never see it in american you'll never see it a so-called mainstream newspaper writes all of it but read his material about iran it's based on fact you mentioned iran how serious is this narrative now going to twist away but maybe while still remaining on syria but going to focus on some kind of imminent war on iran especially as we know john bolton is no national security advisor go to a well isn't that on the whole and this this and mike pompei who's the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when

most of deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteen fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pillar was reinforced but the pillar collapsed in nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting or wrong the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming into a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement the a bomb outside and. with iran along with. the e.u. under which. wrong committed to the self as it frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions were dropped and so on we have

dangers you know the danger is that a presented to us that is so unnecessary why why are we why we threatening countries like iran which hasn't invaded anyone for about four hundred years the don't threaten us why is anachronism like israel allowed to have it seem punitive. why do we why do we believe these why do as you describe why do we journalists write down what governments tell us why don't they question them don't they it's just a few years ago that that exactly that was as terrible mistakes happened in two thousand and two two thousand and three that led to the disaster of

the invasion of iraq of iraq what why is this being repeated these are questions the demand to be answered not just by journalists but by the public in democrats particularly in countries that rick still regard themselves as democratic. let's stop you there well from john bill's off to the break.

welcome back i'm still here with legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger did you ever expect to see what looked like did told in korea no i didn't expect. although one short of expected that the koreans them sold. if we've been following him and we don't follow by him we follow the big power is that.

impose that them so particularly that odd spades on that country it's a very popular move by the president of south korea it's i would i would have thought as clearly a popular move in north korea the koreans korea is one of the most homogeneous societies in the world i mean you can you can find very few countries so it's almost like france related it's one big family the idea of them divided. is absurd they recognise that but what this demonstrates is that a regional solution is is possible not only possible it's probably the only way to all these to all the world's so-called flashpoints

and problems there credit is being given to donald trump's administration of what he's if you want to give him the nobel peace prize why not give in to a few of those coming war in germany details that massive military expansion in that area yet it's always you know everyone is celebrating because the share prices of old boeing raytheon lockheed and others have gone down how can these regional peace deals be done in the face of all of that military industrial complex pile if this deal is being it on and i think both koreas have to be very careful of not walking into a trap as well the trap could be that north korea is to psalm to completely and north korea knows that by having. you clear weapons that's prevented it from being another iraq canal the libya from big attacked

i don't think there's any question about it so while it's desirable look north korea is dissolved of nuclear weapons and and all of korea is denuclearized it also has to be the americanized the two in fact the the forma is rather more important than the latter. how that happens is going to be a very tricky part of the negotiations coming up because korea as far as the united states can is concerned is is really a front line on a number of countries but especially if front line on china it does russia and china board is russia and child or of course but it has its sad so cold anti missile system if you just said to be pointing at the north no one believes that

it's pointing at china so these are very precarious days ahead but i think they quite hopeful days and i'm sure if you still have friends in the national security apparatus of the united states but do you think there are people in there taking a rather dim view very day and i will oppose this as you point out all the arms companies will oppose this although the japanese have said publicly they supported but and no doubt the chep these people support it no question about that but whether the united states stays in korea. literally leaves. it's a crucial fact to hear that surely there really is the end of the korean war surely there are interests and we should remind people who don't because it's seldom mentioned here that was britain was involved in the killing of twenty percent of

the population of korea how far would the united states go in trying to remain there if peace breaks i don't know but the it for them it may well get out of control this will become so popular if it isn't already in korea that. they my eye might find great difficulty with the local population and even the local political debate south korea you know those sort of hybrid it's a it's a vassal state of the united states but it's also bred people like. the the present president and people like kim dodge wrong and all those who who saw i did tone with the north as their prime political purpose not as a servant of the united states perhaps that's a clash that we've yet to see. happen and perhaps that's coming but the

process has started that's that's the important thing and regional processes like this have a high success rate. they have a high success rate in in. i remember in uganda when the east african states following the the the whole devastation of video mean and you guys and that was a regional solution they were left they were left alone. in latin america when countries very rarely have been left alone by the united states. they've had regional groups that have banded together in economic formations and if you like protected each other i mean that's why they hated to go chavez so

much because he promoted that he promoted that regional solution to a two to a region so perhaps we're seeing the beginning of something like that of course if you go to the middle east they would be a regional solution. if they wasn't the united states supporting one state in its impunity and its priority in its occupation of poppet if there was goodwill in the united states to make that a regional solution then to be very difficult there there are a many different competing tribal forces but those tribal forces of mostly been. reignited.

by the the the imperial powers as resort in libya into in two thousand and eleven so again i suppose i'm saying that although it's probably it's a remote at the moment in the middle east but to see glimmers of it in korea is hopeful well if trump has enemies of korea because he may what the big grand gesture he now has the curious enemy of the d.n.c. that is suing him russia is the us democratic party i think this is serious because i had to recheck it again is is suing donald trump russia and julian assange and mickey mouse it's it's it's just absorb stood. a me as the ruler inquiry progresses you know as if the goal is a run in that within the road to stop this was save the house intelligence

committee have ruled out have found off the months of. looking into a conspiracy between trump and the russians it was the probably the clinton cables the hillary clinton cables particularly the protests the ones the protests the ones that showed that hillary clinton the absolute embodiment of the democratic of stab a shrine. that her foundation that she knew rather she knew that the the the force of the saudi arabia qatar or backing isis or backing these extreme to harvest movements and hit she she and her foundation benefit from huge donations. into into the clinton foundation and she did and went on the secretary of state to so-called

negotiate the biggest alms deal that america's of unknown with those states so that's the that's important information that tells us how power works that's upset them and russia of course fighting isis and al-qaeda in syria but does that mean then that basically is as we can leaks organization can never be forgiven by that is bush will never be forgiven we were talking earlier about good journalists and of a forgiven that's why the good journalists that's part of being a good journalist but such a sound has suffered so much for being for wiki leaks big so good. if you being in touch with it yes into you directly at the boat but i haven't i've been in touch because he's denied visitors. he can't make

phone calls he's got no internet it's the pressure a pressure of zone him and every bit of his extraordinary of resilience is now being called upon it's it's one of those miscarriages of justice that's to malda to. grotesque injustice but that it should manifest right in the heart of london is that to scrapes the sond isn't even allowed to go to a hospital and come back because they won't let him back. he has the right to safe passage out of that embassy he has a justified feel. of the united states extradited to game and putting him in the

kind of hell hole that chelsea manning into the details probably throw away the key with julian a solid and he's done that too well and so over these leaks that make the league actually i mean we could leaks doesn't know where the leak came from but the leak almost certainly came from within the democratic national committee the same body that is now conducting this ridiculous action against against wiki leaks and the rest. you might as well the same thing would be directed against the new york times well the washington post want to publish the pentagon papers back in those days when they did real journalism if anyone needs the support of democrats of journalists of those who believe in basic freedoms freedom of speech freedom of knowledge freedom to no freedom of real journalism

it's him. thank you. and that's it for the show will be back on monday with we're down down to racism campaign and mark once with on his expulsion from jeremy goldman is labor party for bringing the party as a disrepute still then you can give in touch via social media a c. on monday nineteen years to the day nato bombed the chinese embassy in yugoslavia killing or injuring twenty three beijing with all its a barbaric act. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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garbage that my heart was when i left to the south pacific some. time and i'm having a lot of those me. a little bit over the nuclear war slow. and. easy. going to be in the legal up to my older kids to let them sit on the bottom and gently have a difficult moment. and these years i live apart until i don't. know how shameful i'm going to be going to the beach or the admission from the.

the un's chemical watchdog announced a fifth unable to determine the amount of nerve agent used in its work how poisoning case backtracking on earlier claims that nearly half a cup of a toxin was used. in the u.s. that allows a man considered to be a kingpin of drug trafficking in afghanistan to walk free from prison it's reported haji juma khan that struck a deal with the orthorexic he's due to his high level links within america's law enforcement. and the loss of thought and or the communist manifesto call log. this would have turned two hundred this time today his hometown in germany celebrates his birthday remembering

a man whose ideas remain as divisive now as they did more than a century ago. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mean ikey aaron good to have you with us this hour the international chemical watchdog investigating the poisoning of sergei script powell and his daughter has made a u. turn on its claims over the amount of a nerve agent used in the soulsby attack the organization corrected an earlier statement that there was nearly half a cup of the toxin now saying it's sunday able to determine the exact quantity. looks at a growing number of in consistencies in the probe usually what happens with ministries is the answers get revealed crimes are solved perpetrators are identified in the

script al case what's interesting is we seem to be going in reverse. for research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams of but even in souls free it looks like they may have used more than without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams or so which goes beyond research activities for protection it also stretches the realms of reality here's some perspective one drop of a new rich aka nerve agent is enough to kill roughly ten people one hundred grams the equivalent of a small glass would be enough to wipe out at least a neighborhood kill thousands and thousands any serious chemist familiar with nerve agents will tell you as much know each other is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already very very toxic what's interesting is how the head of the world's

chemical weapons watchdog could possibly make such a mistake perhaps it was a mistake the u.p.c. w. didn't take long to shall we say clarify the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate all determine the amount of the nerve agent the booze used in souls bri on the fourth of march twenty eight in the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams fair enough they miscalculated a slight exaggeration of about two hundred thousand fold but ok remember when russia protested the accusation that only eat could make new each ox no one took them seriously in fact the accusers were offended by the very idea. the russians crossed all boundaries when they said the novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie fake news right so imagine the czech foreign minister's face when the

president then comes out and says this the novacek was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened pretty remarkable just to think britain was so sure it was all so we singularly exclusively russia is highly likely that russia was responsible between the poles russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly i look at the the evidence when the people from from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt only russia it could only have come from russia said the guy over there to bars johnson one hundred percent guaranteed go

ahead sanction russia you can probably guess what happened next as a pattern here of not verified the for say source to be clear you're not able at portadown to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that so much backtracking it might as well be back running yet the media hits the breaking news peddle over any scandalous statement no matter how unsubstantiated and every time those statements turn out to be untrue no one cares staying tuned only for the next sensational revelation. well award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger is the guest on today's edition of going on the ground he say's it's crucial for the media to question the official narrative i've never been on a time when so-called as you describe it mainstream you surely are

a satirical. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into a propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed right against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the march on russia i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i would say there is a pseudo journalism now to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the very end to surface of what real journalism is. one drug loads arrest was called a devastating blow to the taliban and drug trafficking now in afghanistan but now

the very same month has quietly walked free from u.s. prison on the scale of more open he's been looking into the possible reasons behind his release. here at this correctional facility in manhattan you've got some very dangerous criminals you've got the mexican drug kingpin knocking el chapo guzman furthermore you've got the terrorist suspected of driving his truck into pedestrians here in manhattan back in two thousand and seventeen but one rather famous inmate the afghan drug lord haji juma khan recently checked out and no one knows why khan was first arrested back in two thousand and one as the usa began its operations in afghanistan however he was almost immediately released and from there he went on to set up a criminal empire known as the khan organization he was watched very closely by the u.s. drug enforcement agency this is what they said about him back in two thousand and sixteen the khan organization arranged to sell more than bass nope i'm durable to

that can be processed into heroin in quantities is launches for two tons enough to supply the entire united states heroin market for more than to use now it's also important to note that in afghanistan he became friends with the d.e.a.'s top man in kabul he described their friendship as crucial in getting information he was a major player in the global herin trade and the ring was the consul for the supply of money from king pins like him to the taliban and terrorists such as oh kind he was an unofficial spiny and he gave us useful information that we passed on to the military at one point in two thousand and six the da chief in kabul got so close to his drug lord buddy that he was worried he may have cancer he arranged a trip for him to the united states in order to get treatment one day i know it says that it grew from his chest i thought it might be cancerous as i previously had a melanoma consonants and showed in my scones i offered him treatments in d.c. and we went out was

a full i was hoping friend bruce who is with building trust the friendship soured in two thousand and eight when he was learned to indonesia arrested by interpol and then extra die. i did to new york city once he was locked up pending trial for the d.a. then publicly linked him to terrorists proceeds from hundreds of mcconnell global drug trafficking organization funded the terrorist activities of the taliban he's arrest significant line of credit to the taliban that will shake the foundation of his drug network and his message quantities of harim to worldwide drug markets ever since that time everything related to khan's case has been completely sealed in two thousand and ten the new york times wrote about his long standing friendship with both the da and the cia prior to capture at the time neither agency would confirm or deny it unlike his lawyer several law enforcement agencies from the united states approaching people in afghanistan including mr khan and requesting

assistance and scientists and it payments made services requests from my client and others but now com is free no criminal charges no trial and no explanation why now at this point perhaps we can assume that the law enforcement agencies know what's best for the public and just don't feel a need to share their secret collaboration with the worst of the underworld kept secret so you can sleep better at night. r.t. new york. well r.t. has requested comments from the us federal bureau of prisons concerning khan's release and will update you when we have response. one screen area close to the french capital is now under tons of illegal waste but clearing up the problem is proving difficult for the authorities and even more frustrating for the locals.