powell and his daughter and in some surprisingly blunt terms to the u.k. defense secretary once even told russia to shut up and go away when asked later whether he regret regretted that remark evan williams than to try to dodge the question. to pay tribute to the health service person sorry did you answer the main no no no no no i'm you regret using that kind of casual language the world your world united behind britain and one more time would you please answer the question if we came together with our allies and why not strike russia interview terminated because you won't answer the question good luck with the the african elephant for project. and other news today the budget commissioner has apologized amid a backlash over his recent remark that italy should take its cue from the markets when deciding whether to vote for populists and that's my expectation is that the coming weeks will show that the markets government bonds and the economic development of italy could prove to be so drastic that this would be

a possible signal for voters not to vote for populists and the left all right. political uncertainty in italy has shocked financial markets worried about italy's possible exit from the euro however one of the leaders of italy's failed coalition . measures were never in their program. or you did and if the markets are worried italy could leave the euro that's because someone has been saying this government wants out of the euro despite that never having been our plan. well when the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government its leaders blamed pressure from the e.u. . has more now on brussels role in italy's ongoing political crisis on sunday night when sergio mazzariello the italian president vetoed the proposal of a euro skeptic for the role of economy minister he essentially scrapped a coalition between the populists of the five star movement and league and nord but what he also did was he said century center talian voters back to the polls he sent

the markets crashing down and he sent accusations flying that the e.u. had put a bit of pressure on him to do just that well it also saw. you. budget commissioner say that this down toilet turn in the markets was a message to italian voters for next time that if they vote with the euro skeptics then well they will see financial troubles on the horizon well mr has road back from those comments now but he was also criticized at the time by some of his closest allies donald the european council president and sean claude young of the european commission president all saying this isn't the type of language you should be using as a member of the commission from the populist solve legal norden and the five star movement well they were outraged by mr ting his comment saying that he was the type of person that viewed italy just a place to go on holiday or sensually these comments from they played right into

the hands of the euro skeptics because they're now getting ready for new elections which could come as soon as september they can now say to their voters look we said last time they were trying to take your sovereignty away look what they did when we try to put in place a government in italy so it was ultimately left to the european commission president to try and smooth things over between the populists and euro skeptics in italy and the commission in brussels italy's fate does not lie in the hands of the financial markets regardless of which political party may be in power italy is a founding member of the european union that has contributed immensely to european integration the commission is ready to work with italy with responsibility and mutual respect italy deserves respect as i said those elections in italy could come as soon as september and between now one polling day but sure to be

a lot of people keeping an eye on what comments are coming out of brussels with regards to which feet which direction italy should proceed in the future. donald trump has appointed a new. commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan in two thousand and one shortly after the nine eleven attacks washington said it was intervening to get rid of terrorists there and has never left you tell and general austin miller becomes the eighteenth commander in the seventeen year campaign despite the constant turnover of commanders the latest us watchdog report says that the campaign has brought little good to afghanistan. it is good.

for some in afghanistan who had hoped that america's presence would assure in a new period of peace and stability have paid a heavy price says so america reports back in august twenty sixth an afghan man named his son after donald trump but that was before television for the white house now after being inspired by trump's business achievements outlined his books the afghan man hope that giving his son the same name would bring about the same sort of luck but in the us we're very happy to name our child off to the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky and i want to see him is smart and mindful and story. but that's backfired miserably the family was driven out of their hometown because his community took

issue with the child's non muslim name now he's proport lee fled afghanistan after seeing the reaction to my son's name and also the taliban directed assassination of the man who wanted president trouble medal i don't feel safe this comes after the taliban assassinated one of the afghan men who minted a gold medal honoring the us president back in january cold in the b. and his friend a far hot party raise money to produce a special gift for donald trump to thank the state department for toughened stance on pakistan we are suspending security assistance security assistance only to pakistan at this time intill the packets. and a government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban gombe was killed by the taliban and that's according to a taliban spokesperson sadly appreciation for donald trump isn't exactly body armor his friend who was involved in producing the medal for a party now fears for his life and he blames that washington for failing to protect

them. the americans are offering can help us in fact we were deceived because we thought the americans really appreciate all work and our intentions we thought the u.s. is a superpower and values friendship but it doesn't nearly seventeen years ago the u.s. invaded afghanistan to eradicate terrorism but after all these years to even those who still have trust in washington it seems that it can't be protected so meric on our team washington d.c. . now russian journalist has been shot dead in the ukrainian capital and the fact that a car genco was a staunch critic of the kremlin seen here point the finger directly before any official investigation. has more. it was a forty one year old russian journalist who died from gunshot wounds in ukraine's capital kiev it was felt in his apartment by his wife who called the emergency services but he later died from these injuries now was

a war veteran correspondent he works for a number of russian media outlets as well as being a contributor to the b.b.c. and the guardian he was well known though for his criticism of russia's actions in syria and ukraine and took part in many opposition movements as well off that he left russia in february last year he moved to settle in ukraine to work as a t.v. host now local police in kiev believes that his journalistic activities are probably one of the main reasons behind his killings perhaps judging his criticism of the kremlin in the past now they also say though that he never reported any threats to his life or asked for security assistance now ukrainian m.p. anton publicly stated that putin's regime is targeting those who are unbreakable but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has said before this investigation has even started the thing that is quick to be pointed out to russia. this is becoming a trend for example the scripts unsubstantiated accusations but let's investigate

them later the use of a chemical substance and they said was responsible for the investigation hasn't started yet but let's blame him a bit and you know the tragedy last night russian journalist. who shot in this own home the ukrainian prime minister already says that it was carried out by the russian security services there's a geisha has even started yet the russian foreign ministry has also and learned the alarming number of violence against journalists in ukraine that's cost our minds back to some of these where russia has been falsely blames. was a crane in russian dies in two thousand and fifteen now russia was immediately blamed for the death but he was killed by ultra right. for his pro russian views and moving on to share a method a russian ukrainian gymnast who was killed in two thousand and sixteen not by the russians but by a bomb detonated by ukrainian ak security services and in two thousand and

seventeen then a spot on and cough the former russian deputy was killed but was russia behind this night was closer to home his wife's ex-boyfriend would hit the killing now back to . the campus police have ruled out suicide but now the russian investigative committee have opened up their own investigation and have edged authorities to look closely into the matter. and she said the reporting that you watching r.t. will have to see. anyone else seem wrong on all blogs just don't call. me. yet to see how it just didn't come out to. engage me because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money just kill the narrowness and spending to do the twenty million at one player. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so with all chance for. six point eight. trump has replaced the cool of the investigation into alleged collusion with russia

a witch hunt but according to one democrat that some of the straight to the kremlin's playbook is kind of expects according to a top democrat in congress if you use the term which aren't and you say it over and over and over again which of which are and which you may be a dupe of the kremlin listen to maxine waters talk about trump he's a lying about which but you notice he says which over and over again he has learned some of the russian tactics about how you you know deal with getting people to believe you you say it over and over again so repeating something over and over and over again is a russian thing that may not be the wisest thing for the democrats to say they've had the same song on repeat for roughly two years russia has hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our election russia undermined hillary clinton tov or russian hacking operation have taken place by russians intelligence committee says that russia is behind this in some form it's

goal to do with russia and of course ian brown sugar rush is a russian so if trump invented the term which why did the democrats use that exact same term back in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton's sex scandal was all over the headlines smells like a double standard to me speaking of double standards remember how the democrats pounded the podium against gina haskell the new cia chief there are two reasons that i oppose this nomination miss haskel support for torture and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia's use of torture and i have serious concerns about. her confirmation and what kind of signal sent this lady is the real do i'm telling you we're here with everything we possibly think she answered didn't flinch at all well it turns out that while this controversial interior. ation program was going on democrats in congress were getting briefings the entire time and did nothing about it and now after the dog and pony show at the hearings is over gina haskell is getting the job and why is gina haskell the new cia chief because two democrats

voted for him intelligence committee looks poised to endorse president trump's pick to head the cia gina haskell today this clears to pass her confirmation of cia director if she gained support from democrat senate democrats back when she was secretary of state hillary clinton was always criticizing countries around the world for their human rights record she even pushed obama to send cruise missiles to libya back in two thousand and eleven supposedly to defend human rights yet at the same time her personal foundation the clinton foundation had no problem getting donations from the very countries that she was criticizing and sooty arabia giving twenty five billion dollars are all of these countries you talk about women and women's rights so these are people that pushkin a's office buildings these are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money so the democrats talk one way and act another i'm not sure where we're finding all these

russian tactics they're constantly making reference to because they seem to be practicing double standards all along caleb oppen r.t. new york. a british financier he's wanted in russia for tax fraud was briefly detained a day today in spain before being released. as more on that. in december of last year bill browder was sentenced by moscow court to nine years in prison for fraud and tax evasion back in the ninety's browder was one of the biggest foreign investors in russia but everything eventually went south and his firm was investigated for tax fraud earlier today he tweeted that he had been arrested by spanish police in madrid showing a picture of the arrest warrant which listed fraud as the criminal charge shortly after however he posted that he had been released claiming interpol advised the spanish national police to not honor the red notice which is essentially an international arrest warrant and accused russia of abusing the international police organization but for their part interpol has said there never has been such

a notice for broader and spanish police said the warrant they have on file simply turned out to no longer be valid adding browder was not arrested today simply detained rather may have been making assumptions based on past situations where interpol refused to enforce russian warrants for him doing them politically motivated something moscow denies there's a long history between russia and broader and he is the man behind the u.s. magnitsky act a law that blacklist russian officials accused of corruption or human rights violations it's named after sergei magnitsky who worked for broader corporation and was arrested and found dead in his moscow prison cell in two thousand and nine ever since broader has condemned the russian government and sought to hold as many people responsible for magnitsky death as possible. that london police are going after rap music on one type in particular in a bid to curb the disturbing rise in street violence officers think the genre known as drill is behind stabbings and murders and have even asked you tube to act

often and we've seen this in london we have gangs who may drew videos and those videos the tone to it and say what they're going to do to each other and specifically what they're going to do to who very quickly you will see these associated with lyrics with a rise in violence violence serious. well the video sharing giant has already deleted some thirty videos after police complaints to the music originated in chicago and gained its name from a slang term for automatic weapons it has been picked up by performers in britain the lyrics often contain reference to the tough side of street life we spoke to rap artist who says that removing rap content from the internet is hardly the best way to fight violence i think different opinion picture of young black as being criminals and trying to. take away that responsibility from themselves perhaps take away the responsibility from the from the system from the government but i don't

actually believe that the intention of this is even to remove violence because removing music videos from the internet is not going to remove violence we need to look at those communities see what's going on to see what help they actually mean address the problem and give them more support music is actually saving lots of these children's lives. rap music isn't the only thing that's being blamed at the moment because some video games are now being targeted to you over recent school shootings first person shooter games is stirring up a lot of outcry critics though insist they should be restricted. so that's how the news is looking at today she's coming up to hop ossify thier mosque and we're back with more. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the us he's

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there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the us did not shoot around a corner. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things. considered i'm peter lavelle the american political soap opera widely known as russia gate appears to have no end well no evidence has been revealed the trump campaign colluded with russia there is mounting evidence the intelligence community or should i say the deep state monitored or even spied on trump world should there be a special investigation into the misdeeds apartment of justice the f.b.i. and the cia.

spygate i'm joined by my guest christopher in washington he's a republican strategist in new york we have charles or tell he is a private investor and writer as well as host podcast show sunday which arles and in los angeles we crossed to goodman he is a columnist journalist published in the huffington post salon the hill and other publications right gentlemen cross-talk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate gentlemen who are calling this program spygate and i have it in quotes because i'm quoting the president of the united states and that's what i want to delve into here. i always go to the person who gets up early into the program that's obviously you in los angeles because i'm exactly on the other side of the world of you right now we're calling it spygate but i was thinking maybe a better title would be the three stooges brennan called me and clapper i think you know where i'm going go ahead ha well one question i have to ask is why is buzz feed's suing the d.n.c.

for evidence to corroborate the still seeing. and why did the united states government feel it was necessary to spy or to infiltrate trump's campaign using stephanie helper even before the still the cia the next question is what crime is trump said to have committed they've investigated trump without even accusing him of a specific crime in watergate you had a break in the cover up you know what happened with bill clinton with hillary clinton she transferred top secret intelligence onto an a once on encrypted server there were crimes and then cover ups or investigations based on those crimes with trump there is no predicate crime is no crime that he said to have committed. buzz feed is suing the d.n.c. very likely because there's no evidence to corroborate the steel of the cia which was used by james comey in the f.b.i. to go ahead and get

a face of war and on carter page they already wiretapped everyone within trump's campaign they already called trump presidential candidate trump and incidental communication they even took one of his servers from trump tower they found nothing there was no evidence of anything there's no evidence that anyone collude with russia but most are pro trying to fire him over tomorrow and simply you know head but. you're making the point here and let me go to christopher in washington is that if the deeper they go into this the more we see that there is collusion here but it's collusion within the intelligence community and ha the facts man that's why i love him how my having him on the program the facts are out there he just gave you a whole list and i'm sure he could go much further i mean why shouldn't there be more focus on that because when i watch brennan and clapper on cable t.v. they're getting more and more hysterical as if it's getting closer and closer to

them go ahead in washington christopher well i tend to agree with my colleague in the sense that when you look at all of the things they've been looking at they get you get to these tangential things that have nothing to do with the actual investigation and they're just constantly looking into things and constantly looking into things i think what we have is you know this is like being on a roller coaster of being nauseous and just not being able to get off i mean especially for the american voter in terms of you know can you trust these politicians and then can you trust the. investigatory apparatus that you're supposed to build the trust looking into these things and then you look at vesta gators that are you know have hillary clinton posters on their wallet and there their spouses are donating campaign it's really makes an office i think at this point a special counsel should really be brought in for all of these things i mean we just it's like a roller coaster you can't get off your nauseous. so i tend to agree with what my colleague just said before me you know. jeff sessions is being criticized a lot for not being more proactive and we do know that he recused himself and we

have the new f.b.i. director ray i mean i can't think and this is my own personal theory is that they realize there was so much collusion against a campaign within the intelligence community that it would really shock the confidence in these agencies and i think they're really kind of puzzled on how to deal with this because with every single passing day we see more and more dots connected not with russian trump but how the intel community colluded together to go after this candidate and that and we as president i mean it's seems at least patently obvious to me go ahead charles in new york. you know i think the real story here is even more diabolical than we're talking about i think it goes back to june two thousand and eight when hillary clinton conceded to barack obama that he would be president and agreed to help there's a public record of her meeting in dianne feinstein's house and i think ever since then team clinton and team obama have been conspiring to weaponize the i.r.s.

the department of justice the cia the tech services etc to punish enemies of you know their their branch of the democratic party and to reward friends whether it be to go after the tea party in two thousand and ten to get barack obama reelected in two thousand and twelve to try to build a position for hillary clinton in two thousand and fourteen and to try to get her elected in fifteen sixteen that's the larger narrative and in the beginning i think donald trump wasn't in a position to take that narrative on because his base was still you know wondering if he'd make it through the perilous honeymoon period were generally you do get a break and now we're in a place where eyes are opening and we're realizing you know what happened from two thousand and nine to two thousand and seventeen under barack obama was a mirage low interest rates made it look as if a big deficit spending made it look as if everything was going well in reality we are now we've been party to the grossest abuse of power by an administration ever in the history of this country going all the way back and that's the real story

it's not so much two thousand and fifteen sixteen and for that reason we need congressional investigations joints committees we need the media to do its job people like al goodman and others don't r.t. frankly we're not done with mainstream don't hold your breath and don't hold your breath ok i watch chris cuomo a couple days ago i mean i don't know what is wrong with that guy but it's delusional the problem with people like chris cuomo i'm not talking now to a.j. is that they're so vast invested with this can their own conspiracy theory of their own making here that they don't know how they can find an exit now i mean they just keep doubling down on the most absurd. cure things when there are some really big things right there staring us all right in the face here i mean the liberal media doesn't want to concede it made a mistake because they will have to can make concessions about so many other mistakes they may go ahead ha in l.a. or i had the great pleasure of interviewing the charles or told numerous times and he's absolutely brilliant and he is probably one of the foremost people in terms of

knowledge about the clinton foundation and clinton foundation scandals and the interesting thing is that ross story actually wrote a hit piece on me recently and they said oh my goodness he's focusing on the iranian cell goodman and there is a verbatim article title from the new york times cash flow to clinton foundation made russian uranium deal that's the forbade him article title if you just look at the public record new york times washington post you can see that millions and millions and millions of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars flowed into the clinton foundation and then something beneficial took place for the people who gave money to the clinton foundation that is a huge huge. scandal the reason that clinton used a private e-mail server yeah and she eventually transferred top secret special access program intelligence onto that server which is that's the big issue is how she actually transferred how she was able to transfer that intelligence from

separate skits on to her server the reason she used that service because of the clinton foundation i think that the trump russia is nonsense i think the truck question nonsense is just one way to hide a giant money laundering you know no one can find what it is ha ha what it is what it is exactly what it is it's really nothing to see here folks look away it's a way to absolve the clinton machine and to place blame on trump here i mean let me go to christopher in washington i listen to two. brandon in cloud. basically saying you know surveilling spying on whatever word you want to use the term campaign was actually to protect them and to protect the united states why didn't they just tell the campaign hey i think we got some more reason right here you might want to be careful who you talk to i mean that would have been the right thing to do would have been a neutral thing to do if that's the case what it was because i don't believe it was

because if it was that they would have done that go ahead christopher totally agree peter i mean if you look at the entire investigation what's happened there hasn't been any sort of consistency going both sides in terms of just having a standard and sticking to it and it sort of shocked me throughout the whole soap opera of the hillary clinton e-mails that at some point there's going to be politics and there's going to be all that stuff but at some point there has to be some sort of unified standard if you're breaking the law you're breaking national security protocol you should be in trouble and if you look at i mean look at james comey i mean he's a beta male who's on his boring book tour he's a he's a clown it's about him it's not about the duty of the f.b.i. i think there's a they really need a facelift i think the brand is really hurting after all this and just tend to agree with with your premise and your lead in. to read before we go to the break here i mean i guess i'd still going to stick with my narrative is that i think that sessions and and ray and others understand the implications once all of this is revealed about how the deep state colluded against the trumka.