fortunate that we're trying to record his ons from brit to next out. he's not really here since the lives of nearly one hundred families were changed forever after a russian defense ministry plane crashed into the black sea killing all ninety to one bull among them a renowned russian choir which was heading to syria to perform at the time it was a top up on five full plane that crashed you know traveling in and it went down shortly after takeoff it's the pilot i was to blame.

is a little so far it's one big issue for the simple illegals but if you take that view of all this all linkable see the book on which was to put it. friends and relatives gathered earlier in sochi on the shores of the black sea to pay tribute to those who lost their lives a year ago for many the pain remain strong because one woman whose husband died in the crash has been collecting the stories of other widows to be in the camps and how they deal with the pain and loss. of the to. this documentary for us was

a way to deal with the pain that hit us unexpectedly when the title of the documentary wives isn't random while we were filming we still felt like wives it's very difficult school so for a widow we saw our husbands often another way can travel they had several such trips a month they flew or not unexpectedly they didn't come back home and the stories which alone has gathered have been put together a program you can watch on our r.t. documentary channel website is next. on your behalf so put it on a national story about. it in the in the in the piece in the liberal council really one of the first. from the caribbean where there's a serious sort of ellicott where it's like your former spokesman sure will and for months at the most of my little girl said she will but at this time it is

disappointing this is your point when you buy that. it's your self-worth that was the goal of course the bible in the distance what. are we look at the role. this is to quantize the struggle more spills within you. that they own little on your last line up. almost no. question or a course like that. those but it was also called overcalls that you're going to call the stalled at all or just about anything it's only it's own without a goal i've looked at sort of going up a shield don't bunch of so i didn't and also they only dish then or called if the so about it will last. so much as will a bill that is going to do. exactly must go on and you can you. just need to know what you. are going to leave so you. can go to the store of the nice to

puter it leads to shock when the government or you have the support truck. all the way here for break look at what might make christmas a bit more merry for some of the world's major leaders what they want in their stockings will find out after the break. thank. you. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball

isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game a great chance for. the thinks it's going to. places a japanese island of okinawa have long been a source of anger at the locals not only of the crimes committed by troops but also because a significant environmental damage to now even u.s. veterans are joining a campaign to get them to clean up their act. it's

just so so. we're. going to get like a minute. in the. area. that's been in the woods. this is the more you. use the boy if he can home or. you know look you don't think it's not only if you can i mean i don't think these ones camouflage so much it's really hard to find their own ease when they're much easier. on the kids who needed to do was marines behave like this in their own country just acting like

this because it's ok now well i wasn't ok now because we had a delegation there. we were supporting the local people and that go against the new base it's been created there and i was told that i heard reports that there was trash all over the place so i had to say with my own eyes because i was a marine that was stationed out there and i couldn't believe it because the marines when i was and we would never do that we were trained and if you pack it in you take it out so so that's why i went out there and just blew my mind make up believe what i saw all the trash and such a pristine area the claims that the u.s. military is the biggest polluter of definitely agree with the single most polluter in the world and that's not something that it's that it's up for agreement or disagreement this this can be measured. ranging from the pollutants from the c o two concert. that the u.s. military puts out into that mix fear them our fuel that they use the u.s.

doesn't look into the environmental issues or. acknowledge them because of one big reason is the cost of rich retributions so if it's the united states military is destroying an area there is a college and not only that also affecting the health of other people there's a huge cost in that another can send us veteran who's been to a come out told us he doesn't expect the pentagon to an eco friendly anytime soon though i've seen a lot of issues around the bases in okinawa you know similarities in iraq and afghanistan and even bases here on u.s. soil where it's just contaminating the land that it's using their open burn pits that is having huge facts on military personnel members and just outright consumption of fossil fuels across the pentagon of all four branches having a training center in the middle of a rain forest the future ultimately come down to the people who live in or near that rain so say take the young forest in northern okinawa where the u.s.

marines have been training for decades the people there on the ground who live there and have to suffer from the consequences of that training they don't want it there the u.s. doesn't really cooperate in any investigations of environmental issues because it's a direct threat to their national security goals but the problem is environmental issues are a direct threat to our lives the u.s. gets away with a lot of environmental issues and it's not just environmental issues that get away with a lot of things that i think if the american public knew what was going on they would demand for it at first at least stop. more of a cheery note i was stunned to make his way around the world live until his children's day well a bit on the wish list we thought for global leaders in this stocking and the situation has been asking people in london for their thoughts. probably was the breaks it never happened and that she was never promoted to prime

minister probably. being the key to it wastes is still to see how we can help donald trump. probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea in some ways probably something on the lines of. drinking. water than i do so maybe something to make that a bit easier. i guess he's always going to need orange to go to spice. barris. just bring out all the cliche that it is. bigger muscles. is pretty happy i don't need

anything. more stable europe probably will talk of europe with more of what. a difficult. a month if you will that i've been able to get a hold over the leftist to sunset it was written by a mrs and from right c.n. lynn though i'm not saying this is the german chancellor's left of the santa clause just sitting. sequence aside from a. wish that they win the world cup in russia or in twenty eighteen there are a few pressing political points it seems that the chancellor is asking. for a bit it help with. dear santa please can we sort out the coalition shenanigans.

we will not abandon our voters foreign policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly it's been months since the election here in germany and when the go see a sions with the social democrats on forming a new grand coalition get underway in january they're far from a done deal and you know we're not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly in this room after the elections and we still stand by this angle of merkel's christian democratic union party are also changed in their negotiating stance but a bigger problem may come in the form of their berry and sister party the christian social union stepping down its horse dizzy hope for their long serving out outspoken leader he was always almost always willing to step into line behind lynne well he is going to be replaced by marcus who's already being trying to appeal to the party's base and it's the party's base that doesn't like

a lot of anglo merkel's policies particularly when it comes to refugees and asylum policy with our world is an accidental christian jewish humanistic islam has not made announced any contributor and to be very in the last two hundred years and now we have to be clear about the roots of our own. can you make it say the c.s.u. don't stuff this up for me. they're all those that have started to write angular merkel's political obituary heading into twenty eight thing i say that with a bit premature for a chancellor that remains personally popular with a large proportion of the people here in germany however it's not like she couldn't benefit from a christmas wish or two coming through wishing you all a very merry christmas from all of. team here in germany for our tea in berlin and peace for all of us. so a couple weeks left comes to put themselves forward to be in the running for next

year's russian presidential election a few names are already of course in the hat but as far as the foreign media is concerned there's only one man they're focusing on a map is the outspoken opposition leader alexina valmy he's clocked up plenty of column inches in the western media over the years for is described as a challenge to incumbent leader vladimir putin but the actually is not eligible to stand in election after being found guilty of embezzlement given a five year suspended prison sentence even so he's really described as a kremlin critic who attracts thousands of supporters and on sunday he submitted the necessary paperwork on the last to be candidate for the election next march hundreds of supporters joined him but the numbers were markedly down on the his last attempt to twenty twelve the more than thirty thousand turned out in moscow there's no other contenders well to tell you about a new name in fact in the running for the communist party it's putting forward powerful group dean in he replaces an election veteran who's been trying to get the kremlin's top job for over twenty years checking all this out he goes down off

takes a closer look with his new election hopeful of where it might go. his name doesn't say much if anything at all to the majority of russians meet pavel gruden and the new face of the russian communist party in this presidential race he's taking the place of a man who ran for the communists in every election but one since one thousand nine hundred ninety six so who is he was he known for and why i put him on the ballot well first and foremost he's a businessman who's been building a socialist utopia in miniature for just over a decade just outside moscow nicknamed the strawberry king he governs a small community that's become a shining example of what socialism can achieve. certain . expert. these are some of the

socialist dreams turned reality at the livin farm gordon has long been active in the grassroots russian politics he was one of lattimer putin campaigners back in two thousand helping him rise to power a decade later he switched factions and backed the communists saying russia had taken a wrong turn russia's communist party of today is a very different beast from the one during the soviet union and gruden in hopes to steer it more towards a swedish or german style of socialism citing his own socialist success outside moscow even of my own. at the farming community that i've led for more than twenty years we've done everything to show that if socialist ideas hadn't been abandoned but instead had been firmly adhere to we don't now be living like in our community which means free education free health care social benefits for pensioners free workshops for children and all the other things that you've seen that so the

intrigue is now will he managed to tempt all of russia with his ideal of a socialist oasis it has done of. we'll continue to follow the twists and turns her sadly some tragic news is coming in as we are on every deadly accident here in moscow this afternoon and we've got some pitches we can show you too much because the initial stuff that came is pretty graphic it seems bizarrely a bus has careered off the road well off the road and into a stairwell of a subway pedestrian crossing an hour or two ago four people this for a known to have died it happened within the past hour or so as to say to the west of the city center at this stage it's unclear how it is thought more than a dozen people are injured there a horrifying incident captured by security cameras or so we can't show you the full extent of it at the moment i gather you've just taken out the stills emergency crews are some already there and the restaurant on scene we'll try to get somebody to bring you up to date with that but always

a terrible thing to happen any time especially this time here. altie don't come across stories twenty four seven with all the latest news and features i'm kevin on your mosque with this if you are celebrating christmas for me and the rest of the team or by the bad news to bring you the sincere wish is for today and for twenty eighteen and thank you for watching us internationally i hope you'll continue to as well. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sitcoms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we

use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on the world. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us is it just full on austin the only show i go out of my way to punch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than food that i see people you never heard of love redacted tonight president of the world bank. but it is worth it seriously send us an e-mail. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. says there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been

a struggle. this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution you craft someone wanted touring the site otherwise it will be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. hello

and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle trust in the mainstream media is an all time low but no one should be surprised in the media has itself to blame this sad state of affairs is a self-inflicted wound and actually a conscious business model the media no longer has an interest in reporting news media today propagates ideology. crosstalk in the state of the media i'm joined by my guest eric alterman in new york he is a sunni distinguished professor of english and journalism at brooklyn college as well as the liberal media columnist for the nation also in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and

a news decoder at lionel media dot com and implement we cross to patrick and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york i'm not going to list all of the mistakes the mainstream media has made over the last few months because that would take up the entire program and then some suffice to say lionel i think it's quite evident that the new york times the washington post c.n.n. m.s.m. the m s n b c and other news organizations they're making mistakes because they have a blind hatred for donald trump their blind hatred is throwing journalistic practices and principles out the window and this is damaging the information sphere in the united states and i would say the political process as well go ahead lionel. i would venture to say is an admixture of trump derangement syndrome in full bloom its negligence its malfeasance and also is that amazing isn't it amazing in

shocking perhaps that none of these mistakes every new word to the benefit of trump or anybody else or they never deal with hillary clinton or those of the so-called left and progressive left or whatever it's always a unit directional mistake there is never and by the by the biggest problem right now that is facing this country is not this this this this problem in this proliferation i should say of sexual dalliances it's the fact that today's mainstream media today's ted baxter sockpuppet echo chamber rancid ossified media is dead it's through isn't the death throes of the faces an existential threat that's their problem and you'd think they'd be shaping up as you know you could then really who were negligent that eric let me go do you think that's a very good point to mention i mean they should be they should get their act together but you know we had we still don't know why three different outlets confirm the same. bogus russia story last week they just had

a retraction or an update but they don't they don't explain to the public how they came to that disastrous conclusion across the board i mean no wonder people don't trust the media anymore they're not transparent go ahead eric. i find everything i've heard said on this program so far to be ridiculous i think the mainstream media are first of all the word media is a plural noun so to talk about the media you have to make distinctions between which media you're discussing. i think the media you mean which is c.n.n. new york times washington post and cetera i think they're an impossible position because they are faced with a president who lies on average six times a day that's a statistic compiled by the washington post he probably lies much more than that but those are the lies they've caught using a very narrow definition of a lie so the mainstream media doesn't act the mainstream media doesn't lie is that

what you're saying first of all we're talking. well i'm pretty capable of saying exactly what i want you not to put words in my mouth but i'm trying to understand your words thoughts owns lies fox news fox news lies but no the mainstream media by and large certainly the new york times washington post and other reputable outlets never lie on purpose they make with stakes but it's very hard to cover a president who is purposely undermining american democracy who again lies on average six times a day and doesn't care that it's called lying let me ask you a question just take one for instance donald trump repeatedly tweeted that barack obama wiretapped him on purpose now the justice department found that that was not true has not appeared they're saying how there seems to be overwhelming evidence that he was a less than he was i don't sort of a i'm not i'm not around then i don't know there's no i wouldn't i know i know i said before the but i'm sort of that thought and i don't want to have any filibustering it's one but it's i believe in freedom feel about for and i want to

hear the freedom of speech from patrick inclement go ahead patrick react to what you've heard so far would have. first of all i'm going to disagree with what eric said about defining the terms i'm going to say media as a singular entity because when it comes to all things russian grammatical things and try to media. it well it might be grammatically correct but it does represent the reality of the situation which is that media is completely together in lockstep reading off the same hymn sheet on all things russian and if you want to talk about the mainstream media this these are all fake news stories for mainstream media this is just my file for the washington post the new york times c.n.n. granted cnn's house for this but this is perhaps my favorite pokey man go was hijacked by vladimir putin to mislead americans this is a c.n.n. exclusive this is just one example of many and to say that the the. what you're

doing eric is is creating a false equivalency trying to compare donald trump's twitter tirades to the fourth what's supposed to be the fourth estate who has a collective budget operating budget of over ten million ten billion sorry billion dollars in the united states all of these mainstream media outlets basically putting out fake news the c.n.n. wiki leaks story is quite interesting because the same so-called sources were used apparently by c.b.s. news as well as c.n.n. and others and you read the e-mail and you can see the date it was september fourteenth so i had the question is you know were these did these sources actually read the so-called evidence or should it have been done in braille or or the c.n.n. so journalists so-called journalists are they illiterate how does this type of mistake come to come to be and how is it repeated and passed on to other laundered laundered through c.n.n. and then on can be said b.s. i mean you are a c.n.n.

uses twitter i don't like to put fake news out and retracts it let me go to line here i mean it's that's ok the story that was just mentioned by patrick there i mean it's a they want to believe in what they say this is they see this and they they jump on board is it laziness or is it you know what level of intentionality because it i said there's so many of them i mean patrick has held up a whole stack of the i mean it seems endless i could can't imagine this would have happened during the obama administration go ahead lionel well. well it first had to start off with the idea as evidence exhibit a by well after all you have the most lying president so therefore anything that happens is somehow waiting cancelled by the fact that well trump is a liar let's take this week now you know how is a c.n.n. story about donald trump you and wiki leaks memo or e-mail and all it did was a reading a day correctly so it's all in the fall which is reading

a data. really and not say oh for fourteen is all it was it was a transposition of numbers that's all it was now you tell me how donald trumps mendacity and thank you for clarifying that medium is a singular noun not a plural but tell me how to their employer only now you know the same name down city you get a room guilty to two two whacks veritas you explain to me how that has anything to do with c.n.n. or somebody else to say you know what we made a mistake that's all it is. eric you want to reply to that go ahead. sure first of all i'm not here to defend the stand and i think c.n.n. is pretty crappy and they did make a mistake and they didn't make it. so journalists make mistakes old time it's a very imperfect. practice that's why it's called the first draft of history the press is there to make room said that what you were you were doing what you were

doing what you were doing is actually trying to create a false equivalence between the deliberate lies of the trump administration and its supporters and the mistakes that are part of being a jerk a part of a journalist i'm not saying don't make mistakes i'm not saying this will not be thing no united smits i'm still not there has been very specious premix has done all pro it's not where it has gone from i'm not done i'm not now i thought the confidence one has gone from admitted that horrible kodama was born in the united states waiting ok let's talk about something out which i write up this is very good ultimate very good thing else i don't talk about what we're talking about now bring something else up fantastic look i want to give you an example just good i was attacking your absolutely baseless claim you said the problem is forget the fact that this is fake media we have the most lying the most mendacious president there is that's what you said i was addressing that so what do you do when you're losing

the argument but.