one day you'll know is home is being raided by the f.b.i. the next you are trying to hush up book tools which could threaten your reputation but in times of means that always to divert attention then sometimes the best ideas are right in front of you on t.v. if the president and france and the u.k. decide to strike syria don't you think that story would be a bigger story than colmes book gets released on tuesday. a short time ago are you ordered to launch precision strikes or targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator for sure. it can be so effective few people will actually see through it but i want to say this raid is meant to distract from his other problems but it's called operation desert storm e. president trump ailed the missile strike in syria is perfectly executed but it could be argued this was instead perfectly timed and

that's what for him before the media branded trump as russia's puppet shaking off the reputation calls for trusting measures and fifty nine tomahawk cruise missiles launched at a syrian air force base to just pass in milton he gave his popularity of boost but also a big pat on the back from the media we see these beautiful pictures at night i am tempted to quote the great writer cohen i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons what changed last night i think. became president of the united states i think this was actually a big moment president trump isn't the feste to employ such tactics in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight bill clinton's decision to bomb iraq coincided with him facing impeachment at the time this soldier overshadowed him lying and oath in relation to the monica lewinsky affair. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. miss lewinsky to strike military and security targets in iraq they are

joined by british forces their mission is to attack iraq's nuclear chemical and biological weapons programs saddam hussein must not be allowed to threaten this neighbors are the world with nuclear arms poison gas or biological weapons now any aircraft fire everywhere i remember. he can forget the actual operation desert storm north by president george h.w. bush when the economy in recession the gulf war based as his approval ratings. have therefore directed to reject the iraqi army from kuwait. which. is president i can report to the nation aggression is defeated the war is over. you don't have to look too far back in history to see world leaders employing distraction tactics so i ask us how this question what would dominate an

international media narrative the possibility of a global war or the domestic troubles of a western country you want me to produce your war not a war it's a pageant we need to think of some visuals we know it's a pageant well to ask of the media of trump's decision as to how water affects of fish truck lives and breathes by media ratings approval there is a long tradition of the president's domestic political trouble using international crises to distract the public and certainly the minimum you have to be on the side of military action so in terms of the attack on the syria that we saw over the weekend it does seem just to give the president something to talk about other than stormy daniels and the other issues that he's going to. ending

with after the the rifling of his personal lawyers office is even renowned rock musicians awaiting in the strikes against syria have been condemned by the formal singer of pink floyd roger waters during a concert in boston. this week with this is the proper congress the point. we were encouraged to encourage our governments to go install something so serious i. think it's. interesting mark you say. roger waters lashed out at the white house which group calling it a fake organization had it that it exists only to create propaganda for jihadists and terrorists the white how much we're the first to report on the alleged chemical attack in eastern europe although it's been widely praised in the west for its rescue work its members have repeatedly been accused of having links to extremist groups. to other news now italian journalist pal about

a matty says he fears for his life after receiving death threats from a number of mafia plants in his country just last week italian investigators say they obtained a phone conversation between two crime bosses in it one of them allegedly tells the other to murder the reporter. or we will. leave the. euro. for him as he is now under around the clock police protection from military police or caliban areas i call that a journalist says the crime bosses want him dead because he runs a website detailing their activities he told us what it's like to be on the mafia as head list. first i received warnings then letters containing bullets and then anonymous phone calls and then one day i was attacked i was assaulted by two hooded men and since then i've had an injured shoulder so. i've now been living under the protection of a caribbean area for four years i have launched fourteen criminal cases against

almost thirty matthieu bosses these mafia bosses tried to kill me anyway i managed to save myself from an attack thanks to the skill of the carabineers. i know that at the moment there are five mafia clans the woman. i live with five men five carabineers are you follow me day and night i live far from my family from my loved ones these five carabineers at the first people i see in the morning and the last night before i'm left alone with my conscience about it paolo says that his investigative work has revealed how nafi influence and activity is changing. many journalists do not publish names of photos of mafia bosses many of my colleagues do not do investigative journalism i do i publish names and surnames i publish photos and above all i try to follow their business schemes their money this is a business worth billions no millions we're talking about billions of euros the journalist has

a fundamental role telling the truth talking to people and doing investigative journalism. i don't have the open south we thought the mafia was defeated we thought this because the bombings are over because arrests were made we did not understand the mafia was radically changing it infiltrated the stay in public bodies something of the matter is just an italian problem but unfortunately that's not true the mafia has spread from italy to europe and the world as some political power play playing out in a former soviet republic and it's led to fiori of protests i'm going to attempt to storm parliament the details of that when we come back. when i was chilled seemed wrong but i. just don't. get to shape out just to become educated and engaged because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean this is this justice is a fair business all us should would use a country like a tissue paper and when it things it doesn't need it anymore it just cost the way i think it's very immoral. welcome back clashes have broken out in the small former soviet republic of armenia

where of them in four days of protests now over the long time former president being sworn in tomorrow as prime minister where you can see behind me live pictures from the capital yellow brown police have been attempting to prevent protesters from entering the parliament building these protests getting increasingly agitated in recent days. the reason behind a constitutional referendum so the country switch to a parliamentary system reducing the position of the president to an essentially ceremonial role and form a leader who's been holding office for nearly a decade and promised that he wouldn't seek the job of prime minister since then though opposition campaigners say he's broken out in order to secure his grip on power in the snow caucuses country says sarkozy party dominates parliament in armenia and he's the only nominee for prime minister will keep watch on those protests in the armenian capital. there any developments we'll report from here on out. next there's outrage in germany after two rappers known for

using anti semitic lyrics in their songs want to talk music prize the controversial lyrics include comparisons to auschwitz prisoners and hence of another holocaust despite that the rappers won the best hip hop album prize in germany's top music awards last week the latest release has sold more than two hundred thousand copies after initially defending their decision organizers of the award have backtracked germany's foreign ministers called the award repugnant while a group of holocaust survivors of also voiced their outrage political commentator says artist should not use freedom of expression as a free pass to say anything. freedom of expression is a blessing think we shouldn't restrict the freedom of the artist or dick creator to break any old mold because this is how men kind of progress us but having said this there are a few sacra things we should be kept as such and of course for

israelis or for jews all over and for people of conscience regardless of their faith or nationality the holocaust shouldn't be broached in such. a cheap manner. in a little over eight weeks football showpiece tournament will get underway in russia and its patients growing in the eleven host cities readying for the feat the world cup but preparations entering the final stages also preparing for the tournament is so he will be the first russian referee to officiate at the world cup in twelve years he's been speaking to us about the excitement of getting involved in the competition on home ground. you know to those people that i can't even describe my emotions because the shortlist process started four years ago and it's been a long wait for us so when we found out our brigade had been chosen it was just tiredness and relief how you would feel after finishing

a very difficult task with. as a rule at tournaments like this one your second wind kicks in and there are no thoughts that millions of people are watching and if you are thinking about it then you will definitely fail our work is to walk out and get into the zone which. rushes for years and it all starts when you get inside football life as a referee or should players start to probe you especially young ones checking how you behave in certain tense moments if you position yourself in the right way you won't have any problems during the game which means we've got our own star studded lineup for all things football this summer peter schmeichel stan collymore and chose a merino on the r.t. team piece has already been checking out the host cities for you his latest stop is about seven hundred kilometers east of moscow and surrounds.

traveling around. this is an. excellent. this is where. and. this is where the world cup starts. and you can check out more peter's troubles in the city hall mind at all t. dot com the also fun breaking news on those that was well i'll be back here in about thirty five minutes or so with your next world news update.

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me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. is going it alone because it's all country. tonight because i got a dramatic fashion capacity off at a factory every week because we're a great britain. forman are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. for a different version of what. one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because do not shoot around a corner. welcome

to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze the long standing alliance between pakistan and the united states with washington accusing islam about supporting terrorism. seriously bad and what will that mean for america afghan war while i ask him and i'm han member of pakistan's national assembly and the leader of pakistan and for justice. a new turn in the neverending war song with the u.s. accusing its old ally pakistan of backing afghan militants billions of american security aides are slow and are now frozen to harvest time you know forced to go to china and saudi arabia for help what effect will the car just on american coral

have in the war against the taliban and how damaging will follow with the americans be for pakistan's own internal struggles with terror. imran khan member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for just as welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us. today. mr hahn pakistani prime minister abbas he has just paid a visit to kabul now they have afghans like former afghan intelligence chief. are saying that pakistan views of ghana's stand as a weaker state and its relations with afghanistan are driven by sheer greed and arrogance. how can you strike deals with couple if they view pakistan this way. this is very unfortunate the remarks of the of one intelligence chief to. define pakistan's relationship with an over honest on in these terms is actually very unfortunate because of one is the needs bug is done and pakistan needs peace

stability to afghanistan otherwise by this time gets affected especially along the border the what is called the tribal areas on the border of lot of stun so if you have problems and of blunders than instability which sadly that has been for sixty vias by just on gets affected so it's in pakistan's interest that this piece of honest on the is a problem the unfortunately that the american policy of using a one dimensional. military solution to problems in afghanistan. has led to not only the longest war but it does cause immense problems. because the drug the the the border with afghanistan. is very porous. it is free movement or there was free movement of people and so what happens in

a villainous than affects pakistan so we need peace there and i don't i find these very sad i hear you talking about american policy back in january donald trump ordered billions of dollars in security aid to pakistan to be frozen accusing it of inaction in the war on terror former head of i.s.i. asaad you're on a tell me pakistan's dependence on american aid and dave a long time ago so why then is your country's defense minister calling on the united states to reconsider the cut my point of view this american it has been very costly for pakistan. for for getting whatever aid we we did get in the. fifteen years the damage done to progress on and participating in the u.s. war on terror has led to almost seventy thousand people dead it has devastated our tribal areas the border areas where half of the population we're talking about

three to four million people who were internally displaced and the loss to the economy is over one hundred billion dollars so this small aid has been very costly and the lesson learned from pakistan point of view is never never fight someone else's war. and people like us always opposed it. and donald trump does don't understand he does not understand the history of honest on one is done as a history with the do not accept foreigners they have always resisted foreign invasions. and if if he had even drawn any lessons from the soviet invasion of honest on before that the british in the nineteenth century there of invasion of understand he would know that this military solution which donald trump also has dried is going to fail the only solution the only way

to bring peace and afghanistan is all the neighbors to sit together and then come up with a political solution there is no other solution apart from that so his government is saying that anywhere from fifty to seventy percent of the eight cents to pakistan was misspent wasted on kickbacks. even stolen meanwhile the pakistani foreign minister says that the country is ready to account for every single penny in your opinion once again should there be more to this spat i mean should americans put forth proof of corruption should pakistan follow up and show actual accounting. given a proportion to the damage done in pakistan by participating in the us war there is no comparison the war this is about twenty billion dollars maybe twenty five billion dollars by just one is lost over one hundred billion dollars. economy

suffered investment suffered. the damage done to terrorism meant that foreign investors and this is one come into pakistan the tourism collapsed in this country even today of foreign cricket teams do not come and play in pakistan sports teams so this country took a heavy punishment by participating in the war and the money as i said the money coming from it is britain's compared to what it cost the people of pakistan so you have said that trump is briefed by and working for the edge and out of pakistan's anomie who is that and that would that be. award by. the things that donald trump has said he's actually applauded india's role in the war on terror and he's actually blamed pakistan for the u.s. called winning in afghanistan now to blame and that is blame pakistan for terrorism

now this is exactly what india says about pakistan and so therefore it was extremely hurtful for people of this country that participated in a war that was not pakistan's war. there were no pakistanis and waldron nine eleven there wasn't a lot of strong there were no militant taliban in pakistan how did we end up in a war with seventy thousand pakistanis have died we still have there isn't this country we're still having the effects of this war on terror mr haas are you saying blame the is do you think that american who has a friend in the lazio decision i don't know war. where he's come up with but it's quite clear that the things he has is saying is praising india whereas india don't give any second fison the war what what role does india play in this war it's pakistan that took the battery the suffering and so to raise india

it's shocking for all of us what has india contributed to this war on terror and to give india to rule in afghanistan india does not have a border with afghanistan pakistan's foreign minister says that the united states has turned islam about into a whipping boy to destruct from its failures in afghanistan do you agree is washington looking to single out pakistan to deter criticism. agree with it not just look at the facts at one point there were one hundred fifty thousand nato troops out of honest on. and then the of law anomaly is anything between two hundred fifty thousand to three hundred thousand so you're talking about almost a half a million forces and of august on board the u.s. blimps pakistan is that three thousand insurgents coming from pakistan to

afghanistan are the reason why of understand could not when the water nirvana's than can the drop in american aid be countered by deals with pakistan's newest friends like china or saudi arabia or expecting their influence to rise now that the united states is on a collision course with pakistan. what would firstly what would the u.s. do to be on a collision course with pakistan the maximum leverage the us has is to stop the aid . and you know by christan should try everything to. keep the us happy but the problem is when the u.s. expects pakistan to win it's the message has made in afghanistan it expects pakistan to somehow win the war which they're they're badly lost and of honest and when i salute the last i mean they haven't won all the taliban have to do to win the war is not to lose so what the u.s.

expects by just one to do is what it has not been able to. succeed in afghanistan and clearly pakistan has limitations. and if pakistan what they want to do is to take action against these taliban groups. supposedly operating from pakistan well then they should tell us where are these groups they're talking about the hakani network at the at its peak the haqqani network would have maximum two thousand two and a half thousand men in pakistan that surely cannot be the reason why they've lost they have not been able to win in sixty years what i feel is that the american policy of military actions collateral damage i don't know whether you have seen and can do the bond madrasa killed one hundred children now that one hundred children killed by american bomb means that this will. raise hatred and of understand

and hatred means more recruits and so it's an ongoing circle could actually damage hatred more recruits and an ongoing war so the answer is that the u.s. has to change its strategy and that's going towards dialogue political solution said a lot. of us say may not be a catastrophe for your country but now americans are considering provisionally putting pakistan on the international terrorism sponsor list the so-called gray list you may think it is not fair to pakistan but how damaging would that be for the country and dangerous i think it's very unfair on pakistan. you know a country that disappeared in the u.s. war and i repeat a country that had nothing to do with nine eleven and a country that lost move people than any other country i mean bugs thunder lost more human beings almost seventy thousand dead the last number of them handicapped

because a bomb blasts. for helping the american for joining the american war board the heaviest cost and in the end for the americans to then blame bug and put sanctions on it i think this is the greatest travesty of justice i think. you know it is something which is inconceivable that the u.s. is for its failure and of honest on. but how damaging would it be though how damaging well it will be damaging i mean for pakistan unfortunately i could amik situation is not strong right now. the country is actually going through an economic crisis so american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is it fair is this hollow. country.

and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way i think it's very immoral mr han we're going to take a short break right now when we're back paul continue talking to a member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for justice discussing tensions what i'm gonna stand and how this affects to power balance in the region stay with us.