welcome to you. and other countries. now looking at whether. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections they're hooley pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just don't mess around other people. are only for the very good do that through online

video and those former cia for a very good cause. said the former director of the cia it's funny because and when america does it when someone else's even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven we've used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it we've planted false information for newspapers we've used with the british called king george's calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups information warfare hacking and that's just the stuff we know about this the johnson that helped

oversee the cia's exhibit g.'s he'd know the difference is they say when russia does it it's to destroy the world even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the justice department just admitted when america doesn't so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing a democratically elected leader as the cia has done is helping democracy how sending billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but don't well the united states has been interfering in other countries elections since the one nine hundred thirty s. and in the caribbean and in latin america when i was in cia in the seventy's and eighty's in europe i would say that the that the cia and the us government basically were interfering in elections almost every election that was taking place

in europe this was just routine that the us wanted a friendly government of a certain type and was willing to do certain things to enable that to happen if we're going to claim that america has the right to interfere behind the scenes in the politics of another country. it's a little hypocritical for then america to say oh a russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways. an iranian american fashion blogger has been dubbed un-american for questioning u.s. policies and she was giving a t.v. interview to talk about her book on terror on street fashion when she was suddenly asked about iran's alleged nuclear program however she kind of turned the question around asking the presenters about american policies in the region here's

a snippet let's talk about nuclear weapons because some of our viewers may say we cannot trust iran what are your thoughts i mean i don't think we can trust this country i mean what has this country done to the majority of the countries in the middle east you're an american i don't like an american. accused of not sounding like an american when she questioned washington's foreign policy she spoke to us about the exchange i was really shocked by by the question of the statement but also i think it also goes back to sort of the place that muslims in america constantly put themselves in that we have to constantly prove that we're american enough to deserve respect deserve not being bombed or banned which all of which this country and other western countries are also involved in in the middle east and then the second that we sort of criticize the state for what they have actually done that were deemed un-american because he also told r.t.

that she's been flattered by the positive comments she's received online tweets ranged from surprised to praise for the blogger for speaking freely he was again commenting on freedom of expression and on going viral. unfortunately i guess after the fact i wasn't too surprised because muslims and people of color in this country and across the west are constantly put in positions where we're constantly kind of being used both as a term as a way of sort of talking about our maybe having to respond for our government policies back abroad but then having to blindly questionably sort of allegiance to this country who might be involved in violence in our country. i think that it's sort of these are sort of underlying microaggression that happen every single day and it's not just me this is happened to i was just lucky enough

that this is live and i was able to record it and then being able to share online but this happens constantly every single day all the time for any single person who is a person of color a muslim that they constantly are kind of having to do with micro gresham's that are so normalized within society and so that's why one thing that i really appreciate about sort of the viral of the of this is that people are really standing up now and saying this is not normal this is not ok we shouldn't allow this from happening. the key players in the syrian peace process if we discuss their prospects of a resolution club conference here in moscow to go live to the culture of our joining us who are following the called friends we need a good so you iranian the russian foreign minister is among those taking part in the highlights from the commons. because well just as you mentioned differing science involved in restoring peace in syria present here at this conference which takes place in the downtown of moscow and the russian foreign ministry said gay lover of said that all known syrian troops should

leave the region she also called for the u.s. troops to emit the shout down there is zone of conflict which is located in the south and part of syria this is where the rug refugee camp is situated. as well as russia believes that this very camp is used as the recruitment ground for militant groups. because we are concerned about attempts to partition syria some of the ground the u.s. has already started to realize on the ground. here is claims that we're only going to fight isis to preserve the country's integrity of the but i think that washington needs to back its work with action but with good because right now susan actions are not provocative but the u.s. would use this to pursue its own ambitions and that's led to a major conflict in africa as well with music you know people well this point of view is shared by the official syrian delegation which is here as well now i've just spoken to be seen

a shabana it was their political aide to the syrian president bashar last search and she told me that a one of the remaining challenges and we storing peace in syria is the presence of the u.s. troops on its territory from the main challenge came from the new american the step of occupying part and syria in the north east of syria i think is used as a pretext by the united states in order to occupy parts of the area. part is present at this conference also touched upon the recent mass collision between israel and iran fearing that this could pose a risk and a restoring peace in syria now quite recently both israel's prime minister and iranian foreign ministry traded as some sharp words and even with rats and iranian foreign minister who is here present at this conference commented on the situation

. israel has been violating committing acts of aggression that needs to stop don't look for excuses i mean this gimmicks of drones and all the other than the i mean these are gimmicks look. the realities we need to stop these two aggression. the ranking officials from the middle east speak about different issues of the region and this conference is indeed represents indeed quite an important platform for discussion and decision making are about to meet in a collection of i thank you. shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards and in india adding to environmental and health problems that but also violating the laws.

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the case is playing out in the dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the ship's sole to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled in a safe manner it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in these countries have to find over a breach of e.u. waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses could face up to six months in prison now for its part of the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall on the e.u. environmental rules turkey and india are beyond his jurisdiction

a lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the ship breaking platform and geo. the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest priced and least of the higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are

explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated about halfway through the program here on our international still become an olympic athlete from russia has tested positive for doping at the winter olympics in south korea we'll have a look at the case interest of armored.

but politicians do something good. to put themselves on the laws. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or somehow want to be upset. that's it like to be prosperous of what will befall us three in the morning can't be good for the. interest of always in the waters of our. first six. headlines here on r.t. international. see a whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he revealed cia mismanagement of a classified program to the u.s.

senate and was later sentenced under the espionage act to three and a half years sterling was freed after serving over two years of that sentence however sterling was not actually jailed for what he told senators instead he was accused of leaking classified information he shared with the senate to a journalist his sentence was softer than the usual nineteen years minimum reportedly that was because all the so-called evidence against him was circumstantial. former u.s. senate candidate who petition for starting release explains how he ended up being treated as a traitor. there are times reporter james right now with the intercept was having about fifty conversations back and forth with jeffrey and then james writes and released a book about two thousand and five called state of war in which he disclosed the cia's botched release of nuclear plans to iran even jeffrey tried to tell a senate intelligence committee about this information they tried to go after james

rise and to find out who his source was just around that same time they arrested jeffrey in a trap to rise in case because obama did not want to go after a reporter because the heat was on obama in the obama administration because he was going after a journalist the judge who sentenced a starling stated that while in a perfect world every criminal case would be decided using direct evidence often that's not possible on many county again says that's because they had nothing but circumstantial evidence they went and took geoffrey to court the only type of evidence that they had was circumstantial evidence and cia agents saying that it was a disgruntled employee that released information because of his discrimination case jeffrey has maintained his innocence for almost seventeen years now the new york times which originally published the story of stonings lawsuit against the cia has

not covered his release on many companies says that many journalists have simply forgotten about jeffrey starling. journalists are never asked about are asking about jeffrey sterling or talking about it and this is a man who has become an invisible man of forgotten man who is in my mind a hero the a.c.l.u. with me even handled this case and so we have to reach out to other types of which are unable to tell his story. and olympic athlete from russia has tested positive for doping at the winter olympics in south korea the court of arbitration for sport is now reviewing the case with the world anti-doping agency expected to announce the results of a second round of tests later on monday the athlete in question is mixed doubles koda alexander crucial netsky he and his wife won bronze injunction being the first to limp it calling medal ever for russian athletes details now without these elaborate trenka who was in pyongyang. well right now it is all down to that

second doping test and if it happens to be positive that will be a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here and chang the crowds have literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year brazil are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal in curling and to watch their family team work on ice was something inspiring the media went on about them for a few days in a row and they were even compared with mr and mrs smith but now alexander is suspected of taken the infamous drug that hadn't been banned until a couple of years ago it once cost tennis star maria sharapova a year of her career after her team had forgotten to put it on the do not take drugs list and honestly alexander scase if he had made the same mistake or had

taken the drug on purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and pianka chang crucially that ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with in any case the international olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen after the olympics are over in the meantime the olympic athletes from russia are getting on with their quest for medals and despite all the pressure despite some of the main stars missing out the zero eight are have secured some bronze in silver and the cross country skiing squad who were teenagers just a year or two ago are doing particularly well with five medals so far no gold though we spoke to sports radio host alan moore who says it would have been very

unwise of the coach in question to risk using well don't you. if they take majority make it in a burst of energy burst of speed he can work hard because you're courting is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport and self he will be supremely stupid to be caught for you know he has said because this kid said that's his voice of in spite of training camp. to see him on like he got he took it however it was a little bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach but said that's all he has he stopped taking the dog back in two thousand and sixteen when it was bad and we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we see a lot of the beast. as a positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it will be we said last week sitting this you say not to get caught for doping the olympics you have to be very very silly and i don't think that the ski is

really. the capital of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage due to the current instability in the country tripoli's ancient science of being left neglected and out in the open one photographer from the city has launched a social media campaign to try to raise awareness. they're fighting the here thirty three the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the oldest trade of the city with africa you. would think. so do you but even i like to take photos of the old city it's my passion.

to remember seeing the no one and fifty there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient no they. inspire a lot of people took part on twitter their plated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the city say that was in fact. the concerns about the historic heritage of libya are shared by unesco as well the organization has put five of the country's sites on the world heritage endangered list citing the conflict affecting libya of course as some of those sides date back

centuries and even millennia. controversial new law in poland that makes it illegal to hold the country responsible for the holocaust has provoked with israel poland's prime minister added fuel to the fire by suggesting jews were among the perpetrators of wartime atrocities israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has slammed the claim it's not going to be punishable not going to be seemed. to say that there were polish perpetrators as there were jewish perpetrators as there were russian perpetrate perpetrators are there were ukrainian not only german perpetrators but the usual issue of the polish prime minister's remarks here in munich are outrageous there is a problem here of an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people the president of the conference of european rabbis has also slammed the polish leader's remarks what was said by

the polish prime minister is totally unacceptable to jews perpetrators of the holocaust is unacceptable to any person who knows history knows you want to build a future and we did not expect the polish prime minister to say such things as mentioned the new law bans accusations the country collaborated with nazi germany during world war two specifically it prohibits references to nazi death camps situated in the country as polish those violating the law could face up to three years in prison and adviser to the polish president defended the legislation claiming israelis are ashamed of their own role and supposed sense of months in israel comes from the feeling of shame and the passivity of the jews too in the holocaust. more than three million jews lived in poland before the second world war most of them were killed during the conflict the auschwitz birkenau camp which was

built in poland on the nazi occupation was responsible for the deaths of one million jews a former u.s. diplomat and jim says the problem is that both poles and israelis view history solely from their own perspectives well look i think what we have here is a clash of nationalisms that obviously the israelis and the jewish people see the events of world war two through the lens of their suffering what happened to them and the people in poland have a somewhat different recollection of it based on their understanding and their suffering in the millions of poles that died during the war and i think this is rather unfortunate that they would be conflicting in this way how they recall things poland i think i think the main point poland is trying to make is that they were victims of the nazi is that they were not these were not polish death camps they were german death camps set up in occupied poland and even though there were obviously there were collaborators among many of the nations of europe of various

sorts that poland should not be blamed for the existence of these these camps and that wraps up the program for this hour here on all of the international media today here at the top of the hour with more of your world wide headlines. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive looking like a movie this isn't my cup of tea is going off the sunday albeit

a bit. old john without a doubt. the only palestinians who gets the most hopeful is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world. vision to look at this. and know it is unfair advantage to have this lady of the muscle that you have i'm going to continue muslim seem to do more in the middle sauced don't put this all. out. i think. that.

welcome to sophia. shevardnadze america's backing of jerusalem asked a israeli capital has thrown the palestinian peace process into disarray already we go from here my guess today's could what this former foreign minister of palestine and palestine embassador to the united nations. indicates deep. unresolved question of palestinian independence has been weighing heavy on the neck of the middle east now with new settlements across the west bank appearing in renewed u.s. support for israel and the palestinian quest for sovereignty beholds what can make

these reticent palestinian restart and turn this process towards peace and what fresh ways can be found in the process out of the dead in. nasser al could well former palestinian foreign minister and you an ambassador welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now master of palestinians don't trust us let peace efforts anymore and want to establish a multilateral format of his negotiations talking about moscow hosting the seizure talks but israel said it would only call parade if the americans leave if the americans that if this process so how do you expect we are a multilateral format to work if israel isn't part of it well we don't think that it should work without without israel but we think that it's the duty of the international community to push the israelis to accept certain things including to establish a multilateral format as you said a mechanism that mechanism in our.