you've seen for example the israeli intelligence mossad do quite often if they did that this is criminal activity but it does not move forward the entire russia gate conspiracy story but i'm sure that corporate america media in america is going to be very very excited about this to continue to push that false narrative so far false narrative why we're hearing this from robert mueller forgive me if i misunderstood i thought he was investigating collusion between donald trump and russia this provides no evidence of that so why is melissa saying anything at all if he has nothing to produce well because his mandate is quite wide he can he could investigate anything that he comes up with coding poem and for its financial crimes way before he joined the campaign that is his legal remit but it but politically speaking it doesn't have anything to do with the trump collusion so our geisha and this doesn't advance that at all as well so he has to come up with something to answer your question neal he has to come up with something and he knows that the

corporate media especially democratic leaning ones are going to run with this as if and i've seen already some of the c.n.n. coverage of this are going to run with this as if this is the proof that i thought i was going to see when i saw the headline this morning and that's it so politically this is just to move that forward but legally doesn't do anything to prove the central claims of the russian story i mean the media coverage is substantial and like you said a lot of people just read the headlines i'm reading more mainstream headline russia trumping quality russian charged over election tampering so the headlines are very leading it'll affect a lot of people's opinions are you think donald trump has come out in the face of this in reacted it means essentially called for unity against bad actors like russia was a good move from him. well that was the statement from the white house i don't even know if you prove that a sore and even if you did it's something i guess he feels he has to do and he's been under enormous pressure from all of this since the beginning since before the election and certainly after inauguration when these weeks of come when all of this

rush of good stories put him under enormous pressure he wants to put it behind him so he has to say things that makes the distance in this himself from russia and to start calling russia a bad actor don't forget but more importantly than his statement today is what the generals are basically running his administration are doing in terms of in syria in arming ukraine government against eastern. ukrainians which the obama administration did not do so this is much more significant in a way trump is trying to allowing any way the people behind him to create more distance between him and russia by doing from some policy decisions that even as i say obama didn't do that raising tensions between russia and the united states dangerously you know political tensions this indictment contributes to that tension unnecessarily as well joe appreciate it's on my guest independent journalist author former wall street journal correspondent thanks to. in

other news the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey this is in an effort to mend ties with ankara rex tillerson is that with president hu and as well as the country's foreign minister the nato allies have been at odds over washington support for kurdish militias in syria and is angry that the u.s. backs groups turkey calls terrorists rex tillerson is trying to ease tensions by claiming that support is limited but that does not seem to be enough for ankara it's. always very clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the syrian forces would be limited missions. are provided all the political version is to achieve the lottery objectives although we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian arm of the p.k. k. the y p g so here's a closer look at the two groups just referred to by the turkish defense minister the p.k. k. that's the kurdistan workers' party it's a group that's been fighting the turkish authorities for more than thirty years

anger on washington consider them a terrorist organization and on the other hand american turkey have very different opinions about the syria based kurdish militia called the people's protection units or that y p g ankara so this is a branch of the therefore they're terrorists the u.s. led coalition says the white b.g. is being allies in the fight against islamic state in syria in january the pentagon announced it was creating a kurdish led security force right on turkey's doorstep in northern syria in response and to launch their military campaign against kurdish militias they're threatening a possible direct clash with u.s. forces. rex tillerson arrived in the capital he was met with a large number of protests against his visit was originalist karen felt has been specializing in coverage of the middle east thinks that the u.s. has underestimated the conflict between turks and kurds. they seem to have not

a really good idea of the situation on the ground they overstretched their position and their relation to main street and the situation you know the relation with the kurdish groups on the other side is not very stable as the americans lead a very big mistake and estimated threads towards the kurdish political presence actually in their own country as well as at the border circus devilment things that kurtz host of them in a recent interview of russia's foreign minister said that using the kurdish problem for one's own geopolitical interests is an extremely dangerous and. just by two out of this whole issue is further proof of the short sightedness or lack of vision or whatever you want to call it if not malicious intent on the part of the us for over two or three years now which is basically the entire time that the u.s. led coalition has been operating in syria u.s.

special forces and other american troops have been active on the ground in syria in violation of international law without any invitation from damascus the legitimate government or mandate from the un security council right from the start of the operation in syria the u.s. has backed up the kurds and ignored the voices of discontent coming from turkey no matter how you view turkey's position it is real and it has never been a secret to anyone going to the turks have said repeatedly that they will do all sorts of things to prevent the kurds from taking control of the turkey syria border despite this over the entire period i've mentioned the americans have been consistently providing arms lots of them in fact to the kurdish forces ignoring turkey's position. turkey announced its military operation as far as i'm concerned it was by no means a surprise and cause repeated warnings to washington have fallen on deaf ears but

you've got to ask or taking on the kurdish issue through the narrow lens of one's own political interests in a specific part of a great a region which is what the u.s. is doing at the moment is an extremely dangerous endeavor it can lead to a lot of trouble in a number of other countries where kurds live and where the kurdish issue is just as relevant what they should be doing is looking for a way to ensure equal rights for the kurds living within existing borders and not trying to stir up the entire region which is something our western colleagues have been engaged in over the past century. activists demanding justice for those killed in the massive fire in london last year have chosen an unusual way to stage a protest they borrowed an idea from the oscar nominated film three billboards outside. hiring three billboards to send

a clear message trucks carrying the words seventy one dead and still no arrests and how come we paraded across london critics say that questions over construction and cheap housing quality of yet to be answered in the wake of june's tower disaster. i. activists warn that many housing projects right across the country suffer from the same construction problems as the ground phone towers and they say all four of these are refusing to take action on the some of this is churkin a spoke to one of the protesters behind the billboard campaign. it's been eight months since the ground fell tower tragedy shook the u.k. a twenty four story building was engulfed in flames the lives of seventy one people were lost with dozens more injured numerous campaigns protest demonstrations have

taken place since calling for answers justice and accountability most recently london saw a campaign where several vans went around the center of the british capital with big billboards saying seventy one people dead no arrests how come for more on this we're now joined by one of the co-founders of justice for grunfeld which is a grassroots community group obviously calling for justice and answers about thank you so much for joining us today two hundred ninety seven built ins the people are still moving into tie up and down the country but have the same kinds in the government's response has been to that they should pay for it themselves to take it down. you know lots of the survivors are still in temporary or emergency accommodation for those really and i think you know the survivors and the community say i think prosecution of those responsible needs to take place we need to see

people in the dark. and they need to suffer the same penalties that any other citizen would do rather than just kind of get them elected officials spy people treatment or how likely do you think that might happen given it's been eight months already and we haven't seen one name or person be held accountable do you think that is actually going to happen i think we're going to have to mikey humpin and we will continue to come time to make sure that happens how real is the fear that something like this could happen again while this investigation even is still continuing if i was sleeping in one of those buildings i don't think i'd be sleeping at night right now you know you cannot put people in unsafe built ins and why the government isn't reacting to this quickly and right people may your home sure your home is your hyphen you have a right to live is a human right to have a so. shelton we will continue to campaign you know look out for other things that we're going to and more keep those questions out in the public domain and we expect the government to respond to what's in the public to moan about would thank you

very much for joining us here well the officials are continuing to conduct investigations into what exactly happened at grenfell tower that killed all of those people and it's clear that the local community is going to continue fighting for those answers until we get them and r.t. monday. this friday moscow was shocked by the sudden death of a three year old girl in one of the local kindergartens the cause of her death remains unclear daniel hawkins reports. what exactly happened at kindergarden twenty one twenty here behind me is still under investigation at this stage what we do know is that there are two main versions of events being looked into some local moscow media were quick to report that the children were taken out for a walk and upon their return to the kindergarten it was discovered that one of them three year old zahra a desire was found to be missing the workers here at the nursery the nanny's start to find her only to discover her unconscious in the snow and by the time the

paramedics arrived it was too late to save the child in these freezing conditions it's understandable how that could have happened and now the kindergarten have denied this version of events outright they say that the group of twenty five children was taken out for a walk they were under constant supervision by workers at this nursery and one of the girls are a desirable was taken ill she was provided with first aid at the scene by the nursery workers an ambulance was called but tragically it was too late to save the little girl's life now we've seen what we presume to be plain clothes the tech there is coming to us from the nursery looking into these versions we've also spoken to some parents have been picking up their children as the nurseries closed and many of whom have said that they are in shock and would never have believed that such an incident could have occurred with everyone here is very kind i think what happened is just a fatal incident nothing says. they look after children very well my child is

always happy this is more difficult every day as a nurse is looking after children take them everywhere together how could this disaster happen according to them they've had no complaints of the professionalism and over the level of service provided at the nursery and they're just as in shock presumably as the local community. the u.s. government of libya has reportedly formed a team to assess damage to infrastructure in the war ravaged sports city of sirte once and i still strongly hold it was a place where terrorists shot some of the most gruesome videos liberated more than a year ago in the city the local still fear for their lives as the threat of jihadists returning looms large residence continue to wait for life to get back to normal. i. think that they.

just this. is a big mistake. these are everywhere granted food in the in the complex and actually showing them is full of completely out of the mashed into the ground. and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. as you can see here is that the state flag has been drawn on the side of this chair. and. the area is completely destroyed and there is no local or international assistance for the population there are fears that ice will return to this air year again and be entrenched in it after the one year war.

people were displaced from this area even after the return to confine their homes because of the massed struction there is no house left intact especially because of the ball planes at all night and everyone knows that by so much return as any moment to the city of sirte and it's been the center of a stronghold the city surrounded by mountains and valleys and noise so it's always been that. the president of the red cross has said that not enough international attention is being paid to libya despite several devastating crises suffered by the country. i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course choir there today maybe one or two years ago in storage and in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact

on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different or thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has on other crisis in the middle east. it's a week since the winter olympics in south korea began and have been touching stories of mutual help and support sporting control for c.n.n. they have also made headlines. unfortunately with these winter olympics

the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one of the most disgusting ones for me was when a canadian short track speed skater was receiving death threats from the locals after she finished fourth first but then a south korean athlete was disqualified and then her position was upgraded to start place and that's when be ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such family spirit it's the kind of family spirit that goes first after nationality rivalry politics etc there was one good example when george cross country skiing competition a russian skier lost a part of his equipment and then an american coach rushed to help him out if the

russians here had to do this u. turn you don't come back take it up that would have been a disaster for the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we talked to the men the cross country ski family is is exactly that it's a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our athletes a pole in a race and we'll do the same i would say it's very friendly when you walk by a russian athlete or coach will always say congratulations or if we've had a good race they will say congratulations to us three years ago and most of the entire russian women's team came up to our hotel and had tea and cookies with our own her continue and not many people spoke the same language we know a few words of russian a couple of them they knew some more english than we knew russian but we had a great time and this was one of those moments in my career that i remember well i guess what it comes to paul weyrich. goal rivals russia and the us helping each

other out in sports it works both ways and here with me i got the chang the silver medalist in luge british master who definitely knows what i'm talking about and he's ready to tell us about a story that happened to him a few months ago as far as a distant chris hi again congratulations and what's that story with the russian athlete i guess helping you out yeah thank you very much it was a couple weeks ago where i was having a very difficult last season people were starting to reach out and help me and there was a specific russian athlete he offered me help technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because i'm much larger than he is the fact that he was willing to reach out and help me in such like a desperate time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics that we can connect on the human level through sports and that's that's really what

embodies the olympics here is that so many countries are coming together connecting through sport and it really shows the power of the human spirit absolutely this is a small little step it takes a lot of people to get one of these and i can't think simulate enough for thinking about me and just trying to help me out and it's a time of need i am very close friends with with so many different russian athletes and yes there's been a lot of scandals and i'm really i can't wait for the day that we can move past this and we can just be right back to sport clean sport it's so easy to talk about negative things but it's really difficult to highlight these positive situations you know who knows maybe one two a lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. we'll stay with sled related sports because russia's team of athletes about it silver to the tally but it was a medal that might never have happened skillets own competitor nikita triguboff had considered boycotting these games in support of his countryman banned over doping

claims while the reduced team sizes meant a lack of coaches in competition it meant the group of had to prepare all of his own equipment even did the same for his teammate in other results and tell you her own inner won bronze in speed skating worth noting she's one of the youngest competitors aged just twenty three the same group of skier denise bit soft also took third place on the podium making a grand total of eight medals for the olympic athletes from russia team. you're right up to date i'll see the latest headlines and often i. welcome one an old stan collymore show lights out with mexico's drug squad but first we're taking you to perhaps one of the oldest amateur clubs in the world i

stopped to look and my first game was the first of what i was on nine hundred sixty . and that was like getting to know when i played there and advice and your friends took me along to see what sort of. affection i would have been my comment. about little quiz for you which could be inspired all white kids which quote. from players to three separate england guy which quote inspired one of brazil's right football clubs like using gentleman i do view corinthian casuals. what i see happening was in nineteen zero seven there was a split between the f.b.i. and what became the i. and it was quite acrimonious to do with amateur professional and the if i refused to allow any i if i play as all clubs to appear on the

pitch is over there so there was a complete split and then ruined in a fake match useful to corinthians because i had nobody read each player to see why they started a little detour this is what i went to brazil for instance that spit was he wouldn't take and just took the song in the first well. after the first world war the two clubs struggled and of course the first. losing a lot of players over one hundred players between the two sides were killed in the one hundred twenty children strong. into the f.a. cup. the first on identity competition. and currents enormous crowds are simply eighty thousand people turn up at the crystal palace. when they play people and you can also get on. great she in the thirty second fight either way it was still

a little bit of romance of when it was you still had people tell you got to watch the elements as played a professional but. a. professional for you could say christians lost little. reason for the system and so it was felt the casual should always be in the leadership normally it was fairly. unfriendly. you know and again the more interrupted everything. tel arriving here and settling down in this ground we were no bads we never had a long full. corinthians and casuals men corinthian casuals playing without homes for for the existence of tribes they were nomads until we came here which was in ninety nine when we had to settle the league through threw us out of the league because we didn't have a ground this is being built by volunteers at the club we can just.

put your personal. casuals over a number of you. i mean the history one one adores that's why i'm here it's tremendous. of recent times apart from the brazilian troll and winning the socrates trophy which was put forward by socrates is a wonderful trophy. to win. but big one was. bought a few years ago ten years ago and that's my pride of place. for me for trying to stop the great. romance around the club because romance doesn't necessarily. mean fact in most of the stories all true it is a wonderful story about the. penalty kick was introduced and we didn't accept the

gentleman with that she did there but the file so we didn't think the penalty kicks were right and so the goalkeeper was told well to defend the u.k. if it was awarded to us we would kick more and now that didn't actually happen but it didn't happen all the time but it did actually i think it is a really fleece continues until. we've been so lucky in this current manager be. willing to play the game for no faith. how long that will continue i don't know let's hope it does. brian this is a very famous red shirts of course corinthians originally very famous for their whites and a famous red shirts at manchester united. of course many fans would know the cristiana rinaldo. shirts want to.

come here and what was celebrating it was to commemorate the most magnificent events in that we. defeat of manchester united i believe they used that as one. of facts in their programme but perhaps they were a little bit unhappy with recruiting it and i think they've now got evidence and it's a record defeat in the programme is a. and don't think. so the second offer is one hundred casuals against lots of options to rejoin cameron who's the reports of cameron you like a very young much reports i wold all you sixteen sixteen so you doing your exams in the usual stuff that sixteen year olds do when you want to be a much reports. from

a very young age. well i am. just. came down and put my love of pricing with my love of football and. club secretary and she let me do it and i've been a nifty isn't will get dragged through talking about liverpool around madrid a million or two then all this is the real soul of football yeah yeah i really think we should. more young people should be watching. you right right right next to it you can just feel that you know rush when you all sit in front of the t.v. i think young people. most clubs if you go through. the liverpool lost all the big boys they've got a shock they've got the whole megastore that some the bolton of the emirates stadium that's right kitty millions of times can you show us the corinthian casuals

version place because you do have a megastore we do indeed and we're very proud of it. it's quite something. it's a shed and it's the emirates that ready to read history it has a siloing to. think of cool so they have shown that. a couple of things first we have. they corinthians. yes we're always in the will cooperate. so this one around of course a lot one of brazil's biggest clubs that was directly influenced by i think football club as were several others so there's that one we've got the pink chocolates golf but the something in it and i'm going to boy to know that my cameraman locum wants to go i want to say well he's the dish it's called it's got the original corinthian well the corinthians badge crinkly in football club that's what i. look at not be

a terry a's going to come back i'm going to pay for it don't worry i don't want any freebies but that is the original shirts which inspired him to give us the the the the great nines the great clubs that apart from corinthians side. in the spoils boyish real madrid you know yes indeed los blancos. we toured out there and they were inspired one has got to remember that of course we was the principle club probably of the world it's a big state but football was in its infancy so. we were the first and we were told ring and giving football to the world how proud are you to have a football club that many many football fans these days will not know about this is inspired so many people but also managed to keep its amateur how important to the football club it's the be all and then.