going from a manual much paul's party the republic of wash with advisors said to have been at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its norm which one your girl friends was glad you created like the west and like many other countries looking for a hole because it was feel despair i think than today truth increasing you can look at the future musical and i think that the movement that chris and others are leading with when you usually future you can embrace. during the ideas of mass. which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics were new also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope it'll work for them too . we don't have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael the u.k. electoral commission says there is no issue with the british party receiving advice

from a foreign political party providing it receives no funding from it so it's fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from a russian party will there be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out what's going on in those countries we are straining for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that r.t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the breaks vote dividing the u.k. for europe this fight

a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing bragg's it a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave you so it seems that through you meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved jollity even ski r.t. paris. julian assange just to remain stranded inside the ecuadorian embassy it's after a british judge ruled that an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder remains in force the president of ecuador meantime says his country will continue to protect our signage. our go to. inherited the issue of the mistress sons from our predecessors clearly it causes a certain inconvenience but since the first days in office we pledged our support

for him until he is safe and we believe he is in danger the london court ruling is important but it will not change our position we will continue to protect mr sands under international refugee little. so with the court ruling going against him as arjun looks to stay holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london or sweden dropped all criminal rape charges against him last year but the u.k. says it will still arrest him if he leaves the embassy effectively leaving a sound in limbo a human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes if a son steps one foot out of that door he could be easily extradited there's no doubt that the bottom line in the a sound case is the very serious unlikely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can in theory carry the death penalty at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and

possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that as a rational human being journalists aren't would not wish to step outside the ecuadorian embassy when that risk of arrest and extradition to the u.s. hangs over his head on tuesday took to twitter over a minor scale the ecuadorian embassy there in london apparently a package was delivered to him containing a written threat and an unidentified white powder a police inspector the substance none of it turned out to be dangerous. of course it's not been all threats over the years five years in fact inside that small embassy means that a song charts have plenty of time to entertain visiting friends and supporters.

and. every sin poll has found the majority of americans believe the media is biased it comes at a time when ever more former senior government employees are moving into t.v. punditry with the controversy surrounding the recent nunez memo giving them lots to talk about sabera column explores if there are grounds for the presumption of bias

many people seeking expertise on the nunez memo must be switching through channels these days so is it a big deal or is it underwhelming was the right to release it well here's a familiar face to answer all of your questions the fact that the newness of republicans denied the ability of the minority the democratic members of that committee to put out its report is just appalling he has abused the office of the chairmanship yes that was john brennan former cia director and now a member of the m s n b c family as a contributor brennan was a prominent figure in the intelligence community appointed by barack obama but that background doesn't mess. fairly mean he's biased right but bret is not the only intelligence official who's joined the ranks of mainstream media we also have josh campbell who resigned from the f.b.i. and joint c.n.n. as a law enforcement analyst he's yet to make his first appearance on the network but before he does here's an excerpt from his latest new york times op ed defending his former employee these political attacks on the. critics of the agency persuade the

public that the f.b.i. cannot be trusted they will also have succeeded in making our nation less safe it's not hard to guess what campbell will say on c.n.n. regarding the nunez memo which accuse the f.b.i. of bias and just a little reminder he was also james komi special assistant the same komi who's accused of wrongdoing in the memo but of course campbell and brennan aren't the first to make the switch there is an absolute leftist bias in the country most of the networks if you just add up for example the time that they speak negatively about the president it's about ninety percent of the time and there are numerous studies that show this where for example president obama he would do things say things in there would be no media coverage of it whatsoever and case in point are the recent memos that we're all seeing come out of course the republican memo released the new yes memo great scrutiny over most of the american media very

little coverage when what should happen based on that memo for example would be that that molar is investigation should be expanded but that's not what the media has called for now it said that you can never teach an old dog new tricks so how can we expect these x. government officials to magically shed their previous political associations.

so in the seventy's president richard nixon was relentlessly mocked by the media for imitating a character from the film patton if that was life for i think politics imitating art ironically what we have these days is the media imitating politics samir khan r.t. washington d.c. just only twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital thanks for joining us so far about halfway through this program on r.t. international and still many more stories to come we are back in a moment. 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. spend spend be sure to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else want to because i want to

show what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great chance for. peace. two americas too intensely charged in opposing news narratives to cable news networks reflect these divisions or rather function as triggers intensifying cultural divide also what has happened to journalism is it now a profession inhabited by hacks in the politically possessed. and joining us here or not say the u.s. military chief james mattis has urged congress to increase the country's defense

spending it's necessary according to the defense secretary owing to the growing nuclear threat from china and russia. moscow advocates a theory of nuclear escalation for military conflict congress must commit both an increase and just stained investment in our capabilities russia has been modernizing the weapons as well as other nuclear systems trying to modernized and expanding its already considerable nuclear forces we need. congress to lift the defense. budget for military. several days ago the pentagon issued a new clear policy review in which it names north korea china and russia among its main security threats that offense department claims that it's not possible to delay the modernization of nuclear forces the review also says that the u.s.

reserves the right to use a nuclear response against a known nuclear threat. and the trump administration is pushing for a seven hundred billion dollar defense budget for this year which is ninety billion more than last year as a political commentator lou rockwell things any such increase could have potentially dangerous consequences well they want more money because they just want more money i mean this is what the government lives to do it lives to spend so when you start using these weapons it's all too easy to escalate it's a horrendous thing the u.s. has got its bases about a thousand bases in this world all around these other countries it's threatening their destruction and i don't know what's going to happen but it's very very disturbing that these guys are talking openly about this kind of military escalation it's an outrage that the american people should be letting this go on and maybe they don't even realize what's going on but it's important that all of us

understand what's going on to learn something about what they're doing it's it's. it's threatening to everybody in the world and anybody who's got children or grandchildren would like to see their families continue into the future not to be worried about this desperately worried. the war in yemen is over one thousand days old and the humanitarian crisis in the country is only getting worse according to the u.n. almost forty seven thousand yemenis have been displaced since december all reports of children being killed or injured in saudi led airstrikes keep coming in we spoke to some of those affected i should warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. you know what do you. really. understand a little. bit even

a lot of us i don't know and. then you don't want to. then it will last a little month. but you still. don't want to. finding out what many missed out on the button has it been argued that the . hash tag get a little jealous and i think you can allow this not in an. article i mean another line. just to remind you the saudi led coalition stop that it's in cochon and you have been back in twenty fifteen against the who is the

opposition fighters that seized power in the country since then saudi arabia has been under pressure from the international community and finally started sending aid to civilians the logo painted on the tents saying saudi arabia kingdom of humanity author abdel bari atwan says it's hardly humane to wait three years into a bombing campaign to suddenly then send aid. that's how they actually asked the city is overwhelmed bob and by all means that from the from sea from ground they did not actually put an end to this war and declare victory and now more than ten thousand people were killed most of them civilians and also all of that the cabin is imposed in yemen is a baddie that as the situation and the top of that they are saying that we are kidding about the humanitarian side of this war we are helping that yemeni people i

believe that saudi is usually in better they started this war three years ago and now the information to man if he can see the drastic effect on the people and say that the saudi enough is enough. the former headquarters of the nazi party's secret police in the city of hamburg is one of the lost your mind is in the city of the horrors of world war two but city developers decided to give the building a new life which is not going down too well with locals. the little word is that many people died after the torture which is unmentioned that's why there must be a commemorative place here it is a social obligation for the victims who have come here with me.

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and welcome to our all things considered i'm peter lavelle two americas two intensely charged in opposing news narratives you cable news networks reflect these divisions or rather function as triggers intensifying cultural divide also what has happened to journalism is it now a profession inhabited by hacks in the politically possessed. cross talking america divided i'm joined by my guest rob in new york he's a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post also in new york we have who he is the editorial director of reactionary times and a newsmax columnist and in los angeles we have ron paul cone he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in

effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated ron you got up early as for this program so you were elected to answer the question here and you know. a great deal of my time. i'm i watch cable news and i try to watch as much of all of them to get a variety of them and you know it's obvious to say that we live in two very very different americas the two americas that don't know each other at all anymore so when i look at the cable news networks i mean do they reflect this cultural divide or are they really intensifying it i mean are they do they magnify it because you certainly get that feeling look again b.c. and fox go ahead. i think that they they definitely intensify a divide yes do they reflect what's really going on in the states or minutes the people that live here i would say absolutely not and to the point where i try very hard to no longer even use the phrase mainstream media i try to refer to it to what

it is i call it the corporate media because that's what it is it's owned by a small elite group of corporations they have an agenda they have a narrative they have certain things that they're not allowed to talk about but as far as the division goes i mean yeah and you brought up the memo as a for instance and i think that's a very good example you know on one side yet at m.s.n. b.c. trying to make it out like oh this is absolutely nothing that on the other side you know and on fox news for instance you had oh this is absolutely everything and the truth is that you know there are things to learn in every given rhetorical of event so yeah there's certainly an agenda but really it's just most of the time political theater between the most elite among us and is that really reflecting what's going on in the united states and more and more people are disenfranchised well that's what media that's why people come to us another alternative media door your own

very often i really much we enjoy yeah that's why i have a job and he's a progressive i consider myself a conservative but i find him a reasonable person if i knew a reasonable person to talk to iran more or less the same question to you because it seems to me if you look at this in b.c. and then you look at fox basically with both are doing is they're they're. reacting to a status quo that is changing and i think that rattles both of them ok because we're still reeling from the election of donald trump in the media is trying to or not trying to adjust to the political realities so it seems to me that you know the before the media horizon there was the rain was there people understood it but it's changing changed very radically since then and i think that sees the extremes and the networks that i just mentioned go ahead bob. well when ron was talking about corporations i mean what are we doing we're going for ratings because they're going

to make more money and i used to be three times a week guest on fox representing i would say what i called myself as a sane liberal as opposed to a kneejerk liberal or a complete jerk liberal those are my different types of liberals but i'm going to hearken back to a book written in one thousand nine hundred seventy three that's always been one of my favorites and it's it's really proved to be. news for no you know where by edward jay epstein and he was talking about how television news was terrible because they don't actually provide you real news yet they're getting fed information from big corporations and from p.r. departments and so what i find offensive is i actually got into a little shoving not a shoving match but a little verbal jousting years ago with matt lauer because he gave me this i'm a journalist kind of thing at a function and he's a journalist like i'm tom brady. we've forgotten what real journalism it is and we

don't have shoe leather on the sidewalk journalism anymore but we may not be able to have to have that because who's going to pay for it so weird we in effect get real news from sources and leaks and it's a good way well you know you know you know and it seems to me that it has got down to just happy because as i said in the introduction of the program is that. you know i can be very open with i'm very sympathetic to like tucker carlson for example i think he's a pretty reasonable person and he has opposing people on all the time on his program but if you look at like hannity and you look at rachel maddow i mean they never let anything that disturbs their world you know interested and i find that really disturbing because that's just basically giving red meat to your viewers you're not teaching them anything you're just reaffirming it's an affirmation process in watching the two that i just mentioned here and i don't think that they

use a whole lot of news its own enormous amount of spin go ahead who will. well no not necessarily i mean this is the one thing i would say and to speak to you know all rachel maddow and her colleague over at m s n b c mika brzezinski saying and she was quoted as saying we have to control what people think i mean i think it needs to be fact based i think there is an extreme lack of integrity in reporting at this point and i guess the truth of the matter is that outlets like fox and newsmax are actually reporting facts things that have gone on and if you look at donald trump when he was on his asian tour he struck an energy deal to close our trade deficit with china by about eighty billion dollars if you look at the news that day the news was the speculation that this russia probe supposedly was going to shift to trump directly and now we're looking at this in february still hasn't yielded anything substantial that they can pin to trump so it's always been about trying to

make the trumpet ministration look bad from the left and there is a little bit of a defense mechanism going on in right leaning media but it's usually a lot more fact based coming from the right yeah well i would agree i mean we in the memo for example i mean when you look at c.n.n. and then mislead b.c. they're just in denial ok i mean you know one hour they say it's a danger to national security and then when it's released they say it's nothing here move along nothing to see i mean they are in denial here i'm going to go to ron in los angeles i mean. in that sense i did agree with julio i mean they don't even want to address the content of the memo for example i read it it's very interesting it's something i think it's very very important but you have the liberal corporatist media i will take your term they just dismiss it out of hand because again it didn't dangerous what they believe is the status quo and they have the right and the privilege to tell the world how to think our and tell the american public out of things go ahead wrong well yeah i mean i'm i'm

a very progressive guy and i used to really love rachel maddow i used to get. that or her a diamond in the rough but recently you know i mean i say if you watch rachel maddow show and you take a shot of vodka every time she says the word russia you're going to be i think the average person would probably be dead within twenty minutes. the media has a very. the media has a very corporate agenda going to try that very much. rob just don't do it i'm not going to do it you know you do i'd drop dead crosstalk will not be held regatta respect here i don't recommend anyone doing that ok well i don't recommend anyone actually do it with a disclaimer on at the end of the program. didn't show braun thank you. but yeah i mean they have their corporate you know i'll give another for instance you know m s n b c is owned by comcast you've not seen an honest report on net neutrality

from m s n b c you haven't really seen it in any of the corporate media but especially not from them because they're owned by comcast a very anti net neutrality company you know when dapple was going on all of the corporate media fox news c.n.n. m s n b c they're all funded in large part by ole oil and gas companies so of course they're not going to tell you what's going on in terms of oil a water protest where do you hear about that you hear about that from the journalists that are on the ground you know want to launch run on that good men and i'm not even like that on that point i do remember watching across the board and almost one of those rare moments of unity everybody said it's important. period we didn't get anything more than that ok i learned more about net neutrality listening to the jimmy door show it was an excellent program on net neutrality learned an enormous amount ok it was a problem let me go back to you one of the things that i find really disturbing in

our political discourse is it everywhere if you post someone they're a traitor they act in a treasonous way and i criticize donald trump for that and i certainly i certainly criticize and this n.b.c. and c.n.n. for peddling the same thing go ahead rob well one of the things that really used to infuriate me when i was a regular contributor to fox i've always been a democrat is i had people that would suddenly contact me on facebook or via twitter or they are e-mail and say i can't believe you're a traitor and you're on fox and then i will would respond and say did you see me when i was on this week no i won't watch it well then how do you know what i'm saying or what i'm contributing and really as a result of fox i've met a lot of interesting conservative people that i never would have met who follow me on twitter or i've spoken to on sirius radio and i really enjoy the interaction between us one of the things i think that we have to make the.