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after the surprise announcement all face to face talks between north korea's kim jong un mixed messages are now coming from washington this meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by north korea we're ready to have the first baiting without precondition let's just meet unless we talk about the weather if you will but the first time conflicting messages have come out of the white house however with potential progress now being made caleb maupin looks up who deserves credit. they both love political drama big weapons and nuclear buttons but now it appears that little rocket man kim is ready to meet with donald the doe target their words not mine and surprisingly trump has agreed and the administration is all too clear about who they consider to be the winner of

this battle of the bruisers what we know is that the mash maximum pressure campaign has clearly been effective for the first time in a long time the united states is actually having conversations from a position of strength not a position of weakness like the one that north korea finds itself in due to the maximum pressure campaign now the white house has every reason to think so after all they just slapped new sanctions on north korea they pressured the world to halt all trade with pyongyang and they fired almost every weapon in the english language arsenal all aimed at stopping kim with donald trump's so-called hard power we can have men men rocket men sick puppy shooting rockets all over the place we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea but is trump the real winner here after every tongue lashing he received from the oval office kim fired back with his own retorts furthermore kaman gauged in diplomacy master class with south korea

engaging in negotiations and even securing the unified team korea at the recent winter olympics is now all set to sit down with donald trump it will be unprecedented the first time in history now at this point it's quite an achievement for kim jong un who let's ask new yorkers what they think who's the real winner of this upcoming meeting i think it's a win for north korea korea because they definitely approach chump about the issue and our president trump was being very i say amateur about the situation so i think since the north korean president took the first step then i think it makes everything better he was trying to make a step for peace you know the good. i'm scared because he's the first president i believe to meet with the north korean leader is better probably north korea than it is for the usa it's absolutely a victory for kim jong un this is an individual who has been the leader of his country for now i guess seven years but has been completely isolated he's never

much another. world leader it leads to a whole host of unanswered questions and risks that the american president is offering what kim jong un wants most on the front end of a process where we haven't yet achieved what we want most which is north korea's denuclearization so while everyone's going nuclear over a meeting that could potentially turn the tide of this crisis it's starting to look like kim might be the winner of this round table mopping artsy new york. investigation into accusations of could lucian between team trump and russia has turned to the miss universe contest back in twenty thirteen donald trump allegedly invited president putin to the beauty pageant being held in moscow that year kyra it's not clear what the connection with the u.s. presidential election is three years later is supposed to be his aussie

correspondent down off. many tried many failed but the folks at c.n.n. have finally done it undeniable proof of how the russians convince some sixty million people to vote trump and twenty sixteen and drum roll please. it's this game c.n.n. has learned russians for created in released this anti hillary clinton video game you heard me right it's a video game they actually named it it's called hill tendo according to c.n.n. the game featured three levels first you had to help hillary clinton delete as many e-mails as you can a nod to the scandal over her handling of classified information which had been meiring her companion for months then you were supposed to assist the presidential nominee to collect money from some arab states evading the bombs at the same time and the final challenge to throw the u.s.

constitution as far as possible a silly game that could be written by a programming suffer more during their bathroom breaks doesn't take much to sway an average american voter or at least that's what c.n.n. appears to believe and you know what it shows just how far russians are willing to go to meddle in our domestic affairs but for the sake of argument let's break down the numbers this game was reportedly played some nineteen thousand times even in the best case scenario if every game counts for a new person who was illegible to vote and actually showed up at the polls this not even two hundred ths of a percent is the share of voters the game no one's ever heard of until a few days ago may have swayed but direct influence was only part of the ploy claimed c.n.n. apparently developers could track game is behavior and then target them with specific ads on social media something that according to those networks themselves

was almost nonexistent. comments on facebook facepalm that the investigation. the funny thing is the game touched on the points of everything she has done wrong and c.n.n. is reporting like it's a bad thing some amazing reports in a c.n.n. you found a video game about a presidential candidate's a game designed to reflect the way she lives and it took you a year after the election to get your reporter out pulitzer material lol yeah that's what did at c.n.n. this game that nobody ever heard of totally swayed voters in wisconsin but you know after theories of pokémon meddling and dumpster diving for evidence in moscow so we thought we'd come take a look at it this report somehow begins to sound plausible don of r.t. . getting a warm welcome isn't always a pleasant experience especially if it's in the form of an unwanted hug as one

california senator learned the hard way. that you are no notice that your behavior has been unwelcomed the rules committee also instructs you not to initiate hugs. all my life a hug has been my way of greeting friends and colleagues a gesture of warmth and kindness and a reflection of my children. and we are back in just a mum. told

me it's so also not accepted. then russia and all that and us deciding maybe off what i mean companies or european companies are investing in the old which infrastructure we are building intra mini or and injure up i think that's a trim and it's a european just. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. most some people want to listen. to going to be press it's like when the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lines of how. things should.

thank you joining us who are not soldiers have been deployed to the southern town of salzburg to remove contaminated vehicles after the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. and his daughter yulia remain in a critical condition as. the focus of the investigation and paste have shifted to the cemetery and souls bury where there are the remains of a script files wife and son both of whom died in recent years and the police have denied that either of their bodies or their remains have been exuma however. police ted has gone up in that cemetery and police officers have been seen removing

objects from the scene the other major development in the story is the fact that the military has now been deployed to help with the investigation into the attack among those military experts who have been deployed there are contamination experts and also specialists who are helping to remove vehicles and objects from the scene including ambulances that may have been contaminated while they were treating the victims the home secretary visited souls brain which is of course the scene of the attack but also the hometown of a script file i understand people's curiosity about all those questions and wanting to have and there will be a time to have those on but the best way to get to them is to make sure that we give the police the space that they need to really go through the area carefully to do their investigation and to make sure they have the support. that they need in

order to get that i'm right also visited the hospital where. his daughter and the police officer that first came to their assistance are all being treated and speaking of hospitals in terms of medical issues the police in wilcher have said that as many as twenty one people have been treated in connection to potentially coming into contact with that nerve agent that was used on the former spy and his daughter so we're seeing this extensive investigation unfolding and at the same time extensive media speculation that just won't stop in case you haven't heard about who might be behind this attack well take a look at what's being said bad things have been known to happen to russians who crossed vladimir putin the fact that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a student sponsor of some sure and russia is the chief suspect of course which the intelligence services consider russia a leading suspect based on previous attacks and the sophistication of the nerve

agent used speculation isn't limited to just the media the politicians here quite a lot of backbench m.p.'s are also indulging in quite a bit of it many of them pointing the finger of blame squarely at moscow before the evidence has been carted out some backbench m.p.'s going as far as accusing the welsher of instigating an act of war if this ends up leading to the kremlin others have in the light of this been calling for increased spending on defense here in the u.k. moscow isn't impressed and appears to be quite frustrated with how this story is unfolding we've had the first official response from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. being accused not only of this our western partners accuses of basically everything that's going wrong on this planet it's not serious. it's just

more blatant propaganda and hysteria and the russian foreign minister also added that in case anyone is interested russia is happy to help out with the investigation. undercover israeli police arrest of the president of a student council this occurring at a west bank university outside the city of ramallah one of. the. twenty four year old omar al quds one he was reportedly held on wednesday is a prominent palestinian activist with alleged links to an affiliate of hamas and has already been arrested several times in the past here it details now with artie's polis there i'm hearing visits university outside ramallah in the west bank now during daylight hours israeli commandos who belong to the border police and a cover unit came into this university they tackled to the ground the head of the

student representative council who is also a member of them us now the israelis regard him as a terrorist organization and say that they believe that omar kiss twenty was involved in terror activity as they had him tekel to the ground they started firing bullets in the vicinity. of. the israeli commandos into the university through this introns there was any israeli army units that was positioned outside here and as you can see this is where the guards sit they detained the guards in their room while the commandos themselves came into the university campus they came into the main part of the campus which is here and in front of the student representative council they tackled or mar alkis twenty to the ground level. what is clear is that they entered this university in what the campus administration says was in violation of international

law they have called on the academic community to condemn israeli actions pointing out that this is not an isolated incident. r.t. outside ramallah. we spoke to dr saad who works at the university where it all took place he says the police carried out the raid posing as john lists that our soldiers train soldiers but there are dressed like palestinians and they dressed like a senior journalists and they came with cameras assuming that they are going to do and interview with the students and they would all marcus when he the head of the student council at the university. then they just catch him and they hold their hand guns and they start shooting so i think this is absolutely an outrageous and this is a huge where your nation to the rights of the palestinians to the rights of the education to the rights of the students in the first place and most definitely. the case and in palestine which is not the first incident anyway more news very soon on

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time after time say we're going underground in a week where the boss of britain's foreign affairs select committee has countenance the banning of this t.v. station in the united kingdom coming up on the show another syrian government chemical attack in ghouta this week even as defacto rebel commander saudi crown prince but ahmed bin solomon was lunching with the queen or just more propaganda we speak to top chemical weapons expert mit's professor theodore postol and forty eight hours ahead of the un security council meeting on syria and as u.k. media ignores the ongoing battle for alfred the founder of the u.s. institute for public accuracy norman solomon tells us of tragically major media complicity in a war that has killed or displaced millions plus from the headlines this week and said some toxic allegations against moscow and how some women have been starving themselves out of britain dollars and more coming up today is going underground but first let's go straight to britain's labor leader jeremy coleman current favorite to replace theresa may as prime minister who damaged this week's visit to britain

by a saudi prince the prime minister is due to meet crown prince mohammed bin solomon the ruler of saudi arabia despite much talk of reform there's been a sharp increase in the arrest and detention of dissidents torture of prisoners is common human rights defenders routinely sentenced to lengthy prison terms unfair trials and executions are widespread as amnesty international confirms as she makes her arms sales pitch will she also call on the crown prince to halt the shocking abuse of human rights in saudi arabia according to teresa mayes out of the arabia is actually saving lives. labor backbenchers from such entry positions are shouting shame can i just say to those but anxious that the link that we have with saudi arabia is historic it is an important one and it's saved it has saved the lives of

potentially hundreds of people. but has saudi arabia saved hundreds and britain corbet and said there was a secret report on saudi involvement in terror here in the u.k. the government is of course still suppressing a report into the funding of extremism which allegedly found evidence of saudi funding going to terrorist groups here in the u.k. thus threatening our security when will that report come out theresa may said it couldn't be published it would reply that corwin's home secretary anyway had the report but corbin wanted answers on other questions to a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block a. six hundred thousand children with cholera is something that i think everyone in this house should take seriously. germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia

but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her government this is pre-k. cannot be right that her government is true looting in what the united nations sais is evidence of war crimes tourism a said britain was giving aid and gauge didn't work and then appeared to argue that the real problem corbin should address was his own shadow foreign secretary and we thought barrie he seems to be a top within hours with the shadow foreign secretary once again who this morning said the arms industry is not something i'm seeking to undermine as long as it's within it. national no no and went on to say that she thought the u.k. can sound arms to any country as long as a use within the normal mind you told barry has slammed this week's visit it was in marked contrast to a previous de facto proof saudi statements on syria she has been quick to imply

that syria used chemical weapons against so-called rebels seeking regime change in damascus and as the saudi prince lunched with the british queen then we get more reports of syrian government chemical attacks there was soon discounted even in mainstream media those chemical weapons attacks allegations more generally and they are routinely broadcast as fact on media and nato nations joining me now is professor emeritus of science technology and international security at the massachusetts institute of technology theodore postol who has cast doubt on media certainty about syrian government chemical attacks on conch a coon and in the suburbs of damascus presidential thanks so much for coming on going underground even this week as as the queen was welcoming the prince from saudi arabia the mainstream state mandated b.b.c. corrected or appeared to correct a suspected report of a suspected chemical attack in ghouta in the suburbs of damascus people finally

starting to apply more scrutiny to these immediate reports of chemical attacks it's extraordinary how inaccurate reporting has been and. i should say before i say any more i am a big advocate for the press and its role. in our democracies and i'm totally in despair over the way the press in the west has behaved in the united states and i have to say also the u.k. you must surely welcome though that your defense secretary mattis is admission that there is no evidence of sarin gas use by the syrian army i think. general mattis is a man of great. intelligence integrity and he's in a difficult position he's working for president is not always. carefully thought out as general mattis is but i take his comment to indicate that he

understands that there is no crime mary information about this attack from actual u.s. intelligence or other national intelligence sources you're questioning donald trump's reaction to these things because it was his national security adviser general dick monster who often absa confidence in a chemical attack that was belatedly used as a justification for a tomahawk cruise missile attack on syria well i think you may be referring to this . extremely unprofessional note that was issued but that was claimed to be some kind of white house intelligence report issued on april eleventh the u.s. attacked sure airbase on april seventh and april eleventh supposedly the national security council released this intelligence report that you could see as you read it that it was amateurish and that the people who wrote it were not even

knowledgeable enough to fake the intelligence report it was really remarkable said any politicians here jeremy coleman's labor party and members of parliament that learn the government here routinely say that there indeed have been chemical attacks of course the pulitzer prize winning journalist. says he's used some of your information why do you think that what interested in or are present is on c.n.n. and the b.b.c. here in britain in the work of an emeritus professor from mit in the recent past i think when i have done work that tends to have findings that support the ongoing rhetoric. it tends to get covered and that's just not covered when and when it raises questions about the ongoing rhetoric i had this issue in two thousand and thirteen this came up quite dramatically with the new york times i was working on

this question of the mass nerve agent attack that occurred in ghouta on aug twenty one two thousand and thirteen that was a real attack i mean we don't know how many people were killed and injured but we do know it was real attack and. my colleague richard lloyd and i were studying the debris from you know that was photographed or videotaped and we all of a sudden realized that the munition had delivered the saron was completely different from what everybody including the new york times thought it was the new york times picked up. our analysis and published it immediately and the analysis basically showed that the munition carried maybe fifty leaders five zero leaders of sarin then after that story was covered.

we started analyzing the characteristics of the munition new york times claimed that they had long lines that they had constructed and they could show that they. munitions had been launched from some some syrian base military base about sixteen or seventeen kilometers from guta well inside government controlled them ask us into into good and we showed the range of the munition could not possibly be more than two kilometers but we couldn't get the new york times to cover them at all they handed haud and finally they pop. a small article in a lower and a lower page of back page eight reporting this as if it were incidental it's not incidental it changed completely the understanding of what might have happened in fairness to the tools because in new york times they did print something i

understand that the guardian which on another attack would talk in khan yunis. i've attacked you personally have said that the o.p.c. w the official chemical weapons the un organization is debunked all your theories and and that you have been accusing their reporters of being isis supporters and the guardian haven't published as i understand any anything from you to rebut their claims there is a columnist there is name a month b.-o. . and. he fancies himself a scientist but he doesn't ever talk about science and this column's i should say we my george will be on this program he said that the yes go on oh i i would i would actually let me suggest that you have me on the program love to do that we certainly do but go on anyway. so he makes these accusations against

me and he makes a claim about they my somehow being a sympathizer to isis and he has no idea what he's talking about he talks about the o.p.c. w. report this is the un report and the fact of the matter is that report has serious problems and the russians have raised questions about those serious problems and without saying that i'm a supporter of the russians or not i can say that the arguments that the russians have made are completely correct but the o.p.c. w. report does not use science. ific methodology is properly to reach its conclusion and i have been through that report and incidentally there is no way mr month could have been through that report and say what he says ok did to be clear i mean that is tourism is just grace defense secretary michael fallon went as far as saying

russia will responsibility by proxy for civilian deaths caused by poison gas worth johnson the foreign secretary here and your secretary state rex tillerson they have said there have been chemical attacks how do you characterize the use of science and technology and its use in the service of national security well i could tell you because we know what the o.p.c. w. report says there's a relatively detailed report and the report basically repeats it repeats the kinds of. technical nonsense that delon cat has been putting out and that technical nonsense has been repeated by human rights watch and also by the new york times and so for example the new york times has a video it put out how russia you know finessed over.