ceremony seems a sign of pulling relations but while the milf is on a charm offensive u.s. vice president mike pence who's also going to the games has a very different message. i am announcing today that the united states of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on north korea ever we will continue to intensify our maximum pressure campaign until north korea takes concrete steps toward complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. and new anti brags that policy is about speed don't just in the u.k. and is finding its first support across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to a manual nick runs on last amazement not only back the idea but has reportedly been giving advice to the parties found this on t.v. so that the bensky has a veto. this is really a brand new political party that

a boat to launch in the k. its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the british people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall but although get is a sore head for the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice from a course can all hear it from helping her and coming from a manual much for his party the public on the march with advisers said to be at a recent meeting did something about tactics and it's normally one euro girl friends was glad you came here like us and like many other countries looking for because it was feeling despair i think the danger increasing you can look at the

future musical and i think the movement of christian authors i believe with when you use the future you can embrace. burring the ideas of mcewan's 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 funding from it sounds 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 streaming in for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about art they're saying that all t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being up propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the brig's boat dividing the u.k. from europe despite a lack of concrete evidence. really new 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 brigs it a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave you so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even

ski r.t. paris. a recent poll has found that most americans believe their media is biased and it comes at a time when ever more former senior government employees are moving into t.v. punditry with the controversy surrounding the recent new year's memo giving their last a talk about summer can explores if there are grounds for 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 and republicans deny 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 necessarily mean he's biased right but brett 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 bureau must stop those critics of 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 is accused of wrongdoing in the memo but of course campbell and brennan are 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 is 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 and 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 memo that great scrutiny over most of the american media. a 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. or

to. in the seventies president richard nixon was relentlessly mocked by the media for imitating a character from the film past and if that was life or should i say politics imitating art ironically what we have these days is the media imitating politics samir khan r.t. washington d.c. we'll be back after this short break.

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welcome back it's been a long five months but it looks like germany is finally getting itself a new government the countries to launch its policies have put their differences aside to agree on a coalition piece although the has the details. political sconce served have blockhouse hammered out a deal with the social democrats that was described as needing painful compromise by angular merkel and it came on day three of extra time of these negotiations and followed a twenty four hour session we heard from peter the current incumbent of the finance ministry the christian democratic union member of parliament as he was leaving those talks he said it was definitely time for a shower

a very tired looking peter altmire as well there so what is this painful compromise well the social democrats they will hold on to the foreign ministry the labor ministry the justice family and environment ministries that they held in the previous government but they will gain the very powerful german finance ministry now after a moment it's unknown which position martin schulz would favor whether he would want to be the foreign minister although whether he would want to head up that finance ministry for whatever position martin schulz ultimately takes may well regret giving this statement back in september. and. mr schultz do exclude the possibility of being a minister in the cabinet led by america or that c.d.u. c.s.u. . yes yes absolutely i would never be part of a government so what happens next well it all goes down to a vote by the s.p.d. membership that's four hundred sixty thousand people that will be casting

a vote by mail so are expecting a result from that ballot over the next few weeks trying to drum up support for the deal we saw the negotiating team sending a selfie out to a social democratic you know what's up chant saying they were tired but satisfied and encouraging their membership to get behind the vote it is going to be very tight though should the social democratic membership vote yes. well that means angela merkel will have to go ahead to form a new government we could expect to see that seems place by a step six months after the actual election in september if that is a no though from the social democrats then this whole deal well it all falls apart and all this negotiating has been for nothing and really the only option facing germany would be a brand new election. u.s. defense secretary james mattis has urged congress to approve

a massive funding boost for the military one of the reasons cited was the growing nuclear threat from russia and china. moscow advocates a theory of nuclear escalation from military. congressman smith both an increase and just aimed investment in our capability russia's been modernized in the weapons as well as other lucas was trying to do with modernizing and they needed to be considerable bigger portion we need congress to lift the defense spending cap to support the budget for military thank . several days ago the pentagon issued a nuclear policy review in which it named north korea china and russia among the main security threats the defense department claims there can be no possible the

late the modernization of the country's nuclear forces they review also says washington revs it reserves the right to use a nuclear response against a known nuclear threat the trump administration is pushing for a seven hundred billion dollar defense budget for this year which is ninety billion more than last year's political commentator lou rockwell thinks any such increase threatens global stability. well they want more money because they just want more money i mean this is what the government lives to do with 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 and 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 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 to be worried about this desperately worried. the war in yemen is more than a 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 meanwhile the ports continue to build of children being killed or injured in saudi led as strikes we spoke to some of those affected just a warning you may find the following images disturbing. you know what are you. doing. how you

can understand. yeah they understand even a lot of us don't know and. then you really don't know want. to know will most of the split among. the. we're. going to possibly so i began with demi michel we were given by the president to be you know. get over you smile she looked much as they should love this medicine and she will be a second on the intimate level. just to remind you the saudi led coalition started this incursion in yemen back in twenty fifty

against who's the opposition fighters which had seized power in the country since then saudi arabia has been under pressure from the international community or are finally prompted it to recently send aid to civilians the logo are painted on the tents reads saudi arabia a kingdom of humanity author and writer. believes it's hardly humane to wait three years into a bombing campaign before sending any help. that saudi actually asked our three years of bombardment 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 killed most of them to be and also. the famine is imposed in yemen is a better 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 the yemeni people i believe that saudi is usually in better they is south of this war three years ago and now the internet and humanity can see the graphic effect on the people and saying that the saudi enough is enough. now is a building in hamburg that was once the headquarters of hitler's secret police the gestapo but if don't post is not stopping developers looking to the future although it seems not everyone is on board with the idea. a little what is it many people died off 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 sorrow.

to the future i believe that this place should be more appreciated than it currently is. the mild and that's how much to life in a place of death is at the very least tasteless and what was printed by many newspapers hello hello. which is phrased in a way that's reminiscent of the words of the concentration conference recess work sets you free. that's that hope for is the former to stop the headquarters in hamburg torture took place that. one must feel sorry for the future tenants they did not even know that if it's a hotel for example it's a hotel of horror and torture. will be back at the top of the hour.

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hello 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 and 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 a 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 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 b.s. 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 own biased somali 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 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 isn't 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 jimmy door you're on

very often and i really much we enjoy yeah that's why i haven't 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 amisom 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 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. news from 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 if 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 about 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 pack speak 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 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 they're missing 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's a danger is 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. sitter 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. and cross talk will not be held regatta because i felt fear 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 emmett'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 last run on that good man 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 x. .