disgrace 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 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 repeat it repeat the kinds of. technical nonsense that dell and 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 or or somehow misrepresented what

happened in contra kuhn this chemical attack and the nickel for two thousand and seventeen and that video contains all of the data that you need to show that the video is a totally false statement let me give you an example it shows before and after satellite photographs of alleged bomb damage from from the attack on it before i have a paper i wrote i can send it to you with the images you cannot find any evidence of bomb damage between the two photographs they show none and this is what passes for journalism these days is a new york times not given invite although you're curious onto the show president bush will thank you. thank you for the break norman solomon former u.s. congressional candidate and the founder of the institute for public accuracy on

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welcome back to go to the week stories now is the broadcaster and former liberal democrat member of parliament lembit opaque lembit not surprising rushes in the headlines presidential elections in russia across the biggest country on earth none of those reasons afshan this is the reason euro news sums up what's in all the papers what authority does putin have to order extra judicial killings abroad this is about the apparent attempted murder of so scriptural and his daughter in salzburg here in the united kingdom they say that they found toxins nerve agents there and immediately the finger of blame is pointed at this man and moscow the suggestion of the foreign secretary has jumped was very explicit saying we mustn't point fingers before going on to point fingers yet but everybody has the papers are full of this as if it's already a done deal as if there has been some sort of a formal investigation. now there's another part to this and you get senior government ministers talking as if they know something that they haven't shared all adding to the impression that this is a rerun of some kind of a spy killing

a revenge attack of some sort by moscow or a warning to everybody else that moscow is potent this is not going away it's not have a public inquiry people are already asking question in the public way to live in anger which is always been name checked throughout since this tragedy occurred in england important papers were not released about the public inquiry and then did you notice where boris johnson attacked this television channel attacked the whole of russia interestingly the home secretary started to row back and say we must wait for the investigation wait for the police investigation and now i understand the british military are involved this is a simple story after in the way it is at the moment the russians have done something bad and we should retaliate there's another story about this incidentally in the times where all bark or no bite with the kremlin you can say we see where this is going suggesting that we need to take a stand against there are all kinds of political reasons why this is attractive to the british government right now there were some reports that cripple had contacts

with the russians here in london which is a which is very similar to live in a good living started having connections and conversations with the russians why did these people who spy for almost six scruples m m i six a british agent start to then talk with the russians in whose interest i'm sure my six will take a pretty dim view of someone they are working with then to talking to the russian security there are contradictions i'm not going to disagree with you on lot but those contradictions or do warped by the fact that there really is only one story in town about this and they're more or less saying that man did it somehow he did it let's go on to the next story president all trump has his own russian problems of course he wanted to taunt that if you could be happening with the mullah probe to get through it all this is a big deal the new york times reports north korea asked for direct. nuclear talks and chump agrees after all the rhetoric all the saber rattling all the launches

not just of invective but in the case of north korea itself nuclear missiles for testing it looks like they're going to get together it's amazing britain of course killed twenty percent helped kill twenty percent of the population of korea. as a prize and standing next to the city in africa didn't know anything about this wrong decision just wandered into away to his room a store some south koreans meeting it's a day why don't we just start talking pentagon knew nothing about it too i would love to think that's true and i would be quite impressed affronted that there are some well to lincoln's approach if he really was taken by surprise it shows the extent to which donald trump doesn't play by the old rules but this time i'm not going to slam him i want to see the american president meeting with the premier of north korea because if there's one thing that could ease those tensions a conversation like that warning of course you don't quite know what i'm going to do in that meeting let's go to next three saudi arabia this great prince coming to lunch with the queen well there is as well if there is a minute thirty two aspects to this one out of new supposed britain and saudi agree ninety billion dollar trade deal that's across about a decade

a lot of that might be arms we know that been multi-million pound arms deals billion pound arms deals between the u.k. and saudi arabia before but there's an interesting subtext to this apparently we shouldn't criticise saudi arabia because they do a lot of good and we should be respecting their appearance to encourage joint female driving during international women's day while they were up there is one example the example which most people are targeting there is an argument maybe things are moderating a bit in saudi arabia but who can talk about saudi arabia without having to cite the continuing attack on civilians in yemen that's that's a war which is a pretty heavy duty attack on people who at this point even back in the defense minister when the war started and who's weapons are using at least in part british weapons what this is about their records and training as well from the area up well and we never how the. denial of that not that i've heard of this is about the money it's about the size of that figure because the reason may is desperate to make sure

that we have people to do trade with after the e.u. and ourselves part company very briefly let's go to this story because it doesn't seem to be getting much of a hearing there goes another human rights story this time home grown in the united kingdom the metro reports women in yards were told they could be deported more quickly for hunger strike or hunger strike right now or it is though some say it's not actually a hunger strike they're just not eating bottom line here is perhaps in frustration at the conditions and the indefinite detention they hired people to fake their refugee status according to the home office but they're not faking the fact they're not eating and what's interesting here they've been told if you insist on not eating this could accelerate your deportation ironically if you're stuck in the uncertainly maybe that's even what you want but how can it be in a first world country that claims to be a bastion of human rights we see this kind of behavior by people whether or not they're here illegally whether they should be deported these people resort to something which isn't good for you and can lead to death and the prime minister was

home secretary when some of the grievous egregious human rights abuses happened in the united nations will do a lot if they're not eating well still waiting what is going to happen to them this one is just among come full quiet little saw in the background though if they do start dying this will make headlines to you know there are demonstrations coming up numbered over thank you. because turkish president a well appeared to shoot down a syrian ceasefire this week how is mainstream media shaping the war scape of the middle east just forty eight hours ahead of the u.n. security council debating resolution two four zero one calling for a cessation of hostilities in eastern guta i'm joined now by former u.s. congressional candidate and founder of the institute for public accuracy norman solomon he's also a longtime associate of the media watch group fairness and accuracy in reporting norman welcome to going underground in the studio. less let's just begin with reporting on syria he's delusional before he became president seemed very aware more aware than many journalists in the mainstream media the u.s.

policy tended to favor islamists i think it's fair to say that after more than a year of the trying presidency he's pretty much put both feet down in the militarist us policies if that which you why would he be persuaded to be just another us president with some exceptions he basically has a tremendous force pulling him towards conformity i mean after all since he knew almost nothing about foreign policy and a lot of what he claimed to know was factually and otherwise incorrect then he brought in the old hands and let's face it this is been going on for decade after decade the conventional wisdom is extremely powerful and it cues along the lines of u.s. foreign policy economic interests and so forth and i have no doubt that a lot of is very wealthy friends as well as so-called national security experts sat down with drop and said look it's in the interests of us foreign policy and capital and wall street to do this this and this and it's not to be overly simplistic about

it hopefully but that is a powerful force that fairness and accuracy in reporting in the united states was well i've been associated associated with that what is the state of u.s. media paul from what you've just said about the reporting of syria given that it doesn't like seymour hersh on syria have found that he would rather publish in britain than in the new yorker magazine what why would someone like him why would others seek to publish overseas in the case of seymour hersh i mean i certainly can't speak to the specifics because i don't know them in terms of why he isn't in the new yorker anymore except to say that what he's writing would be totally considered i was i was in doubt on chemical weapons attacks that the british media certainly say are extended in syria committed by the us of the yes i mean he published in the new york or rather the of london. review of books the new york review of books is not going to publish in the new york times evidently is not going to nor the new yorker on a lot of those issues and he provided tremendous service in disproving

a lot of the claims that were being laid out to justify attacking iran a decade ago and what the level of hysteria amongst your fellow journalists in the united states is regarding a future war on iran there's been a baseline view that iran is a tremendous threat to the region against all evidence i mean that's you can't find that i'm aware of in the last hundred years of iran being aggressive force militarily outside their own borders of though the opposite case the us help iraq to wage war on iran and so forth it's almost a religious political view that iran is a threat to the region and peace in the middle east is a kind of a neo con slash liberal interventionist theology ideology that iran must be demonized and no matter how much of the disappointment of the hawks in washington iran and hears to the nuclear deal chapter and verse there's a great disappointment that iran is doing so clearly out of washington an effort to

break the deal open in any case it's irrational and yet it's quite rational when you see the line up the auth authentic zeal to ally continually and with differently with the interests of saudi arabia and israel and so forth and this is just from a basic journalistic standpoint i would argue a humanistic standpoint this is a travesty that's extremely dangerous one of the few foreign policy accomplishments of the obama administration was to help bring about the iran nuclear deal and deal of all time that try to call it the worst deal of all time and what we have is an inversion of reality of a decent foreign policy based on decency it's an inversion there's tremendous fear that peace will break out. the hawks in washington and we should make no mistake it's largely a bipartisan view of hostility towards iran they fear that peace could become

normalized instead of the current normalized perpetual war there is a polarized media there faux is different to those other outlets but generally from entertainment to news there is an attitude the vladimir putin put donald trump where he is in the white house how do you characterize that perception voters in the united states put in the white house and the attempt to scapegoat vladimir putin or russia is just preposterous at the same time the same proposers even to the moon investigation has found has made indictments against russian individuals this is law enforcement here it's not a matter of speculation the threats to democracy in the united states are overwhelmingly massively homegrown then why do so many journalists in the united states believe it is the old. that is that is running well we don't know their internal condition i mean we might gather that if you really do you have time but their behavior their work product is to say that we should be the american people

really scientists now saying that rush or is was respond the pressure for conformity is enormous if you're an independent minded tough journalist in the united states you will be marginalized and ignored the chances are very greatly so and the flip side of that is that the essence of propaganda is repetition and likewise there's an enormous continuous cascading messaging that comes from the mass media and it becomes the conventional wisdom and there's a great quote one of the less well known quotes from george orwell he said a circus dog does somersaults at the crack of the whip but the really well trained circus dog does somersaults when there is no whip and you can go through the news wing rooms of america and see thousands of esteem journalists across the kind. three and in their workplace there are no whips in evidence but there's a great deal of conformity and becomes the acknowledged truth because other

reporters are reporting it as such well what is the source of that cia n.s.a. major media if you're a small b. outlet and the washington post the new york times are saying something is true or just as fifteen years ago about weapons of mass destruction existing in saddam hussein's iraq then the chances are it is not good for your career to say anything otherwise no it's all in thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday when we speak to retired u.s. army colonel and for the chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell larry wilkinson till then keep in touch russian media we'll see you on monday three hundred sixty eight years to the day of the biggest declaration from agrarian socialism and seven years to the day of the explosion of japan's fukushima nuclear reactor the idea that you want radiation has since been detected as far as glasgow in scotland and folks which are in the southeast of england some six thousand miles away from.

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headline international a group of militants in the syrian rebel enclave of eastern. held up by shelling. delivered a. police officer in north carolina is charged with assault after beating up a black man for alleged. video is the. initial excitement surrounding the surprise announcement of a meeting between donald trump. with conflicting messages now coming out of the white house.

welcome to it here on r.t. international we have a worldwide news had. a group of militants has left syria's perceived enclave of eastern using a humanitarian corridor or that's after talks brokered by moscow this video shows the militants being escorted out of the area by syrian soldiers as in previous cases across syria the jihadists have surrendered in return for safe passage to other areas still held by militants. hawkins has details the first group of thirteen militants and their families leaving the area through one of those russian military syrian government organized checkpoints those safety kodos offered to civilians on fighters to leave the area should they wish to do so similar previous moves during the syrian civil war where rebels have been evacuated from places such

as. well under the cease fire agreements and. moved up to province thus allowing the syrian government to move beyond take over the area and avoid a long protracted conflict causing more bloodshed now this is significant because prior to this all offers you know by the russian military and the syrian government were rejected by rebel groups in the region despite unverified video showing of flyers being dropped over the towns and the city in the area no groups have taken up that office so far and civilians allegedly have also been prevented from leaving the area through those corridors because of shelling to those roads now all of the other bit of news is that the syrian rebel group. has issued a statement in which they've said they have taken the decision to release the members of the terrorist group al nusra formerly al qaida in syria from prisons and

transport them to this nation likely to be in the north of the country one of the last major bubble strongholds in syria we don't yet know if the statement from jaish al islam and these rebels leaving the area are linked we don't know what group they're from either way though this does mark a significant development and could leave the door open to why the evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians from the area in the coming future investigative journalist rick sterling believes the evacuation among other things will help to save civilian lives. they have their base of operations and it libin and clearly the the strategy of the syrian government and their allies is to remove the terrorists from the more populated areas and get them all concentrated in it live and in deal with that down the road it's tremendously positive to remove the terrorists from around damascus that's had mortars and hell cannon missiles coming

into it on a nearly basis which i witnessed myself the news about some terrorist leaving the area the news of public protest by civilians in those areas against the against the occupying militants are positive indications early on friday a un humanitarian convoy finally managed to enter eastern ghouta the aid supplies have been delayed by heavy fighting as government forces battled terrorists the u.n. refugee agency representative. recently visited the area his what he says about the situation. is part of this. group's inside they need to to convince that security assurances that he can come in and those who are outside need to give us that get into that would be peace during that period when we call in and bring assistance in the. groups inside who are resisting in fighting there are groups that are fighting amongst themselves and there's pressure from onset from the military so civilians who are caught in this in the situation they have

nowhere to go according to the latest un estimates the fighting in eastern guta has resulted in more than one hundred deaths in two days united nations also called on all parties involved to end the violence and red cross regional spokes person el-hage says people on the ground require a wide range of basic necessities. the needs of people remain massive the needs are. two four three four etc you have medical needs you have need for access to a good source of food you need also access to clean water you have all sorts of needs inside the water today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with people inside all day and food aid as well what happens when a seven thousand five hundred people which the trucks on monday and today were able to provide humanitarian aid to just a little percentage of who of the people who need the military aid inside this week

has also seen claims of a fresh chemical weapons attack on ghouta reportedly carried out by the syrian government is something that damascus strongly denies but the issue of chemical weapons use in syria was touched upon in a recent n.b.c. interview with saddam a person do you believe the chemical weapons attacks in syria are fake news. of course. the syrian government is destroyed its chemical weapons long ago of course. we know about the militants we found to simulating chemical attacks by the syrian army and so strongly in. me. after all these have been made repeatedly in the recent past and you can ignore the accusations we used them to consolidate the efforts against assad. use poison in your cockpit glore cook the consulate we are aware of these goings on. by and they are not interested everyone wants to say boring because. the bodies of dead

children thanks to syrian gas attacks in the now you sure that these deaths are the result of chemical attacks by the syrian government you should know now but all of . them knew it was no serious investigation and there were no dead bodies. more but not we maybe they were dead bodies which is to expected in a war what was my look how they liberated most only what it was razed to the ground if you. look at a liberated raca the dead like you have not yet been removed from the religious and you parroting do you want to talk about this. a former police officer in the united states in the state after state of north carolina has been charged with assaulting a black man who was accused of jaywalking the incident happened last august and was captured on the officers and body a thirty three year old johnny rush was on his way home when two officers stopped in the accused him of crossing an empty street illegally from office chris heckman

could later be seen punching and tasering rush we should warn you the next video was disturbing. i've heard. oh. my god oh. my god that clip was leaked six months after the incident took place and the police brutality activist michelle gross says the police department's refusal to act on the video until it was released is alarming the video was held by the police department all this time and all of this time they could have taken action against officer hickman an officer or gary and they chose not to you know supervisors look at that footage right away early so supposed to and clearly he had no fear of any kinds of

accountability related to that conduct this must be standard operating procedure in that particular police department and frankly it is in many police departments these videos must always be made public we have no way to monitor police conduct and to understand how our police are operating if we can't watch those videos that they themselves collect on their own activities the asheville police the pop and has condemned the officers actions saying they are contrary to the progress we have made in the last few years in improving community trust however the incident in north carolina. it is just the latest in a series of police brutality cases captured on body cams over the past three years .

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