we heard from a former turkish foreign minister about the situation he believes that despite all the warnings from turkey the u.s. has been a major catalyst in the conflict. the united states was not going to our shirts church wouldn't we were ok look. cute try to draw the attention. that you can you should not follow. a mission to kill or risk group which is linked to the. dangerous. organization but. using civil who is chooses continue to lie and this is were really no small. rallies against a military operation have been held in europe in turkey demonstrators were met by a heavy police presence with reports the authorities used force to disperse the

crowds at least twelve people have been detained by keeping a watch on the situation along the turkish syrian border so stay with us. now money doesn't talk when it comes to the u.s. congress which remains in stalemate for a third day as lawmakers fail to agree on the u.s. budget and while republicans and democrats struggle to compromise the american public feel the pinch of a government shutdown so americanas in washington and joining us live now with more details where one of the consequences of the shutdown. well the senate will be voting at noon that's in less than an hour to reopen the government that's been shut down for three days now now the government officially shut down friday at midnight over the deferred action for childhood arrivals program which allows illegal immigrants who are brought to the u.s. as children to remain in the country and both political parties are busy blaming

each other but what does the government shutdown mean exactly. america knows this is the shutdown i think is still sure a shutdown so let's get that nice little ring to it doesn't it senate democrats shut down this government a big fat failure. unfortunately

we cannot use your call today because congressional democrats are weak government funding package to an unrelated immigration debate due to the third direction the government shutdown. and there's already been an international response a chinese news organization i gave its analysis of the shutdown saying it's it's a slap in the face for donald trump and the article mentioned another interesting point that obama that trump has backtracked on all of obama's policies and the only thing that survived is the quote spirit of nine cooperation across party lines and the article concluded saying that what's going on in washington right now really questions the viability of the american political system so we'll just have to see in a couple of hours whether the senate comes to an agreement and we'll find out just

how cooperative or non-cooperative washington really is ok samir khan reporting there from washington thanks very much. we go to andrew lungs opinion of the shutdown as well he's a specialist in u.s. china relations this kind of filibustering what we're seeing in the united states as well as partner why we are very much the stock or trade in western democracies they are seen as the kind of check and balance that is part of western democracy be democracies but the unfortunate thing is that all these. filibustering and party rivalry sometimes translate into holding back the country into holding each shoes which can impact upon the likelihood that the people were as a maybe a one party state this is the case in china if there is a. light in leadership and then things get done much

more quickly and there is less chance of holding the country for the whole country to ransom as it were. no news is coming your way after this break. here's what people have been saying about redacted the night this year was actually just pull along. the only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of archie america's doing the same we are apparently better than the blues nothing that says i see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight i'm president of the world bank so take. it seriously send us an email. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the guy you mean so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans

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tell i'm female and people act like they're going to their own but i'm american i love. the n.s.a. however could do a lot more easily using my voice to identify who i am what language i'm speaking my gender and my dialect according to classified documents from the snowden archive the n.s.a. has been developing technology to identify a speaker using just their voice for years when sigint transcribers work the same target set for a long time they sometimes can identify a certain individual in recorded conversations just by the sound of his voice and by his unique way of speaking this process was traditionally known as voice identification now rapidly improving technology is available that can do the same job mathematically the technology works by analyzing your voice is unique features to create an individual voice print and once the n.s.a. has that a single speaker can be almost instantaneously pinpointed even among massive databases now in two thousand and sixteen alone the n.s.a. hoarded more than one hundred fifty one million records of americans phone calls

and that was after their bulk collection abilities were limited by congress so there's no telling how many boyfriends they could have at their disposal and theoretically a person could be instantly located and tracked down as long as a microphone is somewhere nearby and as edward snowden pointed out there's almost no escaping mike these days i don't think anybody would argue the police should say chase terrorists paedophiles who we don't talk you about so it's just it's heat surveillance what we're talking about is everybody everything piece of data die everybody being collected and scanned by software thinking that looks deviant and he could stop talking to people involved in very legitimate things like demonstration straw eeks even you know people who vote the wrong way this was the american government is considered another fear is that speaker read. ignition could end up discouraging people from speaking out it has the potential to unmask anonymous sources or tracking journalists or whistleblowers and according to the

intercept this technology isn't only in american hands either it looks like interpol the european union and china have their own version as well among others so you can run but you definitely cannot hide and from collecting information to losing it the u.s. federal court has revealed the n.s.a. deleted crucial data connected to illegal wiretapping carried out by the george w. bush administration the agency responded saying the data was removed to simply free up space on its hard drives the presidential surveillance program that's going to sort of most criteria that are broadly used to delete dates of a certain type in response to mission requirements to free up space and improve performance of the backup system the data in question was controversially collected after the nine eleven terror attacks in the u.s. in two thousand and seven it was initially ordered by the court to be preserved to further examination but has now been raised along with backup tapes the information

was deemed important to a number of pending lawsuits a format and as a director and whistleblower we spoke to says this sort of data tends to disappear far too often. but it's a way of covering your backside so that when the investigations start in the get that they they just can't let that data be exposed that's all it's just more evidence of their criminal activity department of defense inspector general did the same thing with material against whistleblowers even though when the whistleblowers were in a court under to under criminal accusation of criminal trial they destroyed evidence and it was only because was exculpatory and they didn't want that out so now this is all deliberate even when they lie in front of congress or to the people the united states or even to the president or any of the cabinet it doesn't seem to matter there's no accountability here to be intelligence community is so much power i mean even senator schumer told the president trump that he shouldn't be attacking the intelligence community because they've got six ways to sunday to get back at you and these are the ways they do it. yemenis join our coalition told could be on

the verge of the breakthrough the social democrats late at martin schulz has persuaded his party members to vote in favor of reestablishing a grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel's party however this could see the anti migrant alternative to jenny party becoming the main opposition force in the country as peeta all of that explains. all this was the result that martin schultz wanted it was the result he campaigned for but it was a visibly very worried martin schulz waiting for those results that come in he gave a speech just before the ballots were cast he said that there were only two options it was either go into coalition with angela merkel's conservative bloc or they'd have to be another election and he was very clear on which one he'd prefer that you do you know you everyone should realize the question is coalition talks for new elections my take on this is very clear i don't think new elections are the right

way for us but what would a coalition do for the bundestag how would the book to stagg look if a new grand coalition can be formed well what it would do is it would mean that the social democrats were no longer the largest opposition party that would go to the new kids on the block of target of germany they would be the largest opposition party they would also get all of the or perks and traditions that come along with that including being the chair of the bundestag budget committee all new ground for the right leaning and tea establishment party a party in fact in which martin schultz and many other senior members of the social democrats have decried as racist before the election in september and said that they shouldn't be taking up seats within the bundestag well in an attempt to try and hang on to power for himself he may well catapult them up into the position of been germany's largest opposition to political analysts rain

a rough first told us why he thinks the f.t. has gained so much support. i would say that the union party is all the c.d.u. look has left of the conservative positions of the past they have turned somewhat roughly speaking into. an ass. and the ass p.d. has lost much of its political standing because many of the topics were also covered by the c.d.u. so the a.f.p. just came in to fill in. the blank space that. has left. the push for a second grand coalition has had a polarizing effect on s.p.d. members many on the left believe by entering government as part of a broader lines the party could jeopardize its future and alienate its support base as of yet finally i come under there is no more appropriate term than political suicide to describe this because if the s.p.d.

really carries on like all the things they were punished for in the last election then i don't know what will be left of them in two or four years time and that is to ensure that the vicious circle would have been trapped in for so many years now and that we should break it really made a new start for the democratic party in another dollars another four years of government or even two years of government will not bring us any further to this point you are saying that the people's body is for bring in long term care and that the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition. at least one person has reportedly been killed and two others are said to be missing after a u.n. vehicle was attacked by armed men in the afghan capital earlier that's according to local media citing security often officials it comes just a day after siege at a luxury hotel in kabul left more than thirty people dead local journalist. reports . broke that news afterwards i was able to speak to a police officer in

a couple of witnesses in police district seventeen. on the outskirts of kabul city in this are in maine just stop the vehicle outside of a street or an alleyway and they killed one individual who was inside the vehicle in their talk with them at least three people a woman and her child and possibly the driver of the vehicle they left the vehicle behind it's not clear who the kidnappers wore why the people inside the u.n. vehicle was targeted but we have heard more criminalization and common on groups criminal gangs who kidnapped you know foreign afghan nationals for ransom what is a great source of concern how can this happen in a broad daylight where were the police you know who are these guys who are so. brave to go after u.n. employees for example we still don't know which part of the u.n.

they were working for in this incident of the kidnapping only comes a day after the attack on the intercontinental hotel the government is very adamant that only nineteen people were killed but unfortunately at least forty four people were killed at least fourteen of them were employees of karma airline one of the major private airlines operating in afghanistan this in a city where gunfire is often unfortunately a sign of another terrorist attack and that's one of the biggest challenges i think for twenty team for the afghan government. guards and europe's largest prison which is just outside the french capital have set up barricades and block the entrance to the facility in protest of a working conditions it comes as part of a nationwide strike triggered by series of attacks and prison staff across the country the latest incident was on friday when two guards were injured in a stopping to find inmates who had reportedly been radicalized. that the

demonstrations will continue until the government takes step. to provide more security for personnel working in jails some of the protests over the past week have led to violent clashes with police. and that's a round up of our top stories this hour union o'neil will be here at the top of the hour with more of the latest means so don't go away. please everybody i'm stephen bach. hollywood guy the suspect every crowd american first of all i'm just george bush in our view to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different i'm. going to the winner with no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the good have some fun meet everyday americans. and we start to bridge the gap this is the great

american people. that's right the sand here from us. are all over them with a song. about it that are on the right track but rather tough it out for them to care that. i'm only allowed to but when i cut and then you cut them and keep an eye on what i have to lose a child with a tough call that i'm. living. then i'm all in on the show but also i know it does show that they only admire the. members of

a lot of. little. you get the whole full. the i knew you had them and hey i think the time in syria has said that. the shiites are way. from my lot farther to me after the whole front on this mr hate to jim and then we are about half will fit our fairly new or. even. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle well the four page memo detailing extensive five's of cord to be used changed the

course of what is known as russia gate also does the trumpet ministration syria policy make any sense and who's the real bully from the media. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international our gentleman as usual crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate alex let me go to you first this four page memo now if you watch fox it means something and it means something big you watch c.n.n. you might not even hear about it is this a partisan thing or is there is something they are there to be honest we don't really know yet do we i mean you have fox which is building it up as explosive scandal is bring down the obama administration is going to connect obama to the

d.o.j. to the f.b.i. to the clinton campaign that they were spying on trump they were surveilling they were surveilling trump and you have c.n.n. i'm simply seeing or saying there's nothing there i mean the the only thing you can really do is release that memo and glenn greenwald is calling to release that memo a lot of news a lot of people from julian assad everybody saying we've got to release the memo because we don't really know laura ingram said on our show that there's one democrat who has read this memo which is located some secret room. for classified information one democrat while all the republicans actually got through that memo and they're shocked and that's a quote they're shocked at what they read nor what do you make of all this yeah it's hard to know what to make of it because of the part of the nature of the russia gate scandal that it concerns one thing we have to say that we can all yell hash tag release the memo it's so popular right now but it's the republican controlled congress that can release the memo or trump's white house they can order

the memo declassified and release it to everyone if they want it released will then release it already stop trying to make a public theater out of it let's see if you can it really is i mean from what i understand they're going to go through a process that will take like nineteen days for it to be released ok well that's ninety days for this partisan. lunchroom fight to continue ok i mean it will see but you know one of the interesting things is that all while the new this new phase of bill the seven hundred two bill that allows the n.s.a. to continue this process of surveillance i mean the irony of ironies here because it was probably because. i know too that allowed something like this to happen they renewed it trump signed it where was the debate none well it's there is no doubt and then to say we'll continue spine and this whole russia great story will continue your worthless wiretapping of americans what what what what

what what i'm interested in is when will people understand that this is just i mean i keep my diary the rush of meddling in the elections in france serbia italy well ladyship. and these were serious an american politician saying that it was not just on paper you know saying that all russia could possibly. do. well there are also smaller countries like most adorning and they're afraid that you know you can. convince our viewers right now that the united states and its security agencies are not trying to affect russia's upcoming presidential election well absolutely. out of the question you know there are such beautiful people there you know all the story of we're not all need you know is granted tell us who he is now vallone is

a racist. participant in the so-called russian marchers so he's he's considered by many other ways over the old liberal but he's quote unquote liberal leader of the anti putin in a position and the anti-corruption chris say days he's presented the last why it's been convicted for fraud of french guzman why is it being connected for fraud in shady business deals and they he has a problem with. a french perfume company and not with the russian only with russian companies however it's an interesting case when the united states decided to throw all they want with a nationalist with a racist you know this is a new technology. and they did it in ukraine they did it in the middle east but in russia they're probably doing it for the first time which will make this election cycle maybe interesting maybe because i go back to the trump issue which is interesting because for the last week when we hear about trump that he's unstable

mentally that he's sick is he going to last you know off four years or eight years get on a scale and show us your way so that you have the whole media even tightly even if it's hard to disguise it it's got to be president physically mentally but to give them unlimited powers to spy and surveil they gave them an unprecedented military budget voted both by democrats and republicans so you can see going back to what you said the absurdity of it all well let's talk about another blank check here let's talk about syria mark you followed probably better than anyone i know. the more i read about what the u.s. is trying to do in syria the more i do not understand other than intentional destabilization. of the country forever so that's what they've been doing for the last six years it legally arming training and salary militants allied with al-qaeda to overthrow the syrian government they trump administration finally after months in end it that obama policy but they doubled down on supporting the kurds which are

affiliated with the white p.g. which the us has listed as a terrorist group largely because of its insurgent actions in turkey against the turkish regime of earlier but what we're having now diem is that we have the us sowing the turks and the kurds under the bus the same bus i mean the contradictions the more you look at it the more the contradictions are are jarring ok well the problem is they're trying to remove. my and their diversity who was actually not in syria before two thousand the united states and you have lost you which. you know a country at least four times more important than syria and iraq the u.s. and they have already lost you know their polish it was just struck different not only destroyed syria it also destroyed their own released input it will continue oh it's one of the things is if we look at what secretary tillerson had to say about

syria which i thought it was like a visit to the twilight zone and could make a whole program on it but the in the there will be a embargo a blockade a sanction against rebuilding syria the u.s. will actively push that. the refugees that left that went to europe will not be able to come back because they'll be nothing to come back to so this perpetuates this problem. exactly and will it will actually see because it won't be any reconstruction more. more refugees flooding into europe with i mean again who are the winners in all of this i don't see anyone just because the united states is trying to bite. assad iran and russia parties in europe. the united states and they you hate so much i mean they will be asking these questions and then the mainstream media and then you will say russians russians are sprayed in all that he was and it is so obvious i mean could you not

have seen that turkey would never ever in a million years allow any sort of kurdish state quasi state border security forces whatever they call it under their country of presence underneath turkey of thirty million kurds in turkey there was no way turkey would ever allow that in a million years they don't see this truck campaigned on ending the process of nation building ending the process of euphemism of democracy promotion and ending regime changes which she said as as counterproductive and destructive to u.s. policy across the middle east she also said what are we doing in syria if hillary clinton has her way we will be starting world war three with russia in syria over al-qaeda and this is the trump administration has compete clearly capitulated to the own guns and they're running trams foreign policy tillerson now sit and prominent in deafening as you open it with terry occupation of syria their goals

are now open to regime change once again back to the obama era confronting iran because iran is not allowed to have influence in syria no matter what damascus said i think tillerson should give us a list of the countries in the world that are allowed to decide who their allies are and which ones aren't because it's always complained in eastern europe that countries are allowed to ally with and join nato if they want but syria's not allowed to ally with iran he wouldn't say they're going to go but i think we need to. wayne to all of you who might not watch the news in the days what happened in syria what happened was a turkish invasion. it is a fact or it is a fact that the russian forces have removed themselves from the area that. but it was a response to what do the united states claim that they are going to create this huge talk called border security consulting the turks without even consulting the. sport

you could there's no took an interview from the former you can best of the syria peter ford who said the forward in which i think is is pretty exact the united states has been trying to prevent syria from stabilizing itself as huge interest over in state now they see and way off partially implemented by encouraging the formation of a kurdish state and so their response to it was of the. essential i think we have to explain to our viewers this is a partitioning syria permanently. shootout and an american at the same and at the behest i would say that the saudis and the israelis there is again we our viewers have to understand it's very clear the united states has no geopolitical national interest in syria and the american forces are there or are there illegally under international law there was no united nations security council authorization of you has written.