the big question is will the military industrial complex in the united states accommodate itself to a new reality we're also here were needing to they're going to find hotlines been set up between cayman south korean president may and july and the two leaders are also due to meet this month i mean what can you expect from that meeting to think well i think they're going to do is lay the foundation for interim careen and peace agreement now it's only in a way symbolic because the parties to the armistice that ended the korean military conflict it was signed july twenty seventh thank you thirty three the war began june twenty fifth one hundred fifty then it was the united states and the people's republic of china as well as the d.v.r. ok so south korea can't give d.p. arkady worth korea a security guarantee only washington can do that and so what we're going to see is a peace agreement symbolic largely but i would say as a precursor to the possibility of a u.s. d.p. r. k.

day time is it possible yes that would seem likely a year ago no but it is possible and funny following that positive note brian i mean trying to pass repeatedly claimed credit for recent progress saying his aggressive stance on north korea has forced them to make concessions i mean do you see that way. not at all i think that the u.s. government has been caught let's let it use our way of trying trying to do what he said made this arms folded glazed eyes a sitting down when everyone else was celebrating when the two koreans marched into the olympic games. the whole crowd was cheering careers and both the koreans and both sides were cheering your american government looked like an instruction of the peace train was starting to leave the station and so donald trump had played catch up and jump under that tree and see what happens next then brian back in from the antiwar answer coalition many thanks for your thoughts thank you. now globally

broadcast video footage claiming to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma is now being called into question a team from our sister channel r.t. arabic has visited the town my colleague roy sushi discussed what they saw there with r.t. washdown of what we've seen so far from this place was and much mostly it's been a video released by the white helmets activist group you're looking at it right now it's shot in a hospital and it's shows some truly heartbreaking pictures the scenes of chaos of panic confused children being hosed down with water everything pointing at a potential chemical attack but are to rob a crew managed to talk to a boy who was featured in this video of the white house mates and he gave his account of events in that hospital have a listen to that had act outside and they told us to go into the hospital i was immediately taken upstairs and they started pouring water on me do you remember

where it happened. here with the hose or is it. here it is. thank you thank you i don't look towards water around me you put me here and then took me off serious to my mother where exactly opposite is the second floor i was upstairs over there. saturday so the doctor started filming us here they were pouring water and taking videos and then my father came and found me someone had told him we were here so he came and took me away i luckily i didn't know she was being seen i went up stairs and saw my wife and children i was very surprised and asked what had happened when my son's eyes were red and i found out that it was about it was cold and he could have got sick he was undressed when i took my son the first told me that they still

needed him but i still took him away from. the boy is clearly in shock still to have to go through something like this to go through such terror at his age is unthinkable really we've reached out to the white house months westing in statement of some reaction to what's being what's being filmed in duma right now but we're still to hear back from them even as i understand there was other footage from the alleged senior of the attack was and yes indeed there was another video released by another activist and it is apparently from an apartment building where the actual chemical project tile the alleged chemical project landed this is the initial video that we're showing you right now and this is the project we our crew again managed to get inside this very building so to the left you can see our video and to the right is the original one and initially how the media reacted to the first the released video well they saw it as rock solid evidence of

a chemical attack the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's that the us had regime has previously used in chemical attacks the assad regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the nic telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was yours apparently the project was still toxic was still fuming with the something toxic and that's why they had to wear a mask to protect themselves but we've spoken to a number of experts and they've told us that in me a gas mask is basically not enough to protect. one cell from a toxic substance if that were a nerve agent whether he's got his base covered or not it's going to go right through his skin and the only protection that he could have is if this whole body were in a chemical control suit if there were chlorine gas that would protect him from from some small leaking of the chlorine gas for a while and it doesn't make any any any sense i could see it going through

a roof and never even breaking it's a silly way and even if it did great go the dispersal of the chlorine might only kill the people in the room or what not even people outside the room had time to get out there's no confidence yet in the fact that even happened in the first place but the retaliation is already there the u.s. the u.k. and france launched more than a hundred missiles to strike targets they believe the assad government are using to produce chemicals right now the big intrigue is what the official investigation is to show whether or not the attack happened. here as democrats have filed a lawsuit or save her accusations of trying to rush a collision more on that after the break. if you go through street mankind is a little cruel and destructive over and over again and so imho our cities have come back and many are quite beautiful and wonderful places. if you look in the middle

east in places like syria it's it's i agree with you it's totally depressed. and i wish they had the political issues involved with it could be resolved but i think until that is done there's very little hope that those cities will be able to turn the tide of. this. about your sudden passing i have only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. to cut 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 more like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i

secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport there's less i'm show business i'll see you than. welcome back the recent u.s. led airstrikes in syria have raised questions over the country's long term strategy for the water one country and now there are reports of

a new so-called arab force being assembled in the event of a u.s. withdrawal r.t.s. what goes the of explains the leave or the state it's a tough one. i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation we are in syria fight isis and that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission america says it wants out of syria but not before its goals are accomplished which could take a while and get real dirty what do you do well that's what friends are for we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region saudi arabia it seems has volunteered for the difficult task of sending troops to sit on oil fields in eastern syria apparently saudi arabia has been volunteering pretty hard and pretty long we're in discussions with the

us and have been since the beginning of the syrian crisis about sending forces into syria now here's the thing those arab troops would have to be trained the u.s. could do it but no off that what happened last time all the last times iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered by in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight they withdrew from the site we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight a soul and defend themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently a third option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes the blackwater the infamous

private military company who has operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to really. and a new name but i never even heard that. there were dead bodies everywhere in the city college but in front of me with few people inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's it which causes the middle of next seven years knowing that.

prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing on the trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security adviser one of the most radically militant talks in washington no one's going to care about prince's shady past john bolton this year we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert in a country that doesn't want you there while privatized it give your buddies a chance to make a quick buck after all isn't that what friends are for. u.s.

democratic party has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against almost every figure in the russian donald trump contusion probe. has the story now the democratic party has gone out on a limb here and their lawsuit targets not only the russian government but the truck campaign wiki leaks and even a pop singer who's supposedly connected to the trump campaign claiming that they all work together to influence the u.s. presidential election now democrats claim a russian intelligence service is quote hacked into the d.n.c. is to cheaters penetrated its phone systems and exfiltrate of tens of thousands of documents and e-mails to further russian interests and alike and apparently trump gleefully welcomed russia's help those were their exact words and then they say that julian a song founder of wiki leaks posted the documents because he supposedly shared their goal of damaging the democratic party and claim to this is just part of the

multitude of investigations of five in total into alleged russian collusion and it all started with the intelligence report that came out in january twenty seventh and that claimed that president putin ordered and influenced campaign to undermine faith in american democracy none have any success or found any evidence so far so this seems to be the next chapter in the democratic party's crusade against the trunk campaign in russia but this time they're looking for compensation for damages inflicted upon the d.n.c. so we're just going to have to see what happens with. legal and media around law no doubts whether the lawsuits will be successful in court. there's a couple of things up about this complaint being a lawyer looking at this notice that first of all it is a there is no collection of the da says we say it is a series of narratives a story about here a name here jared cushion or roger stone cold luzhin they use.

no evidence of guilt if a judge does not dismiss this i will be shocked this is her ears this is a waste of time and it shows how desperate and how pathetic the d.n.c. are still still not able to to resolve daily grief counseling they did professional help not a lawyer. the u.k. government is setting up a task force to counter the alleged threat from russia this comes amid a diplomatic feud between the two countries over the poisoning of former double agent said ok script and his daughter yulia artie's has the details this committee consists of very high profile u.k. politicians and at the helm of that committee is the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and his name is tom took in heart now he has not minced his words about a lot of near putin in fact what he said is that in the u.k.

must target everybody who supports the russian president and his gangster regime during his interview he obviously just sounded like he wasn't a fan of mr putin but he did mention someone that he was a fan of and that was the saudi prince mohammed bin solomon the big change actually is there where he's trying to change the economy he's trying to bring women and young people into employment is trying to radically reform this is really something quite impressive in a separate interview took a hard talked about his career path and his aspirations and he described a number of roles that he feels that he would be ok i mean occluding the job of pm so it appears that. he wasn't particularly fussy about what future lies ahead for him would it be great to be pm yep it would be great to be foreign secretary fantastic would it be great to be defense secretary wonderful would it be great to be a minister and yes on

a more serious note now the tensions between russia and the u.k. have been exacerbated by the script poisoning london is insisting that moscow is behind the attack moscow is denying any involvement at all and asking u.k. for firm proof as to why they are suggesting that russia is indeed behind those attacks so the accusations are continuing from the u.k. side and now that this new committee has been set up we can only see that those diplomatic relationships are probably going to go downhill even further or commenting on the announcement of the new task force russia's ambassador to the u.k. alexander then co said the two countries need to find a way of working together but i can promise you our own routed to come to this group. all the questions and. convince them. to develop economically political religions. use the influence on the british

government. to formally. now a group of youngsters have risked arrest by breaking into the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan they got inside a storehouse and managed to take some breathtaking pictures of soviet launch vehicles from the height of the space race. odd.

now a recap of our breaking news story north korea is halting old missile tests and shutting down its nuclear test site with immediate effect the country's state news agency quoted leader kim jong un as saying the country's nuclear isolation is complete and no further tests needed donald trump here's two to meet came in june has welcomed the announcement calling it very good news for north korea and the world this also comes before the first summit between the north and south korean leaders in more than a decade or more news in the meantime. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. four

different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the owners did not shoot around a corner. and . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here washington d.c. the swamp i'm partial to and coming up today is the eighty and he time warner merger case continues here in washington arguments being made are like arguments

for lower television subscription prices and increased innovation underway barlow who's actually been in the courtroom is actually here with us to take us inside that courtroom and explain what's going on plus the federal investigators are in philadelphia after the accident of that southwest airlines flights this week that took the life of a mother of two and injured others we'll speak with former national transportation safety board officials jamie. hamill discussed a new housing numbers with kathy studio of the real wealth network plus as netflix makes a just physically disruptive move in europe we'll discuss how media is morphy with r t america's calling cook host of the big picture all that coming up the first look at some headlines. oil prices on thursday approached a four year high as the benchmark price of brant crude traded in london pushed just shy of seventy five dollars per barrel opec nations have essential or met the goal of the two percent supply cut they agreed to in december of two thousand and

sixteen while speculators see increased risk to the future of supply as a result of escalating tensions in the middle east particularly in syria and earlier today the energy minister of saudi arabia told reporters that quote there is a high capacity to absorb increased prices in the global economy the comments are believed to have provoked a tweet that complained about opec from u.s. president donald trump which appears to have temporarily at least moved prices on west texas intermediate traded a nine x. down just a couple of pennies the saudi ministers comments also preceded a gathering of ministerial level opec officials where saudi representatives are expected to meet pacifically with russian diplomats to review progress on those previously agreed to production cuts and decide on future plans at this point the production reductions are planned to remain in place until the end of the year published reports indicate that the saudis now consider seventy dollars per barrel

a price floor and would be comfortable i bet they would with eighty or even one hundred dollars per barrel the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline trading in the united states right now currently stands at two dollars and seventy five cents that's up twenty cents in the past month. and in other related saudi arabia news m.b.'s crown prince mohammed bin solomon has finally as the memorandum of understanding with soft bank to finance the world's largest solar energy project ever the two hundred billion dollar investment will reportedly create one hundred thousand jobs in saudi arabia and increase the kingdom's solar capacity to two hundred get a watt by the year twenty thirty the project is one hundred times larger. or than the next biggest and with double global energy output for the photo of all a uk voltaic rather sector according to bloomberg soft bank founder may she saw on reportedly says billions more in investment is saudi arabia and has taken on the

cause of promoting renewable energy. and earlier this week softbank the just talking about them announced that they had to amend four years of tax filings in japan after failing to report eight hundred seventy five million dollars in offshore earnings the dish no taxes amounted to over thirty four million dollars or three point seven billion yen their previously under claritin therefore untaxed profits were generated at soft banks subsidiaries or bermuda and singapore and in a statement just to remain safe softbank claim that japanese authorities were imposing double taxation on the company noting we are not fully in agreement with parts of this outcome. and we now move to the a.t.m. t. time warner merger which is opposed by the u.s. government on antitrust grounds the department of justice has rested their case then officials from a t.n.t. and time warner have told their side of the story too and here to discuss is

someone who's been right there in the courtroom andre barlow of the law firm doyle barlow and mazhar andre thank you for being with us we sure appreciate you were so helpful last time and we are pretty should have you coming back so the argument that the companies were making is that this merger getting bigger will actually result in decreased cost for television and related internet services and more innovation did they make an effective case in your view well i believe they did they did make an effective case i mean they they closed they rested yesterday and randall stevens came in and he told the story he didn't see c.e.o. yes c.e.o. he came in and he explained that he is is a business that knows how to reinvent itself it's gone from wireline to wireless it's gone from one g. to four g. you know we've gone from flip phones to video streaming on mobile devices and now we're getting ready to go into five g. they dip their toes into pay t.v.

business and with directv and what did they do after they did that acquisition they went straight to a virtual pay t.v. service with directv now so you know almost cannibalizing their own market you know just. too much but it made me think i was like well that's a pretty good argument but in on the other side of me a t.n.t. itself was broken up before all those innovations you made i mean they were they were the old hard line phone and they were so big they were broken up so did the government make the argument andrea that wait be only reason you could do that is because there was competition a once a t.n.t. was broken up now remember this transaction is a vertical transaction so we're not actually eliminating any horizontal. competitors what they're doing is trying to vertically integrate with turner and use that or with time warner and use that programming with their distribution assets and what they intend to do is is really innovative.

you know over the top type of products right is what they want to do you want to get rid of that bargaining friction that currently exist so it's quicker and easier if you have content on your own right and you can vertically integrate and then you can roll out products a lot quicker then than doing it if you had to negotiate for those rights he explained how when they wanted to move in the directv now it was an easy process they thought it would be right as they already have programming contracts for direct t.v. so why would it be easy to watch this new virtual service but programmers you know they they are wary of change everyone's way of change pay t.v. business has been the same for years and now we're moving into a you know i think. stevens is said he said it was a you know we're at the at that cusp of the moment this is game changing and that's what they're trying to do and keep in mind the department of justice agrees that

directv will lower prices to its customers they agree with that the government's khana must agrees with that and their concern is that they would raise prices to other pay t.v. players and that concern is a very small concern right it's about four hundred million dollars it's about you know twenty seven cents. the government's economist he relies on. a very complicated theoretical model so the way i look at this is this is theory versus market reality so they did a pretty good job. because i think at first maybe people were thinking it was going to succeed so we'll have to see where it goes we hope you'll come come back and help us again under a barlow thank you so much for your time and you're helping get a masters degree in intellectual property not just in electoral process and i trust law thank you so much thank you.

after the southwest airline accident the other day which took the life of a mother of two national transportation national traffic safety board investigators have been on the scene in philadelphia to discover what may have happened to cause the jet engine to blow apart smashing the window of the airplane and resulting in not only that death we spoke of but also injuring seven other passengers and here to discuss air safety and some of the economics of airlines as former n.t.s.b. official jamie financial is a partner at lincoln park consulting here in washington a jamie thank you so much for being here it's nice of you to do so thanks so let me ask you where what happens when an accident like this takes place what does n.t.s.b. do indeed has to be has what is called a go team that's assembled for every accident and then they go on rotation within the team itself there are those that stay in washington but the go team goes on site and those that will consist of technical experts they will be looking at

various components in and avionics of the aircraft and will also be pulling the black what's known as the black boxes the flight data recorder and the voice recorders and take bringing those back which they should be back in washington already for analysis in addition to that team as the family assistance members who are there to assist those to spare he used to be the dragica right that's correct and so when they come back and they do sort of a they do sort of a forensic i know there are those times we've seen those images of airplanes and big hangars with all the parts laid out at that's what they'll be doing with this jet engine that will be doing that with this engine obviously this is less complicated than a lot of the other big crashes that are the aircraft's last we've had a in this particular situation we've had one fatality which one is always too many but when we they will be taking that engine apart they'll be looking at.