but to me it's like you see the war monger that imperialism you know take hold so now needle them a little bit more we can't let them do this it's interesting because john de lorean expert of north korean affairs at seoul's gone to university told goes i do give one third of the credit to the trumpet ministration the strategic patience and ramped up saying shit then they ramped up the military threat because we all thought he was crazy to take us to war that essentially made you know. force them to the table that's the idea being put out there that you know trump kind of did that nick's own crazy nixon move like oh he's crazy enough to start a war so we better clearly the south koreans this and china realize that our for even if president united states was more terrifying if you know whether than can draw. that siri there is but i think it's i think it's more about them a lot that i think that are less if you're worrying about all of this stuff i think what came to the table was it was a story was something that was really needed and as you said eventually you're

going to get to a point where you look and you realise there came to an end is it out through this whole dynasty of living up in the city sees people starving you see that you know there's only so much you can do and you you top you brought up a really interesting point about the economics of all this up to me to you know brought up to me today you know how about actually driving the peace process more outside threats united states yeah i mean on the one hand no i don't think that you should give a prize for threatening that you know oh you you just threaten hundreds of thousands of lives here use a prize for peace i don't let. on that one i do think this is something that should be thought of so south korean leader moon had can was concerned about the threat of an american military action and i think he was more concerned a lot of people are saying then come down who was concerned about it and that's what brought him to the table but it was at that table when we saw the meeting that the south korean president gave us a. the drive to kept on loan and on the. u.s.b.

drive was a plan to implement an economic structure to take place after denuclearization that full path forward to making at what he called sort of. a wealthy north east asian country and this way in the part of that and so the road map is based on three economic belts on the current korean peninsula and connecting them with the chinese and russian economy is developing with a call in economic community of some sort in northeast asia so if the korean peninsula can unify and they can be running and this is there's a lot of projects railroads energy these are all things in there that say look it's time for us to be to go to the u.s. outright the u.k. but i'm going to china and russia and the north korea's neighbors are doing nothing for it's not about spreading freedom which is always about money all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a facebook and twitter seo poll shows that r.c. dot com coming up parties all bridgie the son told sometimes the talks less to

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transparency is one of the hottest buzzwords in modern politics reporters on the d.c. be good government advocates and critics of government policy alike all tend to preach the eat those of more transparency more oversight and bring an end to the proverbial smoke filled back rooms but for all the merits of legislators disclosing every vote taken every word uttered during the lawmaking process can transparency be a double edged sword with so much of our government now subject to strict oversight . requirements perhaps it's worth asking who is really doing all this oversight and

why and as our tease for data sent us finds in her upcoming special report corrupt transparency some of the answers may be not just counterintuitive but del right shocking. the work of congress is a matter of public record millions and millions of peach citizens enjoy the illusion of oversight and control the real power belongs to the rich representatives paid. with moneyed interests always watch. transparency there's no way. bridget joins us now is a very very investigation shed some light on who benefits most from the transparency we've been busy enforcing on capitol hill welcome for gita. hi there to have it. always fun you want to know we get to ask you questions as opposed to your role in order to just say we're you're always asking questions. so apart you

the special express stayed in the part saying that just because of the really amazing voice throughout the promo there. we go look we've grown accustomed to the luxury of transparency always being a good big name you know watching the hawks and so speaks to that oversight that we all like to promote but you appear to have uncovered the home side of transparency can you tell us a little bit more about that. yes so this entire topic that i went down is totally counterintuitive even to myself and as i was reading all of these studies i was thinking surely this can't be real but it turns out it is now transparently it has basically become a weapon of the establishment it's been corrupted to the point that now it's being used by special interest groups and lobbyists to hold members of congress accountable now the mainstream narrative is that we as citizens will be the ones to hold congress accountable if we can see everything that they're doing but

unfortunately it is nearly impossible for an average citizen to follow congress and keep track of every single thing that they're doing because a single committee can have over a million pages of documents but when it comes to lobbyists and special interest groups they can hire teams of people to pore over every single word in the legislation and then they for they can therefore attend all of these markets sessions and to get the laws passed that will benefit them rather than passing laws that are beneficial to the people and popular by the people which is why we so often do not see laws being passed that the people want which person to some of the transparency requirements on capitol capitol hill it seems from from your investigation that they seem to benefit lobbyists a heck of a lot more than they benefit. your average you know inquiring voter do you think president that this is by accident or budget by design. i think this was totally by

accident and i don't even think people that are taking advantage of transparency in this manner aren't even aware of what is going on a lot of reforms took place in the one nine hundred seventy s. sunshine reforms that now required all of our congress members votes to be put on the public record and around that time is when you start seeing all these insane changes and disparities in wealth inequality partisanship a lot of these things started getting worse and it does directly correlate with when we started requiring congress members to put their votes on the record and a lot of people don't realize that prior to the one nine hundred seventy s. before these laws were enacted the lobbyists were confined to the lobby they were in the lobby that's why they were called lobbyists but as soon as these votes and sessions were opened invited not only the public but it did invite all of the special interest groups inside as well and so they've been taking advantage of transparency unfortunately. in the year old is to because like most average

citizens never they know lobbyist politicians. but we need more transparency because see what's going on and it's interesting to see this turned on its head now we all know that one of the most infamous concepts in politics is the kind of proverbial smoke filled back room. internet way in which political decisions were made behind closed doors with cigars and minimal transparency are some transparency advocates now saying that we might need to bring that idea back to the small bill back room back in order to help out special interests and how can we trust that to work. transparency advocates are not saying that it's people who are looking at this and saying maybe transparency has been too much of a good thing and maybe we should dial it back so the people who are actually looking at this there are a bunch of researchers out of. harvard who have been investigating this very closely giving great examples which i do go over in my special but basically they are looking at it and going back to when the constitution was drafted back in those

days our founding fathers did not want the votes to be public because they were worried that factions would start influencing how people would vote so they actually had a gag order they kept everybody out who was not involved in the process and kept it secret for that very purpose and we tend to forget about history and forget about how it used to be back then but what's interesting though is the question of how do you hold how does the public hold elected official what culpable if they don't actually know how that person voted what push came to shove if it's a. secret then. yeah that's an important thing but again all of the research that i've looked at shows that the average citizen cannot and does not follow congress because they simply cannot again it's this illusion when is the last time any of us were able to hold any elected officials accountable regardless of how many crimes or things that they've done that are in the public we

see them we all complain about them we show them on the news every day but when has anything actually resulted in actual accountability and again i'm only talking about transparency in the legislative branch i'm not talking about in the executive branch you know wanting to see trump's tax returns i'm not talking about transparency in the judicial branch it's strictly in the legislative branch but you're seeing all of these problems although i would say that it's worth an investigation into those other issues well great point you bring up a great point and i think one of the things that's so important as those are the politicians that you have the most control over as a voted for this and i feel like those are the ones that are controlling the big decisions in washington washington and there are those conduits and they should be like someone should be looking at what they do and it shouldn't be up to these lobbyist to be deciding what's right for the american people. which brings me to sort of corporate interests in the research and interviews you did what are some of the most glaring instances of corporate influence you've discovered that that our

viewers should pay more attention to. so i'll give you a recent one in terms of the parkland shooting in florida they held a vote for the members of congress to come in and vote whether they wanted to ban a ar fifteen style rifles now when they were required to vote by voice which does not attach a legislator's name to their vote they agreed to ban these weapons but just seconds later when they were asked to go on record and vote by roll call which does attach their individual names to their votes the vote reversed and they did not agree to the ban and that's because the national rifle association gives all of those people in florida so much money and you can actually see the ones you can cross cross examine them and see which legislators voted no on that and how much money they've taken from the n.r.a. and it's not just corporate interests in the united states it's also foreign companies so you have massive pharmaceutical companies oil giants weapons

manufacturers you name it they are all in there. influencing the policies of america. you know it often seems like corporate influence in politics has been surging in them you know as you say you bring up other other interests as well with lobbyists now more prominent in the capitol than ever before maybe go back to boss tweed you know any recent law changes or court rulings that have fueled this rise or you know why are we seeing this many lobbyist today why isn't the swamp draining. well it goes back to that legislative reorganization act of one nine hundred seventy that did open up the committees to the public and lobbyist but then you also have the citizens united versus the federal elections commission which allows corporations to funnel unlimited amounts of money into campaign ads. and so these are ads that are either pro candidates or anti candidates and they basically just influence public opinion and therefore your votes so this is

something that people just have not looked at they don't investigate it they widely accept this narrative that transparency is super amazing and really allows people to hold congress members accountable but that's simply just is not the case if you actually look at the data and the actual facts it's just completely an illusion. have you spoken to you about this suggests any proposals or is ideas that because it's sort of this thing you want to know how your congress person voted in order to decide whether you want to vote for them but at the same time as you pointed out sometimes shielding those votes give them more ability to do what's right when not being pressured to do fun any more any suggestions or proposals from the people you talk to about how we can fix this. yes so one suggestion is to repeal that legislative reorganization act specifically the amendments that require

our congress members to vote publicly and to put them back on a secret ballot think about it when you and i go to the polls we vote with a secret ballot for the very reason of preventing voter fraud vote buying and intimidation so why would we not give that to our legislators as well because there is not much evidence to prove that they're easily bought off in that situation because they could change their votes they can lie to you and say ok i'll take your money all of in your favor lobby and then they can turn around and vote secretly but it's the exact opposite when lobbyists can now look at their votes and say you know what i know how you're voting i'm not going to get rating for your next election great great point it's really what's happening great great point your special corrupt friends for. our tea america tuesday five eight really check it out thank you so much. thanks. once an example of serenity and natural wonder the active volcano callaway and hawaii is coming back to reclaim our land over the last

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us present donald trump says hill announce his decision on the rand nuclear deal on tuesday days earlier than expected it comes right as britain's foreign secretary is in washington attempting to save the agreement. but a mere putin is officially sworn in as russian president and wastes no time making key cabinet decisions for his fourth term plus. the people with me. to sit on the one tries for me to be killed hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan face deportation from the u.k. even though they were promised asylum by london. the latest on those stories and more had to r.t. dot com coming up sufyan co talks with the maker of a new german film about the global media image of russia's president.

bon welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze as russia's relations with the west are put to test blood amir put in a stake in the presidential office for the fourth time. what is a russian leader light well i ask you bert said bell german journalist who gave his view of the russian president in the documentary film i couldn't. hear exactly welcome to the show it's great to have you with us i haven't seen you in a while so we're finally doing this little chat and i'm glad we get to do this. so you've had unprecedented access to lead america. you personally came to an event

about your book on hey man you had face to face time with him during the shooting of your film about him he called you personally on the phone and you answer here burt i wonder why you i mean you may know more about our president than maybe because he's a very private person why does to trust you. you know look at me understand that person actually knows right when i think it's a matter of time. it's a matter of time because we weren't quite some months together for the film so in the future would you get him a couple or few small is within three months distance for the book so you get to know each as a little bit and you know how or whom you can trust to a certain extent and that's i think the basis we have this confirmation so while filming your documentary i puton back in two thousand and twelve you had the chance to see elaborate putin in different settings what was your personal opinion off him

and what kind of vibes as you pick up usually public figures of his scale are one person off the screen and then another person on the screen do you feel he was genuine did you sense like a public persona for the cameras being displayed for you. you know put it to me is a profession if you act like a professional of course but you have to a certain extent an identity and if you want to convince you cannot really capture your identity you have normally from the profession you perform so i think to a certain extent but he's a technician too of course and he is. because this business requires acting because you deal with journalists and children just like this well so we have both a profession and react so to speak along the profession but the longer you speak to each other the more you understand the way he acts and the way he argues and the

way he is that's so i mean i come from a family of a former president well as well and i understand how these things work like when you're a leader you have to be tough the there's no room for emotions like your personal emotions don't really matter when you're you know handling global affairs you said that putin came across as very alive what kind of emotions did you get out of him during your conversations. these i'm an emotional guy so it is not very hard to play on the emotion but on the other hand is a technician too and he knows exactly what he wants to transform or what we want to bring over so journalists and politicians. and they play along this road well and of course they have a common currency the common currency is the public and so they behave to reach this am to get their messages through and that's a kind of game on one side and then the other side it is quite serious because

people rely and they trust what they get so to speak what they see and what they hear so both parties have to develop this kind of art and to stick to their profession and i think all in all put in lives by two things by his emotion and he is. in the long to he place a very long game he's so to speak a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate him i give you one little example by putin obviously had been under a mistake for such a long time in the beginning of my research i found a memo by a big bang it was in the memo was from the year two thousand when he took over office and the analysts try to inform the board of directors what kind of guy this guy is what to expect and this implicit at that time. the mere

vladimirovich is someone who got orders for the last ten years and these very happy to be in this position and he follows these orders and this kind of so to speak underestimating this guy took place first in the beginning in russia and then it took place for him in the living internet perception of him as someone who would follow someone else's orders is that what you mean yeah that's the. it's one of the things that the second thing that you always have been warned of is you know this guy's a former k.g.b. guy he knows how to deal with people definitely it's true he worked once for this agency in there and he knows how to treat people but that's only one part of it is he's a very direct guy and if you respond to this direct to this directness you get results but i mean direct is one thing but do you feel like everything he tells you is the truth or he can't allow himself to say in the tradition in this world

no politician in this world tells you one hundred percent of the truth it's a tactical appearance to a certain extent it's public and you want to transport something via public that what the business requires but at the same time if you do lie and if you do lie too often you're not to be trusted and look to the figures basically from two thousand after two to today so if i think the figure. he had been elected with the percentage i think fifty three percent and if you go twelve years later when he returned from the prime minister job he got i think sixty four percent and now he's somewhere it nearly seventy seven percent so you have a steady growth and you cannot reach this in just lying to the population and. to you. to russia so to speak so when describing his persona you mentioned the

fact that he had a k.g.b. background and western media as well as to stablish men often put some special focus on put in the past as an intelligence officer i mean we all come from different backgrounds what is so special about that george bush senior was cia had before he became us president now body so this is a problem. i know that it is not a real a problem because it is the mon ization basically what it is our of former foreign minister to ask intervals three years head of the b. and d. so that you can use it as a kind of texture as a kind of stretch from the past because we are all living on prejudices and if you develop these prejudices you can be somebody you know politics is theater it's trauma and the difference between. interests and so to speak key are is very very big occasionally but it was always the

case this way and so as far as putting was concerned they use this three verbs. and i think this nothing else because it's just. a way to. say ok this guy is lying you cannot do anything different you don't trust him but it's a p.r. weapon nothing more so i want to go back to your film i know that there was a scene where put into a kid to a chapel and he talked about his faith why did you leave that scene out of the film i found it very very personal so i had more material than i needed so i had to think what to use and what not to use and i found that in the very moment ok it's very private it is very so to speak when the reveal to a certain extent so i left it out at the moment because i found other things more

important in that context that's the reason for that. because he rarely opens up to anyone like that i mean he spoke to you about his face and he actually you know allowed you to be there while speaking about it. and he knew it was going to be in film it's weird that you would leave it out i'm out i'm just this is journalist talking in me and you actually got a lot of other moments where he was very well nerve will not only they want to chapel and that's a very rare side of putin as well you see in the russian president in a lot of situations you're unsure of vacation during hockey practice. how did you get him used to your cameras and just to be himself or did he never did he never knew about the cameras. not question about the. direction we have just there we were just watching on a didn't get any kind of. direction to do this or to do that.