tv Cross Talk RT April 3, 2018 8:30pm-9:00pm EDT
8:30 pm
keeps changing very fluid except for the conclusion reflect upon that any please well the more we know you know the less we know apparently because we have a situation where one the police had to build up another dental chain to they had to identify the substance three had to find a motive but forget all that in terms of a classic investigation technique within a few hours the british media was saying it must be in russia because he's a russian spy and within a week the russian government saying it was russia so we have a situation where things have escalated to ask control hugely fast ways and to date a month later we still don't even know exactly how the so-called substance was applied to these two people it was supposed to be incredibly toxic substance but two of the victims have survived and of recovering and scriptural himself is apparently in a stable condition and three we still don't know involved in which matter creation
8:31 pm
motive over the last eight years since had safe haven as a former m i six agent finding safe sanctuary having a pension in the u.k. so the whole thing is a mess the fact that the british government rushed in to condemn russia is a mess the fact that they have apparently shared so-called intelligence with other allies in order to strong arm them into trying to make sure that they expel diplomats is a mess and it's just escalating it's metastasizing in a really frightening when you have international relations with you know you know channels or what one of the tragedies of all this is that how do you walk this back because you the british government in the american government have invested themselves so much into this before it was investigated before there was discussion of evidence it's almost impossible for them to walk back now i mean they've got this story and if they can't prove build a story just trust us which would. fewer people actually do that anymore they've
8:32 pm
actually boxed themselves in and this is what i think is going to be very dangerous because if evidence is we have this chemical weapons organization if they don't back this up ok there's going to be a lot of egg on a lot of people's faces and with the political environment in the u.k. that will not be permitted go ahead charles yes of course some of us have argued in the past and i know you count yourself that of course why would the british and the americans wait for an investigation because they decided to take certain actions as we know to put in change this as you pointed out largely unstoppable train of expulsions and tit for tat actions against different countries taken action against russia why would they wait for an investigation if there's any possibility it's all so that investigation may not produce the results that they want and then if they don't produce the results the government wanted of course they then couldn't take those actions what's bizarre to me is that perhaps trying to fend off these kind of
8:33 pm
criticisms in the last few days the united kingdom kingdom government has actually hardened its position if you look at the statements coming from the foreign office from the british ambassador in moscow and so on it seems that any doubt whatsoever that the russian government is responsible for this has been removed british government and a foreign office of specifically explicitly said over the last few days repeatedly so we know it's a pop up considered message there is no doubt that the russian government was responsible for this but actually of course there is a great deal of doubt and i think people understand this not just in russia but also amongst european capitals now we've got a situation where and he is quite right to mention that the. the suggestion has been and sunny one has been carried a lot of british media that if you are paying capital some of them not all of them have backed the british government in its assessment publicly at least then they must have been shown convincing evidence and yet we can see from the comments of for example some german politics. i know some of the czech president himself was
8:34 pm
saying he backed the explosions because you need to stand with an ally when they ask you to stand with them he said very pointedly we need to see evidence and that suggest very strongly to me that they actually haven't been shown evidence they have just backed britain because britain has very pointedly asked them to do so and i stand with allies but eventually britain is going to have to produce some evidence if it doesn't you're right it is going to be on people's face and i think jim you know what charles would say that i think that's really where the us angle is i think of course london was elbowing european capitals to follow but the americans when they put their foot down particularly when it comes to nato people begin to get fall in line what's really interesting is that the media spin is that there is unity in the atlantic alliance actually the the it's actually just the opposite there isn't a whole lot of unity there there are members of nato said they're not going to expel them basters and they're not going to get into this parlay here so i mean if
8:35 pm
you were honestly to take a look at it the elbowing and pushing people around has not been nearly as affected by i think as london washington had hoped for go ahead jim. well that's right if peter of charleston and he will indulge me a little yankee arrogance here i've always liked to think of the u.k. as our poodle but it seems in this case the americans or the british model that they throw these accusations out there show us no proof whatsoever but the americans say well if it's good enough for our british friends it's good enough for us and that's what's got at least most of the allies going through the motions you notice that the vast majority of russian diplomats that were thrown out came from the united kingdom from the united states from ukraine and then you look at the continent one or two here and there before m h country and then several countries like bulgaria and grace that every refused to do so so i think that the united states is the necessary muscle you have to back up the british accusations to get these other countries intimidated and on board but what you know this this is
8:36 pm
a way is like tony blair's swearing by the american lives on. in iraq except now we're doing it just because our british friends say so well anyhow you know obviously a great place really well into the russia russia russia nonsense going on in the states i mean this is one of the reasons why people are pushing it because it dovetails very nicely into the russian bogeyman on the stage ok i've watched the coverage in the us on the cable stations and hasn't gotten a whole lot of coverage but it what it does is that it's basically says well they're there they go again up to their nasty stuff that's how it's in played they're not nearly the same it has been in the u.k. what is to resume's the goal in all of this i mean. you know over the last few days a anti-aircraft talian has returned to germany that was withdrawn at the end of the cold war i mean is this where we're going to go here because i can tell you if they were if the nato wants to fight in
8:37 pm
a conflict with russia it will pay very dearly for the i always tell my viewers here listen to the words now. the bluster because russia is prepared go ahead. now i think it's very interesting that against altenburg who's the head of nato right moment was one of the first people to say very clearly after the u.k. claimed it must be russia that we need to wait for proof and then will macron also did that first week after this attack but france was also very rapidly pulled into line to sign up and say no no the u.k. knows that russia carried out this attack so this is going on i think there might be two strands here first of all the u.k. wants to puff itself up like an animal and a threat to look bigger because it's got brakes it going on it's got trade wars going on it's being expelled from. choice so it's under threat as a country but secondly it wants to try and project its power through nato so that's
8:38 pm
what they're trying to do i think but you know it's a major problem for the u.k. because it's caught between a rock and a hard place between america between the. growing so crowed eastern bloc which is russia and china and let's not forget the influence of china whatever half the countries in the e.u. have said that they are going to support the baseless evidence free evidence light assertions of the u.k. government moment you e.u. countries are not doing so but also thirty every other country in the world is not doing so and china has categorically said this is supporting the russian position that they want to wait for evidence we are still lacking in evidence you know charles i like when he said there because may's government is doing is it showing our europe that it's still very important to have relations with the u.k. respectable what's going on with briggs it and of course it's proof positive that the special relationship with america is meaningful because the u.k.
8:39 pm
will remain a surrogate of the united states in the european continent go ahead. point just now i mean the number of countries that. pulled out diplomats is in its twenty's one hundred ninety odd countries in the world that haven't pulled out diplomats and haven't backed britain's line on this not worth considering the world is not. the west likes to think it is you canada and the united states it's plenty of other countries besides but going back to their main question about motivation one needs to think about that britain has a long history even as boyce johnson was boasting the other day of being in the forefront of confronting what caused the russian menace but this goes back of course hundreds of years and yes the imperial times and so when we look at the timing of this to discredit russia just before the presidential elections just before the world cup coming up and then also just before the british local elections coming up in just a few weeks time in which before this incident happened opinion polls showed to
8:40 pm
reason why it was going to do extremely badly and now largely because the media has one hundred percent back on this blaming russia that now she's starting to write high notes opinion polls and so when we look at motivations concern for this instant britain has many motivations and as we know of course also has the capability to carry this out it doesn't mean britain did carry it out but it has the motivation and the ability just as russia does ok let me jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on toxic relations stay with r.t. . if the cradle of jazz.
8:41 pm
this jazz feel. the city of climate. at a contest to face alligators on the loose of poverty and crime many years by the at least twelve members a mob found close not heard of street racing in the heat of the night this is new orleans soften it was the best place in the way. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch put the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman ija killian erroneous and spending shouldn't twenty million on one playa. book it's an experience like
8:42 pm
nothing else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so will more chance for. the base this minute. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave
8:43 pm
a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to him now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. join me every thursday a little excitement and i was reading to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there. welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter bell to remind you we're discussing toxic relations. ok let me go back to jim in washington you know one of the if we can is kind of broaden this out because i think one of the things that's being missed and being
8:44 pm
lost actually are some very fundamental principles that we expect from the state and our media and those are the presumption of innocence due process and the right to dissent all three or under savage attack why this this cobol of liberal corporate media and governments ok and these these three issues that i mention are the pillar of western society and they're being crushed go ahead jim. well i guess peter i would say welcome to the twenty first century i mean that's nice to talk about all those needs riches and powdered wig principles in our constitution that we got from our mother country but they simply do not apply anymore you know this was mentioned earlier that the brits will have egg on their face of the proof doesn't come out i don't expect the proof to come out and i don't have any reason to suppose that the o.p.c. w. will not be as corrupted in this process as the so-called jim jones the best a gate of mechanism was on accusations against syria look let's look at the bigger
8:45 pm
picture here for over a year we've had this whole russia collusion hysteria going on in the united states where to trace back to to the russians no to christopher steele and m i six agent who's got a connection by the way this cripple through this orbits outfit in this fellow what pablo miller is his name that that when we look at the relationship between the elements of the american and the and the british deep states the various agencies m i six g c h q f.b.i. cia the other groups here that have been involved in this i would say conspiracy to not only subvert the american election but to make sure that our relations with russia stay worse and getting worse all the time that this is almost in a way a phase two of what we've been saying for quite some time in terms of a political campaign ok andy i'm going to ask you a hypothetical question and it's really quite serious is it possible that this incident is just a fabrication but there is no incident because i keep looking at what is being
8:46 pm
presented to the public and it is so sketchy there's no physical forensic evidence been proved provided to us ok i mean there's even talk that this is a facebook page was accessed when she was in the coma or something like that i mean what happens is and we're not given information to the public then you start kind of rattle your brain like well what is this all mean here i mean it seems to me that. this is what's happening this is how this whole process is being presented to the public but it does create an enormous amount of doubt at least in some people and i think if you look at the comments under articles written about this there's an enormous amount of skepticism and then they either stop your comments or they delete all of the comments i'm not convinced the public is so on board with this go ahead and. i don't think there is a huge amount of trust no. and in fact i've been invited on to other media outlets
8:47 pm
and u.k. to discuss this why to seventy or eighty percent of their respondents not trust what the media is saying the. hosts of the shows. and actually why should they not be astonished after the. mess of the weapons best structure with iraq and other lies that happened around intelligence you know torture x. extradition all the rest of it so this is within a context of wider context over the last two decades of distrust of what our governments what our intelligence what our military tells us that's why people are not trusting what's going on moment in this particular case yes there has been an absolute does thought of of any form of intelligence any form of evidence any form of information from the medical team trying to test the script holes so of course people are going to be questioning this and there has been a lot of very hard evidence coming out about what the porton down scientific
8:48 pm
institute might be doing what other institutes around the world might be doing i mean evidence even published in a magazine called the new scientist which is a very prestigious scientific magazine in the u.k. where scientists come together and said actually these so-called novacek family of agents might and have been replicated around the world over the last couple of decades and certainly of the last decade when. there's a formula were published. by the guy who played the whistle when he defected to america so we have a situation where all this information is out there in the world so far u.k. government immediately immediately say it must be russia and have come from russia because this was developed under the soviet union in one nine hundred seventy s. it's so specious of course. you know charles you know in all of this you know what was what is the government and the americans what do they expect russia to do
8:49 pm
under these circumstances if they are not presented evidence of their guilt they're just posed to say they're guilty and i've never that is childish i mean i have no i can't comprehend why they would even do that it's like it's like a maze government is talking to a wall it doesn't want to reply it doesn't want any kind of dialogue here so what are the right what do they expect the russians to do go ahead charles. well of course they expect the russians to do as they have to because the russians have had no alternative but to act in a way is to say well we are the accused party until you provide us with some kind of evidence we are in a position to be to comment on that and then russia is taken up further by saying but hey why don't we get bearing in mind the circumstances of this why don't we actually have a joint investigation where we can put our input into and that may actually come to haunt the british side that they haven't actually taken up this opportunity because of course in the last day or so details of a another potential motive in this case of emerge it's been averted for example
8:50 pm
that. only a couple of days before this poison attempt was made on her father. something like two hundred thousand dollars came into her account from. the sale of father's house just through his divorce and yet also it seems that only last year her brother who died supposedly in mysterious circumstances was the beneficiary of that money and so here if these reports are true this could start to really ring panics alarm signals for the british government that actually over here we actually have a potentially alternative motivation for this kind of killing if for example this kind of drug could be a bit st and we hear from the reports that the people concerned had high links to soviet and soviet days intelligence officials and so therefore it may well be that there is a reason for us to have a joint russian and british investigation so we can that's what you said about the investigation itself the police have been extraordinarily quiet on this they have
8:51 pm
been no c.c.t.v. is she there's been no descriptions issues and so on i would say perhaps to defend the british police if it's possible on this they may be keeping their cards close to their chest because they may be cutely aware of the political pressure that they're likely displaced and if there's any suggestion that the inquiry is not going to weigh the government wants after all as i mentioned earlier the british government said without doubt there is no. russian government being blamed so people have a right to ask what chance therefore is that of a nonpolitical pressurized british police investigation of even considering alternatives much of a sions and possible it is you know jim just from what charles said right there it sounds like you know that the british authorities the police authorities sound like the f.b.i. during the american campaign intensely politicized corrupt ok again i was talking about some of the major features of of the rule of law and seems to be tumbling down all over again because you've got you've already drawn your conclusion and you
8:52 pm
work backwards ok i was in graduate school for a long time that's called bad science and it's actually immoral go ahead jim it is and frankly peter i think that's the. the charitable way to interpret this that we're on t.v. i don't think we're on t.v. and. i well i would i would tend toward the other thing is that the people making these accusations themselves do not believe them and in fact know that they are not true and if i were in the russian shoes and it's not my job to give them advice but as sort of saying well we didn't do it where's the proof we want to join investigation i would turn around say look these two russian citizens were poisoned on your territory great britain within ten miles of your top chemical weapons facility unless we hear otherwise we presume you're responsible for this we demand proof that you're not. look this idea that somehow they're british are just sort of jumping to a conclusion i think it's much too fair here and to fair to the american government
8:53 pm
as well i think there is a deliberate provocation going on i really do and that they know that they're making false charges just this isn't the case of the w m d's in iraq i think most of the people making those accusations knew full well that saddam hussein did not have w m d's but they were making the accusation anyway because it serves their purpose well jim they never would have invaded if there were weapons of mass destruction that's logical ok they never would have done it that's why they did it because they were there any you told me before on this program that city gate was under the protection of the british authorities is there going to be any kind of snafu about that they were actually supposed to be protecting him right. of course i mean he was a high value agent an asset working in russia for ten years he was reporting agent names back to m i six so people keep calling him a double agent he wasn't he was a british agent right they've been turned and betrayed russia so that's the situation he was in but you know the russians rinsing clean of information for they
8:54 pm
released him of course m i six nation of course and they received him that's why they allowed him to go free pension tomorrow bought a mouse allowed him to live in a life so you know again in terms of motivation why on earth would the russians try and kill this guy now when he's been you know free for years he's been . i would always said for many years i think charles would probably agree with this that in terms of motive it's going to be down to something he would be working in now in the last eight years where it's been living in the u.k. now if you was involved in the christmas deal to say that might lead to motivation he might even work with other people as well we just don't know i would hope that the intelligence agencies and the police would be investigating those leads at the moment trying to work out who actually much has a motive to time carry out. any i mean let me go to charles here we reconsider where we're all sort of this program i mean libyan authorities are not looking for
8:55 pm
alternative under motives because once you instantly say you have the culprit there is no it's like o.j. simpson ok you know you know he did it ok. you know why would the authorities look for the killer of his wife and her friend no he did it ok in this case here they've already determined the outcome so why would they why would they even look for alternative strategies go ahead. well it may be i mean but the british police is is perhaps one of the least politicized police forces in the world i speak as many years as having worked in the british police and of course i know full well they can be susceptible to political pressure and it can't you can't imagine a situation where there's more political pressure than this where the government has declared absolutely certainly that russia did it but it may well be that one of the reasons why they rushed to take action before the police investigation is because they actually suspect there may be
8:56 pm
a chance the police investigation won't prove their case and certainly i think the police will be wanting to look at alternatives if only to dismiss them and so we even though i agree with what you were the logic of what you're saying that it seems that the government has without any doubt already come to its conclusions before any investigation we should wait as should the british government of waiting of course in the american government all those are followed it should await the outcome of the british investigation and then if necessary we can pick holes in it and see where the way they've gone right but let's await the british investigation and let's wait see what the o.p.c. w. says what i suspect the matter what the british investigation say it will be spun to support when they were when the report comes out we're going to have you all back again many thanks and i guess in london brussels and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember cross talk will.
8:57 pm
have them for us and it's available on mama. i don't know that we're going to have a little. bit longer with. you. i'm not critical of a lot of. what i mean i knew of but then he's going to get stuff for us from the inside of it not skip the question as to yes but all yes the chest but us know what's up by the west but i hear for everyone that it's clear cox involved with the corps but.
8:58 pm
prison industry is the only industry that rich routinely and consistently provides returns on the debt that lenders try to sell to keep goldman sachs and j.p. morgan from having a clear insolvency because technically that's all they are but they keep those tanks rolling gotta go prisons because it's a guaranteed income reback there's a security cell to introduce america's an apartheid state driven by wall street financier's and the jay gould's of the twenty first century. then what brought them to that he will go back to what. are you boys will pull you out of a. good job it and him up in the same would have it and i didn't do it we will always be the good is it also. or know when to go home.
8:59 pm
gonna come if you can. keep it or don't or don't let you people come up with you through the. content in the net about the holonomy have been the mad at them and the minimum time because i'm. not bad with the internet but oh november did i say i love them that is down to the point about anonymous but i have the only thing it is about.
9:00 pm
at least three people are injured in a shooting at the headquarters of you tube in california police say the female shooter has taken her own life. british scientists say that they are unable to pinpoint the source of the nerve agent used in the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter. we know they had a fight precise source but we provided the scientific information to the government . that's despite the u.k. and its allies squarely blaming russia resulting in weeks long political standoff and a diplomatic expulsion. but the amazes me how from the russian hysteria has come apart so morally holding meetings to get the facts straight on this situation.
26 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
