damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don andriy pair o.b. made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause for you trick or thought he would this it but lots of your i don't want to see you said yes but in your story you know what you see. on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may second a proud moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event

has been going on now for nearly two years and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts and all the information they needed from the very beginning which i. don't need to just give you a cue. it looks like a desa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was on earth with a very special new governor appointed on may thirtieth of two thousand and fifteen . mikhail saakashvili old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia hello hoedown there in georgia a quick look at his biography gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission she did you know as i did when i was honored to go to. mr saakashvili received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which were. presented the organization come on are

a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with the democratic bloodless revolution this is the revolution of roses and this is me kyle saakashvili with camara busy overthrowing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. but i. was. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully georgia announced its intentions to join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever will give our freedom and independence never ever will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his friends and nato the georgian populace wasn't quite as happy though in two thousand and seven they took to the streets to voice discontent and mr saakashvili responded with force. the people's discontent.

saakashvili party lost parliamentary elections and the opposition took control he said this means that the parliamentary majority and new government as the president according to our constitution decided not to wait for the results of the president's election and fled the country in october two thousand and thirteen. everybody i'm stephen. task hollywood guy suspects. proud american interests george washington and r.v. . this is my buddy max the famous financial guru just a little bit different. you know what with all the drama happening in our country i'm hitting the road to have fun every day americans. we start to

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in two thousand and fourteen saakashvili refused summons to appear in court as a witness in several criminal cases later that same year he was accused of misuse of power and investment. saakashvili wound up in the u.s. and soon his friends in washington found him a new assignment. mikail actively supported my down and very soon was rewarded with a high position in the new ukrainian government. first as the president's counselor and then as the governor of odessa the day before taking this position he renounced his citizenship to georgia the country of the birth and became a ukrainian citizen. in the scene of the last others gordon could have died in the legs or dead road in a civil. war the would have done in the way exhorted rode in. as they say the battle is worth the blood both literally and figuratively yet they could ask us

now do i not somebody affordable by the us out they have to question is now tossed off on me on ok i am a sahm until you let the chest but i have a cut on those could hang up to date on the my seal of geoffrey pyatt the u.s. ambassador to ukraine paid a visit to saakashvili just a month after he took office in odessa it is law is the all last administration is delivering results and you raise your voice to see a steady flow of embassy in washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and jeffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing that the new governor of odessa gets a pretty penny from washington almost two hundred thousand dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars

a year. so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. and another mother school bus and a lesson in lucia but insufficient as opposed to when you walk scot to being it's just sad and he sees them the if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to show. it when used to the but they still do straight is if they did it with you but i suppose then that in the. void there business do a little bit of that of this almost just in your youth but how they should have seen that in the special behoof only is that they were able to contain such.

a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russian border two hundred ninety eight revised number of souls on board all feared dead it was a murder it was a crime there's been this odd nonchalance about pursuing the answers there was a report a very limited report put out a few months after the event but since then they said the next report will be on the first anniversary of the event but you deal with a criminal investigation before becomes a cold case so there's been this curious element of why is there not greater pressure from both the media and the the western governments to answer these questions but even without any answers the fingers were pointed immediately that's

not an action. that is happening because a russian support evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine usual. to put up a national initiative he says it's a question to keep. the malaysian boeing wasn't the first plane to play a significant part in american russian relationships on september first one nine hundred eighty three korean airlines flight double zero seven from new york to seoul via anchorage was shot down by a soviet interceptor aircraft over the territory of the u.s.s.r. in the sea of japan there was absolutely no justification i that legal or moral for what the soviets did the tragedy of the korean bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on november second one thousand nine hundred eighty three

nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack that was followed by placing pershing two nuclear missiles in europe. what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear. just like in one thousand nine hundred three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and three months later the dutch safety board published a report that is itself been flight m.h.

seventy crashed because often. i have three well for em or have they today it's our society airplane avesta list size of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of three hundred twenty kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of boog missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up the fullest. lou of the delegates i mean if you like it the nist is up a school during the experiment they blew up a retired airliner with a buku missile and came to the conclusion that the malaysian plane was brought down by the older type of missiles not used by russia anymore but still in the possession of ukraine the company claims that the missile was launched from the territory controlled by the ukrainian military. and. one would expect that

these controversial results would again stir up public interest in the investigation but the tragedy of malaysian flight m h seventeen at already played its role in the big geopolitical game therefore it was soon forgotten the goal was achieved after the third wave of sanctions hit russia the tensions between the two countries skyrocketed so the question presents itself are we truly witnessing the beginning of cold war two point zero and if so what are the chances to survive at this time. in one thousand nine hundred seven the bulletin of atomic scientists introduce the doomsday clock. it represents a countdown to global nuclear annihilation. in one thousand nine hundred.

three during the height of the cold war it came its closest to midnight as the superpowers were creating massive nuclear arsenals stari of america's ever expanding atomic weapons program as the world began to grasp the insane danger of nuclear warfare and took measures to control the arms race the situation steadily improved. in one thousand nine hundred one the doomsday clock was at its furthest from midnight seventeen minutes. the time of hope was short lived though as the world has become more and more unstable. but in two thousand and fifteen the bulletin of atomic scientists moved the clock to just three minutes to midnight stay on check to climate change in a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge ourselves pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. the

united states and russia have embarked on massive programs to modernize their nuclear arsenals. undermining the existing nuclear weapons treaty so. the clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization.

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the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic state is largely complete now the syrian proxy war is can train a new stage for the players and one of their aims and what does winning the. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires tremendous. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and paci dead sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the

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time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics of war and those headlines. like only what we say she will be here at the top of the hour to bring you today's top stories but coming up a cross talk discusses the high stakes game being played out in syria. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic state is largely complete now the syrian proxy war is a new stage who are the players and what are their amps and what does winning mean

. and what's next for syria i'm joined by my guest. in london he's an expert on political islam and author of islamic state the digital caliph it in beirut we have mara osman she is a journalist and university lecturer and until around we crossed. he's an associate professor at the university of toronto ok and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate more well let me let me go to you because you are the closest to what we're talking about here. there are so many different things going on trends contradictory trends going on in syria right now i think we're all very familiar what has happened in the last six seven years would you say that this conflict is taking on a new form is it morphed into something and is it more dangerous than what we've seen before go ahead in beirut yes definitely especially after the talks and we saw

last week was a hectic week inside of syria beginning in february for when we had the first launching of israeli the first and this month of launching of israeli attacks on the outskirts of damascus countryside killing and allies and certain military posts for the allies of the an arab army and then again on tuesday two days later they did the same and then the big. big happening that also happened between thursday and friday when the u.s. bombed. positions and there is or killing more than one hundred. members of the army alongside with reports saying that there were also russians on board we still don't have a confirmation from the kremlin on that and then what happened late on saturday or dawn saturday with the downing of the israeli jet over. the territories in syria which was a very dramatic development if i mean for the war inside of syria for all the happenings that were going on especially again i like to reiterate after the sochi

talks which brought about several very important points for the upcoming solutions inside of the syrian conflict for possible dialogues to be conducted between the warring parties what is happening is a very big indication that the u.s. is is very much paranoid of what will happen next in syria that's a very good let me go to you in london because we have three players or turkey russia and iran they don't all see eye to eye on all of the issues however american behavior in syria is bringing those three countries together we have word that there's going to be. a conference in istanbul the date hasn't been set yet but this being the u.s. is a galvanizing point for these regional players now and the u.s. has made it very clear it isn't going anywhere this is one of the reasons why one doing this program here because they say they're not leaving they don't really justify their illegal existence in a sovereign country where they were never invited in the first place and we have

the israelis on the move go ahead in london. it is very critical time for the whole players and the region i believe the united states to say it clearly that they are there to stay this any dates many people and the reason why they want to stay they are that simply because of their islamic state because of the danger of the terrorist organization as a mixtape collapsed completely it has no capital it has no trick there is some pockets here or there so why the american has two thousand troops in syria and about six thousand troops in iraq this is the biggest question i believe the major challenge for united states is what they are going to do and north of syria are they going to establish a clear this is say there are they going to lose you know that pesky shall lie are they going to enter confrontation with syria with that key even with the russia and

that's part of the words why they are supplying the kurds with very sophisticated weapons and also some terrorist organization of i had missiles where they managed to use it to down russian so hauling jet so this is this is the biggest question i believe you talked about pizza a stumble confidence this is very important three major countries major powers are going to me there and i believe this kind of meeting i mean tacky. russia and this is the major player. that even if they decided actually to meet and they will meet i think the top of that agenda will be how to confront united states influence how to confirm that it proves in c. that this is the biggest challenge i believe i believe for them and mohammed interim the interesting thing is when you look at all of the players are involved and we've only named a few of them here there are many more no one not one of them wants to see the

united states in northern syria except for some misguided the kurds ok and i would i would point out to the kurds is that the u.s. usually turns away from its you know temporary allies and leaves or turns against them ok so the kurds historically make much is the wrong side i think they're doing it again here what is the u.s. doing just want to be a spoiler is it want to partition does it want to keep the region unstable of course everything i just said would benefit israel go ahead mom and i think that's the point everything that the united states does in this region is about israel the only real ally of the united states is israel and even saudi arabia the only reason why it's considered to be a u.s. ally is because it moves it in a way in which it is within the framework of the interests of the israeli regime and. if we go back to the beginning of what the crisis in syria and

the famous two thousand and twelve defense intelligence agency document. there was an attempt to stablish a salafist and extremist regime between syria and iraq in order to isolate syria and. that and that those extremists they were being supported by u.s. allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the eastern. syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states changes policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive. to go on between turkey and i say this we know from kerry the secretary of

state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned that the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue the same policy which mohamed let me let me let me point out a rise of the let me point out to our viewers of course the donald trump is taking complete credit for the diminished state of isis that's what you learn in western media it is really really remarkable. i could say you know i agree with you in beirut here i mean all also what's really at stake here is there looks like there is a game of chicken being played the united states and israel getting very aggressive and there are russian troops there they are legally they were invited there by the legal government in damascus and it looks like the pentagon is itching for some

kind of conflict and i would be very well the pentagon to be very careful because the russians don't bluff go ahead in beirut exactly exactly and if you read the mainstream media that was out on wednesday and thursday of this week and the u.s. you can see how they were gloating about the fact that they were bombing the post of the essay where they most probably have directly hit the russian servicemen we don't know what they are part of the army or not so when it gloating and they were saying we are at war with russia inside of syria this is no longer a secret so not only that they are pushing for a some sort of a confrontation with russia but they are. also under the ground working for this confrontation i mean could you tell me when has the u.s. ever bombed the isis controlled areas of their resort before it was the break never are they now bombing the areas that have been liberated by the syrian arab army and its allies why because they don't want them to advance further more to the areas where they occupy was the oil rich obviously oil rich areas and there is storage as

well they want to keep away from the.