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 able for 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 get invited all the yorkers 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 interview 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

sympathizer a paedophile being blackmailed by the government and the mossad agents we also invited mr to come on to the show but he declined he said i will not favor this latest fiction with a response. after the break norman solomon former us congressional candidate on the founder of the institute for public accuracy on complicity between nato governments and media for the news saudi arabia. you don't write and breaking news of a nuclear exchange. about to have going underground. the new economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to. education. higher education is

becoming just another product that can be born and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now in an extremely more high education the new global economic war. so also not accepted where the. u.s. is deciding maybe. what german companies or european companies are investing in or which infrastructure we are building in germany or in interop i think it's a german and it's a european decision. welcome back to go through some 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 are 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 a script 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 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 going 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 waiting 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 well boris johnson attacked this television channel attacked the whole of russia interestingly on the road 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 russian. 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 in good living started having connections and conversations with the russians why did these people who spy for almost six cripples them a 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 are due 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 own russian problems of course he wanted to taunt that interview to be happening with the miller probe thing is that 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 trip decision just wandered into away to his room a source from south koreans meaning it's a 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 they can surprise if he really was taken by surprise it shows the extent to which stunnel trant 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 is going to do in that meeting there's going to next story 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 e-mail 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 are this aren't even going 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 have 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 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 the aisles were told they could be deported more quickly for hunger strike a hunger strike right now on it is those 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 heard of people who 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 unsightly 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 soul in the background though if they do start dying this will make headlines to know there are demonstrations coming up lembit a big thank you. turkish president or whether he had 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 un 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 no less let's just begin with reporting on syria is donald trump 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 were true 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 has been going on for decade after decade the conventional wisdom is extremely powerful and it is along the lines of u.s. policy foreign. 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 and fairness 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 that 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 passing doubt on chemical weapons attacks that the british media has and they say are extended in syria committed by the us of the yes i mean he published 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 provides a 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 although 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 it's. it's a kind of a neo con slash liberal interventionist theology ideology that iran must be demonized and no matter how much of it's appointment of the hawks in washington iran and here's 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 off 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 among the hawks in washington and we should make no mistake it's a 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 their focus 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 in 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 to 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 flipside 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 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.

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russia holds talks on a second group of militants leaving the syrian rebel on clay for instance after the first group left on cave on friday. a former police officer in north carolina faces jail time over a brutal assault on a black man accused of jaywalking after a video of the incident is leaked. by playing. out from our. eye. on the global hype over a meeting between donald trump and kim jong un may have been premature with conflicting messages now coming from the white house.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. there are military is holding talks with rebel leaders in the syrian district of eastern go to the goal is to get a second batch of militants i. out of the besieged own place on friday several armed fighters were escorted out of the area by syrian soldiers as in previous cases across syria the jihadists surrendered in return for safe passage to other areas still held by rebels will also on friday un humanitarian convoy finally managed to enter eastern go to it had been delayed by heavy fighting between government forces and terrorists well according to the latest u.n. estimates the fighting in eastern cuba has resulted in more than one hundred deaths in the past few days the united nations also called on all parties in the conflict

to end the violence rather from the red cross says people on the ground require a wide range of basic supplies. the need of people remain massive the needs are. two four three four etc you have medical needs you have need for access to work good source of food you need also access to to clean water you have all sorts of needs inside 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 it's seven thousand five hundred people which the trucks on monday and today were able to provide humanitarian aid to are just a little percentage of what all of the people who need the military aid inside. on saturday syrian officials said they had evidence of an upcoming chemical attack by militants the aim was to provoke an external response against the government the

alleged attack could happen on sunday. look at what are the fumes stored out of interest 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 chlorine we sent all the information on these findings to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons u.n. joint investigative mechanism it wasn't examined as these organizations wanted to blame the syrian government well we discussed the latest developments in syria with middle east analysts. we noticed kind of pattern whenever there's a there's a council meeting human rights council meeting scooter 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 and relation to the issue in syria i believe this this

kind of pattern takes place just to divert the current peace talks by the russia and to resolve this matter especially in the issue of older cities and villages which. by syrian arab army we syrian army didn't use any chemical weapons so why now there is not enough to compare those in doing that about the chemical weapon as a scenario you know total target if you see syrian government and to demonize the syrian government accuses it. to to build on that accusation in order to have more pressure on the syrian government and. they are preparing now is a crank that the preparing for that scenario. well this week has also seen claims of a chemical weapons attack on go to this was reportedly carried out by the syrian government

something damascus denies the issue of chemical weapon you sincere was touched upon in a recent n.b.c. interview with vladimir putin do you believe that chemical weapons attacks in syria are fake news. of course firstly the syrian government destroyed its chemical weapons long ago. secondly we know about the militants plans to simulate chemical attacks by the syrian army in the us that on the. part of me. after to and thirdly all the attempts that have been made repeatedly in the recent past and all the accusations we used to consolidate the efforts against us please do in your the cockpit look. after them number two we are aware of these goings on and they are not interesting 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 are secretary of state tellers and just said that russia bears the responsibility for this given your earlier promises to rein in chemical weapons attacks in syria your response. yes because your thought when you my can see 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 raids on residential areas. well president putin was referring to the u.s. led operation to liberate the syrian city of rocco from islamic state the campaign is believed to have resulted in almost two thousand civilian deaths and in the american liberation of mosul in iraq the death toll is fair to have been higher still but the western rush rickover losses in east and go to compared to mosul is strikingly 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 focus of the syrian government as well and we call on all their backers including russia to ensure that this violence stops.

in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it's 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 unavoidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite their responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis we are the good guys and munitions people on the battlefield the different. but this time secretary amber rudd has called for the police to be granted the time and resources to probe the poisoning of former russian spy a sort of case going to hell and his door to you leon. there were 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. what a statement followed a cabinet meeting on the nerve agent attack in source last sunday military personnel have been deployed to help police with the investigation and potential because decontamination road also confirmed both russians remain in critical condition former m i five officer and he made sure believes almost anyone could have poisoned this ripples. the key thing they need to be doing and they will be to is looking into what scripture has been doing in his life since he's moved to the u.k. and i think that's where the the motive for this attack is going to come from because let's face it you know intelligence turns he was a busted flush usually at state level actors that have the capability of producing this sort of agent however in terms of who might have used it that is

a different question to say that if it's the state made agent must be a state attack is i think disingenuous at best people can get their hands on this sort of thing gangsters and criminals can get their hands on this sort of thing if they've got the right money to pay for it. now after the surprise announcement of face to face talks between donald trump and north korea's kim jong un mixed messages are now coming out of 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 before without precondition. and much we've talked about the weather if you will. well it's not the first time washington has been inconsistent this policy on north korea with potential progress now being made out he's capable pin looks at who deserves the credit. they both love political drama big weapons and nuclear button but now it appears.