it's a good thing you didn't put the embassy there at the same time we're hearing that the american ambassador has apologized freidman was not the word of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken. he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to create controversy the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the. temple mount now here which is the organization from which the man who gave the present came from has expressed its own concerns about the incident it says that the man who presented the picture actually acted on his own behalf but the problem is that the american ambassador already has a record of controversy even before this event he is a supporter of israeli settlements in palestinian territory and in the past he's also called on the u.s. state department to stop calling the west bank israeli occupied territory and this incident comes at a very unfortunate time it follows the inauguration of the new u.s.

embassy in jerusalem from its original base of can i live and as you well know that sparked the raj of both international and regional criticism located in the old city of jerusalem the temple mount or al sharif is a holy site for jews muslims and christians alike reflecting history dating back to ancient times let's go live now to jerusalem and to meet three dylon is a member of the fatah revolutionary council the palestinian party which controls the west bank and to me how would you assess this it appears to be a simple case of not knowing or negligence perhaps from the u.s. ambassador to israel. not at all this ambassador as a reporter you reporter showed has been involved with illegal settlement colonial activity in occupied territories using occupation denyer he raises funds for settlements which are associated with jewish terror and the term was used by

the president of israel not only me he knows exactly what he's doing and he is. basically the ambassador of the radical. settlement illegal settlement movement in israel which is associated with the jewish terror groups he is the best of these people to the white house not the other way around because under no circumstance you could be really blind to miss that gap beautiful golden mosque and that which was replaced by this ugly rock block that that is that destroys the scenery even cut this to escalate tensions further in the region is it going to have that kind of impact on people who are here or do they. do they think that this is just a picture on let's let it go let's not incite violence here. that look if it was

a separate incident it would be probably would go by but the analysis that was written about it in social media go and it's going viral all over this is true incitement this mr friedman is actually inciting against a war with one point eight billion missing muslims around the work of i was an american i would be really concerned with this guy and i would consider it as well as a case of nepotism because this guy defies u.s. policy this guy's puts the u.s. american people in danger and danger of starting religious or war and at the same time the only reason he's there because he's the president's friend that's all why do you think the organization which is and n.g.o.s far as i know aiding students with learning disabilities are somebody within that group would give that ambassador a picture that's been altered what's the thinking behind that. look the organization

is located in bin he brought to me brock is a very religious. radical zionist area not everybody there is that. way but most many people are there and the majority are so it's only normal to have a fanatic here or there and to have somebody like the do share the same values as the u.s. ambassador and feel friendly enough and close enough to have this exchange and have this picture taken all right dimitri a member of the fossil revolutionary council a palestinian party which controls the west bank thanks for coming on the program. germany strict gun license laws are under the microscope revealed just how many far right robert killers are in possession of legal firearms we get into that after this. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw tell you that will be gossip and probably. tell you all and by. all the hawks that we all. want. we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind how is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and just the corporate liberal media report the news anymore in his journal profession in the

service of partisanship. sixteen minutes into the program welcome back nearly two thousand far right extremists in germany are in legal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says leaders are sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin peter over. in germany almost two thousand people identified as right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number describe themselves as citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is

illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed him to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology it's estimated that there's around eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany and some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up and take their country back but these aren't just hollow empty threats eighteen months ago a policeman in bavaria was killed during

a shootout between officers and a member of one of these are right citizens' groups the number of these people is significantly significantly increased acts of violence. a public official still eastman has increased in number if the numbers go on to increase if these fever really used in preparing themselves for a tosing in resisting public authorities then indeed it is a challenge for the state opposition politicians have accused the government of trying to sweep the extent of germany's problem with far right violence under the rug first the federal government explains the right wing terrorist groups can form spontaneously and have a strong digital network but then many of their actions are not counted as right wing terra fences the impression is that the federal government consciously except blind spots in the recent past berlin hasn't pulled away you from publishing intelligence findings that showed as many as seven hundred radical islamists could

be in the country and a capable of preparing a terrorist attack but it does seem that they're less forthcoming when that threat is potentially posed from elsewhere we now are facing the end of less being intellectual dominance and culture in politically gemini and under this umbrella of growing rightwing populism of course rightwing radicals right wing extremists. protected the german state district to their all the power in. germany has very strict gun control laws thankfully gun deaths are a rare occurrence here but perhaps one way to keep it that way would be to not allow people who the government considers a threat to the public to have access to firearms peter all of. just a final word on this from the german government which sees that although the threat posed by right wing extremists is reportedly increasing the overall threat level

from such groups remains relatively low. the head of the u.s. military central command general joseph sees america will now shift its focus in syria to stabilizing the region and monitoring the dangerous pockets that remain well that's the spy president trump saying only this month that the u.s. would pull its troops out of syria quote very soon while the u.s. decides on whether or not to stay in the region a survey of youngsters in the mideast suggests the majority view the u.s. arsenal. it also concludes that russia has cemented its position as the top none ally because the if america strategy has failed to win over hearts and minds you can see why trump wanted a new middle east strategy the old one wasn't working allies happy people aren't waving american flags forecasts failed remember for instance when they proclaim

that syria would be russia's and a new star russia will continue to. send troops home. in body bags these are hard lessons that the soviet union had to learn in afghanistan you have to dig back into ancient history to see how this is going to play out for the russians turned out it wasn't it was killing jihad ists and terrorists isis al-qaeda and all flavors they're of pointing case take this poll every year it asks arab youths who their biggest allies are in two thousand and fifteen america was voted second friendliest country by arab youth now its eleventh russia is fourth despite or perhaps because of its intervention in syria but that's youth what about the older folks there is an ally obviously a strong partner certainly over the specter and a friend a nato ally and

a friend of the united states in a very turbulent part of the world. of america i told you many times you're either with us or all of these terrorist organizations a disaster the united states is barely on speaking terms with a nato ally turkey they're withholding weapons there are syrian kurds the white b.g. who a turkey sworn enemies this friendship is dying and turkey thinks it can unite and need the muslim world especially after trump stunt with moving his embassy to jerusalem that robida almost everyone the wrong way condemn the u.s. decision on jerusalem because of its great bias against the historical and permanent rights of the palestinian people to see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is

a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process with try. bleeding allies moscow is making inroads with ankara now turkey russia and iran gather regularly on syria and trump isn't being invited but they at least friends still buy american guns right we signed historic agreements with the kingdom this landmark agreement includes the announcement of a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase. and we will be sure to help our story friends to get a good deal from our great american defense company that was trump boasting before saudi arabia saudi arabia america's chief ally in the middle east declared that it is buying russian s.

four hundred missiles which turkey is also doing that's a new low for us policy and things aren't looking up. you can bet there are no one filled russian basser ships in countries that matter to moscow as doris day almost unbelievably they can american posts in egypt jordan libya could tar saudi arabia syria turkey and of course iran where we have no embassy america's policy has been simple divide red versus blue shia versus sunni friends versus enemies problem is the world isn't black and white there are grays greens browns and purples which washington needs to recognize to talking here about states or a region that has been heavily dependent on the united states in pretty much everything defense economy cars technology everything and now people are

thinking you know this is not reliable anymore this is not an ally anymore this is becoming more of an adverse or definitely a shift toward a huge shift in retore between the obama administration and the trumpet ministration has played a role to agitate people we need to understand the policy there hasn't been much change. stories this hour you're watching r t international live from moscow my colleague kevin nolan will be here with more global news headlines in iran half an hour's time but stay with us now for more great programs right ahead.

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a russian pop stuff. show you how and why the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction living you need to transport. that will help out of crimea. faster most of those you won't go for more snow you're quite a bit. greetings and salutations you know i have to admit hawk watchers that there there is definitely a certain appeal to watching the two great political parties of the united states along with their deep state handlers eat each other and their own over donald trump and russia gate and this bloody feast was on full display in all its ravenous glory

over the recent exposing of seventy three year old oxford university professor one stephan helper as the f.b.i. super duper secret inside spy on the campaign during the twenty sixteen presidential election it was mueller favorites carter page and george papadopoulos were apparently the main targets of helpers' information gathering efforts page first contacted by halperin july had a conference in cambridge and later papadopoulos that september in london according to the daily caller page told the news organization that he had stayed in contact with alpert for the next fourteen months including virginia farm visits until september twenty seventh team around the time the surveillance warrant that had been taken out against paige was set to expire but but this isn't the first celeb first election spying go around for our good buddy helper no no no no no no no no for those not familiar how has been a deep state intelligence community operative for decades most notably as glenn

greenwald observes for a long forgotten spying scandal involving the nineteen eighty election in which the regen campaign using cia officials managed by helper got caught running spying operation from inside the carter administration. and the bar buddy helper wasn't wearing enough deep state home team jerseys insteps the pentagon and the office of medicine which according to federal records has paid help or more than one million dollars for research since two thousand and twelve. which which begs the question is there anyone in the u.s. government or the intelligence community who doesn't have their fingerprints all over mr halpern let's find out as we start watching the hawks. it looks like. it's at the bottom.

like you know i got. this. well the what's in the hearts i am entire world and they help us sort out the fiction from the fiction surrounding this bizarre strange case of step one helper tinker tailor informant spy is conservative commentator steve malzberg. so steve to see you my friend great to see you as always i want to ask steve how how dangerous of a precedent does this kind of informant base spying set for future u.s. presidential or even congressional campaigns. i think it's very very dangerous if this actually happened and i love don't you love the terminology in the argument

the media reports with a straight face he wasn't a spy he was an informant ok. and you know maybe the dictionary does have a difference but to me when it when it's put out in this manner what the election is you're talking about and someone infiltrating it doesn't matter what you call. i mean if this actually happened this isn't just bigger than watergate i mean this is this cuts to the very heart of our democracy if obama and his administration and the people in charge under obama played a role in planting someone in the trump campaign the opposition presidential candidate if you will the opposition party i mean why how and people should go to jail if that actually happened and they're investing i mean called over the weekend for investigations into all of this and what's interesting about this kind of use of informants is that since nine eleven there's been many accusations made against the f.b.i. for using informants to entrap or entice a person in the committing

a crime they otherwise would not have the means ability motivation to commit now many republicans and a lot of law and order democrats practice you know we're going to use it to catch terrorists with these new you revelations what we see support for the f.b.i. rather interesting use of informants finally come into question being that could be would play here. seems to me it's apples and oranges to me you know if you want to infiltrate groups that you believe might be preaching terror or a terrorist might be in that group and you want to make sure in an effort to keep us safe i don't have a problem with that even a religious institution if someone wants to come to my place of worship if the f.b.i. suspects there's something that various going on and want to sit next to me and watch i don't care because i have nothing to hide and if there is somebody in there i hope they find them but this i mean this is a presidential election you can't have the current administration the administration in power trying to sabotage an illegitimate presidential election my

goodness i mean that would be unprecedented notwithstanding the what you alluded to earlier with apparently the same. informer who worked against carter from within the administration for the reagan campaign but this would be this would be you. and it should be and remember you know all of this goes back to this you know wild crazy dossier that we find out was you know paid for by political opposition and like all of that so i mean really you kind of create this echo chamber of everyone using the same chain of evidence but but it being used by all these different groups so it's really just comes down to one thing you know what i found fascinating was watching the media the f.b.i. and many mainstream news outlets have been adamant that helper was not spying on the campaign that he was not a spy but they called him and informant or my favorite that he was just monitoring the trump campaign for the f.b.i. which was a new one like high school monitoring i don't. know why why the dance of linguistics

what why the why is there controversy over what term is used for what he did because trump said spy trump said spy way in the beginning if you remember memory he said there were reports that obama spied on me during the campaign spied on the trump tower so the media and certainly the f.b.i. can't have that it sounds better with informant but here there's a report out there and i mean this is pretty well established i think that this this i'll call them a spy that he called up a co-chair of the trump campaign and said hey i would like to be your foreign policy adviser for the campaign now he was trying then to not only inform by getting in touch with papadopoulos and saying hey you know about those russian hacked the e-mails right and he said why not only by getting in touch with page not only flying papadopoulos to. london where every flu and all expense paid but he

wanted to get in and become a part of the truck campaign to increase his exposure and be able to yes spy from the real inside of the campaign so he's not an informant he was a spy in my view who was looking to get even further in bed it to do more spotting it is. it's incredible no there was a very big push to keep you know how from being exposed as the f.b.i. informant i mean we don't know for sure yet if he was but pretty much all signs point to that he was the guy in fact democratic senator mark warner the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee exclaimed on twitter that attempting to unmask a confidential source was irresponsible and potentially illegal now given how pervs known history and involvement with the cia the f.b.i. his decades long career in the government it's not really a secret that the guy was an asset you know i mean it's not a that's not a secret how does that threaten national security right it doesn't take

a spy to figure that out no it does it here's the thing he also said that it puts his life in danger and human and human resources in danger and that is so untrue every time the republicans on one of the committees wanted to get ahold of documents the f.b.i. the justice department and the democrats on that committee say oh no you'll be able reveal the techniques and you'll put a lot of lives in danger spies lives in danger you can't do that and then when it was subsequently released and we saw what it was had nothing to do with that they're hiding that's the excuse they use when they want to hide an opposite gate and just don't let the american people know what's out there they claim it to our whole security system will blow up if we if we see that document or find out that fact i and you know and the sad part of that is that excuse has been used so much you know in the last twenty thirty years if not more of you know it puts the nation at risk we can't release this we can't leave and of course there are certain things

that you don't want to release to the public troop movements things like that things that actually put people's lives in danger but what i fear is over using that excuse over and over again it's kind of like telling the night that dulls the impact of it to a certain point it's like well what doesn't put somebody who's life in danger really it is just covering up. you know the thing that i want to really ask you is where do you see all this going i mean it's bizarre already it's taken the twists and turns i mean i think giuliani was saying that potentially or something the might wrap up the mueller investigation could wrap up by september something where does all this go next in your assessment well yeah giuliani said muller offered a deal of september first if he testifies of trump testifies i hope he does not meet with mother where are we going with this will first of all trump wanted investigation into the spy allegations but all they got was another inspector general investigation he can't subpoena people it put them under oath it's way it's a waste i think you got snookered with that i think you should demand that sixteen

congressman did today a special counsel special and for a prosecutor to investigate the spying allegations the vice awards everything that the attorney general is doing but do it with real subpoena power i think you're going to get from mahler a report to congress there's no russian collusion in it but there he's going to make a case for obstruction of justice trump at a rally said come on russia show us the e-mails trump fired the f.b.i. director trump said this they're going to make a case and if the democrats win the house they'll impeach him but there's no rush in collusion and you might those see some of the family members like donald jr and others they may get into legal hot water for what they did even though i don't think they did anything wrong you don't almost no experience it almost makes me wonder. if you put that magnifying glass like the mueller investigation on any number of individuals in washington republican or democrat i'm sure that i'm sure you're going to see all of the things that eventually will probably be levied that

donald trump and his crew. right i mean when you give us an attorney or a prosecutor unfettered access to go after anybody for anything you're going to find stuff on lots of people and that's that's the shame of it all that really. it is you know lots of people who did absolutely nothing and already accused of doing anything had to go hire very expensive lawyers to accompany them to testify either before the fall or or before the senate or house committees and it ruins lives financially speaking if not reputations as well you're right you're right you could probably find you can indict a ham sandwich is the expression and i believe that's true most definitely and like a kind of the beginning is it what really concerns me is that if we allow this kind of behavior to take place where we allow the intelligence communities to kind of spy on candidates the whether you like them or not or agree with them or not there has to be more than opposition opposition research to instigate that spying there's

got to be more i mean i don't look if someone is legitimately a threat to the country in the running for office yes you should take a look and say ok is this person dangerous but at the end of the day it's got to be more than just apo research because everybody does that and really it scares me and how would you like to be under investigation by the f.b.i. when the f.b.i. agents are texting to each other this guy's in eighty eight we have to have an insurance policy against him winning and i mean come on great that's a great point steve malzberg always a pleasure to have you on and talk with you and. soon my pleasure thank you as we go to break clock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are coming up filmmaker cory rowe went through the hawk's nest to discuss his new documentary film on p.t.s.d. and u.s. military veterans mile mark you don't want to miss the states to watch in the whole .