when i speak to people and i think this is number one agenda for all a lot of people you know people obviously don't want people attacked on the streets of the united kingdom by nerve gas buddy i don't think it really occupied people's minds that much worse today it was a bit of a pantomime i watched it until i got bored he made a statement and then it was just succession of people wanting to prove their anti russian credentials are a find it all a bit pathetic let's find out the facts if it is russia or if it is what they're calling state sponsored terrorism then they'll have to be dealt with but at the moment that hasn't been proved and also i understand that this guy this nerve gas over sixteen countries have got access to it at the moment and i personally don't want war or war with russia out of it most people do i think they want jaw jaw we need to be getting on with russia we need to be moving forward the real enemy and

i've said this before r.t. islamic state both at home and abroad but there's a very much in the press and in certain sections of this stablish one there's a desire to always to russia phobia if i could use that kind of term but he said constantly bashing or russia i think it's rather stupid myself that said if it is proved there's a link then it's going to have serious repercussions but it's still officially never a good time to for any government to be accused of something like this but perhaps a little bit worse is it now the timing presidential election coming up we'll keep not far away. well of course everyone is timing isn't it you're right the presidential election is coming up they're going to use the world cup again i mean if in a bit the most unpopular decision tree has ever buried apart from delay a brick said if she decided that the england team wasn't going to play in the world cup there be hell all hell let loose and then the british public would at last

actually get interested in this story we've been bombarded by this story and bombarded by the well i don't want to say propaganda but it feels like propaganda all the newspapers are singing from the same hymn sheet no one's questioning well if that's the case how did the cascade into the country why why would somebody want to kill this spy when he was in a prison in russia why wasn't he executed for being a traitor then why wasn't she attacked before now what's the significance of it now as you rightly say what they have left a trail if it really was secret agents doing this if they are and it is the russian secret service then they're not very good at their job if you know what you say but we need to know and i think rather than picking a fight with russia maybe we should be asking russia for their help to help us understand what's going on whereas she said look ok tell us what's going on bashir only give them

a day i just think it's rather ridiculous and and also what will we do that can possibly damage russia i don't finish is a fight we want to get into at the moment all eyes are going to be on the russian ambassador his explanation and some proof would ease a lot of people's concerns i think many thanks for joining us this evening john so we were planning for pre-show your or your views broadcast the columnist will speak again no doubt thanks. ok some breaking news just just come in here on r.t. international syrian militants have shelled civilians who were trying to escape the rebel enclave of eastern go to the russian reconciliation center says five people have been killed as they were actually trying to get through that humanitarian corridor that's been established the passage the which was put together by russia to help civilians to do that to flee the war zone has now been blocks. earlier on though fifty two civilians all of them children did manage to make it safely

through that passage is the first time the civilians have been able to use the corridor there as intended previously they were fired on by militants or they resorted to using a passing aid convoy as cover. the rebel held area of eastern ghouta has been besieged by government forces since twenty thirty but the fighting there recently escalated just the last few days the syrian government regained a large portion of the territory that pretty much isolated the militants into just three pockets you can see on our map now local suffering under the militant rule in those areas have shared their stories artie's it is done up as more now on the deal that allowed dozens of civilians to leave the fighting. militants in control of the area have let them out almost two weeks after russia and syria opened a humanitarian corridor was not an act of good world on behalf of the rebel factions but part of a deal russia and syria led some anti government fighters safely flee with their

families and in exchange fighters in ghouta would allow fifty civilians to leave the war zone as well that we've been suffering horribly for seven years we all stayed neutral in misrata we couldn't leave couldn't do anything they didn't let us leave controlled pressure on us that mystery night she'd we haven't seen any of the aid sent to us we haven't seen any money nothing he took everything from us. militants treat civilians anees goutam as a bargaining chip making sure that if anyone flees they do it on the fighters terms the gloves were off from the start the russian defense ministry has reported that the paths to safety were shelled almost religiously precisely to prevent anyone from fleeing to damascus trying to scape the house fire between the government forces and militant groups whose fighters far too often side with terrorists.

who have all sorts of needs inside the border today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with that people inside all the time and food aid as well. gov yolland the building block. for the. well that started this. then over security it would have not lash out of the second he. said not even any of the donors the sums are still. looked at long.

meanwhile the u.n. security council which was supposed to be focusing on relief efforts for war ravaged guth or send it into threats the u.s. envoy when the washington is ready to strike the syrian government. we also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and end human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime the united states remains prepared to act if we must. it is not the path we prefer but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take and we are prepared to take it again in her remarks u.s. ambassador nikki haley essentially used the language often used to justify u.s. military intervention saying that the usa essentially reserves the right to attack the syrian government now the meeting was convened to discuss the situation in

eastern guta this is a rebel held on play where there is fighting taking place now when nikki haley got up to speak rather than simply touching on the situation and the plight of civilians and efforts to make sure that civilians are not hurt she actually chose to make a barrage of allegations against russia iran and syria and in her remarks she went as far as saying that the three countries were actually responsible for some chlorine attacks now that we heard a response from the russian ambassador who said this is simply a decision from ation campaign in the past sixteen days there have been three separate allegations of chlorine gas attacks this is no ceasefire this is the assad regime iran and russia continuing to wage war against their political opponents are a constant when you want to build up and we understand that the goal of this decision from asian campaign is to manipulate public opinion and convince people the syrian government is using chemical weapons but we have reasonable concerns

that they were on preparations to stage fake chemical attacks in order to later accuse the government and according to our data on the fifth of march the only terrorists used chlorine in east and injuring thirty people nikki haley said that the united states is currently in the process of putting forward a new drug. asked resolution that would not contain what she called counterterrorism loopholes essentially the current resolution for a cease fire allows the syrian government to continue fighting against the terrorists and extremists in eastern guta she's arguing that this new resolution put forward by the united states would not allow for the fight against terrorist groups like al nasra to continue now at this point we're hearing from moscow that these terrorists in eastern guta are essentially using civilians as human shields they are holding the civilians in the area and actually staging executions now in his response to nikki haley the russian ambassador pointed out that essentially

what was supposed to be a meeting about the plight of civilians in eastern guta seemed to have turned into a vehicle for some unprincipled attacks on the government of russia last time i promise to count how many times the u.s. envoy would mention brushwood during his statement i counted these twenty two russian to russia russia russia russia russia russia and prussian russian freshly can russian russian russian russians and russian russian the russian the russian russian russian russia and the russians is done for political purposes only and not house of catherine civilians everyone in the un security council seems to be in full agreement that the lives of civilians in eastern guta should be protected however there are some pretty strong disagreements about how that should be carried out and how and who is responsible for the situation there and we've heard some rather extreme rhetoric in the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations.

donald trump is claimed his national secretary of commerce will discuss with the e.u. the bloc scrapping many of its tariffs against the united states this follows the president himself imposing new tariffs last day. important duties all steel and imported to the u.s. canada mexico in australia they've been excluded so far little terms now opening the door to negotiations with the european union and it looks like nato membership will play a key role to the jury the president made a statement near the end of his remarks i believe that raised a few eyebrows he seemed to be referring to nato saying that some of our allies are so-called allies treat us the worst in over the next couple of weeks will be looking perhaps at military spending as a factor in how these exemptions might work can you explain how those two things are related well the president's going to take into many considerations when you look at national security but you know the president's been very clear we're spending four percent of g.d.p.

many of our allies are spending one percent of g.d.p. and not making commitments to go up to the two percent so the president is very clear with you if we're in nato he wants to make sure that nato gets more moderate so that nato protect all of us and fulfill its goal what what he means is that if the e.u. countries want to be exempt from tariffs they need to pay to be nato members and this is something trump has been pushing for since his campaign days are going to fail us bears the whole burden paying nato bills saying that other countries should be paying for nato protection and security let's take a look at what trump had to say some of the countries that we're dealing with on our great partners great military allies and we're going to be looking at that very strongly the terrorists don't go affective for at least another fifteen days and we're going to see who's treating us fairly who's not treating this fairly part of that's going to be military. paying the bills who's not paying the bills the new

levies will be taking effect on the twenty third of march and just to recap foreign companies will have to pay a twenty five percent tax on steel imports and a ten percent tax on alumium imports of course this was met with a furious response from the e.u. and in response to the move the e.u. said that it would impose tariffs on u.s. imports of jeans motorbikes peanut butter and orange juice but now the u.s. secretary for commerce will be speaking to e.u. representatives regarding eliminating tariffs against the u.s. but ironically it looks like the military will be playing a decisive role in what's supposed to be economic bargaining. israeli defense forces are facing a public backlash after removing a video prepared for munch the international women's day it features female soldiers performing various roles in the service however it was scrapped to allegedly after pressure from religious groups is a clip from the video. remember

you ought to be. assured loyal heart physiologic. the i.d.f. spokesperson's unit insists the video was removed simply because it was not officially approved before being uploaded but the religious affiliated web site sort of game claims in a tweet the clip was taken down following their complaint describing the video as being provocative the removal calls outrage online many question the official reasons behind the move the female combatants forum started an online petition that demanded to fire rabbis who incite against the integration of women in combat positions within the i.d.f. we heard from the executive director of the israel religious action center she believes the growing influence of women in the country is disturbing to religious

groups. i think that rabbis extreme zealot rabbis of belong to minority groups in israel do certainly not the mainstream rabbis are disturbed by the fact that women are becoming more and more. dominant in these really public sphere why are the rabbis disturbed their say is saying if women become generals in the army what's next they're going to want to become rabbis they're going to become religious judges they're going to take our jobs away and i'm sorry that the army bent down and. capitulated to these demands thirty years ago women were assigned to only one hundred professions while men had seven hundred professions and now women are in the hundreds of professions in even though they're only serving twenty months while men serve thirty months. i'm proud of this movie and i think that. even if the movie is off the air it's not off the hearts and i think

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a different spot were the previous standards not the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that i know that's not the best the i intend to include at tuesday's out in. this. case faith. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the art of the deal is being put to the test ken trump the former reality television host broker a deal with the north koreans will the deep state allow him also is the world

entering a new trade war. ross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor or leverage he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have of course dmitri bob and she is a political analyst we spoke to make international or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated would start out well there was the phrase nixon went to china is trump going to do least metaphorically go to korea what i find really remarkable me go to victor first is that i think he did this all on his own he didn't tell anyone and the reaction from his own administration they were caught flat footed and of course the media is dead set against it because well there are a front for the for the deep state what's going on here because of course tillerson

who have sense as much of his trip to who took it all in africa yes right after yes . and it's actually good that he you know if you met with. in the theater appears the as they were planning who knows what who would have been accused of what they are but with the you know it's clear first of all it's questionable whether the trip will happen. considering all kinds of all sorts of circumstances of course for the real deal cleary's ation of the korean peninsula to happen the states would have to do two things first of all it would have to give guarantees of nonaggression against north korea which is the point of wanted all along yes but there was going to use would have to be it wouldn't just be words because everyone knows how much your words are worth considering what the united states did to iraq to libya and to other countries that got rid of their weapons of mass destruction in syria so yes so what would north korea want in exchange for denuclearization it

would want the united states to withdraw its troops and pieces from south korea and of course all recognition of north korea as an independent state and boy on both come. the united states is not willing to compromise so i had it in my introduction will the deep state allow him mark ok i want to toss another alternative you on there it is entirely possible that trump went out on his own in the deep state is our fight there is another possibility south korea and north korea just had a very successful you know first blush spring of detente with this joint a limp dick team and they're talking to each other they've agreed on a meeting in the d.m.z. between the two the two leaders and russia and china russia working with north korea and china working with south korea seem to be playing some type of tag team to facilitate a process and there's some evidently some real substantial things are actually

being discussed about security guarantees and so on among the koreans among the korean we have mentioned on the show multiple times that we think that the u.s. needs to butt out of this process of the korea's need to keep the u.s. out of the room this may be a chance for the u.s. deep state to interject itself back into a process that was bearing too much fruit and they need to have another merican of . what is fingerprints all over it and sabotage it to make sure that there is no agreement between a south korean president who seems all too eager for them on reaching some type of peaceful agreement or if you know there's a lot of wiggle room here because. it's saying the obvious the trump is unconventional but he basically was replying to an initiative through another intermediary i mean there was no letter ok we don't know the terms and conditions

and that allows actually trying to ban the north koreans and the south koreans a little bit of wriggle wiggle room because they say we didn't actually say that but what i find very. this thing is that trump startled the deep state by saying this because there are no preconditions there are always preconditions for talks and then trump is disposed dispense with that which is really the real news here. well it's amazing that the american press did not criticize trump when he called him going on a secret barbie when he said there appears a rocket man on a suicide mission that's perfectly all right that's not what one got it right when he said that we have no choice volatile totally destroyed but i think in the early start i really thought it was bad taste bad policy let's make it is exile and now these seeds but you know when just a glimmer of hope or a dialogue has appeared there's already a huge danger why is there a united states press behaving like that because it is for that i do or would you

or neo liberalism conservatism which is basically one thing for me it in terms of foreign policy destruction of mankind is not a huge misfortune breaking all you know making a compromise that's a misfortune how can we let this gentle get off the cool that's the most terrible thing for them not the destruction of the what's really interesting here and i think our viewers a good one to watch as a regular basis is that the it doesn't matter what president is in the white house they don't want a piece on the korean peninsula that doesn't have the permission of the deep state in reading the complete collapse of north korea right well i mean the the interesting thing is here is that you know there is talk of unification there's always been talk of you know reunification but under whose. reason they don't want compromises because the and their stand that compromise between north

and south korea would mean that the united states would no longer have reason to keep its bases in south korea and go all of the united states in the deep state of the american. to keep those types of bases in south korea they're not there so much against north korea but against china and it's a huge foot across the ocean if so it's also called the uk it's also calls to russia's far east and so. has my colleagues have said here before the deep state is very much against this to buy time and they may still have a very good chance to have that tape council if i mean that it's very interesting here you know mark the thing is the dilemma that faces the deep state is that if there is an outcome in the hypothetical. on the korean peninsula with the initiative on the side of the koreans that sends a message to the entire region the japanese are going to say also what conditions

in which you withdraw from your troops from from japan the philippines we're going to have taiwan see it is a domino effect a domino effect but you know the thing is is that you know i always when i used to teach european history is that you know why did the first world war start it started because of prestige you do not want to lose prestige you know the united states would lose a huge element of prestige in that very important country in that entire region and they the that's what keeps them up at night i think there's a degree or us as always concerned with prestige there in secure about their self-proclaimed leadership position and over the world but in pursuit of germany they need to keep south korea as as their client state they need to keep their military bases there they've got ballistic missile defense these fat systems in south korea now and. the threat of an independent united

korea historically korea has stronger ties with china and greater animosity with japan however right small amount that is that would be a break in the u.s. containment of china that they cannot allow so they they can't allow this go for this is why i think the deep state is actually trying they are behind all of this trying to interject in the process i think they know for what trump was doing now quietly from what i understand south korea talking with china china has been talking about russia and china providing some security guarantees to. north korea and south korea has been making some promises that under theoretically you know far down the road in the event of reunification korea would join any anti the chinese that eight zero design are going to be the ad and they've also promised to limit the number of systems not allow any more to be erected you know

if you know what's really interesting here is that you know again our viewers may not know this is the under extreme security conditions in south korea and american for star general is in charge of the entire military operation of south korea there are new south koreans that want their sovereignty back and be able to make sovereign decisions for their own country their own people and you know it's the people to the north they're related to them they're the same people here all right and again this is going to be sending messages to other groups and politicians in asia there are within this web of military bases that the united states is created in the pacific there are people in japan will say we should take care of ourselves we're a rich country and then of course would be good for their arms it's just there's been trying to kill u.s. forces and you know you know it now over time. i think that the united states are afraid that south korea will. go all the way over iraq i mean look at the iraq yeah they let the russian planes through into syria without the iraqi government taking

the decision i mean we don't know exactly how it will stay can probably it was during the influence probably something else but iraq has shown a certain deal of sobering and they write to a foreign minister last week was in russia and he was received at a very high level why because it's of sovereign country they have shown it so if south korea goes the same world as it seemed to be going on the president came to june i'm glad he is a success so normal it looked like south korea was big government country tell you that that is a given to them to me but you know mark brings up a really good point here victor is that if there is some kind of progress among the koreans here it could easily backfire against the americans when they when they when they're saying hey we're a sovereign state we can make sovereign decisions this is where you know we're going to hit a brick wall here.