tensions between the u.s. and north korea and they even called on the u.s. to provoke them anymore but somehow they were designated as threats and from speech around the world we face rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and russia that challenge our interests our economy and i have advice in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and matched power is the surest means to our true and great effects i was just watching our mainstream coverage earlier and the only criticism big had wellies foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred billion dollar defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down so these are all important noises for the president

to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were to chinese it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however we're beyond cold in terms of the cold war the rhetoric is much more aggressive much more riseth for us the agenda is much more pernicious and it's become a centerpiece of u.s. partisan politics the whole russia gate issue. back to domestic policy trump announced that he signed an executive order to keep the one ton of obey detention center open despite get my becoming notorious for various human rights abuses including two terms pieces that barack obama vowed to close that facility back in two thousand and nine but never delivered on the promise. in the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous. only to meet again on the battlefield including the isis leader.

who we captured who we had who we released. so today i'm keeping another promise i just shy. prior to walking in an order directing secretary man to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. when crime came into power he said not only that he believes torture works he's going to throw want on him up the only reason why i can say this is because there's no precedent for people being prosecuted for war crimes and i think it's important that this would praise the said the war crimes carried out in kuantan immobile graham and all the other detention for the cities by the americans in fact recently now for the first time i think in recent history the i.c.c.

the international criminal court is finally investigating some of the abuses that the americans carried out in afghanistan and perhaps later in kuantan and it's an unprecedented move so to be saying that at a time when this investigation is taking place that i'm going to keep guantanamo open is an affront to the very notion of justice. the russian hacking group fancy bears is claiming the canadian olympic committee covered up a positive doping test of its national poll bowl champion prior to the rio olympics my colleague mccarran discussed the details with r.t. easily bitter end. well it looks like an eyebrow raising e-mail exchange supposedly between the people from the canadian olympic committee and also their national body that is responsible for sports ethics some pretty disappointing tactics in there it looked like attempts to play down an anti-doping rule violation and some corkey damage control around the summer olympics in rio and here's the athlete at the

center of this what can you tell us about him well it's all of the case of the former pole vault champion from canada his name is shawn barber prior to rio he had tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and terminal disciplinary proceedings with that in town and he was allowed to go and moreover this case was hidden from the international olympic committee for a while the see you see he was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the games we do not condone this behavior sean has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. now for a moment just bear in mind all the treatment that the russian olympic athletes have been getting and listen to how shawn barber was cleared basically what he did was claimed at the hearings that he had inhaled or ingested the cocaine during

a sexual intercourse with someone he called a professional woman she found him allegedly on a craigslist ad and the cocaine was transferred when a kiss happened so canadian officials were happy to let him go and keep the i.o.c. in the dark about this by the way just for your information the pole vaulter came out as gay a few months after the olympics and said that he was proud of it very interesting i presume the i.o.c. has taken a saloon very seriously well i can tell you it was too late to take this seriously they couldn't do anything about that when they found out but apparently some people at the i.o.c. weren't so happy with the situation president thomas bought allegedly the called the ruling a decision that was influenced by national interests but in the meantime if we go

back to the e-mails some top canadian sports officials appear to have been trying to do everything to make sure that this case doesn't get any further attention and clued ng legal attention and if you look at the wording it suggests that anyone who's concerned or anyone who's just even trying to ask questions about this is doing something terribly wrong it does not seem right that this is being suggested publicly but if an independent bruce is determined the athlete was at new fools in this case. and the i.o.c. had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is a point where i once again want to mention all the russian olympic fans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards. we discussed this issue with professor of sociology at aston university ellis cashmore may

believes there's an issue of double standards given that russia's athletes have been banned even without testing positive for the thing what is novel of course is this apparent relaxation of warder's rule of strict liability warders premise with all its other rules regarding drugs is that the individual athlete is so all the responsible for his or her own bodies if you're in a bar and somebody spiked shore drink your responsible for it even if you'd left your drink on guarded while you went to the toilet or something like that or turned your back or the perpetrator of the crime or the perpetrator of the crime have been banned from competing even without giving any kind of positive don't test at all or being guilty by association so there is this kind of striking difference between the treatment that russian athletes are being given and those that have been afforded to north american athletes. lympics looming go only one hundred sixty

nine russian athletes will be invited to the games out of almost five hundred initially put on the list russian president vladimir putin has apologized to the sports people saying that the country failed to protect them but you know better than anyone else how hard it is to gain victories and how much effort you need and it's two times harder when a sport is mixed with events and for millions of sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that r.t. talked exclusively to a number of russian athletes who were spoken to by the president. in agreement there is a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course it's quite a complicated situation i really want to do my best one to overcome my anxiety and distance myself from all the sturdy media is causing around us now i want to address our fans i want them to be more kind and to keep supporting us no matter what i need to forget about our desire to win forget that everyone is against us

and just continue doing our job. set up within ourselves we know what country represent it matters what we feel not what we wear just have hard feelings for those who weren't allowed to participate even though they were innocent and maybe we're still a bit angry about that. as afghan and u.s. forces have increased their attacks against militant strongholds in afghanistan civilians are finding themselves caught in the crossfire in their own homes. islamic state militants came here the government then dropped off a leaflet to warn us so we fled our village and then the americans were destroyed these houses were among the government help us. the three villages who were killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. we were on

our way villagers said the u.s. forces were coming here then we continue our trip to europe to central district here in this time they bombed us there were eleven of us in vehicle on the i survived here ten people including my appearance in cousin who are killed. the latest statistics from the u.s. air force make situation abundantly clear during the last year the u.s. dropped more than four thousand bombs on afghanistan in saugus the u.s. carried out twice as many airstrikes as in the previous two years combined american military forces insist they take all precautions to avoid civilian casualties. israeli legal activists have filed a lawsuit against two new zealanders one of whom is jewish herself that's because they apparently influenced the pop star lord to cancel a planned gig in television with details his pull the slip. late last year the new

zealand pop star norwood an answer to his canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june of this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of acorn by two new zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her response on her twitter feed noted been speaking with many people about this and considering our options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to now is really activists are suing those two new zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under it controversial israeli anti boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for a boycott of his role including of lands it's occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly led to a boycott now the noise part of the israeli government's way to try and deal with

the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement there has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech and freedom of expression. or the value because it has been on somewhat of a roller coaster ride of loads the future of virtual currencies seems to lie with this underlying technology book show and in the russian capital one businessman is seen as being the crypto currency but i'm turning a former soviet car factory into a mining farm girl frances santiago explains. welcome to our digital digest on everything exciting in the world of block change i mean your practice and thiago this is parties can tell you soviet cycling technology may just be what the world needs for a global revolution in mining we're about to speak to the founder of the russian

mining company and see what the multi-cell mind is all about big news from moscow as the russian mining company cohen by dmitri marine shiv one of president vladimir putin's internet. plan to raise as much as one hundred million dollars in bitcoin and a theory i'm for their i c.e.o. the result was only forty three million but it was more than needed to go on with the production of the maltese cell miner see with mining it's simple a machine takes part in every day crypto currency exchange operations and gains the owner eight percent for each shands action the latest chinese bit main mining machine at twenty three hundred dollars will produce you around twenty five dollars worth of bitcoin daily r m c s two miners in the works the sixteen hundred dollars sunrise bitcoin miner that has more mining power than because maine's machine that's producing thirty to forty percent more daily revenue and the multi-cell alternative coin miner that will be a breakthrough for the world's mining machinery but speak with himself and get the

latest on the progress so you had a tough launch some deadlines were blown but everyone is eager to see the miner what's the progress so far the progress is good the sunrise mine is ready and as we speak we're beginning mass production of the factory while the multi-cell should be ready by august twenty eighth multi-cell is a microprocessor which routes deep into the soviet past when the multi-celled processing philosophy was created it was used in space communication and it is still used what it is is basically a ciphering technology for communication channels using minimal energy consumption and at the same time be. extremely failsafe because several cells allow the processor to keep working even if one or two cells have malfunctioned in orbit for the experience and when we did the mathematical equations of experiments the results were sounding as they were radically better and higher than for example the usual alternative queen demining through video cuts by our calculations one

multi-celled will produce up to four thousand dollars in revenue a day and that's where we got the idea to do an i.c.a.o. for the production of such unique products what's your take on the future of crypto in russia i think the russian government overall sees cryptocurrency as something positive there ins and outs that have yet to be established steps are being taken to govern cryptocurrency but overall the drift i'm getting is that even with future laws in place russia will be a very habitable country for cryptocurrency it is really mind boggling a machine that will produce four thousand dollars a day is that even possible while it's wait and see you can watch the full episode of our tease told him on our you tube channel stay tuned. meanwhile a canadian based entrepreneur is going green by finding an alternative use for crypto currency mining is recycling the generated three bitcoin mining agricultural

use the waste heat generated from more than one hundred big coal mining computers is being recycled to grow crops and to maintain fish tank temperatures currently around eight hundred char held in the warehouse the founder of the food technology firm explains how recycling wasting it bring economic benefits to the community. recycling that waste heat from data centers or bitcoin miners that's going to have a huge economic impact here while it whether it's from strawberries or even a very specific plan and their environmental conditions the benefit is going to be felt by everyone what we do. do know is that the digital economy has a huge ecological footprint whether you're searching on amazon or on facebook even doing a google search that's equivalent to driving a car fifty kilometers that's a big carbon footprint now we can take that waste and then convert it into facilities where we're growing food and that food addresses real humanitarian needs

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but you get to say proud is the comes to advocate and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the currency market itself is still on track to eclipse the global banking all adopt only which is what we need what we want and i've always said it's a bank starkiller that's the primary use of bed going up the person. is this is harder than kentucky. you could.

a co money see it with no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal mines just said. that it was a. sees people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of

silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media call it a distraction finally the public will decide. cross talking release the memo i'm joined by my guest lee stranahan in washington he's an investigative journalist and a co-host for faultlines on radio sputnik also in washington we have james chatteris he's a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership and in los angeles we cross the ha goodman he's a columnist and journalist published in the huffington post salon the hill and other publications right gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate a.j. as usual you got up early as for the program god bless you glad to have you with us all right we have our heads beginning to roll we have entered mccabe out. is

rod rosenstein next then who else and talk about the state of denial in the liberal media go ahead ha it's good to see you again it's great to be here well the obama white house illegally spied on trump since two thousand and fifteen this is according to the guardian g c h q was sending information to the u.s. intelligence community community about trump associates this is before the alleged russian hacking of the d.n.c. this is before all the facebook posts apparently gave swing states to try and this is before the russian hacking narrative. there is no crime that trump is said to have committed so they've been spying on trump illegally susan rice on mask names illegally and they tried to find information on trump associates even though donald trump has never been accused of a crime and he's not the subject of a crime they haven't found any evidence and it's been since two thousand and

fifteen the mulla probe is completely partisan and it was a result of james comey squeezy memos. russia never interfered in the election to the point of giving the election to anyone what took place was it was a one point two billion dollar loss from hillary clinton and to cover up the loss we know that there was an insurance policy so peter struck in the text messages stated well i spoke to andrew mccabe and now mccabe is out. and we can't we can't. question whether or not we have to have an insurance policy if in the event that trump wins then you have speedo struck ok. you've got a lot of material right there let me go to james here i mean ha's got it down cold here the facts here but james i mean the fact of the matter is that we're going to actually see what's behind the curtain here how the obama justice department and

f.b.i. operated as they went through the election cycle this is the real scandal here because if you look at all of these things peter struck at his girlfriend and all these things with andy's office and all that there's nothing about russia they're absolutely zip go ahead james. that's have sure a little really right what we're really talking about i think the key word here is conspiracy there was a conspiracy with and organs of the of the federal government particularly the f.b.i. i understand there's some reference to the cia in this memo as well we'll have to see if it's in there or not but i think if you look at the hysteria with which the democrats have been opposing release of this memo and also the distraction that the media has been pursuing to take away the attention of this memo if you go to the three networks or m s n b c or or c.n.n. they don't lead with talk about this memo they talk about trump once thought about firing miller it's the saturday massacre all over again it's attempt to deflect

deflect from the real news which is this thing which i expect in short order we will see what's what and i think i do think some other heads will roll out just because you know it's interesting you know the the non news event is news i mean what kind of world are they living and i know what kind of actually they live in a very intellectually corrupt and moral world that's what i think here in a legal you had christopher ray came out of his office and kind of wandered up i guess it was to the capitol and he looked at this memo here and reports say that he was surprised or shocked i don't remember the exact world word why in the world. the head of the f.b.i. surprised about material that the deal way in the f.b.i. gave to congress i have to wonder what's going on with the head of the f.b.i. if he is shocked and we all are in a very worrisome place here go ahead lee well let's talk about the real problem here the problem is not rogue agents the problem is institutional the problem is

i'll use the term deep state you could also call it the persistent state it is not a shock at all that the cia is involved in this because the fact is whoever is in the white house whoever is in congress there is a persistent group of people who stay from administration to administration it's an unelected fourth branch of government and that's what's happening this is an institutional thing and whatever you think of donald trump whatever you think of his policies i don't trump supporter but if you don't like him. it doesn't make any difference he was clearly an outsider who deep state the persistent state was very very worried about and part of that apparatus is also the media i cover a lot of white house press briefings let's flash back to last spring over and over and over again i was in that room in the white house press briefing room when trump came out and said that i was that trump tower that was wiretapped he said it remember that the media activism he was a crazy person and it was five days of questioning and i remember every media

outlet was tag team each other a us this all asked that now cut to the last week i was in three briefings last week at the white house and i was there the first time a question was asked about releasing this memo i had sat through a number of briefings it already been on social media right and it had already been out by the way why was it on social media because over one hundred republican congressmen looked at it it's not russian box one hundred republican congressman look at something and go we think this should come out it's going to resonate through particularly republican social media so part of it is going on and it is coming out on me when you need to cover it up that well yeah because they're complicit in ha i mean this is this is about and i'm going to say watching m s n b c and c.n.n. and they're terrified of this memo i mean watching them go blue in the face saying but what about national security what about what about this some salt i mean they

don't even want i mean i thought sunshine was the best cure here i mean not that was an old liberal mantra at least way i was growing up ok i mean they want to continue to live in darkness where they bring the public with them every single night go ahead a.j. well there's a reason why fusion g.p.s. and buzz feed are being sued by three russian bankers an entrepreneur i think trumps lawyers suing fusion g.p.s. . the trump russia does ca was. nonsense and it was a fantasy maybe bill clinton's fantasy who knows it was complete and utter nonsense gossip hearsay derived from russian sources so so the collusion is actually the d.n.c. and hillary clinton purchasing the dust for around nine million dollars in fees to the law firm that clinton used. the congress should ask for an itemized report to find out how much was actually paid for this nonsense used for feisal war

and so that's what. the memo it's all about that's what we're getting all about. gossip and hearsay being used tony. you just mentioned. you just mentioned going to james here remember when the quote unquote trump dot ca russia does ca came out how everybody wanted to shop it around after buzz feed let it go everybody wanted to shout but look at this look at that l mazing amazing of course they were a bunch of fools they didn't even know what they were reading i read it and thought this is ridiculous on the get go but when it comes to a memo about information that the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. have cole a did and made available to these investigations these committees here liberal media doesn't want to say a word about it except for it will be a danger to national security you know what the liberal media is a danger to national security go ahead james that's right and that's why i'm reserving my let's say excitement and celebration over the release of this memo

when it comes out it's going to be a silver bullet to shut this down yes i think some of the cancer may be cut out of the bureaucracy and maybe some of it won't be my concern is that it is fundamental purpose to make sure there could be no rapprochement with moscow that relations would stay very bad unfortunately i think it's largely succeeded in that purpose i have people who are defending trump referring to the steel memo for example say and it's full of russian dirt and putin's propaganda and we have no way of knowing where this british spook got this or how reliable sources were how much of this was just made up because they were getting paid your client wants dirt will give you dirt well but the russian bad narrative has been so entrenched now i'm not sure how we get it out you know that's good that leave that's interest that's a very interesting well and i agree with them completely because they die it's been cast on that element there ok across the board you can there if you question it to your viewer your europe.