more and more a minority unfortunately that's back and forth again the last administration realize that the majority of cuban americans want to normalization the normalised and when you normalize you can talk. and i want to tell you from my experience in cuba when the united states use sugar instead of a hammer things change in cuba in the way that the united states wanted them were like i can't go backwards fast enough in the future to show you what what's going on in cuba now. it seems that in order to protect lection prospects in florida there is a little bit of a game that's being played with a very very very reactionary cubans who are disrespected more and more every day by the cuban community since the western commentators compare this new president make l.g.'s now to now. and i know that you visited the soviet union during its reformist years of glasnost and perestroika reach as inspiring as they may be now

in hindsight it ultimately led to the collapse of not only the system to the soviet system but also the collapse of the country do you think that's likely a likely scenario for cuba if the new president indeed pursues the reform or gender or if he doesn't so that was a question that i was asking myself and i was very very curious because of the half a century that i spend cuba because of my love for the cuban people i wanted to observe this firsthand but i didn't want to observe it from the back of the pack and so i had. asked the cuban government to allow me to come inside as they were making their deliberations as they were passing the power in to observe this basically like a fly. and. they don't answer me i have the choice to be in cuba or be here in moscow for some very important things this past week and i chose to come here to moscow instead of going to cuba while we

are very happy it's to welcome you in this country but for the time being we have to take a very short break we'll be back in just a few moments stay can. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you. pickling is a black hole and it is sucking folks from all walks of life and money from all

points on the globe and as it expands it just the wharfs the size of everything else trying to keep with it that includes various money regimes it also includes various high level bankers and economists so kristie the guard is just the latest to get. to the big calling black hole. welcome back to worlds apart with john albert the american journalist and documentary filmmaker mr alfred just before the break you were saying that you had a choice of either going to cuba or of coming to moscow and each chose mosca and i know that you have something under the table to show as i do have something i have my my my props here and you see this yeah and i can see the name of legendary

russian hockey player who just lost fifty safo and they say why do you have if you look at this and obviously we have your name here as well but still so so when i was growing up. i didn't want to be a journalist i can tell you how i became a journalist but it was completely accidental my dream was to be a hockey player. but my reality was that i still don't get i wasn't good enough. i was always very enthusiastic but in on town that hockey player but my friend. i'm working with. on a number of projects one is the first and last hockey game ever on the north pole can you skate really and you've got a year because next year around this time it basically to call attention to environmental crisis of the north pole and also the sort of political tensions the arctic countries the vatican. there's one more can remember what it is

they're all getting together. i usually do political journalism and i think. right off the bat i can say that this is if you're an unusual experience to have russians and americans doing anything constructive because from my experience they only bigger but it's good that you guys can do something in the in the current environment and i think so and you've been to war and. i think. because of our shared experience and because i'm looking in your eyes i can tell that. when when you go to war as a reporter there's something that happens inside you and it changes you as a person and it compels you more or less for the rest of your life to look for other ways to resolve issues you visited a number of floors zones but did the one that you remember the most would be a your coverage of the first gulf war for which you were actually fired from.

was clearly and correct me if i'm wrong you were specifically fired because you sell and it's a billion death toll inflicted by the americans that was clearly an act of censorship but i think from my experience at least censorship in different come countries. realize in different patterns have you figured out how it works in the united states. you know it it's affected me in different ways i've had the misfortune of being blacklisted twice i was blacklisted for public television not for war coverage but for a documentary about health care because the documentary pointed the finger at the sort of greedy financial interests that were keeping americans from getting the best health care. that was it for public television. but the sort of interesting thing about the united states is that sometimes the door opens and door closes and the door open to n.b.c.

and i was the only independent reporter to work for any of the coral networks i had total editorial control of my reports which is i have more editorial control than anybody here at r.t. has i think there were a number of circumstances general electric which is. a big powerful country company a company that has a lot of military industrial interests bought and b.c. and from that moment. the gangplank was out for me but i think that i may i may be mistaken but judging from your previous interviews i think it was more specific you went to iraq you filmed the shooters that you were not supposed to sell me you managed to smuggle it into a back into the united states in your socks you brought it to the n.b.c. executives and what did they tell you. that every time i go to the third world i make trouble for them and they're tired of it but if you actually look at the

footage what was the problem with your behavior over the actual material that they hear and in fact. the regular news staff was devastated by this and they had all supported me they had seen the footage and were proud that somebody from their team had gotten this despite saddam's attempts to censor me you know we had three babysitters there were three pages of rules and regulations we broke every single rule they tried to kill me on the way out of the country put a gun to my head and spent five minutes trying to pull the trigger to kill me and i got the stuff back and everybody was proud of me and what was there what was on the there was on the film i mean basically the smart bombs were not smart this was what we were being told in the united states during the war that this was the first bloodless war in history the first scientific war in history. and let me tell you when any country believes that they can make war not hurt people they become even more dangerous and so it was it was crucial to show these reports to the american did he actually show it to the american people when they should have seen it during

the war one of the tragedies of the war and it's and it's studied in journalism classes there were a number of hand wringing retrospectives about the way in which the press had not fulfilled its duty to the country during the war and they didn't well you know what's interesting to me is that americans like to use the examples of the first and second iraqi complaints as something that they regret but i think. any of those things have been repeated recently for example the united states military has just taken over the city of rock of isis used to claim as its capital it was taken by a very very have the aerial bombardment. practically no building is left standing in that city there independent reports of thousands of corpses rotting under the rubble and there is still very very little if any coverage on the american that's for x. doesn't that suggest that the system that you encountered baghdad is still in

operation these days i can't talk about that because i haven't been to syria i can't talk about those reports because. i don't watch the news. when i spend my whole day doing what i'm doing my don't know about you i want to watch a hockey game on t.v. i don't think i've watched. cast in twenty years. but i didn't even watch my own reports because as soon as i finish with my own reports i was on an airplane going to the next war so i can't comment about that i thought that the way in which the press was treated during the second gulf war because i was embedded for two months in baghdad was respectful was honest and was transparent and it was the three hundred sixty degree difference from the first gulf war first gulf war. the press was treated like a bunch of dogs in the alley you've been to numerous war zones but you decided against going to syria or for that matter to libya why is that why didn't you want

to go there. i'd make a calculus. before i decide to go someplace i would like. i'm happy to take a risk happy to risk can say i'm happy but i will risk my life if i think that the report that i make is going to change something. and that's the sort of sophisticated combinations of things want to have to be able to get to where i want to go i have to be able to operate with some degree of freedom people's minds have to be flexible enough so that if i come back and i say listen this is what i think the truth really is that the listen to me and i need an outlet and i don't have any of those conditions. when i stop working for n.b.c. i began to do documentaries and sort of let's get on the plane the bells ringing over in syria i'm going to be the first person in the front the first person back in those days i could beat anyone in the world sure you're good but i could beat you but documentaries is different and documentaries is

a long slow or thoughtful process and and there are only so many places that you can show them and we basically make one documentary every two years every three years in the case of cuba took me forty five years the conditions and i felt bad you know because in order to take this risk you have to believe that there is something about the way in which you see the world it is important for other people to know otherwise it's insanity to go to these places and you have to have that burning. burn burn inside so the first couple of times wars happened without me. like you had to tie me to the mast because but i didn't have any place to show it you know you weren't there if they were. a lot of coverage of both the syrian and libyan conflict and it was. very much split along the ideological lines because i could see the reports of my western calling for example

from libya voice with their own this same way or in the same building working at you know from the same desk but they would show something totally totally different i mean the reality that i wouldn't even recognize and i'm sure they would say the same things about my reports we are now in the age of propaganda war a supposed truth post do you think you could even adapt to this kind of working environment i did pretty pretty good in egypt so i was in the square in egypt for the revolution. i think. it's a pretty good film it played on h.b.o. we didn't win the oscar but we got on the shortlist for the oscar awards and so made a film from i don't know if you appreciate. like my type of way of doing things it was a quintessential film the way in which we do it very well received so. the

opportunity still do exist and you know it's also our responsibilities as reporters to. try and be as honest as possible to not have an agenda. when there's lots of forces pulling us this way and points out what the it's not about having an agenda i think from what i see at least i think many western reporters they come to cuba or they come to syria with the preconceived notion of what the country is and they do their reports from the balconies of the hotel we call them balcony buzzards a little whatever i mean. things to do more things to do this they did you know this and. the first report i ever did for n.b.c. . was the first time i'd ever been in a war zone and i was up in lang's on vietnam and the chinese were on the hills shooting at anything that moved and i like a moron i'm walking down the street there with my vietnamese buddies in the church

church so you know what i did. everybody else runs for cover i grab the microphone and i do with the end up because that's all it ever. existed and so i said i'm telling them what was obvious i'm here i'm lying son that people are shooting at me and my name is john alpert and i'm working for n.b.c. news i looked at that and i said you know what that's the last stand up on their feet i never i never did another one i was so ashamed of myself because all i was doing was copycatting you know they all wear the same clothes they wear the trench coats in the winter they wear the safari suits and they walk around with briefcases and question what the heck is in their briefcases you know what it is speak up and they spend the whole day waiting for the sun to get into the right position they've got somebody standing there with the tray to reflect them they are there on the balcony well i think so shame on them and here awards to people who go do something different and it's and it's not just the american reporters seen the russian reporters i've seen people like this all over the world

and there are reporters from every single country who will get dirty and will try to understand what the people are doing well. definitely and that i guess we have only a minute left and i want to ask you perhaps a philosophical question but still i think much of the global tensions still centered around those concepts of freedom democracy tyranny development human flourishing and what always strikes me is how differently they are interpreted in different countries what freedom means to an american is very different from what freedom means to a cuban or to a syrian or even to a russian for that matter do you think difference is a genuine do you think we will average be able to drive. you know some common understanding of what freedom really. i think it's always good to have differences. but we can't let those differences separate us and what we need to do

is. even even though we might look at the word. differently we need to. walk through the world holding hands and talk to each other about our differences like we're doing here today will be a big you know mindful of being branded as a crime and sympathizer because i think in this day and age even appearing on this network may get you in trouble anybody who knows me knows that i've always been my own person and people have respected me for them that's why they invite me to come back time and time again and that's why this project about the first and last hockey game at the north pole which has been forced by the united nations that's the other well i simply would together and i'll teach you how to skate you won't learn how to skate well but i'll teach you a well i will definitely try my best but in any case i hold that we can discuss your next project let's say in a year's time in this very studious thank you for being here today i invite our viewers to keep this conversation going on our social media pages as for me hope to

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headline stories. priest pressure from regional rivals a new report claims the even higher depending on the p.r. guru to create a movie linking to terrorists. at this hour thousands of people around the across germany against the recent spike in semitic attacks with chancellor merkel admitting the country is facing a new form of jewish sentiment. new york's police union is accused of shrinking public eye for a job for the release of a former a black nationalist who spent four decades behind bars for the killing of two officers.

here in moscow welcome to our to international i'm you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour the bureau of investigative journalism has released a report revealing a dubai based company hired a top level p.r. executive to produce a film linking qatar with terrorism it's claimed he previously created propaganda material for the pentagon breaking it old. there's no propaganda quite like military propaganda psychological operations that these psyops serious stuff aside from mere unlimited money you also don't have to deal with all those annoying ethical restrictions on tissues newsgathering. back and seeing the process and works in the process so then realize this is

a big project so we would do the news items that would go out on the news and or on various channels locally and we were to make it its best we could look. as if it was made locally belled part injure specialized didn't military grade propaganda the british p.r. firm was active in iraq for years into the us commander there they did crazy stuff faked local news reports smeared iran put together al qaida propaganda videos planted them in people's homes and tracked who viewed them i was asked by my boss. we need to make this style of video. and we've got to use it is footage and all their propaganda to it we're going to track of our google analytics good

times last year bellport injure lost its license after it emerged that it likely stalked racial tensions in south africa as part of its work their thing with having morals is once you lose them it's difficult to pick them up again but i digress guess what bellport and just former boss is up to the biggest diplomatic crisis in the middle east since the first gulf war a growing diplomatic crisis of qatar seems to be in crisis as more middle eastern countries sever diplomatic ties with saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. have all cut diplomatic ties with cut you know the whole catalogue saudi arabia schism where the two u.s. allies almost came to blows here that was helped by charles and dreher the man who oversaw bellport injures operations in iraq propagandist extraordinary financial and logistical support for terrorists and terrorism groups like hamas the

taliban and al qaida who operate freely out of do and use business and financial institutions to support radical islam. and global jihad. mr own dreher was paid handsomely by a dubai based company to smear cata tire to terrorists to iran to tell everyone how bad. it is using the iraqi formula anyway this radical islamism is operational. you see creation going to be fine with. these documentary it really isn't became available on netflix you tube it was shown to trump's former chief strategist steve bannon former cia director david petraeus ex defense secretary leon panetta just to make it clear foreign

money gulf arab money used to make a fake propaganda film by professionals and then shown to millions to some of america's most influential figures to promote an international conflict on figg grounds this is the big time league of propaganda or we have contacted the firm under so c it's which produced the film as well as the base company communications for comment so far no response the film was released to a time when gulf state diplomat trade on transport ties with qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism something has repeatedly denied back then the us president signed it with our nations saying a history of funding terror other very high level saudi arabia took the lead in the isolation campaign but the kingdom's foreign minister is now warning that the tory

government could collapse if it doesn't pay for washington's military presence in syria. could star should finance the u.s. military's presence in syria and send its own military forces there before the us president american protection for qatar if the u.s. is to withdraw its protection represented by its military base in guitar then the regime there will fall within less than a week they saudi foreign minister was referring to the presence of over eleven thousand u.s. troops in qatar he made the remarks after donald trump call from money in support in syria from his wealthy allies in the middle east however security analyst and former british army officer charles schumer bridge leads riyadh should itself be concerned over its friendship with washington. it's using this issue as a stick to beat qatar and of course qatar has used its considerable wealth to

attack for example a propaganda term saudi arabia both countries have been uncomfortable allies for some time certainly that by backing the syrian rebellion of course in this particular instance saudi arabia knows that qatar is not in a position to physically provide troops on the ground simply because its armed forces are small but of course they would like to see qatar's finances further trained it's interesting donald trump's remarks and self has said that without us in other words without the americans those countries would fall within hours or weeks or something like this and said this is a truce that is very rarely spoken publicly and they want to get deflect attention onto one another. thousands of people are making their voices heard across germany they're crying a recent spike in anti semitism in the country. has admitted that germany is not facing a new form of hatred towards the jewish people or europe correspondent peter all of

her was up the rally. it was just last week when a nineteen year old syrian asylum attacked two jewish men in friends allow of the area of a lane no no no this is your spirit situation it is just so can we do. that from jewish leaders in the city to say jewish people should refrain from wearing the keep our well that prompted many people to come out here on to the streets of the german capital in order to say that they were going to wear the traditional jewish headdress they came out here today this evening and said we are proud of our jewish heritage i spoke to some of those and asked them exactly why they were here and what they wanted to say i think we we need solidarity you. with all religious circles. within all religions christians jews people and.

muslim make us well every religion has this right to live here and believe it's freedom to give or you wouldn't to i muchly christian jewish people belong to the same group of religions as i do i'm here to show my support what's happening in germany right now is no good we've seen people beaten simply because they're wearing a kippah schools have to be protected at all times kindergartens as well this is unacceptable as we've seen from some of those people we just heard for this isn't just jewish people that have come out wearing the yarmulke in support of the jewish community here in berlin people from all faiths have done the same thing now we have seen a recent rise in anti semitic attacks in some of those involving schools now we did hear from the german chancellor angela merkel who had this to say about recent arrivals and their contribution towards the un systematic problem in germany right now noir we have

a new phenomenon as we have many refuges among whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in another form of anti-semitism into the country and it's done that's prompted thousands of people to come out here to the streets to the german capital to say you know chandy semitism in this city and you know to of the semitism in all its forms. let's turn our attention to the u.s. we're penna golf club a public one there has apologized to five black women for calling the police on them the story is they were kicked off the grounds after the cole warner of the club and his father complained that the women were playing to slowly well it is the latest in a series of incidents where african-americans have been arrested or asked to leave a public facility in the u.s. . on sunday a blood.