club to cancel a conference critical of the syrian activists the request was rejected by the head of the organization as censorship. if you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members we turn only dissociate ourselves from this event and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which will damage the image of this wrist press club it was very surprising and very disappointing to see the journalist association asking for the kind of censorship that was my first reaction and so i decided to reply writing your letter and asking them to respect the freedom of the speech. situation. has spent time in syria he's researched what helmets on his own as well he's got

some more details on what caused that split between the journalist organizations. so far almost everything you've been told about the white helmets is stuff from their press releases and video productions not from locals or civilians no know from white helmet sponsors and agents that's great and all but let's at least hear from the people they say they're saving shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really to those close to them the last thing they cared about is civilians have to sit and whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels were taken after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and here to us what there were many people buried alive helmets would come to save their own and if they found civilians they might help and they might not oh that's a huge surprise what a shocker the white helmets aren't perfect who would have thought they were just

regular people with their own shortcomings their own agenda just like everyone else so why on earth would reporters without borders want to censor this absolutely obvious fact calling it russian propaganda i think it was the topic which was this disturbing this disguise now having describe. as an independent organisation cannot admit they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to here are the people who are criticizing the why tournaments has it was a taboo to speak about them that's impossible for a serious journalist or simply hardest person to admit such such abuse but it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of the

swiss press that we received. such demons from a journalist association which is supposed to support to to support the press freedom for whatever reason it is taboo no one in the mainstream media or in western governments says anything remotely critical of the white helmets you remember ever hearing anything unflattering. reporters without borders has all but taken sides let's not forget in two thousand and sixteen they named a syrian rebel activist and the journalist of the year is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death a swiss press club has made the point not to judge from me i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am big censorship or deciding you have the right

to speak you have not the right to speak because you are representing the bab the supposed bad part and it is paid off they've received an outpouring of support internationally and they vow to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure i also received many people criticizing russia from garry kasparov for businesses name server who criticize criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to the people who are supporting russia and not criticizing that's the goal of the real person not the politically correct. association a north korean television has been showcasing a powerful new weapon and will have all the news on that and more after

a short break. so many bankers are jumping off buildings and jumping off ears of the world and being crushed by corrupt so max fisher magic you can fish for the bankers i use patented dead get a good look at the bait right here and you can go fish for dead bankers. everything today is about the individual so it's so nice to be a little bit different and it's all about the team and i think it's. it's

a quality that icelandic football players have maybe because we come from an amateur environment so we know that the all the nations have better individuals and more individual qualities than we have so we have to be collectively better than other. swat teams the national korean television has shown the first images of the country's most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of hitting any part of the united states. ok ording to both north and south korea latest missile reached an altitude ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station experts say if directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following

the test the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. warned leadership it would be utterly destroyed in the case of war the threat came in an emergency session of the un security council dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if for comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. what would you just it's difficult to move towards any subtle moment as long as north korea fears that its security is threatened in the current situation we urge them to call on all parties involved to stop escalating the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response we all need to pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps he will allow meantime donald trump has the notes the north korean a lot she even broke off a speech on tax reform take

a jab at the leader kim jong il will be rocket fuel. i. little rocket man rocket fuel so the american. i hear is a sick puppy. besides that president trump tweeted he discussed the loss with china's president and said major new sanctions will be imposed on north korea and the russian foreign minister though so i get out of office question whether there's a hidden agenda. because of those i'm sure the americans should start with explaining their intentions to somebody if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it's a security council meeting let them spend it out clearly and let the u.s. leadership confirm then we will decide how to react to the united states are truly concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue that's the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many many people are not

willing to give up on the left and i think they. i think like a reasonable request. the more the united states wants to punish north korea the more they convince north korea that they need to develop nuclear terror and protect themselves so has the opposite effect if the united states were truly interested in . ramping down tensions it would engage in dialogue with no reason not to engage in dialogue. our cold front a special relation of us with the countries at loggerheads of all things over president trump tweeting he's got more on what caused that rift. so this whole issue is started over mr trump tweeting a number of or retreating a number of tweets from the controversial anti muslim group britain first. those three tweets that he retreated purporting to show muslims attacking non muslims and

one of them proven to be a fake by dutch journalists and so he's come in for criticism for retreating those and that's created a political stand here in the u.k. with many m.p.'s calling on the government to criticize mr trump for doing so and in fact that is what downing street and the prime minister did in a statement through one of their spokespeople it's run for the president to have done this british people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents decency tolerance and respect president trump criticizing to reason may actually and saying that the focus should be more on militants and terrorist groups who are attacking the u.k. and not on what he is tweeting but of course this. special relationship between the two sides goes back many years the relationship between america and britain will remain strong our relationship is very special special relationship that exists

between our two nations our people forge friendships together. that is what makes this relationship special i hope to have a good relationship with them has been a special relationship but it would appear that the special relationship is on the strain with mr trump or mrs may looking decidedly awkward on their first meeting together in washington there have been many calls today in parliament for the u.k. to take back their invitation to donald trump for a state visit the home secretary. repeatedly saying that the invitation has been extended and accepted but hasn't been said but there are a whole throb himself who says that the only warm welcome while this latest throw it's unlikely but the road that the reception here will get any warmer for the u.s. president. now while the mainstream media have been running on trump for the

first part of the story is going to logically a reported smear of com looks into the scandal now this particular video shows a man smashing the statue of the virgin mary is actually revered figure in islam and the. various sources have identified him as omar car but now this appears to be the same man now proudly wearing the emblem of the free syrian army a group of armed by the cia up until recently the united states has been one of the biggest supporters whether it's politically whether it's financially in a range of manners of the moderate opposition including the freestream are syrian army and here's that moderate fighter again now with an al qaeda flag and a rocket launcher and there's more it's believed that omar garba and it up joining i still pretty moderate i'd say but of course none of this is new the line between moderate rebels and terrorists in syria has always been fuzzy at best but the outcry over who trumpery tweeted rather than the story behind the video tells you a lot about how the media actually works. we lost a t.v.

show host on a pro truck come by and for their views on the repeated videos on the u.s. role in syria well the reason the media in america especially is so focused on trump's tweeting of these videos is because the media can't stand trial that's as simple as it is if the media in our country loves liberalism they especially robo obama and this reveals some of the things that were done during the obama era that have the chickens as they say come home to roost these videos are people that we as a country have in many cases empowered emboldened enabled and in some cases we've partnered with i continue to be surprised by the things that sort of were hidden under the rug if you will the obama administration and even going back as far as the bush administration you know there were many times where they were helping different groups of people who ultimately ended up to be the end of first case

scenario did know and ignored the fact that some of the groups that the united states were funding were some of the worst people of all. russia and other leading all producers have extended a deal to gradually reduce production until the end of next year that follows talks between moscow and opec members in vienna where that agreement was struck a year ago to stabilize the global oil price under those terms russia and opec of eight million barrels per day now since the cuts began the bench so i was around sixty dollars per barrel though. and one energy expert told us that further on fifty five. not any more than one of the significant also influence will be more significant in the next campaign or the extent of the bri mindstorm had been done today and be in. big ridge ski gratian are just some of the hurdles the u.s. government must jump into before the end of the month we'll take

a look at this and more on this edition. of the legislative finish line and by road democratic strategist former obama campaign field director a new u.s. army he said to the george w. bush administration and was an adviser to the presidential campaigns of marco rubio and mitt romney and he joins us from the campus at stanford when start with the tax will show you to. do some major differences between the house and the senate you think we're going to get a bill by the end of december. larry i do think there will be a strong push whether they actually get it by the end of december if it slips into twenty eighteen we'll have to see but i do think that republicans are committed to getting something out the of course cross the first hurdle this week with a vote in the budget committee on the senate side so i do have confidence that they will be a tax bill now whether it's going to look more like the senate version of the house

version that remains to be seen but certainly i think the political and policy momentum is there why robin is the end of december so important so what happens if it passes in january. well donald trump trying to give everybody a little christmas present but what they what they fail to realize though is that he keeps toting this as the the big cuts for the middle class so what they don't know is that this christmas gift will be very small by my calculation about eleven hundred dollars as what they'll save on their federal taxes but the itemize and do ten thousand nine s. are going to get the shaft and where if you this bill is great if you don't own anything but if you own property it itemize this bill is really not going to be good for you so i know that it's important for him that he delivers because they've had no major major legislative wins they need to give something back they promised and promised and promised to their constituents they've blocked on obamacare they

need to get something done and i think that we will see something but like i said i think it's going to fall short of what he's promised on the campaign trail larry what about republican support so the plan lunny has to do. picking up we don't seem to know the democrats the two key democrats did not attend the meeting with the president. i don't anticipate any democrats will support the.