tv Cross Talk RT January 19, 2018 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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call for more cooperation and discussion with beijing and moscow and that's certainly the case and i understand that. russian foreign secretary russian foreign secretary lab ross has already indicated you know we want to continue discussions notwithstanding this strategic. blueprint for the future but i think we've got some serious challenges ahead we don't have the resources for the kind of spending that they want to do and i think we need to be a little more a great deal more concerned about how those finite resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and that's terrorism ok let's say big spending rick was just a few cation let's just hear a little bit of what james mattis had to say and to those who would threaten america's experiment in democracy they must know if you challenger it will be your longest and your worst day so you talk about those threatening us democracy but
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ironically there's very little talk about the fight against terrorism do you think it seems that the u.s. is kind of taking it's all off terrorism now what could that give terrorists an opportunity to regroup. in terms in terms of your intelligence gathering and what have you the attention once again is going to be focused right back on on russia its military buildup china its military buildup and again the. the intelligence community in terms of an in terms of its information gathering is going to be limited and stretched and they're not going to be looking less at that and following this doctrine of this new strategic doctrine and that that's going to take the eye off the ball if you will. where terrorism is rising and before we know it's going to be flourishing once again in certain pockets of the world and we're going to have to do everything all over again also you've got to keep in mind we've got to we have existing military resources that are falling apart i mean when when
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when the defense department has to go to its museums to get components for its aircraft to keep them operational that's really set that's really sad and and so even existing inventory is going to have to be. worked on and improved and it's going to create some major major costs in the future and i don't think we're really but what we're really bargaining forward accounting for michael thinks he is always full of pentagon official michael maloof my guess thank you. now a growing number of us republican congressman are demanding the release of a top secret intelligence document they believe that it reveals political bias at the highest levels of the f.b.i. and the justice department in how they handle the investigation into alleged ties between the trunk campaign and russia. i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and that's how serious
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this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it is come from the scariest of places that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately a scandal worse than watergate that's how other republicans are referring to this top secret memo and reactions have ranged from sickening to jaw dropping saying that it raises serious questions about the obama administration now the memo was put together by the house intel committee and it was released to house members on thursday since then republicans have been calling for immediate public release now we don't know what it's about but it supposedly contains evidence that the justice department mostly f.b.i. are guilty of political bias against trump and according to reports u.s. intelligence officials use the now infamous trying to tell us year to improperly obtain a warrant to look into the trump campaign democrats voted against the release of the memo saying that it's be used to discredit the intelligence community and the trump russia investigation representative adam schiff even called it quote
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a profoundly misleading set of talking points now there's so much interest in this document wiki leaks wants it so they've announced up to a million dollar reward for it some have said that the memo will not be released to the public but regardless this alone reveals partisan bias so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. teenager has a tech to school at least in so a period injuring six people including a teacher. who ran into the class and inflicted injuries to preschool children and a teacher to the next challenge received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl lost something. and you said this in this book when they were sitting at home nothing like this
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could have been expected from that action and no money could come and dissipate is just what happened. the longer it drags on any more secret you know super. and all that it is amid a string of a similar attacks throughout russia this week with details his. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. and all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons not an axis as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend may also link these incidents our sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be a common factor that just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the
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u.s. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children who weren't even born when it happened it's so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves columbine years now russia's version of facebook called v.k. has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and found scores of them with posts that promote violent behavior things like describing the power someone feels when they have a gun in their hands one of the alleged perpetrators of monday's incident has been confirmed to be a follower of such pages and today's and wednesday's instance are being looked into see if the same is true for them as of today russian officials have announced that they will begin shutting down pages with extremist content the communications watchdog groups and social media which call for violence in schools it will be undertaken under the criteria of terrorism extremism and then. to commit suicide
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but the question remains if closing pages will really be enough in the long run especially given that a number of students have already taken the next stop and used violence against their classmates. the turkish defense minister has announced his country has launched a military operation into his could have controlled region starting with cross border. shelling bullishly house more and how events unfolded we're hearing from the turkish defense minister that a de facto turkish military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the white jeep who say that since those day night some seventy shells have been fired by the turkish military on to their villages now it's one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the united states had admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish syrian border any chord on the united states to deal with that terror at its infrastructure and these comments by the turkish president so infuriated could see living in the afan region that earlier they took
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to the streets also they were protesting against what you see happening certainly on the ground which is turkish tanks needing to little blue water this is what citizens of africa have to say. our freedom will be the ones graveyard today hundreds of thousands are protesting to tell him that the people of our friend will never leave their land. the international community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop. the white b.g. and stand so we can defend ourselves. well this comes after the statement that the coalition forces were working closely with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train a new syrian border security force but what we've seen happening is the american administration backpedaling now on plans to establish such a border force essentially after it created such a huge and furious backlash from america's close ally turkey the u.s.
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secretary of state rex tillerson has said that the entire issue has been mis portrayed and misdescribed the u.s. state department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to commit forces because the people that took that long we see just just feeling ok. i would have i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they were clear in the statement that they put out so let me just refer you to them on that. part but i'm asking about closing comments yesterday we said there's no order you're ready for just that's not what it is like i have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and i'm not going to name any names and neither is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground and it has the possibility of igniting into something much bigger so i think what it does so us is that would have the potential to ignite a potential war with. the situation around syria was one of the issues the russian
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foreign minister addressed during a media conference after you know one hundred nations security council meeting in new york course from killable was the focus he joins me on the line to take us through what was said. during the press conference we heard a lot from the russian foreign minister he made wide ranging comments about different parts of the world now i had the opportunity to ask the foreign minister a question i asked him about the fact that right now the usa says that its forces in syria which are there without the permission of the syrian government it says that they're only there to ensure the defeat of the isis terrorists but at this point now they're saying that would to withdraw them would strengthen the syrian government the internationally recognized legitimate government of syria so i asked circle of rob about this kind of a mixed message coming from u.s. leaders and what it's like and he gave me this response this is circular. to
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principle and we put it you have the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreements that is typical of u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans strain syria bricks to listen to the state which is going to only go in syria was the defeat of isis now if the farm when bush's plans it's. now another topic that came up during the press conference was the jay c.p.o. way the joint comprehensive organization of action this was the plan put together during the p five plus one negotiations in the nuclear deal with iran now it was raised it was pointed out that the situation in the negotiations with north korea could be affected if the usa is to withdraw from the iran deal. was directly asked about the fact that that trump and others have questioned and talked about you know pulling the usa out of the iran deal this is what he had to say about the j c p o a
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. so there was a crucial list which during a comprehensive plan of action was centered on iran stopping its military nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of anti iran sanctions a similar deal is now being tabled for north korea but if the iran deal is seen to me nothing how can we expect the d.p. r. k. to prove a similar deal that could be retracted at any moment. it seemed one of the overall themes of lab rob's remarks was russia russia's efforts to stabilize the world and reduce the level of terrorism and instability around the world in different regions he voiced some criticism of u.s. leaders and some frustrations that over all other theme was an effort to kind of get along with countries around the world and create stability in parts of the world that have been unstable and plagued by terrorism violence and extremism and. the ring is right it today live from new york. the right leaning alternative for germany or
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a. proposed very fine the age of all migrants coming to the country an idea that's been roundly condemned by all of the parties in the bundestag peta all of it has more. well if alternative for germany thought that getting into parliament was going to be the hard part they've certainly been brought down to earth with a bump over the last couple of days as parliaments reconvened here for the twenty eight hundred. the f.d.a. put forward changes they wanted to see two laws relating to asylum and refugee status here particularly when it came to the ages of those claiming refugee status in germany now the alternative for germany say that between thirty and eighty percent of those that have applied in the past haven't been at the age they said they were this was turned upon by the other parties within the body of the star every single one of them to a man saying that the alternative for germany was wrong in doing this and in fact
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when the proposals were put forward they were greeted by boobs in the chamber. to do day to day making no bones about it they disagree strongly with a.s.d. and all of their policies condominium one could get the impression our position is close to that of the air but if you just look through their proposal and listen to what they're seeing here you realize that it's all about attacking migrants. and the proposal of the air of d. is permeated with populism it took north of reality and love who ever seen the wording of the proposal and heard the speech of the representative will recognize instantly that it's not about the improvement of age verification but about stirring up animosity against young migrants. the kind of rhetoric we heard from d. goes against our christian values it's all about who towards foreigners and those
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we cannot support. we also saw on thursday and the parliamentary session it was held that the alternative for germany put forward an idea that the one of the reasons. a rise in anti semitism in germany had been due to the influx of islamic immigration that was then shot down many parties including angela merkel's christian democratic union saying that anti semitism had its roots in the far right in politics in germany and elsewhere around so that's where we stand at the moment for them if they've just entered parliament last september following the election and this is the first time that they're really getting their teeth into legislation it's not going well if you're an alternative which are many supporter anyway at the moment all of the other parties coming together.
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