as 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 bell 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 consequent this chemical attack and unable 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 a 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 vital those if you're curious on to the show president most will thank you. thank you if we contacted mr mambo but he did not get back to us in time for the first broadcast secretly he tweeted us to deny the allegations made in this since you he said i have never said anything about possible being an isis sympathizer as usual he is making things up here is what i actually said see if you can spot his mistake when i challenged postals claims people accuse me of being an isis sympathizer a paedophile being blackmailed by the government and the mossad agents we also invited mr moore to come on to the show but he declined he said i will not favor this latest fiction with a response an aussie after the break norman solomon former us congressional

candidate and the founder of the institute for public accuracy on complicity between major governments all over the news saudi arabia. if you do the right and breaking news. exchange all this other body we have going on the ground. is not a good place is not a good country and our children are sick but mr bush. i love the song. to believe this but that as her father is glued. to their approach i am still ok let's share it with me i'm checking into the serious cooling in just a little bit from the moment of oneself to be the middle. manager

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papers what authority does putin have to order extra judicial killings abroad this is about the apparent attempted murder of a script pole and his daughter in salzburg here in the united kingdom they say that they found toxins no. agents there and immediately the finger of blame is pointed at this man and at moscow the suggestion of the foreign secretary as johnson 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 the public were into 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 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 and 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 in good living started having connections and conversations with the russians why did these people who spy for almost six

scruples know my 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 that 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 fire. 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 has own russian problems of course he wanted to taunt that if you could be happening with probe to get through it all this is a big deal the new york times reports north korea asked for direct nuclear talks and trump 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 state in africa didn't know anything about this

wrong decision just wandered into away to his room it's a source of south koreans meaning 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 was going to do in that meeting let's go next three saudi arabia this great prince coming to lunch with the queen well there is as well if there is a. thirty two aspects to this one hour of news post 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 see. why the continuing attack on civilians in yemen that's that's a war which is a pretty heavy duty attack on people who are this aren't even going back to the defense minister when the war started and whose weapons are using at least in part british weapons what this is about their records and training as well from the area of well we've never had the nihil 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 didn'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 and 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 hire 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 is 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 the few men 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 limiter big 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 us 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 no less let's just begin with reporting on syria is delusional before he became president seemed very aware more aware than many journalists in the mainstream media the u.s. policy tended to favor islam ists i think it's fair to say that after more than a year of the trial 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 his 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 now famous and accuracy in reporting in the united states which 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 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's 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 passing doubt on chemical weapons attacks that the british media has any say are extended in syria committed by the us of the yes i mean he published this in the new york or rather the london review of books of 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 it'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 the appointment 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 trying to call 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 among the hawks in washington and we should make no mistake it's largely a bipartisan view of hostility towards iran the 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 donald trump 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 a time with 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 of the crack of a 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 country 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 be outlet and the washington post the new york times are saying something is true 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 former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell larry wilkinson till then keep in touch with your 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 idea because you want radiation has since been detected as far as glasgow in scotland and folks which are in the southeast of england some six pounds and miles away from. where you can you know we're going to tell you it's none of us are not in the morning and one million people and i'm dying to.

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russia is holding talks over a second group of militants leaving syria's eastern. group of business left the enclave on friday. from a police officer in north carolina is charged with assault have to be think up a black man for alleged jaywalking and this is after the footage from a body count came to light. i've heard. on. the fuss over the meeting expected between donald trump and kim jong un may have been premature with conflicting messages now coming from the white house.

very good evening to you always great to have your company. this is all. russian offices all holding talks with leaders of islam is units inside seem. is eastern ghouta it's regarding the possible exit of a second group of militants from the area on friday a group of n r militants left the besieged enclave through a humanitarian corridor and this video shows the militants being a score to douse of the area by syrian soldiers as in previous cases across syria the jihadists have surrendered in return for safe passage to other areas that are still held by rebels. on friday or you un humanitarian convoy finally managed to enter eastern ghouta it had been delayed by heavy fighting as government forces battled against terrorists that and according to the latest u.n. estimates the fighting in the think it has resulted in more than one hundred deaths

in two days the u.n. also called on all parties in the conflict to bring an end to the violence has from the red cross says that the people on the ground need a wide range of basic supplies. 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 what who of the people who need the military aid inside. also on saturday syrian officials warned of the possible provocation by militants

against the government by using chemical weapons this alleged attack could set happen on sunday look at who would have fumes stored artillery in terrorist storage and how my province we found containers with explosives filled with chemicals we also found twenty four tons of chemical poisons thought to be karim we sent all the information on these findings to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons u.n. joint investigative mechanism he wasn't examined as these organizations wanted to blame the syrian government we discussed the latest developments in syria with several geo political analysts. we noticed kind of pattern whenever there's a there's a council meeting human rights council meeting or security council meeting prior to this we see this kind of attacks and we see this kind of issues being raised by the french or by the british in relation to the issue in syria i believe this this kind

of pattern takes place just to divert the current. talk by the russia into resolving this matter especially in the sort of old cities and villages which. by syrian army syrian army didn't use any chemical weapons so why now there is no physical therapists in doing that but it is a chemical weapon as a scenario you know total. it is the syrian government and to demonize the syrian government accuses it. to to build on that accusation in order to have more pressure on syrian government and. they are preparing now is a crank that the preparing for that thing are you and this week's also seen claims of a fresh chemical weapons attack on good reportedly it was carried down by the syrian

government something damascus denies the issue of chemical weapons use in syria was touched upon in a recent n.b.c. interview conducted with putin do you believe the chemical weapons attacks in syria are fake news. of course firstly the syrian government destroyed its chemical weapons long ago. we know about the militants plans to simulate chemical attacks by the syrian army and the us that on the. part of me. after you took. all the attempts that have been made repeatedly in the recent past and all the accusations were used to consolidate the efforts against said. when you're the cockpit log. of them number three are aware of these goings on and they are not interesting which is because one wants to say boring since the beginning of the year there have been at least four at least four chlorine based chemical weapons

attacks in syria our secretary of state tell us and just said that russia bears the responsibility for this given your earlier promises to rein in chemical weapons attacks in syria your response. was because of talk and we knew my conclude that firstly we have nothing to do with this and secondly we demand a full investigation as for crimes return to regular police and at least bury the bodies still lying in the rubble following the massive reads on residential areas were put into remarks follow the liberation of syria's raw car from eisel by the u.s. led coalition it came at an extremely high cost the civilians with some sources in the campaign may very well fit in almost two thousand deaths the u.s. also was criticized over it and liberation campaign in iraq's most sought the death toll there is feared to been even higher for the western rhetoric over losses anything good to compared to mosul is stunningly different.

by the escalation of strikes me humanitarian disaster systematic targeting of civilians this is how on us ongoing slaughter of trap civilians it's about the practice of the syrian government as well and we call on this including russia to ensure that this violence stops.

in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it's clear their city being liberated they understand what they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price and avoidable part of the war and commanders have to press on despite that responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis we are the good guys and munition people on the battlefield know the difference. give them space to get on britain's home secretary has once again called for police to be allowed time to probe the poisoning of former russian spy said gay screwball and his daughter. there are over two hundred fifty counterterrorism police from eight out of our levon counterterrorism units involved there's over two hundred witnesses

involved and there's over two hundred forty pieces of evidence so we need to give the police and all the investigative parts around them the space to get on with that. of the stamen followed a cabinet meeting on the nerve agent attack in the service if you've solved on sunday the army's been deployed to help police in the investigation and with the removal of contaminated vehicles amber road also confirmed both russians remain in critical condition. i'm pleased to say i'm joined on the line now by former m i five intelligence officer annie good evening to you annie. first of all the thing that really has struck me about this story the fact that the home secretary amber rudd is continuing to call for time to allow the police to investigate without speculation this is not how i'm used to it happening usually if there's a whiff of russian involvement you've got all the nodding dogs in the houses of

parliament saying it was russia it was russia and yet sometimes you know you really get this restraint why is that do you think. i think she's just doing her job i mean this is precisely the line that the home secretary should be taking in the u.k. i find it slightly alarming this it seems to be so unusual that someone might be doing their job that well but yes of course the police need to have some space to build up an evidence will chase right from the start of this attack i've been saying there are three things they need to look at first of all the need to get get the boots on the ground to find eyewitnesses potentially to look at the c.c.t.v. secondly they need to needed to identify the substance which apparently done very rapidly because that will give leads to where this substance might have come from and who might be behind it be it a state level actor or be it a rogue at all criminal act or you got their hands on something particularly nasty and thirdly and most crucially i think the key thing they need to be doing and they will be doing is looking into.