did technical know how and also considerable amounts of money to help russia to get rid of its large stocks of chemical weapons and i think that is quite a successful and almost untold story of corporation to improve security on our continent ok hans for example the former german ambassador to russia thank you. you. now in other news a series of missile attacks have struck government controlled suburbs of the syrian capital killing at least forty four people but. you saw it with three of my relatives are injured my wife and daughter are in surgery right now. my son told me he wanted to celebrate mother's day with me so i told him let's go

to the market she bought a cake i was buying sweets when the explosion happened i saw only a lot of dust and my children under the table. were local state media say that rebels in eastern guta carried out the shelling attacks many of the victims died when one of the rockets hit a crowded market local journalist alan eba him visited the site. poses one of the largest single rocket strikes that ever hit the syrian capital damascus since the beginning of the conflict back in two thousand and eleven the rockets hit a popular market a marketplace for three problem of the hikers people shopping people if you're a celebrity model the people buying their gifts yesterday were in the fold. of the civilians and to a particular site. when we got outside we couldn't see anything because the dust and real massacres ice we are wouldn't wish anyone to witness

a scene like this it's really saddening in the past forty eight hours the syrian army was able to make substantial gains in the syrian military now controls over thirty percent of what was once one of the most important and closest to the syrian couple damascus trouble holding close it is believed that it is in this location many of the headquarters of the rebels that were established perhaps this is the reason why the rebels have stepped up their rocket attacks on the strength of the mass because damascus have seen an increase in the number of rockets that hit it in the past twenty four hours but also the quality of the caliber of the ruckus the rebels are using to show the couple damascus. new arms deals became the main topic for the talks between the saudi crown prince and the u.s. president on tuesday and donald trump found a creative way to present his potential customer with more military hardware. very very you know five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty.

million dollars the spirit. so here it is a very wealthy nation and they are going to give the united states some of that wealth hopefully. however their meeting was met with protests activists called on washington to stop backing the saudi led bombing of yemen. there's a crisis saudi crown prince is here in the u.s. it is inside the white house right now meeting with the resident trolls here to secure a cure more u.s. weapons to be used against the enemy and to also the bargain himself as a reformer well being responsible for creating the worst humanitarian disaster on earth yet it. was really. well the saudi crown prince and president trump also expect are also

expected to discuss a possible nuclear energy cooperation deal congress is also weighing in to buy debating any possibly agreement later on wednesday that is after it was reported the saudis would reject any deal that forbade them from enriching uranium the crown prince earlier said that riyadh needed the option of pursuing a nuclear weapons program to counter iran's. the survey directing them to saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if iran developed a nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible that i mean i can. deal with . you know now about this nuclear program being will actually create a nuclear race in that part of the world that the whole of the at least the saudis would like to buy to buy a new look they have to start from scratch they don't have these they don't expect actually to run these kind of nuclear plants so the question is is that americans

are going to supply them with that expect peace with the plants for actually for what reason what they are going to gain from this deal in particular i believe that america if they ignite this race their nuclear waste in the region it will be very costly and it's very very dangerous so i think that's how the in this case they will try to do conduct their own nuclear bombs saying that we are going to be a tenant will be a new so it is it is exciting to be you this you actually i think the national still ahead this hour sweden is considering changing its legal definition of rape prompting phase of a spike in false accusations we have the details just after the break. still seems wrong but all wrong just don't call. me.

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the fix it's going to. come back the hash tag delete facebook has been trending on social media after it was revealed that the tech giant filed to protect the day sort of millions of its uses from being used for political purposes the scandal involves a british data gathering firm cold cambridge analytical it worked with multiple u.s. presidential campaigns including don more trump some reportedly harvested the details of his many as fifty million facebook profiles for itself aeration the company is now under investigation and has even suspended its chief executive and the thing has more. political campaigns have changed they're no longer about running the most t.v. spots or spending the most money they're about to spend the smartest money finally

a political communications company that really knows how to pitch and then they came rich and it's a house prestigious and academic connotations to again very convincing small money must mean smart ideas right we have a unique extra layer of data about personality decisionmaking and motivation this creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message cambridge and i think of time they can do all this with a mix of data analysis and strategic communication that current list is want to base about trump cruise cost and the list goes on so impressed so far but how exactly do cambridge and its a cat's hoggett voted as a company now accused of using the private data of tens of millions of facebook users to directly target potential american voters data analytics firm that harvested information from millions of americans without their permission facebook is under growing pressure to explain how to protect americans personal information

from people wanting to exploit it for electoral gain tricks by tens and conditions wow suddenly doesn't seem so impressive especially when you end up in a legal feud with the social media giants and it tends outs cambridge on earth to have a not small skeletons in their closet according to britain's channel four news and they're on the cover investigation they pose as potential clients interested in the outcome of the share lankan elections last month they found cambridge on the list because secretly works to influence over two hundred elections worldwide and their tactics when so squeaky clean the two fundamental human drivers when it comes to taking information on board effectively our hopes and fears and many of those unspoken and even unconscious. it's no good fighting an election campaign on the facts because actually it's all about emotion but that's not what cambridge analytic up publicly admit of course publicly they say that advertising is not

coercive they'd also tell you they never use any ditty tactics bars you mentioned intelligence gathering as well as part of the mix didn't you yes we have relationships and partnerships with specialist organizations that do that kind of work you know who the opposition is you know their secrets you know their tactics so in some girls around to the candidates house we have lots of history of such things with years of practice cambridge and then let's go have become real pros that having the result they want if we are working and then we can set up fake i.d.'s and websites we can go in as students doing research projects attached to university we can be tourists there are so many options we can look at i've had lots of experience in this at cambridge i'm a little we are creating the future of political campaigning. so it's a story with twists and turns and action meddling swaying the minds of voters using

dirty tricks but something is missing oh and the narrative that russia must be behind it all now that it's an impressive result. and he said he'd have reporting well we invited richard goodstein a former adviser to hillary clinton's campaign as well as legal media and this line or to discuss whether the political use of social media inside the u.s. is more dangerous than the claims of potential foreign interference looks like it's undisputed they did things that either were clearly against the law campaign finance laws the involvement of foreigners in u.s. election campaigns let alone kind of the moral approach of basically pretending to be something that they weren't. so they either clearly would over the line or they they went right up to it and i think that's what investigators where the state attorneys general i'm sure congress will look into it whether this justice department looks into it because donald trump was the beneficiary of his campaign

that they worked with i wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that happening they entire point is being missed here is not cambridge analytic is the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and it's a surveillance unit it was conceived it through darpa through seed money this this fading oh do you think they use the information against there are you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information we have where has the world been you're living in and up an optic on and when barak obama was the beneficiary of facebook data i'll be it not cold and gleaned by these characters like especially don't forget legs

and in. american you say that and that immediately turns it's the dog whistle went missing the point that. a surveillance world that we live in that's being utilized by everybody constantly look we've already had facebook why publicly about what they did and didn't know they finally had to come clean right because i actually think they have a bit of a guilty conscience having worked with the trump campaign to do things that are frankly kind of un-american so you know we'll see i understand that's the kind of party line which is whatever whatever the russian box may have done was to war by you know this large things we'll see what did they do that was un-american what well again they paid they they ran messages that pitted blacks against whites they got under the skin of blacks because some of them claim that they were the whites were coming after them and vice versa you are telling me that all the sudden the russians are who are the russians is the russian government is it flat in your book

is it the kremlin some guy with a russian name who are these russians so let me get this straight when we had prayer president barbaric obama who basically went and absolutely not only colluded with but actively campaigned against bibi netanyahu no problem then he when we guarding brags that he said you're going to be waiting in the queue with you don't or if you vote for braggs it may be also when actually involved himself in the scottish independence movement as well so we we don't seem to care about this and i can't believe it that we have gone from that to this dainty miniscule didn't move him is micro staffing buying of facebook ad and somebody is going to say oh wait a minute hold it i was going to vote for hillary clinton but now where i just how did you say this facebook ad that said i mean really this is that with all due

respect this is the best the russians have facebook ads if lionel is of the view that all those billions of dollars that spent worldwide on advertising. on news channels like arts here and others is just absolutely just wasting money just for you might as well throw it out the window if that's your attitude then obviously i'm not going to persuade him or anybody who believes that that by you know that i want to affect anybody's opinion she is me i didn't really know what so my point is my point is my point is that yes i think facebook should be ashamed of itself because the evidence seems to be that it knew exactly what it was what its role in this was and in a sense it was kind of facilitating this in the interest of making a buck and i think that's wrong. now when you sexual consent bill in sweden is proposing to increase the punishment for rape and the plans handed to parliament on tuesday revise the list of sexual crimes. that's different from current

legislation were has to be shown that there was violence the threat force or the plaintiff was in a particularly vulnerable situation we have not however changed the basic principle that it's willingness which decides if it's an act of abuse or not the changes mean there will no longer be a need to prove intent in right for example and meanwhile sexual consent must now be verbal of clear actions as mentioned punishment for perpetrators is also being increased however no changes to evidence standards were proposed when it comes amid a ten percent rise in the number of rape crimes in the country in just a year however concerns being raised that the new legislation may lead to a wave of false accusations. i think it is a way to send some political sickness because this is nor will it change the definition of what is rape and now a man has to prove that there was a total consent from the woman it can be easier to accuse

a man of rape there are rapes going on that is never reported because there's no evidence so this could actually help a lot of women to come out and make accusations but what could also happen is that there will be a lot of false accusations and you know just having sexual activity could be like entering a courtroom. your c.r.t. international appreciate you company today we're going to be back with more news in thirty five. well you know the cars that we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the smaller boats next to the hard pull of ships and it's just. not on. the level of self

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media task donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mccabe at the f.b.i. it's a case in point is this the beginning of a purge. cross talking exposing the deep state i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi in leesburg he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the council for the national interest in new york we have steve malzberg he is a conservative political commentator and in washington we have bruce fein he is

a constitutional lawyer and a former associate deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated philip let me go to you first here. as i'm mentioned at the beginning of the program we have of this law of unintended consequences the more that the the political left in the backed up by the media go after trump and the so-called. rush of delusion collusion story the more we're finding out really what the other side was doing the and the amount of corruption that seems to be enormous here if we get a second council don't we face the prospect that we're going to have a divided population politically and they're going to choose whatever findings each council ends up providing which really it will show kind of a parallel universe like we have now go ahead philip. well peter i have to agree

with you i think what essentially we're seeing is is that a the political divisions that are prevailing in congress are essentially playing out in what we're calling russia gate and i think russia gate is actually an expression that we can discard now i think what we're what we're seeing is the. complete corruption of the national security process whereby the senior people in the national security agencies have been politicized and essentially are are instead of being interested in the security of the country are basically looking to support their political bosses you know steve you know the in the mainstream media likes to say that there is a war against the f.b.i. it seems like there's a civil war within the f.b.i. because the mainstream media doesn't like to talk about how mccabe was exited from the f.b.i. he was it was the f.b.i. they got rid of him ok but you wouldn't get that i think it was like a new york to

a new york times article is like the forty first out of forty four paragraphs that they actually said that i mean they really put it down deep you know like a footnote here because i think there is something going on in the f.b.i. go ahead steve. well first of all the office of personal responsibility recommended that mckay go according to all reports or if you if you could find it in a report and who is the head of the office of personal responsibility someone who is a poor woman who was appointed in two thousand and four by robert muller the head of the f.b.i. so the media presents that this is because there trumps tweets of pressure on sessions when in fact the f.b.i. recommend that he go the inspector general report that sessions has been privy to from the d.o.j. also apparently is recommending that he go and don't forget that the head of the f.b.i. a couple of months ago demoted my cave based on what he knew mccabe had done and all you hear from the left and from the media is they treated this poor guy like

cable like junk and they took his pension away and now you've got democratic congressman stepping up and saying oh he can come work for me so he could get his pension it is a world god mad well you know steve i have to wonder and this is a real question can you draw a federal pension if you're in jail because that's where he belongs. let me let me go let me go to bruce here let me go to bruce here i actually i stole that line from ray mcgovern in wonderful piece that he wrote yesterday. bruce you know what we have now is you know we had mccabe fired for lack of candor don't you love that phrase you're a lawyer it means he's a liar ok it seems to me there's a lot of lack of candor all over this here particularly jim comi i think you know i wonder what his level of candor is and he should be put under pressure under oath

and i think mccabe should be put under oath and i could list about fifteen other people that should be put under oath go ahead bruce. well certainly if there's credible evidence of crime that you investigate although there is a fifth amendment privilege against self incrimination but i think that the idea that there's a deep state is contradicted by the way in which mccabe ultimately was fired he was going to resign in any event to be effective about twenty four hours after the firing and that is you had nonpolitical people michael horowitz people who are not part of the deep state making the findings that precipitated the discharge which is how the system supposed to work its process that counts more than results so i think it's an exaggeration to suggest that the mccabe firing you know it did it all have anything to do with trump he was leaving anyway within twenty four hours i think it's vastly exaggerated as to its implications. but i also think that i

don't recall is that there. steve jump in go ahead i mean john seriously ok how does it add that i don't it is with all due respect to yeah. go ahead steve . well i was going to say with all due respect to bruce i don't think it's mutually exclusive i think is right i think it did work actually this system in getting rid of the cave but that doesn't mean there's not a deep state i mean john brennan the a few days ago i believe it was on monday said to put out a tweet really showing his i mean pouring his guts out in it with his hatred towards donald trump if you saw that one and you got to only go through peta strock and his recent revelations of his most recent text with the judge in the flynn case who he knew and he also was on the fifes of court and he was going to have a dinner party with i mean this goes on and on and on there is a deep state ok in an effort to get frank i saw. john john brennan go out gran's

a private individual john brennan is not serving in the cia. that deep state is within the government itself and remember mr trump has the authority under the constitution to fire anybody that he believes is part of the deep state it's his own executive branch and he had at least a kind of friendly house intelligence committee that made a report hundred fifty pages that said well we don't find any actual collusion with a campaign although the russians intended to influence in some other way the outcome so here we have a president endowed in their article two of the constitution he can fire them if he believes they're undercutting himself he can fire mr rosenstein he doesn't have to wait well for misrule sessions brucey hand if he doesn't do that it's because he doesn't want to bruce you need to appear on the on the liberal cable stations to tell people that because they're american people aren't told that very often philip

john brennan's name was mentioned here i think i know why he had such a furious and i think even childish tweet about the mccabe firing is that we go back to the lack of candor again i think john brennan is probably has the least amount of candor and all the cast of characters here i mean i would really like to know how many times he leaked to the media because that's at least one reason why mccabe was let go because he leaked to the media go ahead philip. you know i agree i mean you know we keep looking at the f.b.i. and this and unfortunately the cia or at least the leadership of the cia was much more guilty of of this kind of lying and sneaking around for political reasons brennan it is known approached a number of european intelligence services to obtain dirt on the donald trump campaign with which information then was leaked. to the to the media so

brennan was the political boy working for the expected hillary clinton. presidency so let's let's expand this investigation let's forget about the russians because this was in what the russians did and let's look at what john brown did it ok steve what we have i agree with that i think feel is absolutely right let me and sit here on this because mr brennan was there with the torture the enhanced interrogation programs the destruction of video interrogation tapes. all under his watch and he should be also investigated for authorizing a participating in a virtual assassination program that is endowing the president authorizing the president to kill american citizens that he unilaterally decides were implicated in national security danger based upon unsubstantiated evidence mr brennan should be

under investigation for a sad.