canada hosts western allies about nine hundred fifty s. korean war to discuss the current crisis on the peninsula but with the absence of russia china and north korea itself the proposed solutions appear limited. supply and that pressure just could include cutting off diplomatic ties with north korea. and the specter of russian meddling returns a number of influential u.s. democrats claim the kremlin is behind whistleblower chelsea manning's decision to run for the senate and. russia's investigative committee presents the evidence that it says refutes a key claim about alleged systematic systemic doping by russia during the structure

of the pick. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me and nicky aaron thank you for joining us this hour now south and north korean officials are meeting for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts that include the potential participation of the two countries under a unified flag at the upcoming olympics meanwhile the western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the purser campaign will continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to

pressure or to revert career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the value of a group could come up with the purpose of our meetings today is to improve the effectiveness of the maximum pressure campaign and combat north korea's attempts to evade sanctions the united states looks forward to hearing from our protest votes on how we can best do that more sanctions toughest sanctions though one might wonder what there is left of north korea to sanction or why they would work now when they haven't for seventy years a few of the participants also proposed ripping up all diplomatic relations with the north that were to work and diffuse things re-inforcing autonomous majors when where available. to include cutting off diplomatic ties to his nose career

solid meeting of north korea's former enemies literally almost all of these countries were participants off the korean war on the side of south korea states such as luxembourg colombia greece belgium difficult to imagine what relevance they have to the korean crisis these days but there you go noticeably absent two countries that are actually relevant to the crisis apart from north korea itself the two countries that actually share a border with the north china and russia. russia and china were not invited to this meeting so they just said the meeting would take place on the sixteenth of january. you can come in the evening we will tell you what we have agreed on that we should do this was unacceptable what the state department said about russia supporting this meeting that's a complete lie we consider this meeting harmful to. the most important

parties involved in the korean peninsula nuclear issue you are taking part in the meeting but we don't know what the goal of this meeting is so i don't think this meeting is legal or representative from the very beginning china has been opposed to this meeting you should ok so you invited a bunch of countries that have little to do with the crisis and came up with all the tried tested and failed solutions they went a step further refusing any advice russia and china have long stood by a double freeze meaning north korea stops doing this. and south korea and the united states stop sending nuclear bombers to harass the north and poor's with the war games.

no said rex tillerson when the north does it it's a provocation when we do it it's deterrents haven't you away but couldn't you wait . at long last after years north korea and south korea holding direct face to face negotiations the lympics around the corner and everyone with any sense once things to settle down so what does the vancouver group do while it gathers all of north korea's former enemies and declares it intends to tighten the noose around kim jong un's neck how's that for a path to peace. international and independent china specialist andrew lung thinks the presence of russia and china at the meeting would limit western countries options to pressure north korea. well obviously. the trauma

administration doesn't feel that the time is ripe for them to talk to the north koreans yet because they want to put more pressure on north korea and put it. up the rhetoric and also the tactics of foreclosure for example they're not ruling out of something like a cage problem seems to think that all his higher octane sort of rhetoric has achieved something at least the north koreans beginning to talk to the south koreans so they don't want to give up their option. trying to talk with the allies so trying to put the allies together the exclusion as i said of both russia and china because they fear that if russia and china in light of a joint there like to scuttle. america's option for for for coercion. and any theories emerged of russian meddling in u.s. politics the kremlin's supposedly behind us whistleblower tell three manning's

decision to run for a seat in the senate and is again trying to subvert american democracy or that's the claim being promoted by some in the democratic party including the head of its leading think tank. senator cardin authored and released a two hundred page masterpiece on russian influence and western elections suddenly he has a primary from kremlin stooges sarges weekly leaks prime resource chelsea manning the kremlin place the stream left to swing elections remember that oh my god this is how deranged official washington is the president of the largest dempo party think tank genuinely believes chelsea manning's candidacy is a crimp plot conspiracy theories thrive more in mainstream d.c. than on internet fringes now exact candidates a prominent member of the hillary clinton campaign also tweeted out reporting this conspiracy theory that somehow chelsea. and ings bid for the senate was

a mosque out plot now interestingly and now those comporting this conspiracy theory they have quite a bit of explaining to do now with those who will recall chelsea manning was just in prison in a u.s. military prison for seven years now is it are they purported that somehow russia infiltrated the prison and was able to recruit chelsea manning at that point and then furthermore viewers will remember that barack obama pardoned chelsea manning as he was leaving office so then the question is was russia in on the plot to pardon chelsea manning did they somehow convince obama to pardon chelsea manning so their operative could then get out of prison and run for the u.s. senate ites not exactly clear so those who are trying to get to the bottom of this vast conspiracy theory that they have come up with have a lot of explaining to do about the details of how exactly russia is to blame for someone running for the u.s. senate in the united states vice chair of the u.s. libertarian national committee often vera thinks the establishment has reasons to

try and keep money out of the race. bless russia become an american coated capitalist which i don't think is. there is nothing for russia game there are many things however for established interest to get from keeping an anti-establishment candidate out so many people in america or so excited to see a true american hero really stepping up and standing up to the establishment and we know she can do it because she's already done it she has already put her own freedom and safety on the line to fight for the american people that's somebody that even though i'm running against her even though i have some different policies that's someone i can respect. and barcelona almost twenty thousand people have demonstrated demanding the release of pro independence activists they're facing accusations of sedition after they took part in actions promoting council lonia split from spain.

protesters gathered outside the region's high court they accuse the spanish government of repression they also held a minute's silence in solidarity with those arrested massive rallies have been a common sight since catalonia vote for independence was declared illegal by majority. we demand freedom of prisoners and show that we won't accept repression and the spanish government's abuse against the democratic will it's a great injustice that is the reason we are here to free them now. it's not just a pro independence activists making their voices heard and to break away movements have been gaining popularity as well made barnea a fictional land inside catalonia which includes the barcelona and tarragona regions the activists who came up with its wanted to split from cancer lonia and join spain this is their reasoning. we went from being one of the main

drivers of the spanish economy to mediocre autonomy at the exit of more than three thousand companies was followed by encouraging the civil population to disobey the constitutional order to get a republic lasted eight seconds and without any international support. pro and anti independence camps have been upping their rhetoric ahead of the first session of the new catalan parliament which is now under way after a recent snap election in the region of pro independence parties gained a majority in the parliament as you can see on the video the seats of those parliamentarians are who are absent due to imprisonment or exile are marked with yellow ribbons which are the symbol of the independence movement the body's first job is to elect the region's new president one of the candidates is. the former president deposed after the referendum and he fled to belgium where he still remains he claimed he could run the region via skype or through

a special representative. activist supporting the recent movement against sexual misconduct are taking aim at their peers authors actors and other public figures who dare to douse the direction of the so-called me to campaign and facing a serious backlash jacqueline has the latest examples. i feel like every time you turn around another me too headline has hit the press with new accusations from directors to actors to fashion photographers but it seems we've reached a turning point as we're now from this are concerned that the campaign is becoming a witch hunt take margaret atwood author of a handmaid's tale an acclaimed work attacking mythologising who says she's starting to doubt the movement the structure of guilty because accused has applied to many more episodes in human history than salem my fundamental position is that women are human beings the full range of sente and demonic behaviors does entails including criminal ones they are not

angels incapable of wrongdoing the backlash she's received online and in the media has been ruthless strange how someone so brilliant can demonstrate so little insight and self reflection i guess privilege is blinding which margaret and i wouldn't would get back to writing dystopian a fiction but a message in this world instead of you know actively creating it. i mean seventy eight year olds on exactly knowing that progressive takes congolese a right the first female african american secretary of state also says me too maybe changing perceptions of women and not for the better i do think we have to be a little bit careful let's not turn women into snowflakes let's not infantilize women over in france one hundred influential female artists are being led by actress catherine deneuve and signing an open campaign letter against me to rape is a crime but in system comes the floor is not

a crime nor is gallantry of sharpness aggression now this liberation of speech has been turned on its head but the reaction to that was furious and another was forced to issue a hasty apology a few prominent men have also voiced their reservations one of them was actor liam neeson there is a bit of a witch hunt targeting famous people may accused of. touching some girls in the forest something suddenly they're being dropped from their approval rymer something and surprisingly nice and comments have also been less than well received by many the problem here seems to be that there's often a if you aren't with us you're against us mentality with movements such as me to those who are speaking out about their concerns are not condoning sexual assault nor attacking the campaign itself but more often than not their words are twisted or go unheard attwood may have said it best herself in times of extremes extremists when. well still to come just when germany's green energy wind turbines produce too

much energy bringing the cost to zero taxpayers the suddenly walked with increased charges with all the details for you after the break. there was more value on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to buy the battle. to do so try to tell you the lobby gossiping public by. the bad guys and telling me you are not cool enough to buy their product. that we along with all

the one. are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump reversed appears to be equally true trump goes with style gas like the media what kind of body politic is this creating as the us become a collection of just or a drama queens. welcome back now russia's investigative committees claiming new evidence refutes allegations of state sponsored sponsored sample swapping at the sochi olympics joining me live now is daniel hawkins who has more details on this story daniel good to see you so what exactly is the investigative committee claiming. well nicky this is the result of a long inquiry by russia's investigative committee ongoing now since last year they've really interviewed under oath the workers of the laboratory in sorting

question as well as a wide range of athletes themselves around seven hundred athletes who understand were issued under caution they were warned not to give false information to the investigators and this has been now collated into report which has come up with some pretty interesting information they've been looking into those allegations by the former head of moscow's antidoping approach to go to church and gov and looking into some of the technical details in the report in his allegations there they've looked into this and said that these samples those samples which were allegedly of course what four clean ones were transported to the boat three in sochi daytime and processed in a timeframe of between thirty minutes and two hours all this taking place under of course close supervision i would think the this contradicts of course roger and original account which claims that the samples were actually transported and swapped and moved around and tampered with in the dead of night let's take a look back at what you've got for originally had to say about this alleged master

operation. in the dark of night operation russian entry doping experts and members of the intelligence service surreptitiously replaced urine samples tinted by performance enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper proof bottles that are the standard at international competitions dr rushing of sad. of course this resulted in a mass global scandal which ultimately resulted initially in about forty three russian athletes being banned for life by the i.o.c. subsequently russian athletes being banned from the paralympics from the rio olympics and now we understand as well from the south korean winter olympic games as well russia got himself of course is a controversial enough figure he fled to the usa at the end of twenty fifteen as a whistle blower in russia however he is wanted on drug trafficking charges on transporting moving selling illegal and dangerous substances he's now understood to

be under witness protection program in the united states nevertheless despite those charges it was on his allegations on his information at the report was written and subsequently used as a basis for the banning of all these russian athletes just last month the i.o.c. confirmed as i just mentioned that there would be a blanket ban on team russia at the winter games there would not be allowed to wear their national flag or play the national anthem they would be allowed to compete on a discretionary individual basis under a neutral flag athlete from russia so there we go this perhaps raises more questions than answers really about the whole doping scandal but nevertheless. very interesting angle very interesting information there which as we've said mickey does contradict those initial accounts by the whistleblower good option of absolutely certainly as you said a very interesting development now started daniel hawkins thanks to those days house down. in other news now because been a roller coaster ride of late with the last twenty four hours seeing its value

plummet to below eleven thousand dollars in fact all major cryptocurrency are down therion fell drastically in value by thirty one percent and is currently just under one thousand dollars the crash follows a global crackdown on the digital currencies in terms of regulation in brazil investment funds are now perhaps a tip from buying cryptocurrency ease while in china or for a teaser targeting online platforms that offer xchange services and india is actively targeting wealthy bit corners through income tax regulation some believe asia will bring in even harsher measures and there are warnings is could now be a survival of the fittest for digital currencies. china has always been opposed to or to but quite korea now is becoming increasingly concerned japan has gone wild but most of the action but quite all crimes are you know just speculation

is really extreme particularly in japan and they know that this is going to have shown so they're corrupt they're going to try and i might add. the communist congress has taking a turn to deal with speculators the only issue right now is that this sector is so technologically advanced that it went big outside the bounds of the national government and what they're doing is catching up the world doesn't need on a business sense all of these. all of these projects they're not necessary some of them will perform compete their peers just because they have a better management teams better products better solutions their technology etc just look at them as very speculative start of business is some of them as it happened in in the not in the nasdaq bubble of the late ninety's some of them will be

a dominant company dominant in business and ten to twenty years but most and will be wiped away the underlying technology watching technology is good. when able the energy benefits everyone also we're told but it turns out in germany the wind turbines are costing taxpayers money strong winds have resulted in a recent oversupply of electricity and energy prices going below zero in germany this extremely rare phenomenon is called green electricity peaks and while the difference between fixed and market prices increases it's taxpayers who have to plug the gap. in germany the issue of renewable energy is of key importance and now is the new grand coalition with the social democrats looms the issue has risen again if successful the new coalition proposes to double renewable energy production by twenty thirty. we are aiming

for about sixty five percent of our energy to be renewable by twenty thirty the production of renewable energy must be significantly increased we want to further develop and modernize our energy networks in a recent survey more than half of those questions that the cost of moving to renewables has been too high and seventy four percent want to shift to be much better organized to political analyst rayna rothfuss is concerns the government's not addressing the problem of taxpayers having to pay extra for renewable energy. what really goes wrong in germany is that. some of the costs that are attributed to the renewable energies. to cover other costs of. the energy providers if it comes for example to the dismantling of nuclear power plants normally expect. power companies themselves how about that hot

sauce that you know all that in the end also be covered by the consumer by the taxpayer and therefore we don't have really a transparent and system of attributing the costs. that. is reflected by the real cost of. energy production. now facebook being accused of revealing to prosecutors and detailed information about a group of anti oil pipeline activists that's not the documents were obtained by online news site the intercept after an executive order from president trump to build the dakota access pipeline across native american land and pass underneath a missouri river the activists organized a protest using their facebook page the local prosecutor had twice sought information on the demonstrators from the social media site and according to the

documents facebook apparently helped get a warrant approved through the department of justice the courage ministre to of the page to make him think it was part of a deliberate effort to scare demonstrators away. the group received many threats at this time for several passons that certain members of the public believed to be the action personal information such as home phone numbers addresses and workplaces were posted in various places online not only does this warrant attempt to scare people from organizing this warrant attempts to scare people from even looking at information the protests saw around one hundred indigenous people blocked traffic on the motorway for about an hour although they later appears fully dispersed and no arrests were made a probe was launched after a couple of minor road incidents took place due to the protest leaving one person injured thousands of the native americans along with environmentalists and

activists from around the world have been fighting against the pipeline says twenty sixteen journalist amar and do we hear reports on native american issues things facebook violated constitutional rights. the violations are continually happening as we're seeing now in the course of this so with. facebook it's being an outlet in the beginning we're seeing they're also being used by leaders in our constitutional rights as u.s. citizens present because people are going to do what we can to protect their land and we've been seeing that abuse for five hundred years and. it's important for us to protect us we can't violate that natural law and we're soon to happen. and you that we're seeing individual corporations. individual corporations dakota actions have been all. that are old and state and local. officers and mercenaries and national guard and what's your board patrolling disposal.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle are the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gas like the media what kind of body politic is this creating has the us become a collection of hysterical drama queens. cross-linking gaslighting i'm joined by my guest reverend jesse lee peterson in los

angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as author of the antidote healing america from the poison of hate blame and victimhood also in los angeles we have ron paul call him he is a comedian and a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming program get your news on with ron and in new york we cross to rob he's a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post all right gentlemen crosstalk prose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting home here and is that it comes. see that center is just turned into a a bunch of drama queens because from a distance from my vantage point my perch it's a lot of drama queens out there not saying anything worth much listening to go ahead ron yeah you know i'm with a here's the thing the media was in bad shape the corporate media in the united states was in very bad shape long before.