the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the united states that seems to be going on in your country right now. well i should say in context it was always finely attuned as a washington reporter to the way that the intelligence agencies of the united states and the news media tended to work in lockstep certainly in tandem and so it was the same sensibilities that caused him to go against the grain on the reagan administration's line on central america it also caused him to go against the careen in terms of the received wisdom what everybody was supposed to believe in us media and politics about russia and as is the case with me bob kerrey was no fan of the russian government what he was an enthusiastic that was to look at history past and current and to look at facts rather than spin and that led him to fundamentally dispute on the basis not of idiology but of facts the claims that

russia had engaged in some kind of nefarious and effective plot to sway that twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and that further you know he needed neutrally i think him from the big power brokers u.s. media i mean he just in consortium news dot com the web site that he founded almost a quarter century ago he was daily ripping into the latest. launched propaganda from the new york times in the washington post about russia and it simply made by another only a pariah but also a trailblazer he burned a lot of bridges in the process but that's what independent journalists should do and some people even try just where i'm going him so i'm going to putin useful idiot because he also different about ukraine didn't me but he fundamentally had a very different narrative about ukraine a different narrative about nato in general in terms of its expansive efforts he

like anybody paying attention really saw. there was a pledge made and broken from the u.s. government after glenn wall fell about not moving nato eastward in. current events in that context and he frankly would not do well in other countries either in terms of power structures he would be under tremendous pressure if you were a journalist in russia you would be in prison if you were journalist in china he simply had an independent mentality that said that journalists should not be functionaries for any political party or any government and in the current context that made him someone who to my mind was a truth teller about the conflicts now between russia and the united states because he saw clearly that it's the united states with eight hundred military bases overseas it's the united states that has encroached upon and moved upon or what

have traditionally been the close in border areas of russia and you know he saw that journalists either they're going to be independent or they're going to be flunkies for power interests in their own country and the journalist can't really do both overseen by the chinese government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one lasting legacy of people like you saying grady is do you think another one is the fact that the cia took such an interest in him and developed i visit material his work and himself no doubt cia always attentive to authentic journalism that runs counter to its own dominant narrative but always had a very adversarial relationship to the cia after all he exposed its deadly machinations in central america during the reagan administration and always understood the difference between journalistic intelligence and government intelligence and that has to say the least peak interest from the cia and

certainly the opposite of admiration known zalman thank you after the break. physicist and founder the best of all dr garrick israelian tells us why collective economic punishment to bail out the banks shouldn't be extended to space exploration if we want to human kind of buy on from abuse we reveal why double jump should have private health insurance if he comes to britain and why one woman's terrorist is another woman's freedom fighter all the civil coming of about going underground. in america a college degree requires a great deal. of. studying so hard it requires trust to. go through mediation to enter society. and paci sometimes quite literally.

want other true colors of universities in the us. to americans 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 and the politically possessed. welcome back with me to go through some weak stories now is the real cause of a liberal democrat or a member of parliament lembit. interesting that the british government of the us on decisions about twenty four hours seems to said nothing about them having to answer for that un human rights battle declaring he had been up fairly detained all the time not surprising because even yes it's

a small bit mini chapter in the overall problem but the song has created for. them alternately he blew the whistle on things which are incredibly uncomfortable for the government but this is going to carry on it's not going to get any easier for julian in the next weeks or months and i think well certainly one aspect of the war on terror hasn't gone away because there are reports in the first twenty four hours as there's been an eighty percent rise in drone strikes on the door drone and let's go to this headline for the morning to morningstar reports hapless mark lancaster blames erroneous drafting for tori double speak on drone kills a british drone killing as opposed to the twenty six dead in afghanistan in the first few days because of trouble let me read to you the erroneous drafting the document stated the british had a practice of targeting suspected terrorists outside of the armed conflict itself and then governed willian outside the outside that's the big phrase that also suspected terrorists and then government and seems to back this up as well he said

that he would hunt down suspected terrorists in iraq and syria and other areas to active ingredients there suspected terrorists no trial you might be a terrorist so you're a target and second the outside the conflict zone kevin williamson in fairness did say that the russian government would kill thousands of people in britain to talk difficult well that's all right than just all right then he doesn't say much about the next story say as written continues perhaps to fly drones who do we know big mass going on in yemen a forgotten war if you like her its report saudi arabia and u.a.e. yemen setback as our allies turn on each other setback the world's largest humanitarian crisis inherits thinks a setback is in store when there's tens of millions of people being threatened by british back to saudi arabia and we have sold billions of pounds worth of arms there and of course downtimes done the same it's not a simple situation until now it's like the saudi coalition has held together as they've been fighting there now a part of that coalition is turned violently against it so going to lose

a day basically you can have an army fight all trained by britain. fighting each other well first of all even their training is the same because they will be the same to each other while the who and the rest of you when you get too big and massive vested interests in terms of arms sales into this mass by the u.k. by the united states and then this politics going on here which probably has caught saudi arabia by surprise. some of the un security council members to talk about the haven't conflict and britain arguably stops training the killers don't hold your breath on that one that's gotten their next one to raise amaze favorite killers everyone in britain favorite killers arguably a similar looks a simpler one or is that scalia supposed that's advance an i.e.d. where the suffragettes terrorists what do you mean face well obviously the suffragettes invented the letter bomb they bombed westminster abbey st paul's cathedral st martins in the fields of what was this they were in this history

professor june purvis says they were not terrorists she claims that emily implant cursed if she were alive today and i quote here she would be horrified by the actions of the present day suicide bombers who ruthlessly kill and injure and run the of course because their islam is militants backed by the british government in syria arguably but actually i'm going to slightly agree with you here because at the end she slips in this phrase christabel pankhurst the w.s.p. used brit key strategist decided that more confrontational tactics were necessary well that blows the gaff on her she basically agrees with you maybe they were terrorists after all this is so why don't women and men not torture that we will only go to vote by bombs. and letter it wasn't only by that so don't oversimplify it but it was one of the tools they used but as you say you advocating violence for political causes on this program i'm i really don't that we should encourage anyone i'm advocating some humility here the suffragettes were not beyond blame themselves they got something which i would like to think most people agree with that's votes

for women but some of their measures are not exactly completely free of blood is in people in hollywood will be incur. start a violent hashtag need to movement i don't think so or right let's go to the most powerful man in the world shelly yes here's another chance not donald trump not satisfied with annoying us on other things is his latest thing the democrats are pushing for universal health care while thousands of people are marching in the u.k. because their you system is going broke and not working want to greatly raise taxes for really bad non-personal medical care no thanks absolutely no news about u. turns at roundabouts it could be something about you know going to the great achievement for donald trump in slamming british health care on the basis of the march is that he's actually got jeremy hunt the conservative minister to sound left wing this is what the hunt said i may disagree with claims made on that march but not one of the wants to live in a system where twenty eight million people have no cover and they test may have challenges but i'm proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage

where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance jeremy corbyn could have said that so what trump has now done is made him seem like a leftie now that's a pretty big achievement then meadowbank their gear well nasser is read in the news in britain this week after larry love accused of hacking was based agency was spared having to face so called u.s. justice by the high court in london but as the annual federal commercial space conference he coughed today in the u.s. capitol with richard branson's virgin galactic and even musk space x. together with nasser in attendance we're going to turn to another conference star was twenty nine hundred showcased in london's royal society in the past few days and in collaboration with the media partner r.t. this is journal aims to unite the arts and the sciences and gather a constellation of stars in the city where einstein forged the basic equations that arguably rule our lives today the event in switzerland will feature nobel prize winners cosmonauts and astronauts as well as prominent theoretical physicists and award winning musicians one of the physicists we caught up with was the founder of strawman dr garrick is really

a gag it's that time of year again we're in the internationally famous royal society in london one. a burn in switzerland for storm of twenty nineteen first ice experiment first strong to me experiment done on board polo eleven neil armstrong can buzz aldrin was to detect a solar helium. and. on the surface of the moon so the university or band was in charge of an experiment that neil armstrong and buzz aldrin had to do on the search we have a letter from neil armstrong we've got this letter from neil armstrong dated in december sixty nine two to professor john is he's from university of been thanking him for this amazing experiment which gave more precise composition of solar abundance is isotopic about and this is of helium and several other elements there are from the scientific history behind this and of course

albert einstein reading these important papers yeah some people calling it cold war two point zero zero three a neutral country for star yes it's switzerland is a neutral country and burn actually is the first institution first university to put an experiment on the moon. so there was a dying because we have a science festival so we go places where the science is there some connection and connection with fifty years and adversity of apollo was straight forward so that there was no doubt that this is the city we have to do next first first some people might say no one's interested in the moon nasa certainly doesn't appear to be interested in the moon donald trump arguably maus. why is the importance of the anniversary of the moon still i think important is seven reasons first the moon landing was a great inspiration for an entire generation of scientists an artist at the core of this is still here and there are still many people it was so hard so difficult that

many people today don't believe even that you can replace the becomes like a me that was two thousand years ago is of the so it's really not too many of those . but it was a challenge and it was also very interesting to see a man walking on a different planet on a definitive never happened in history and why and what happened and why in six seven years that managed to do that for the space race and all those things it's quite an interesting story and it is one of the themes you mention people don't believe in the moon landing is one of the themes of the twenty million is going to be how scientific elaboration may help to combat so-called fake news why they have a theme can scientists to something to combat fake news and first of all that comes from climate change stories that discriminate between scientists and someone but

that's already expanding to different topics like genetics and partly g. and so on and it's probably related to technologies so new technologies it's very easy to spread any any news and. people wouldn't even know if it's science based or fact based or wards but it's not fake news or say the president drum doesn't convince climate memory climb a tree yes i think that to avoid those things we want to initiate them to trigger the discussion at the festival because specially the time will stare at the collective economic bullish when some would say of the banking crisis you must come across this criticism all the time what is the point of exploring space at a time when we cannot house people. were the benefits from space while there are many there are many first first of all to start new technologies in

astronomy when we ask for funding say ten or twenty million for for a new camera on a telescope or spectrograph or whatever ninety nine percent of this money goes into technologies developing new technologies and engineering and design and so on it doesn't mean that the money goes into stormier stars it goes to those that knowledge is and then this is applied in daily daily life so the patents and everything that you get from infrared cameras from many sensitive there is they are all applied in astronomy first and then they go to two to industry and so on and so the same is with space technologies most of money which is spending work it interesting and so on it all goes to patents and new discoveries new materials a new software and all those things and then later this goes into it it's just the

nature of the way the science works. let's just finally also i mean we said switzerland is a neutral country some people saying there are heightened tensions echoes of the cold war the space race of course in the middle of the cold war how would you characterize the four string of the taunt by scientifical aberration because some people would thing that was the soviet space program versus the apollo program you're taking us back to those days of war cold war for so-called. probably the best answer was given by alex earlier on of his head that was the space based racy history of you it's all the astronauts it's obvious this is the best olympic games was much better. because it lead to something that it was ricci redelivery games. pure entertainment in that case we have achieved something so we're studying the moon because rocks from the moon bring them well is

a peugeot human. career city is a knowledge is a knowledge and it's a fundamental science of studying the moon we study be it we want to know the formation of we want to know the evolution of the solar system and so on and two are just all those questions you have to explore and you have to spend what i don't think ledger resident jones defunding the international space station how to be these are i think rich we we do everything to to have more collaboration from different countries to put money to get it to build a new new instrument but not. as isis was so successful it was the best experiment again ever done a nice trick to be to the budget was hundred billion or five cents. and for many many years and he started with new station it's great you have me so there you said he was a three point zero billion a year is too much less yeah yeah that's what they think if you ask nasa scientists

that will say no there's not enough well there's always enough money for me to tree and bombing and after all it's there's no question but when it comes to space exploration no we don't want it. thank you very much. professor garet israelian of straw missed that talking to me at london's royal society and that's it for the show will be back on saturday to speak to will patrol legend brian may of queen about privilege in the u.k. and we'll ask russia's ambassador to the court of st james how do you prepare for the electricity infrastructure intact for most of the tourism a's government has warned british subjects to expect any day now to live even touched by social media today eleven years to the day that barack obama announced his wish to run the usa would go down in history as the us president the deported more immigrants killed more innocent people by drone and imprisonable whistleblowers and here before him.

with just two days to the start of the winter olympics hopes diminish for dozens of russian athletes fighting to overturn their family. want to largest party in angola merkel service and the social democrats finally reach an agreement to form a coalition government. and a new party is being. launched in the u.k. with the aim of reversing rex it for the sport of getting from across the channel is leading to accusations of french meddling in britain's internal affairs. i.

think. from all of us here at r t h q in moscow welcome to the program. thanks for tuning in there are only two days to go into the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics in south korea and it's still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the case of dozens of russian athletes but no decision was reached on wednesday but the session adjourned for the day the athletes are challenging the international olympic committee's decision to ban them from competing in the wake of the doping scandal archies reports. the olympic dreams of almost fifty russian ath they right now depend on the court of arbitration for sport and for the pm chang games this is their new home. the court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow

. but simply a final decision can be rendered at the end of the day tomorrow what is come after the opening ceremony the goal is really to finish for you and then when it is going to so i would say to me the last moments of the announcement should be striving to not simply could be a little. it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches with a clean doping test history it against the international olympic committee but in a sense it's a battle between the court of arbitration for sport forecasts and the i.o.c. here's why a group of russian winter asked the war and this really a few months ago banned for life by the i.o.c. their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didn't get lifetime

bans but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well they still heard that they can't come to pyongyang so it's the careers and the olympic dreams of these athletes that a swiss law firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swiss lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of. citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being protected here are reigning olympic champions.

movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation i've never given a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity. the games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my partner we've been working towards these olympics for many years it was my cherished dream. and i was shocked to lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given no reasons to doubt that i'm crazy. so to put it very mildly cason the i.o.c. don't see eye to why the court clears a group of russian athletes but the olympic officials can't be bothered this situation put the two organizations almost on a brink of conflict the secretary general of cass says that there is no crisis but

see for yourself who these kind of decision is she streamlet disappointing these decision shows the the urgent need. for reforms in the internal structure of castes i must support my and my panel of other traitors and so far i think the procedure was fully respected their reaction was very strong understand this is the disappointment of the i.o.c. because they expected another verdict but we should not. it's better to wait before criticizing the decisions themselves because they're not being drafted yet. so again there's very little time for cast to make up its mind the opening ceremonies coming up on friday february ninth but whatever the decision is the russian sport cas and the i.o.c. will never be the same again we spoke to

a russian skater who did not receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by cas a week ago. it is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the saatchi winter olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons that's why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasn't a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter in the elevator with me i felt helpless because there was no way for me to prove them wrong and a lawyer representing some of the athletes currently appealing the i.o.c. ban told us that she hopes the decision will reflect the facts. i believe necessary to take all legal steps available to us to ensure participation or

arsonists in the uk. we hope that the independent panel that was composed were truly. at the facts and the law in front of them and. to the right decision. the i.o.c. has almost plenary power to even ignore what the court of arbitration for sports has decided and i think nations would probably say we don't want the i.o.c. making arbitrary decisions that what may one day affect our athletes international sports community and member nations really need to get together and create a body that can enforce rules fairly and across the board equally because we do not have that right now. earlier the i.o.c. issued strict rules regarding russian athletes uniforms as russian competitors are only allowed to compete under a neutral flag the uniform should bear the words

a limpid athlete from russia or its acronym o. and r. it should also be of a single or dual color and we know it will be grey no russian flag or any of its colors white blue and red are allowed however that doesn't stop one russian design company from showing its support for russia's athletes by launching a line of special t. shirts putting on the acronym one of its designer shares his motivation behind the move. what. is stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform athletes are wearing we all know that their own russian athletes that's why we came up with the project using a strange name for a limp dick teen and limpid athletes from russia or. we want to show you that for us and for athletes truth and sport it would drive us and all these bonds and sanctions is just political games we have released a huge number of these prints for noncommercial use they're intended for the funds we hope it will encourage her athletes they'll see that we support them and that we

need their records and victories. meanwhile north korean delegates arrived in pyongyang on tuesday among them over two hundred cheerleaders the women crossed the demilitarized zone dressed in red and black wearing d p r k flags as they did some chatted with journalists the delegation is almost three hundred strong making it reportedly one of the largest border crossings between the two countries leader kim jong un sr is also expected to attend the games in the north and the south have agreed to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony seen as a sign of thawing relations but while the north is on a charm offensive u.s. vice president mike pence who is 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. a new anti brags that party is about to be launched in the u.k. and it's finding its first support across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to emanuel mccraw marsh movement not only backed the idea but have reportedly been giving advice to the party's founders are to charlotte devinsky has the details. this is really a brand new political party that's about to launch in the k. its goals are quite bishops 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 although get his a sore head what the party is launching

a it's.