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booker goldie. once again rashad says visiting onto reno as she still failed to find the bride's don't try. if approach to the interest of just her would. be joy because she died of course the whole let you go and you move on serene us just rashad adopting the strategy instead of scouring crimea you should look for a bride here and some on. moving here the last little is there's a little more sensitive to the. soup kitchens there are more go to church. oh oh. oh point oh it's so. you know. it's interesting you can you go to them you put up a schedule so you want you to just have set aside as light this is how vehicles board the ferry literally bumper to bumper it's hire some ordeal first you have to
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wait in line for tickets then line up for inspection then again to actually board what the minimum is. after all that even in good weather and depending on how many cars there are the crossing can say two to three hours even though the actual sailing time is only fifteen to twenty minutes but if it's stormy forget it you stay ashore praying for the weather to break all. these guys here cause that i would. never sell you a little book or the. fairies have the cerro of romance about them every hope they keep going after the bridge opens. you know and i made it across the straits she's going on to moscow and all of us had been shot and some are. all serene this prophecy was frights has finally found a bride in the school. now they're off to sin for all people to shop for
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a wedding dress. that circus three hours to get from time on to kirk's because there was no queue at the crossing then another three and a half hours to send for opal that's almost seven hours in total but when the bridge opens for shots no virar will be able to reach them for opal and half the time. the black interest is. the best the guide to the needs of us. who is because it is the least you and. so should you. know wolf yes. to cut. them down was the kopassus one but most know. we're
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just not. there. was. installing the bridges which is the grand culmination of the project before the arch was installed it was just two of the painted sections heading towards each other once the arch is installed it becomes a bridge built up finished. both arches well built in carriage the railway arch was first to be installed the bridge builders did something quite unique. to shift the arch towards the fairway they laid it out to floating continents. the six thousand ton bomb all started plowing through the water. here it's been placed over the void between the pillows a few hours later and it's lifted into place. by special giants genetics.
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ok so it's hard to believe that he's capable of anything quite so grant. just six weeks later the bridge builders pulled the same trick again but the highway arch this time. on the like sea coast is so well as home to one of crimea's most beautiful light houses just fifty kilometers from courage and surprisingly it still works and still lights the way for passing ships. because those guns and pistols keep almost all some sort of mortar a little more solid sure. the city of moore. to be able.
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to your cold still look position just thursday to get out that. just another ten kilometers drive south from the lighthouse and you find yourself in the approximate reserve that we can see incredibly beautiful salt lake's delightful babies and the mysterious grotto. is so variable man take. up the course or grasp of the ideals. that will do come in the home this is born a garment sent to. be shopped at the end of this year with you going to look because you. do have enough to. allow for. the but not of that. so.
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it's a very important day for shots no viera is there in the car or a muslim wedding ceremony. all of the shots relatives aunts sisters and brothers are here all of them. getting cold feet but she's reluctant to leave the car. with come to the con spec mosque and starry crim it's one of the most ancient mosques on the peninsula. some seven hundred years ago starry crim or qur'an as it was known then was the golden horde's administrative center. it's also the origin of crimea's modern name. this is the location rashad chose for his new car. to be honest i've never been inside a mosque before this is just as exciting for me as it is for the bride and groom. i don't understand a single word but even so it's very moving. and. always
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wanted to come here in winter and yesterday there was literally a stall i can't imagine how the builders can stand this weather. i've been on the bridge for about ten minutes and my face already feels as though it's being caught in a siberian frost during a storm crane operations are suspended but today the wind has subsided and work is on the way. we know you know or see a. good sneer. at you when you will renew sure. was
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close to the school the voice you could. get a vote of. no no i didn't want war from everywhere so. big building a button just no boss took over for both the most of the buckles the. world war. the working man the canteen is sacred in fact it's like a factory all by itself. it is actually comparable to the construction site. is a typical lunch. one thousand and eighty liters of soup two hundred seventy kilos of salad one hundred twenty kilos of meat patties thirty kilos of humpback salmon
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and vegetables fried chicken forty five kilos not to mention five hundred liters of fruit kodi all you have to agree that's pretty epic. either was store good in the queue if you can but here's the stitching up or for your family you can not figure what's next for you. this you mean your words not yours are must of got a strong. force to push will what you feel because we were just the. canteen works around the clock breakfast is prepared one night lunches cooked in the morning from lunchtime onwards they make dinner and the search continues. for. the before and. littlest ones up now for. most of the worst forms presumably because of the use.
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was. the full. river even if. there's an old russian saying from the boats to the ball and that's exactly what i just did but in my case it was the other way around i want a refrigerated fish transport vessel bound for the black sea some first time aboard the big fridge so that arch is now our gateway to the black sea. the channel between the pillars had to close when the arches went up but only for seventy two hours. we're fishing for ham song locals it's a sort of toad some fish residents of courage and some on will know what i mean
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when life was tough i'm signed potatoes were the staple foods as a crutch native i believe is the only place where you can enjoy properly salted ham some though if it is. a little. wind up by. getting a job in the. set up it up in a. neighborhood with didn't even have time since juilliard t. . but. i think. you. are trolling that scalds on something that's once meters we're having to drift around to recover what's left of our fishing gear. with. their selections among fishermen about a monster that lives in the black sea it must be true with cars. it.
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looks. lovely loose. it will go well. well that was it. so they were both. young which spans so all thirty five meters above sea level. the builders have to use a lift which of course is operated by the attendants today because students. start to. look at the up with all of the. northbridge of the. word good. to study.
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and you look and you know the course of. loving. one your good. ones are for. looking up on you to judge right. takes me back to the joy of being allowed to press the lift button just a few dollars years ago. even i don't. courage to mark it as an absolute must if you ever get the chance. i was going to i think that if i looked at them was to be mean it's not to the rest of us no it doesn't come up. with a lot of the one i mean i've been. and this is the fish to. sit
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in a must know each and every black sea fish like an old friend you can find all the local specialties here. but if you knew my guest dog i knew she would. most likely. hold up does it love that this month is. that glass he asked me. to. be sure to check out this markets you won't be disappointed. this is business. just that i supply details that i don't know it. but that was very nice that i did that. day that. i'm now at the pioneering plot on tools like island where the road is ready. that surface was put together in less and that's why it's commonly referred to as the cake.
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world the most good you would look. we're installing the god rails world war you're . the third of those learn. you're. going to. live down. to the fields or. starts to prove that. it took thirteen thousand kilometers of steel balls to reinforce nineteen bridge spams for a fall and wrote. the plane arriving from moscow to sydney covers roughly the same distance. off to the spencer fish tank were covered with six hundred ninety seven thousand five hundred nine square metres of asphalt.
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i mean the was illegally i'm so lucky to be here in some on for a stare. at the lovely church of the intercession of the holy virgin is here you know you are the. it's the cossacks built it in seven hundred ninety three a year after they landed on the time on coast. the church has never stopped working not even during soviet times that's why some very vibrant traditions have been preserved here for example during the cross procession they close the triage gates and cossacks stand guard on every entrance to stop evil spirits and turn the temple i. do like the.
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construction of the crimean bridge or to use its official title to cut straight road bridge carried on for eight hundred and sixteen days work never stopped not even for a day. initially seventy four bridge designs were submitted for consideration. just imagine the scope of that competition when construction just begun it seemed an incredibly sophisticated project but through the skill and professionalism of tens of thousands of people the crimea bridge is actually ready. for you and your board. the first person to drive across the
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bridge is the president giving it to his staff of the police. this year but with an interview with the no. longer but think about the words but not for the fun of it the one with the slogan there. was a great road it only took sixty minutes to cross from time to catch. it was immediate and it is a very dilute cream that leaves us when you should human year after less usual believe it. do little later washable to do. at the lake at the judah severe issues spicy.
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i. know there aren't pun into this is crimea just scads to exclude for the bridge opens the had a baby daughter. says joseph a new. i think she suspects an image of the shots they call term alike which means angel in satara so looks as though over shots crimea relatives will have to visit them from now. you know as they're in while she's still driving trucks but from now on she'll spend a lot less time on ferries. but there's a lot of about you oh well now it's time to go home. you know before you can. get emotional must do. on serene and i hadn't. curch on the bridge are waits wasn't invited. to.
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chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't go all. the way to get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. right we're all set to start in five guys. here has a signal. to talk about. just maybe brighter for the worse explorers one you would have their.
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record. to say last week. out there as. well welcome to sophie intel i'm seriously shevardnadze said today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our gas to move good luck to. the very idea of a trumpet the summit was controversial from the start they made it helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown the established smart.
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it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active. in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery was a german company develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said is just good choice minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then there. for the suffering that. i want the. key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what. i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any
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reason why it would be. places yet another backlash from the mainstream media after backtracking on his claim that he sees no reason why russia would have hacked the us presidential election. america's news outlets brand a russian citizen a spy after a u.s. ground jury expands allegations against. an agent of a foreign government. and india's highest court is urging the government to deal with a series of more bleaching attacks inspired by fake news on messenger service whatsapp. good afternoon thanks for joining us you're watching international. us president donald trump is facing a backlash after claiming that he misspoke when saying he saw no reason why russia
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would hacker america's presidential elections he was already under intense pressure from the u.s. media over his performance at the helsinki summit with. reports from washington our latest remarks. piccy sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what . i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. a set and should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty divided so it's not just politicians from both sides going absolutely nuts over the trumpet and summit it's the media as well and it's mostly just criticism of trump's willingness to talk to putin there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in
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public what i do or putin pitch to shout trump got beat up in a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to saying only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president get a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster now it's force trying to backtrack saying he misspoke which allowed him to reiterate claims made by the u.s. intel community but they're still not convinced instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of putin it was a betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me in a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy and with the perpetrator of the election interference disgraceful performance
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of the president treacherous act ignorant and woefully disrespectful president trump continues to take his word of russians to z.f. simply embracing their excuses is able to confront russia point anything the highly controversial meeting has prompted calls to release transcripts apparently they want to know exactly what happened and what was said behind closed doors were worried about what the president said publicly were even more worried about what happened in those two hours when the president was alone with miss. i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramp's and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes that despite
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agreement reached upon so we're just going to have to see if a domestic backlash hinders russian u.s. relations i think we have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turned tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering
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a lot and showing any a lack of any kind of real backbone on this. we don't trump has tweeted that in fact the intelligence community quote loved his performance in helsinki you also claimed many haters were both because of how well he goes along with putin. was delivering remarks on this statement the house and he saw as he tried to shed some light on how he feels about the intelligence community. having a full faith in our intelligence agencies works they just turned off the light of most of the intelligence a. very. yes ok. it was strange. but only half term statement schools are not pro-war in the american media russian president vladimir putin's claim that he wanted trying to win the scene as one of the big revelations of the summit was it really takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected
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a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you to write any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to because the truth will bring us russian relations back to normal you would think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandalous who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did around president trying to win yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred
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a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because it's happened before here's what putin told us he in two thousand and twelve about candid it barack obama it's just sort of. feels i think he's only really wants to change much for the better but can he really. move the let him you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him there's no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalib mo but went out nost new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about a us presidential candidate what you make of that neither one of them are on it yet . actually what putin said about obama. i know obama is very honest actually what
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putin said about obama. i think obama is an artist man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more. you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged hacking no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just cringe president obama appears determined to
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ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy now standing example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely ordinary and formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate a lot of mir putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who is threatening western democracy that requires
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a strong response so dollops i'm called up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it it wants to be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody bad knuckle brule between the two presidents with the russian meddling saw go once again dominating the us media agenda a new character has appeared in the story the us department of justice is expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen maria buton and she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government morgan has been investigating what exactly can turn a low biggest into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media and political establishment. well
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according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the
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arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the disinform ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b.
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it's also interesting to note that a court. into the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rank on monday. and as attorney made a statement denying that she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the official had no interest in speaking to her meanwhile the russian embassy in washington says it's not been granted access to boot and the materials in a court case of also being sealed the embassy says that it will continue to stand by buthe new using all the eagle means available. as a trail of vigilante mob attacks incited by fake news dozens killed across india
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the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal and if one of the latest cases indian police arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over a fake rumor spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has filled what's up chance india has the most uses of the messenger service by country artists political picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labeled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook page who's on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have
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become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but you know another suspected lynching was suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this footage shows the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them a qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the
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alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india but poaching to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged the whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it restructuring in education campaign in india on how to spot free news and. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company
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counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death these days however almost even before. but it would nice to be legalized it is not strictly on the border region but knowing what was wanted in a large sandbox and things of the skill of these much bigger it is much harder most people would be going to have this problem also be said to raise enough information for solution groups that it has decent resolution and create chaos and also misinformation that it can so the voices definitely is one of the. news phenomenon that is going on because it's a complex do not want to go to society you are. going to look at how much of
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government the country has and we need to also discipline some of these so his providers these. american entrepreneurial almost famous for space x. companies used to be the darling of the public media but now it's facing a backlash a look at why after the break. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or
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rejected. so when you want to express. want. to do like to be this is what the book for. people. interested in the logs. the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan has reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the taliban on day later though he said that his words have been mischaracterized by some outlets and insisted that he was not
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suggesting working with a terrorist organization. mr we the united states are ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process maria from a should have six to promptly those statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards lost in peace was mischaracterized. america's war in afghanistan a seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his twenty six thousand campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last months or a three day cease fire but a civilian casualties are at a record high on thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of this year according to the u.n.
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that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems that the u.s. doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero of the thirty first week of the taliban side even point before the call for the taliban cannot when their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die the united states government is treating afghanistan like another state in the in the country and this is not you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the serenity of afghanistan and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know
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over though the permission of the afghan government there been great in houses that night they have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have the technical solution of the taliban undermining afghan civilians he once you know there was a lot of criticism about this issue changed your tone and they said well we didn't say we will talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the of the united states and our troops and stuff so you know since the come under critical criticism that they're undermining the independence of often a song that's what you know the of change your tune this is not the first time they have done it in the past so they will do it again and again. the man behind tesla motors and space x. has suffered a slight fall from grace of light into thin air is under fire for calling one of the thai caves rescue is a pain to file a slur for which he has since apologized as political donations have also led to
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saw. this council. and see the reason why in the coal mines i don't want my money going towards supporting the republican party. have no conception of what the k. party has why just a payoff. you know what's done for the showing the video will make one of the many going all the way to k five no problem. you really did ask for it. staying with us updates at the top of their.
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out lots to talk about in our program and our guest is who've been locked out of. the very idea of a trumpet the summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least the dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown post the establishment to its mind. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings. to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. the russian w b o b a bit.
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the. greetings and salutation. turncoat traitor treason those were the accusations being thrown around the washington d.c. political news echo chamber on monday in the aftermath of the summit between u.s. president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin from the former head of the cia john brennan exclaiming on twitter that quote donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to an exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treasonous to former watergate prosecutor joe wind bank stating on m s n b c the trump's performance today will live in infamy as much as the pearl harbor attack or the kristallnacht. these are just
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a few of the lockstep chorus of voices heard around the media today from the new york times the pox news yelling treason or some variation of it and just what heinous crime against the united states did president trump commit while on stage with president putin on monday well he had the audacity the audacity to question the u.s. intelligence community has or rather the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. has hand picked out a less assessments on alleged russian meddling and for start stating the following in the presence of one vladimir putin and i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish i think we've all been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia getting together and
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we have a chance to do some great things so just so we're all clear what is happening right now as we speak here in the united states a majority of our elected officials both right and left along with the majority of our journalists working in the in the corporate news media are now declaring that as high crimes and treasonous if a u.s. citizen even the president of the united states admits publicly to our country's past mistakes and questions the veracity of our intelligence community. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the fascist states of america and let's start watching the hawks. but you get the. real thing with. the plot of. the day like you that i got. this.
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week so i. welcome everybody to watch the hawks like i'm a robot turk and then top of the lot. i don't know people actually understand the definition of high crimes that doesn't mean high crimes and high in seriousness it's high because it's a public office as any person a high person knows where that comes from to see about the high crimes and misdemeanors thing can literally mean anything from not not following the law yeah i mean andrew johnson was impeached under high crimes and misdemeanors because he he got rid of his deputy director of war minister of war who had been hired by the previous president and it didn't even know if he actually broke any laws by doing
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that he were placed on body and that was considered high crimes and misdemeanors so . yeah you know ted i hope people really take a moment to step back and really look what's going on today because when you when you think about this is just as i said you right now have politicians on the right on the left and our mainstream media basically saying that if you if you're you are for peace between nuclear superpowers if you're biting to say hey it's not that i look i don't like donald trump i don't like his policies i strongly disagree with them from but i do like peace and i do like two nuclear superpowers talking with each other and trying to formulate. and so they don't blow each other up at some point turning up the dial to eleven you know tension and animosity and if you add you cannot question that and you can't question the intelligence community i'm sorry that's fascist to me and what comes to my mind to it was one when was the last time we've seen something like this where just reasons are being thrown in
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question and don't dare question the us in two thousand and three to run up to the iraq war you couldn't criticize bush or you were an american it was the exact same i mean they probably just dusted off the the scripts that fox and m s n b and c.n.n. and just dusted out the old scripts and just changed out for bush because that was the same thing oh my god we're doing this we're doing that you know and at that time it was saddam was in the role of putin that time and the narrative was that a foreign power. iraq has weapons of mass destruction they were supporting terrorism that directly led to a coordinated attack on the united states none of that was true by the way you know they didn't they didn't prove that in fact everybody had to go see and last time i checked you know the thing is the. indicting someone doesn't mean they're guilty we have a court system that makes that decision with the jury system and the legal system
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that decides guilt not the media not politicians none of that decides guilt if they have the case bring the case bring these drove people over from from you know rosco and bring them to trial and present the evidence we still have seen no evidence of this whatsoever and it's pretty sad because we throw around this hacking thing all the time start turning up where that's a pretty high horse to stand on when you start talking about some hacking and computer issues but you know we don't we can't take any criticism here in the united states americans are not good with criticism in general i am making a broad generalization not a generalization about broad broad generalization of say this is something that we as americans are known for doing we don't like to criticize ourselves and we don't we don't like to ever say that we did something that we don't like to take responsibility no no responsibility that would just be terrible and the problem is what happens when russia and china and iran start naming and they dating u.s. officials who are hacking their systems and computers and somebody and all that's
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what a bioterrorism and you're not to do that the u.s. national security administration or at agency tapped phone tapped the german chancellor angela merkel's and her closest ally or closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors they tapped her cell phone. you know who are we to stand on this horse and say oh of hacking and how dare people how close at the end of the day have we seen anyone trying to stop these cyber intrusion have the laws been passed has any. you know when after spearfishing and said hey let's let's roll this but i think of no this is all political and i'm sorry it's shameful to be an american today to see this kind of like uniformed attack not because it's donald trump but because any time you throw treason and you throw all these words it's shameful because we don't even know what treason truly yours is country. it's been almost a year since that fateful sunday in october when
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a gunman firing from two hotel room windows on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel in las vegas murdered fifty eight souls and injured over eight hundred in the chaos that followed and now as the united states still grapples with the issues and questions that still surround the horror of that evening corporate america in the form of the m.g.m. resorts international has filed lawsuits not against the usual suspects in a mass shooting like the gun manufacturers or any suspected accomplices to the crime no m.g.m. resorts international is suing the victims of the crime according to the las vegas review journal m.g.m. which owns the mandalay bay hotel casino and the venue of the route ninety one harvest music festival quote has filed federal lawsuits against more than one thousand las vegas mass shooting victims in an effort to avoid liability so to two thousand and two federal act that extends liability protection to any company that uses anti-terrorism technology or services and g.m. hopes that a federal judge will rule that their use of department of homeland security
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certified security company at the time of the shooting will make and the future civil lawsuits against the company not viable due to the protections granted me act it appears that our litigious nature here in the united states truly knows no bounds. this is brutal this is group as the governor started late you know democrats and republicans on capitol hill parade corporations out of this kind of like you know capitalism corporate thing. it is like oh they're brilliant they're wonderful we love corporations especially when they apparently so victims yeah that's the new rule like that's what the new thing now i know we've got to protect the corporate entity so let's sue the victims now granted they are suing them for money they're not like suing these people for damages but you know suing them to protect themselves from being sued is just boggles my mind and totally unnecessary oh my gosh i mean i want i was more of a that if homeland security and our politicians were like you know why what we
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should make first of all what a ridiculous law you know what an absolutely nonsense corporate baby i've ever heard all of you are from this list of security people that are superior to terrorism they're going to do that by the way the f.b.i. terrorism experts didn't stop the terrorist from shooting fifty eight people right but they don't want to be held responsible for that because they hired the right company i'm sorry no it's really i mean m.g.m. states that your goal of this m.g.m. stage of the lawsuits is for the good of the victims right yes that's corporate one we poisoned you or whatever else excuse corporate comes it was always for the good of the victims the good of the people say for the losses for the good of a victims according to debra deshong a spokes woman for m.g.m. resorts in a statement she says your views of drano litigations and hearings are not in the best interest of the victims the community and those still healing yes don't don't raise questions about whether or not the hard around here that i did we have enough
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security that night did we respond in time in the best way that we did we do everything to protect you so you could have a good time and i don't ask those questions yet because the answer would be no you know it's an do something and even if you didn't do something to sit there and jump up with those who were looking out of the victims it's like an abusive partner being i hate you because you don't listen well what's amazing too is i give credit the victims are standing up against this too when they're speaking out and brian claypool who is a survivor of the mass shooting said that the. called the m.g.m. boss who just stunned he said that it won't survive the court challenge probably because it's so unseemly that he actually told usa today that i'm still in therapy once a week and this is a very is and this is their way of trying to solve the problem of shifting responsibility and minimizing their blame so he went on to say that m.g.m. should be spending money on safety consultants not lawyers and an effort to avoid responsibility is so yeah i think if you're going to sit there and say well we
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don't want to be responsible because we just did what they got we did the bare minimum by hiring some people but we did nothing when we watch one person and a whole sweep by itself bringing out boxes and boxes and cases of things that nobody noticed nobody did anything and it took how long before the shot stopped i mean i don't know who had to sign are like anti-terrorism specialists but they were terrible all that's our job it gave them the sums up homeland security said that this group was was giving a thumbs up and it's not saying that they didn't try it's not saying that nobody tried it it's just saying that like you shouldn't be stepping forward to sue victims at the end of the day but they haven't been through enough and if you're worried about them bringing lawsuits against you well guess what that's part of the job of doing business not the end of the day out there absolutely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous well as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter that are full shelves that are still dot com coming up so i'm still brings up some good news
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for a change on the privacy fraud does it discuss their surprising recent supreme court decision with university southern california law professor bart cosco to. make this manufacture consent. public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is.
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the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good at bruges could these songs. in the following couldn't be. more is the place of students in this business model for college i was more now i'm an extremely more higher education the new global economic war. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the
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chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company developed from the divide a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy and it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering. i not only want the money i want the revenge. these days it's pretty joyless job being a privacy advocate the united states of america social media companies have ramped up their censorship after it's the intelligence community is leveraging russia to
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excuse any and all domestic spying on potential traders or as they're called outside of the beltway trump voters and we've seen countless incidents of police planting evidence on unsuspecting so civilians sending undercover agents to infiltrate grassroots activist groups and even using controversial listening devices to trick our cellphones into thinking police surveillance fans or just your friendly insults are well this summer has yielded at least one relatively unnoticed victory for privacy and that's the supreme court decision in carpenter versus the united states to parse the far reaching implications for how the government is allowed to interact with cell phones we use and abuse every day university of southern california law professor bart cosco earlier joined our very own. all right reza cosco thank you so much for joining me i want to start by asking about this recent supreme court decision in the carpenter case now it's been heralded as a victory for privacy although is a slim margin of victory how can we read this case is this really solidifying
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privacy of the individual against the increasing totalitarian state that has more and more access to our personal information in our location at all moments you're right on it is a victory for privacy a five four decision that says that the government now needs a search warrant to look at the cell site locations of your cell phone so when your cell phones in use are not in use it's sending signals all the time back to your carrier and to radio antenna stations those are time stamped in accumulated and in order to get at least more than six days' worth of that you now need a search warrant the police the police and the government before that all you needed was something that much lower called a court order which a government could simply assert that this that the need for the data was relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation so they raised the proof standard on that somewhat that is important we've already known for the last four years at the listen to your cell phone conversation the government needs
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a search warrant but what's more interesting about the carpenter case it really is the dissents and the principles upon which it rests the fifty year old doctrine that's come out of the supreme court not have a congress. called the doctrine of the reason the expectation of privacy and it isn't clear what that means it's still not clear after fifty years with that means and you see that in the dissent especially the scent of of the news justice justice course which. now why do you say that we. you know how does this allow this obviously doesn't elucidate this issue of the problem of privacy because obviously the match the constitution we have certain protections against searches and seizures and expectations of privacy that have been talked about but as you say no never been elucidated what is being asked. in the dissent i mean it is the dissent of the justices basically saying listen we want from the government some real clarity legal clarity and from the konkani rests on what can be expected from privacy from the from individual with the senate ask what we all ask what is
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a search and since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven a famous case called cats a search has become in the eyes of the supreme court. an intrusion by the government on a reasonable expectation of privacy but what does that mean and after fifty years we don't really know there's been examples you don't have a reason why expectational privacy the argument goes and anything that you voluntarily give to third parties and is known as a third party doctrine that's been the basis for example for metadata search and many other things one example of this many years ago was your bank statements and the kind of business record that you give away the bank has an information and the supreme court said that's a quibble and to you taking your bank statement and throwing in the trash and setting out on the doorstep that you don't have a reason my expectation of privacy in it that's been expanded in a variety of ways including was called trap and trace to the telephone numbers that you type in on your cell phone and other things in the subject line the so-called metadata is continue and if you take that doctrine the third party doctrine then
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you have no reason expectation of privacy in it to its logical conclusion then it's an easy decision is as the government argued here that you don't have a reason expectation of privacy in the cell site locations and that's exactly what the government argued in the case of mr carpenter that is all they got the government got one hundred twenty seven days worth of cell site locations on average more than one hundred locations per day it was easy to see in the data mr carpenter had been here for stores that had been robbed and that was a key factor if not the main factor in his conviction but what does that mean a reason expect privacy supreme court here and a five four decision with justice roberts. joined by the four liberals says the third party doctrine doesn't apply and it wasn't real clear why but he just argued that this was more like a g.p.s. search versus a beeper search and he express lee said that this troubling third party doctrine
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still stands. so the third party doctrine you know people main near me don't understand what that means but basically whenever you go into a contract with a a private entity whether a bank or a cell phone provider or whatnot you're basically giving away certain privacy even with google yes and essentially we're allowing them with our whenever you have those terms and conditions the u.c.i. accepted right that you give them certain information so essentially the government is arguing that because we allowed that information to be given to private private corporation private party they can use that information for prosecution or conviction or whatnot do you think that the start of their production is dangerous and needs to be reassessed yes i do it's very dangerous and the supreme court seem to think so here as well it's a doctrine that emerge long before the modern digital world and certainly the revolution in digital communications the last fifteen or twenty years priya internet kind of world so it does say that if you voluntarily give information to a third party you lose all rights and it well what we melbourne and terry the court
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here look at that word wasn't quite convinced of it unlike the prosecution which simply argued in the lower courts it argued that sure you've given enough and you've been given this kind of information up for years. so anyway it is a very dangerous doctrine that has to be rethought the supreme court has taken this about as far as they can i think given the dissents which were all over the place each of the conservative justices four justices not in the majority wrote a separate dissent in there contradicting one other to some extent after fifty years we do not have a coherent definition of what a search is in terms of a reasonable expectation of privacy just as gorsuch and some of the other justices suggested moving back to the traditional definition from the fourth amendment of property when there's a trespass and that's indeed what happened four years ago when justice scalia argued that a g.p.s. device attached to your car was in fact an intrusion that warranted
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a search warrant so his argument will different though because in the fourth amendment it says it's protected from unreasonable search and your person your house your fax and the like well a car is in effect that was the argument here and that's hard to argue though in the case of the cell phone search so we use this president the supreme court did the case four years ago the riley case that said we need a search warrant to govern the search warrant in order to search. your location to put a g.p.s. tracker on you we use that here in the case of the cell tower locations so what do we do after this many years ago and fifty years to try to figure this out and again a doctrine. from one thousand nine hundred eighty seven that occurred long before there was any sense of the digital society and supreme court hasn't done it it's appropriate here for congress to step in as it has many times it recently did this in the patent world not revisit it had about fifty years or more actually and it
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updated to some extent the patent law for the digital age even back in sixty seven f. as happened in sixty eight congress stepped in with the omnibus crime act to update . eight privacy laws at the time in light of this new and fairly radical idea of the supreme court of a reasonable expectation of privacy that's why for example employers in general can't listen to your phone calls that was done that so what congress can do now although it has a lot of other things on its plate it can try to extend fourth amendment privacy rights to the private sector which is inevitable not just in case of your employer but to quasi government actors like your cell phone carrier like google like facebook and many other entities these entities are going to be extremely powerful they have a lot of influence over your digital speech and a deep nexus with the government many cases there's
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a lot of basis in the law to see them therefore as quasi state actors and thereby regulate them as we do the government so that's your argument really in terms of the danger of the third party agreements and contracts that essentially were making contracts with entities as disclosed by snowden and the revelations basically that the varieties and other companies are basically giving out information to the government when it when ordered to do so so essentially there is no third party an actor anymore essentially because it's it can be fed right to the government is that the essential argument as to why it's a fuzzy argument to some degree sprint and google and facebook are government actors and obviously to some degree that they are not but they're only getting bigger over time and this argument i think will ripen again it was an unforeseen development a lot of the advance of digital technology that these companies would have so much influence and an old auction of paper based auction of
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a third party with somehow apply and allow these companies to keep this information they themselves may have some requirements in the future and then be able to give it to the government freely the government doesn't need a search warrant because there are third parties and you abandon the property idea . but how would we how could we reassess that conclusion about a third party doctrine i mean how could it be worded in a sense or phrase for people to understand that. especially since there is a privacy that exists between you and the corporation because you and i are contracting privately the government does not have the right just because i'm contracting with your corporation to then access that information that's my private contract with you. one sentence could say that when you give information to your digital carrier you have not relinquished your fourth amendment rights you think that might be the first things in the bill but congress can work that kind of thing out let me say also what's happening here is the development of smart techniques artificial intelligence techniques which are only going to increase in time which
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are very much data based and it allows your carrier know a lot more about you and thereby the government to know a lot more about you and so over time what has happened is the police. pursuing the legitimate tasks the police have become increasingly more powerful not because the law has changed much with simply because we have this earlier law that's unclear and the technology is changing increasingly making it increasingly easy for the police to search you or to get access to what you're doing there needs to be a balance here and that's really not for the courts to work out those for the political process to work out of the congress. but with exciting and sometimes inexplicable innovations happening in science every day it leaves many wondering why we still have problems such as world food storage or just plaguing our society with this site with scientists around the world turning to solve these trying to solve these problems the latest project by the ocean reef group in italy six to
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tackle world hunger by proposing underwater farming yeah you heard that correctly the group of researchers and scientists believe that underwater agriculture may be the cure to foods future according to the food and agriculture organization only about eleven percent of the world's land is used for crop production using underwater agriculture could help expand that number enormously this is why the ocean reef the. created an entire underwater farm known as the most guard in two thousand and thirteen to prove that it is indeed possible to grow herbs vegetables and other plants for human consumption and. this. is a little movie about the little mermaid lamb good reference i'm trying and. it's a good read that's cool yeah i love science but it's really neat i mean you could have you see these sort of floating islands that people could live on also they could have communities balconies because while on the ocean and then you're growing your food underneath that completely sort of self-contained sustainable life out on
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the very idea of a trump summit was controversial from the start. the u.s. and russia should at least. to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic. it's my. in my remarks i said the word would instead of what. i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be the place is yet another backlash in the mainstream media
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backtracking on his claim that he sees no reason why russia would have the us presidential election. america's news outlets russian citizen a spy after a u.s. grand jury expands allegations against. an agent of a foreign government. in india's highest court is urging the government to deal with a series of attacks inspired by fake news on messenger service what's. this is an international. us president donald trump is facing a backlash after claiming that he misspoke when saying he saw no reason why russia would act america's presidential elections he was already under intense pressure
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from the u.s. media over his performance at the helsinki summit with. reports from washington latest remarks. key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what. i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. sent should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by a so it's not just politicians from both sides going absolutely nuts over the trumpet and summit it's the media as well and it's mostly just criticism of trump's willingness to talk to putin there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public why do we have putin pitched a shutout trump got beat up in
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a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president he had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster now it's force trying to backtrack saying he misspoke which allowed him to reiterate claims made by the u.s. intel community but they're still not convinced instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of putin it was a betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me than a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy with the perpetrator of the election interference disgraceful performance of the president treacherous act ignorant and woefully disrespectful the president
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continues to take the word of russians who see as simply embracing. their excuse is he is unable to confront russia on anything the highly controversial meeting has prompted calls to release transcripts apparently they want to know exactly what happened and what was said behind closed doors were worried about what the president said publicly were even more worried about what happened in those two hours when the president was alone with mr putin i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramp's and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes at despite agreement reached upon so we're just going to have to see if
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a domestic backlash hinders russia u.s. relations i think we have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turned tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering a lot and showing any a lack of any kind of real backbone on this. donald trump has tweeted in fact the
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intelligence community loved his performance in helsinki you also claim many haters were told that because of how well he got along with. a strong was delivering remarks on the statements of the whole think the summit quote shed some light on how he feels about the intelligence community cared for in our intelligence agency works they just turned off the light most of the intelligence and. very. yes ok. not only have troops they missed calls are not pro-war in the american media russian president vladimir putin's claim that he wanted trump to win the scene this one of the big revelations of the summit but was it really takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really.
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president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that you're such a loser yes i wanted him to win because the truth will bring us russian relations back to normal you think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandalous who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did around president trumka went yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because
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it's happened before here's what putin told us in two thousand and twelve about candid barack obama it just sort of. feels i think he's only he really wants to change much for the better but can he really. move the let him you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him as no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalib mo but went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about a us presidential candidate what you make of that neither one of them are on it yet . actually what putin said about obama. well i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is an obvious man an honest man
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who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more. you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make big deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged hacking no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just training president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning
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of his reset policy an outstanding example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely ordinary and formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lattimer putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so dollops i'm called up to say as
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a boy russia has made no secret of it once the be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody bad knuckle brule between the two presidents with the russian meddling saga once again dominating the us media agenda a new character is appeared in the story the us department of justice is expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen media buton and she's not directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government on the scale of more pain has been investigating what exactly can turn a low biased into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media and political establishment. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as
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a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a
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coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the allergy geisha is that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that a court. into the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter
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which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rank on monday person as attorney made a statement denying she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to. you while the russian embassy in washington says it's not being granted access to putin and the materials in a court case of also been sealed the embassy says adding that it will continue to stand by britain and using all legal means available. the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to reveal that butanol had visited trump in the oval office but twitter users were quick to expose the truth.
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as a trail of vigilante mob attacks incited by fake news leaves dozens killed across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal one of the latest cases indian police have arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over fake rumors spread he was a child kidnapper since the start of my this kind of fear incited fake news about child abductors has filled whatsapp chats india has the most uses of the messenger service by country police or picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook
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pages fakirs on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but you know now those suspected of lynching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this footage shows the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors
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inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india but poaching to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it we're stressing in education campaign in india on how to spot free news and rumors. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be
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easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death these days however almost even before. but believed to be legalized it is not strictly on the body region but rather with what was once a new works are existing for the skill of these much bigger it is much higher most people. have this problem also be said to raise enough information for solution groups that it has decent resolution and create chaos and also misinformation that it can so the voices definitely is one of the. news phenomenon that is going on
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with. the same you are looking at you look at how much of government the country has to also discipline some of these so his free wireless. use entrepreneurial must famous wrist and space x. companies used to be the dulling of the public and media but now is facing a backlash we'll look at why after the break. when gold make its manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes some protect themselves. with the financial merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room see.
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what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to listen. to the right to be press that's what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the logs and how. i should. welcome back the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan as reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the tell about on daylight to them he said that
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his words had been mis count to rise by some analysts and insisted he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization mr said that we the united states are ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process. maria from mission of six to promptly was statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards last in peace whose mischaracterized america's war in afghanistan is seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his twenty sixteen campaign to declare the war a lot of lost cause and a political force is out last month or a three day ceasefire but civilian casualties are at a record high one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of this year according to the u.n.
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that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems the u.s. doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. you have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero of the thirty first you picked up from the taliban side even point before the call for the taliban cannot win their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die the united states government is treating afghanistan like another state in the in the country and this is not you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the serenity of afghanistan and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via
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been greatly houses that might have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have direct negotiations with taliban undermining afghan civilians and once you know there was a lot of criticism about this issue of change your tone and they said well we didn't say we will talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the of the united states and our troops and stuff so you know since the come under critical criticism that they're undermining the independence of our fun a song that's why you know the have changed your tune this is not the first and they have done it in the past so they will do it again and again. the man behind tesla motors and space x. has suffered a slight fall from grace of light in japan air is under fire for calling one of the thai cave rescue is a pain to file for which he has since apologized as political donations and also
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anyone else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't know all. the world is yet to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with. the right we're also starting five guys to notice that the studio has no signal.
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it's not going to talk about the no fly list just renewed right after the mars explorers were removed would have their meeting. record. to say well below. zero three zero zero zero zero zero welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is move the uk little. very idea of a trump who he summoned was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least the dialogue to start a process of mending very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign
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policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown as the established six months. later. this is boom bust broadcasting around the homework world from washington d.c. i'm part short and thank you for joining us me appreciate it coming up today amid new data details about increased consumer spending last month which has some economists suggesting a much more optimistic growth domestic product for the u.s. this year we talked retail with the c.e.o. of the stock melissa arm and israel has closed the only kirshner point of entry into the gaza strip some say it's economic warfare artie's alex the pilot it's just the details plus we take a look at the twenty eighteen computer hacks and cyber security with rusty see the
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senior director of intelligence services at cyber reason all that ahead but first we have some headlines researchers at the international monetary fund or i.m.f. have said that continuing international trade tensions could reduce global economic output by half a percent by twenty twenty at a loss of an estimated four hundred thirty billion dollars the i.m.f. latest update to the world economic outlook warns the last could be that significant if quote current trade policy threats are realized and business confidence falls as a result the new york times estimated last week that the additional cost from trade tensions for average american household will be one hundred. twenty seven dollars the i.m.f. also notably warned the united states a heavy export is especially vulnerable to retaliation in such a scenario where other nations can retaliate against broad a broad array of u.s. targets. and sticking with the i.m.f.
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their world economic outlook it was just released them predicts a three point nine percent growth in the global economy for both twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen but the researchers also warn that the probability of a significant down current has increased related to those trains trade concerns we just spoke about the i.m.f. forecasts differ from what their researchers call advanced economies versus emerging market and developing economies growth in the first category is expected to be two point two percent for this year and the next developing economies as the i.m.f. defines them are projected to grow by four point nine percent in a blog post on the update an i.m.f. researcher forecast china to remain the same although as a note china's q two g.d.p. actually dropped by a tenth of percent to six point seven percent the i.m.f. forecasts do suggest that some latin american nations growth rates have been adjusted downward since the april up late the outlook also predicts the growth in
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subsaharan africa will increase strongly enough to raise per capita incomes though that growth will not approach the levels seen during the famed commodity boom in the first decade of this century. and turning to banking the bank of america charlotte north carolina has reported a thirty three percent increase in their profits for the second quarter the q two profit for b. of a was nearly six point eight billion dollars versus five point one billion from a year ago and their earnings per share of shot up to around sixty three cents and goldman sachs the fifteenth largest bank in the united states posted an even greater year over year percentage profit increase of forty four percent with two point three five billion dollars of profits just under. six dollars per share versus one point six billion a year ago and the earnings per share beat estimates of four dollars and sixty six cents and a related personal news goldman sachs c.e.o. lloyd blankfein formally announced in a call with managing directors that he will be replaced by goldman president david
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solomon mr solomon's promotion had been widely expected since he became goldman's only president in march but there is no word yet on when he will formally take over . and the retail sales numbers are out for june and they rose by half a percent the figures represent spending in u.s. stores and their websites and restaurants at the same time the may figures were adjusted upwards by half a percent from point eight percent to one point three percent and here's a look at retail details and what it what it is isabella so are most she's the c.e.o. of the stock swoosh welcome melissa we always love having you and just when we thought that things may be looking not so great these new numbers come out and the may numbers were revised upward what's your take melissa. yeah i think that was really probably part of the boost you've seen in the last couple days the rally in the market a lot of the stocks have just been a rally rally rally and amazon came out with a prime day this week so there was a lot of reasons for the retail to get
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a lift not just the words momentum from that may numbers but the generous as well. the less i noted on sunday and iconic eighty year old sears store in irving park neighborhood of chicago closed down for good and the closure which was one of five hundred twenty nine or five hundred thirty remaining sears stores is part of a current closure of about seventy eight stores around the around the nation what does this say about brick and mortar in today's largely online world. i'm telling you bar it's really the future in some ways is bright but in some ways it's bleak what i mean by that i think i'm assad is going to put a lot of these retailers out of business which you could look at it from one perspective and say it's good for consumers because you can get amazon products so cheap and they offer so many things one stop shopping and it really reasonable prices but on the other side of it it's going to put a lot of people out of business that have jobs at these stores and also it is taking away from the shopping experience i've said this before i think on this show
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whole foods was bought out by amazon and i love to shop at whole foods it will never be the same experiences at the same anymore at the personal touch there's a lot of things that are not of the shelves anymore the store looks a mess when you go in there and you don't have the same customer service so you're going to see that more and more and more when you go to shop at these places things are going downhill and they're going down how fast look at towards a rush toys r us went out of business and for all you know amazon pushed them out of business as well as on made brand new all time highs again today over one thousand eight hundred fifty one dollars a share it seems like nothing is stopping this and jeff bezos now is the richest man in the world one hundred fifty billion dollars and you say you know is this a good thing for us or is this a bad thing for us they're going to be pushing people out of business not just sears not just toys r us other people too if we have time i want to get back to amazon but i want to get sort of the bigger picture here too on what are the bright
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spot sort of the areas of retail that are doing well is it restaurants is it you know sporting goods what is the people really going after now. well they only have the only stock that i like that seems to be doing well that's attempting to compete with amazon is target target is still holding very very strong and they came out with their own thing in the last couple days where they're offering a lot of sales to try to compete alongside the amazon prime day you had other retailers doing that too macy's is doing like a black friday thing but the stuff really doesn't look that great macy's stock is not an uptrend target looks good and they're trying to compete with amazon and go toe to toe because the prices there are good and they do have brick and mortar stores are getting people in but i'm telling you it's a problem while marts stock doesn't look that great but wal-mart came out with this new thing they're doing a three d. you can put different furniture pieces and try to play around and see how your furniture looks before you buy it but the stock doesn't look that good law march going to try to compete with amazon and target too but i don't know if in the end
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they're going to be able to do it you mentioned i was on you mentioned which i guess started yesterday three o'clock eastern today but it didn't go that well they had a computer problem so what you call and then it was interesting they had some problems but they still had tons of sales people hung in there because i guess it's thirty six hours it wasn't like just it was a twenty four hour period where they were doing the sale so they ended up fixing the problems but you know for all you know the site could have crashed i mean probably so many people came and wanted to spend and i don't know what the totals are going to be by the time it's all said and done but the stock may continue rising through this whole period because people are going in and people are signing up and people are buying things and now they're doing this where they're offering special discounts to prime members even to buy food and now they're doing the food delivery services all these cities all of a sudden now you can order food delivery not just in new york not just in l.a. chicago dallas i mean all over the place are offering this is that something you know i'm telling you i'm
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a son is going to dip their toe and put their foot into any single thing that they possibly can to make money there's nothing stopping them and you know i'm telling you that for the little mom and pops it even made. rainstorms i just don't see how they're going to compete i'll tell you one thing about the amazon delivery and this is a personal anecdote and you know i'm sure they'll get their stuff together but we ordered the other day from a place and we get a call from an eight seven seven number and it says hi this is amazon i need to check some of your personal details now you know who knows that they're really called who knows or really from amazon you know i wrote a book about fraudsters puns ammonium and that's one of my red flags never give anybody your information there's just calling you they don't miss it your failure we cancel the order and we went to the restaurant directly which wasn't a bad thing for our health but they've got they have are having some growing pains
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in this stuff but the do the growth hubs they have to watch the door dash is the all those guys are on their target amazon target list right now yeah all of them but this is i'm telling you anything else amazon we're still looking into health care real estate we talked about this even six months ago trust me when i say they are going to try to dip their toe into being a full service for everything you would ever ever need and i don't know if that's a good thing is what i'm saying if you own the stock it is but as consumers i'm not sure we're going to have less choices and less quality and in the end i don't know if that's really what we want well i think we're going to have a barlow in here to talk about and i trust in the future anyway we thank you for always being with us the clever as ever c.e.o. of the stock melissa arm of thanks melissa. and it's time now for a brief pause for the promotional cause but hang here because when we return alex one pile of it gives us the details about the closure of the only commercial port of entry into the gaza strip as some are saying it's economic warfare plus we take
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a look at two thousand and eight teams computer hacks and cyber security with the last must see see the senior director of intelligence services at cyber reasons and as we go to break here are the digits at the closing bell will be right back. max keiser financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not sure i get any earthly. stuff the fight street spot thank you for something. i'm
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happened to my baby anything. she said is just. silly to mind victims have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. welcome back thanks for hanging with us there is certainly been a lot made of historic meeting between us president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin we've covered it here as it does have myriad business and finance angles to it but why is it so very significant and central to the world around us well russia is higher than most other nations when we look at the nation
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. and from a gross to elect domestic product perspective in various rankings they range from number eleven to thirteen but russia is important because to steal it and co-opt the phrase it's all about the nukes there's really no comparison outside the us and russia each with more than sixty five hundred nuclear weapons russia by the way has about three hundred more than the united states when we look at some of the other economic powers around the globe china with less than three hundred nukes in the end pakistan with just over one hundred and change france with three hundred and the u.k. with just over two hundred it makes all the sense in the world to have an ongoing dialogue between russia and the united states but mr trump has reached an unprecedented level of hostility and after money from a right white a ray of people regarding his handling of the meeting with russian president putin related to tampering with u.s. elections notably mr trump did not condemn the election tampering and has derided u.s. intelligence reports about the matter that despite mr trump's own director of national
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intelligence former senator dan coats saying after the joint press conference in helsinki yesterday quote we have been clear in our assessment of russia meddling in the twenty six thousand election and there aren't going pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy house speaker paul ryan a republican had this to say let me try to be as clear as i can to the world of the country we stand by our nato allies and all those countries who are facing russia aggression how many times have i stood up here and told you what i think about vladimir putin vladimir putin does not share our interests putin does not share our values and that's certainly not how russian president vladimir putin sees it he explained his position in an interview with fox's chris wallace sit with that let's have a look at a dissuading mission to people talking about the virtues of what is going to interference of russia with the election process in the united states and i've mentioned this in twenty sixteen and i want to say that now again you and i really
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wish. and there are good listeners to listen to what i see and hear in the street first of all russia as a state has never interfered with the internal affairs of the united states let alone selections. and just before we went to air today after meeting with some members of the us congress mr trump changed his view or he said he did say he now accept u.s. intelligence agencies conclusions that russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election statement. and the irish senate has made history by passing a bill to ban products made in illegal jewish only settlements in the occupied territory the bill sponsored by independent senator francis black specifically bans quote trade with an economic support for illegal settlements and territories occupied under international law and passed by a vote of twenty five to twenty with fourteen abstentions the bill has support of several irish political parties despite the support from within the ruling party of
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the irish executive branch opposes the bill which says it was yet to pass the lower house senator black held a vote and pointed out that the european union united nations and irish government have all condemned the settlements which are illegal under international law she asked quote how can we condemn the settlements as a legal as theft of land and resources but happily trade in the proceeds of this crime israel has closed the only commercial tossing into the gaza strip stopping imports and exports with a pet within the palestinian territory some are calling the move a form of economic warfare and that may provide leet bay proved lethal to a number of gaza businesses artie's alex mchale of it joins us from toronto with more alex we're glad to have you as always what's the latest from gaza. well we're seeing some the worst violence since two thousand and fourteen or day three actually of a cease fire but that seems fire still seeing some firing happening across the border there between gaza and israel so what is up with these economic sanctions of
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sorts of closing the borders down well today the newest is they do not want to allow any fuel into gaza that would be the israeli government and that is because the weaponization what type of weapons that hamas is using out of gaza be it in sydney area balloons or kites now these balloons are tried to fly into israeli territory and they've started fires or seventeen fires right now that firefighters are working on as well as just today one of these incendiary balloons landed in a kindergarten playground fortunately nobody was hurt there that said we're looking at a situation that god's a massive population of people in a very small area of this world is being shut down de facto by israel even with just the sporadic things happening with hamas i mean israel has fired back its bomb the areas where these people are but now they're going against it looks for going for all the people of gaza now every entry point and gaza has been closed for years except this one point which is
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a car on shalom this area itself fifty five percent of anything going into gaza right now is being stopped so we're talking about tons of goods going into that area can't go in any more this is since just yesterday when the president netanyahu made the announcement that the only thing that will be allowed to go in is humanitarian aid and food now all put aside we're talking about medical aid we're talking about we were putting livestock and up till today fuels were allowed but now we're hearing that fuels will not be allowed until at least next sunday for the businesses there which really hurting them here is construction materials furniture wood tronics fabrics all blankets also we're talking about generators all these things are going to be stopped from going in truckloads we're at the border and. they were turned back so this is the situation god of gaza was under siege before you can be sure that it's been up to bit by israel in the past couple of days alex you know there is always even in conflict ridden areas commerce sends
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to tends to have some sort of ameliorating effect on the peace process and while i don't think that you know the commercial aspects of this are going to somehow solve the israeli palestinian crisis what does it mean for some of these business as you alluded to a few of them what it means for the people there from businesses and the people living there and the gaza strip. well we're looking to write about eleven years that we've seen gaza basically close down so all the unemployment rates are through the roof and if you just look at the numbers here fifty nine percent of palestinians in gaza are unemployed sixty five percent of youth and seventy five percent or seventy seventy percent i should say rely on humanitarian aid so those numbers are huge and now we're talking about just the past couple days would prices going up thirty percent so when you talk about construction through the roofs of bent spiking as well so these are all things that are
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a part of an industry part of business their factories are really shut down the economy in gaza ready really bad so you're going and punching it even more nother thing which is absolutely unbelievable here is that this really government and i mean this is it might be i think some people would think that it's a little bit overkill this in areas for people the gaza strip which is one of the biggest area biggest industries have also been closed and because of what's going on now nobody is saying that you know hamas is a good guy and that sending these that these incendiary balloons and kites over to israel is a positive thing as far from that but as it stands right now we're looking at a situation where people are being hurt and that this is saying sions around the world whatever you see sanctions it's not a good thing it's not the governments that are hurt it's people what does hamas want bottom line they're asking that egypt and israel open their borders and that they're going to stop doing what they're doing and hopefully for the people of gaza there could be some discussion here that will move things forward instead of putting them in a situation that just seems to be getting worse all the time always interesting
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insightful r.t. correspondent allison hella bench thank you alex thank you. and the first half of twenty eight team has been played by some of the worst cyber attacks and hacks we've seen millions of user data has been exposed due to the efforts of cyber thieves even major cities have been held ransom after just one employee open. a bad email from an unknown source it seems like twenty eight hundred problem with cyber attacks may only be getting started to help make sense of what we're seeing and has the worst already have impacted us worker tart turn to the senior director of intelligence services at cyber reason t.c. ross welcome to the show thank you for being with us twenty eight has seen a lot of these major companies saks fifth avenue slash lord taylor losing more than five million credit and debit card numbers under armor one hundred fifty million
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users data exposed the city of atlanta held hostage by ransomware my heritage dot com had ninety two million passwords and e-mails exposed coin rael the south korean crypto exchange we've talked about on the program was act with the get away with more than thirty seven million dollars but one attack that has kind of flown under the radar at least here in the states or to those not in the know is the hacking of india's national biometric system ata har what exactly happened there ross. yes there with this particular system there are a lot of vulnerabilities playing it and the details are still emerging quite a bit even though the hack took place in january of this year but over a billion records were accessed and soon after the hack took place you're actually seeing the hackers try to ransom the data for a ten dollars a pop on whatsapp it's one of those cases that really shows the dangers of trying to build these massive databases of consumer information especially in instances
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where they don't necessarily have the ability to opt out we saw it with the o.p.m. breach we saw with the echo fat's breach and now india is going through the same type of pain with their own national database system and as we see more and more data colocated without necessarily giving people the option to remove their information or have it segmented out to have more protections we're really seeing the hackers go after these types of things because of the large paydays you know ross i was in government when when o.p.m. was hacked and it's like regardless of what you do on your you know protecting your personal passwords and everything i mean once they get into something like o.p.m. i mean heck they got you know so security numbers date of birth all that stuff that they got they even got it at my former agency the financial regulatory agency would think those guys would have their stuff together and then what i got is a letter that says hey there is credit protection service we're giving you not much comfort but are we seeing any types of connections between the attacks in terms of
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how companies are being attacked and how hackers are circumventing the current defenses that are in place at these companies or governments. yes so this year has really been plagued by two large trends one is the trend of human error and unfortunately that's one that we're probably never going to get away from but when you're looking at a lot of the consumer based tax it was a lot of unsecured amazon web service buckets and a lot of things where you just had somebody you miss configured something in the data was just hanging out on the web for anybody to access and then the other big trend is going after third parties as technology becomes more specialized as people . start doing more trusted connections we saw a lot of chat bot compromises the beginning of this year and that's what took down ticketmaster best buy dell to see yours it wasn't that they had bad security practices themselves but through enter gratian they ended up getting own by
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somebody who happened to mess up that they had a trust connection with the wrong i mean let me ask you just gonna run out of time what about crypto exchanges army because because crypto is decentralized are somehow they more prone to potential hacks. yes so this is part of the emerging industry it's a very valuable target obviously for hackers to go after this is because there's a lot of money just sitting out there and that's brand new so everybody's trying to feel their way through the process of how to secure this thing and build best practices and it's also relatively unregulated despite the amount of money that could be had and so i don't think it's going to get better before it gets worse but eventually we will see more isolationist and we will see an increase in security capabilities as people figure out what they did wrong and how to do things better because it's in nobody's interest to have these exchanges get knocked over at the rate that they have been ross we barely scratched the surface we hope you'll come back that's the senior director of intelligence services at cyber reason russ russ
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t.c. thanks for being with us ross thanks for having me. and before we go tying up a loose end of a story we covered before u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has responded to a letter from the office of government ethics sent last week which said mr ross had failed to comply with required divestments of stock the secretary is now acknowledge what he called inadvertent errors in the divestment process and will now act to comply with the law a mere eighteen months after he made the pledge and that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on direct t.v. channel three twenty one dish network channel two eighty or streaming twenty four seven on pluto t.v. that's the free t.v. app channel one thirty two or as always you can get us at youtube dot com slash boom bust r t we'll catch you next time.
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tall tale a straw. poll welcome to sophie and caleb says each shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our gas to move a lot of. the very idea of a trump to the summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki in essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least the agent dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown post the establishment six months. standers financial survival guide told by a high cost on a futures. almost friday as of last summer buying from the future
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prescott was kaiser. i i. i. i. i i i i i i. i i. i i i. derangement syndrome that's what the u.s. president says critics are suffering from a huge backlash by mainstream media and democrats for the whole think the summit with the russian president. and his high school is the government to act after
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a series of her rich lynchings inspired by fake news on the messenger service. also the top u.s. commander in afghanistan was back on his words hours after suggesting washington is willing to engage in peace talks with the taliban even though they're considered a terrorist group. or good afternoon to you watching r.t. international. the range that's how the u.s. president has branded those who put him under intense pressure for in his words getting along well with vladimir putin after numerous democrats lashed out at him for siding with russia. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of it was
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a betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me in a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy with the perpetrator of the election interference disgraceful performance of the president treacherous act ignorant and woefully disrespectful president continues to take his word of russians this he asked to fully embracing their excuses he is able to confront russia and the. donald trump is facing a huge bank clash over his closed door talks with putin in the finnish capitol hill sinking critics are demanding a hearing to establish exactly what was discussed by the latest this is after the us president claimed that he misspoke during the summit saying he saw no reason why russia would because presidential elections should have been i don't see any reason
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why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by. i have president putin he just said it's not russia i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public why do reputed trump got beat up and a lot of what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president who had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and said he betrayed them it's a disaster. we discussed the issue with all the need for the us libertarian party national committee to have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to
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shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turn tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering a lot and showing any a lack of any kind of real backbone on this but it's not only trump's statements of the summit that are sparking uproar in the american media buton statement that he
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wanted to win the election is being held as a major revelation but is it really gives the of takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that you're such a loser yes i wanted him to win because he told us russian relations. you'd think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandal us who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the
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reproducer yes he did around president trumka went yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because it's happened before here's what putin told us r t in two thousand and twelve about candid barack obama it's just sort of you know my partner feels i think he's the only he really wants to change much for the bits of but can he really. move the let him you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him there's no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalib mo but went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much
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for the better. that's that's what putin said about a u.s. presidential candidate what he make of that neither one of them are on it yet. actually what putin said about obama. i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama's not going to be. you know caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more sexy you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man
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there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just cringe president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy an outstanding example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely ordinary and formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lott amir putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for
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a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so dollops i'm called up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it it wants to be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody ban knuckled brule between the two presidents but the russian meddling saga once again dominating the us media agenda a new character has appeared in the story u.s. department of justice is expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen maria buton and she's not directly accused of being an agent of
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a foreign government on the scale of open has been investigating what exactly can turn a lot biggest into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media and political establishment. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging
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in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the disinform ation department of the soviet k.g.b.
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now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that a court. the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use if they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday. buton as attorney made a statement denying she's an agent who also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to. the while the russian embassy in washington says it's not being granted access to boot and materials in a court case of also been sealed the embassy notes that it will continue to stand by boots and using all legal means available russian foreign ministry spokeswoman
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marie is a court of has worked into the case saying that it seems clear the f.b.i. is carrying out political orders rhetoric over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to insist there had visited trump in the oval office the uses pointed out the reality.
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the trail of vigilante mob attacks incited by fake news sleaze dozens dead across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal one of the latest cases indian police arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over a fake room a spread he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has filled what some chance india has the most users of the
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messenger service by country on his political picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook page or state who's on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but in another suspected lynching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this footage shows the
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moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as amand his friends one of them a qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by what sat broom is inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india but poaching to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners
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facebook to do something about it restructuring in education campaign in india on how to spot free news and. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death these days however almost even before we were believed to be legalized it is not strictly on the border region but knowing what was wanted in
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a large sandbox and things for the skill of these can be much bigger now it is much harder most people would be going to have this problem also be said to raise enough information for solution groups that it has decent resolution and create chaos and also misinformation that it can so force is definitely one of the. few known that is gone because it's gone it's the norm when you go to the new or. you want to look at how much of government the country has your services and some of these so it's for wireless these. are. there was some super nerdy law must famous for its tesla space x. companies used to be the dolling of the public a media but it's now facing a backlash explain why after the break. what politicians do sometimes. put themselves on the line to get accepted or
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rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. too great to be press this is what before three of the more people. interested always in the waters of. manufactured consensus of public wealth. when the ruling class is protect them so. when the final merry go round. we can all middle of the room.
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come back the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan as reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the taliban one day later though he said his words had been mischaracterized by some outlets and insisted he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization. this to pull we the united states ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process more real from a should have six to promptly those statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards lost in peace was mischaracterized america's war in afghanistan a seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country there are currently fifteen thousand u.s.
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troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his twenty six thousand campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last month or a three day ceasefire but civilian casualties are at a record high one thousand six hundred nineteen people were killed in the first half of the year according to the u.n. more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems the us doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the child been that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as they hear our thirty first we picked up from the taliban side of the point before the call for the taliban cannot win their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die the united
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states government is treating afghanistan like another state in the in the country and this is not you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the salinity of afghanistan and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via been raiding houses at night they have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have a direct negotiation with taliban undermining afghan civilians so once you know there was a lot of criticism about this initial change the a tone and they said well we didn't say we will directly talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the all of the united states and all troops and stuff this is not the first and they have done it in the past so they will do it again and again. the
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man behind tesla motors and space x. has suffered slight fall from grace of late the entrepreneur is under fire for calling one of the thai cave rescue was a paedophile for which he has since apologized and this political donations of also lead to attacks on mine. everyone knows he won muskies tony stark he's a hero superstar entrepreneurial and must go on the great fun of a long lost i love you i love you know i think he's a genius i. just
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sold my. just canceled my three order and see the reason why in the comments i don't want my money going towards supporting the republican super pacs. have no conception of what the k. party for so i just a p.r. stunt. you know what's done for the showing the video will make one of the many so called going all the way to k five no problem sorry guy you really did ask for it.
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so they did join me in half an hour for the latest news headlines. of the very idea of a trumpet the summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least think agent dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown has the establishment its mind.
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right we're all set to start in dr yes the studio has a signal. he's not going to talk about the no fly list just renewed right after the mars explorers one who would have their new. record. to say last week. ok alice room well welcome to sophie and co i'm so sweet shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little.
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time after time say we're going underground on the south bank of london's river thames here an exhibition to mock today's one hundredth birthday of nelson mandela with his friend former tony blair cabinet minister lord hain will investigate just seventy two hours after donald trump's meeting with vladimir putin the significance of moscow washington dettol and in the struggle against u.k. backed apartheid but first we're going into the studio to ask after monday's health inky talks for world peace whether everyone has forgotten about the potentially multi-trillion dollar worldwide trade war our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago the nato world has been rocked by the trump visit even as here in westminster the minority government of tereza may goes from one bricks at crisis
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to another near the world cheerleaders arguably under the guise of journalism a bit terrified of dettol into between the world's nuclear weapons superpowers the president calls the reporters the enemy of the american people as an american citizen i just personally think it's just an incredibly depressing moment in our time in our history the fake news according to trump c.n.n. that work obviously unaware that journalists from gary webb and julian a songe just so many before them have been the enemy of the us state for decades but while the beginnings of world peace may have been breaking out in else what about war on one side of those who believe prospects for a multi-trillion dollar trade war don't matter china needs our us more than we need them i'm going to repeat that because no one believes it in the mainstream media china needs us more than we need. damn on the other side the people like the boss of six point three trillion dollar asset management firm larry fink of
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blackrock which was contracted by the u.s. government over the bailouts of twenty zero eight if we have a true tariff wars will see the markets down ten to fifteen percent toys i do but you wouldn't call this a tariff war we have and still we will see what happens next two hundred billion dollars proposal that the us government has done but while nato nation investors play contingency with international economic development trump continues just say what he did in his campaign slamming globalization is an enemy of the american people recently at a rally in minnesota america has lost one third of its manufacturing jobs since nafta idea originally signed by bill clinton and supported by. america. seventy thousand factories since john to the world trade organization under the bill and hillary
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back. there excoriating the w t o now after an arguably the entire globalized trade regime well joining me now via skype from washington d.c. is someone who as a trade negotiator for the united states worked on nafta tb and w t o professor math gold matt thanks so much for being on the show just before we get to those more general issues of those huge institutions your reaction to the e.u. japan deal covering six hundred million people this week. well of course we knew this was coming it's a very big accomplishment for the e.u. in japan and it highlights the degree to which america is being completely left behind with president trump's trade policy which is a no win situation for the united states obviously the white house would deny that that that's the case but what about the lessons of britain obviously in any post brics it environment that deal between the e.u. and japan took four years yeah it takes many years and bang out of free trade
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agreement and one of the big problems that great britain has is that it has always been part of the free trade agreements that the european union has negotiated with many other countries in the world and now the united kingdom has to negotiate go back and negotiate with all those countries its own individual free trade agreements which could take many many years and take the kind of negotiation band with that the u.k. just does not have i mean we're leaving in march next year you know they will have deals on the table in place. by then i would be surprised if the u.k. had a free trade deal in place with every country with which the european union has a free trade deal at that point ok well as a negotiator i'm going to have you think it's conservative that the i.m.f. is suggesting four hundred thirty billion dollars will be the loss to the us
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economy of the trade tariffs against china. i think the overall losses are bigger than that but i think if you're looking in a narrow sense about the u.s. tariffs either being imposed on imports and what that cost the u.s. economy and other countries retaliation least initial stage and what that cost the u.s. economy it's a reasonable number but the real costs are much much bigger for one thing we're going to be going through round and round of this retaliation against which allegation there's no way to stop it donald trump blundered into a downward spiral that experts like i knew would happen and trump in the people around him did not did not know what happened so it's going to get a lot worse than that plus there are other even bigger implications for the united states to doing this we go to admit donald trump is at least coherent as far as his base is the w t o p c this week that china has gone to them about taking them to the courts one trump just leave the w t o then. no he might want
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to be might think he can but that's not even remotely possible the world trade organization is an empty room and table and chairs it's really not the w t o it's the w t o agreements thirty plus multilateral agreements one hundred sixty four countries have signed each of those agreements they are staggeringly complex very broad very deep they constitute an enormous body and international law with which one hundred sixty four countries have a very high levels of compliance if the united states were to pull out of that that combined with the degree and the ways in which john from a violated those rules it could collapse the entire system then what you have to understand is those agreements they represent about ninety percent maybe even ninety five percent of all the international law that exists in the world all the international law that that restrains governments when acting with respect to one another all the international law that's prevent a world war three in the last seventy five years walking away from that system and
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worse collapsing that system and trump is on his way to doing that is very very dangerous for global security reasons i don't think congress would let trump do that i think they would they would literally intervene in takeaways authority to do it is that the case with nafta because no to us saying that that trump was going to pull out and nafta and he has done or these that's what he says he's done. now i've said from the beginning the exact same thing about nafta that the united states the practical matter can't pull out of nafta for different reasons and i've said that congress would do exactly the same thing that if he pulled out of the agreement congress would take away his authority to stop complying with the agreement and i believe was correct about that i've certainly been correct about that so far and i'm quite convinced that going forward they'll still be correct you see the reasons drum may give and this support is for doing this may not be the same as the un's trade and development uncle ted but developing countries that according to one have
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lost seven hundred billion dollars a year thanks to the w t o hundreds of billions lost to the poorest nations of the earth they going to be applauding trump right now actually i don't think so first of all i don't agree with those numbers i think certain things going on the w t o cost them money but other things going on with the w t o agreements benefit them greatly and i'm not sure i agree with those numbers i'd have to look at the where they came from but i think the degree to which. really are the pillars of the foundations of the global trading system caused destabilization and global level on a global security level i don't think that that's helpful at all for developing countries and i think that you know when superpowers get into wars which they do they often fight through developing countries proxies i think the degree to which this body of international law stabilizes the world and limits war is also very helpful developing countries so i'm not sure that developing countries are coming
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up behind with the global trading system and i certainly don't believe maybe coming out ahead if donald trump collapses it the basic makes a difference if you die of poverty and you die because he won't buy a war plan. yes listen there's there's nothing about war that's pretty you know i did three civilian tours in iraq trying to do democracy building there and listen i'm you know i'm not a fan of it and i know i have a cute appreciation for the value of averting it you see the way you were talking about things not being able to happen some people didn't expect the trump summit to happen in helsinki the way it seems to have played out i mean clearly this is ministration once a change in the global architecture. you've been used to certainly has seen a trade negotiator for so many is. no question biggest winner in the world as a consequence of donald trump's presidency is the man who put donald trump in the
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american presidency and that's flattery putin. he's got the united states and china the other two super of our powers at each other's throats is going to be. pretty big wars and united states cutting off its relationships with every one of our largest trading partners and our closest friends in the world including europe and canada and mexico every single thing that donald trump has done that's been very dangerous for the united states and very bad for the united states and for the world has been very good for putin there's no question every u.s. intelligence agencies in agreement that putin put trump in the white house there's some disagreement about whether any one of the trump team assisted putin and that's what robert blowers investigating with that putin put trump in the white house is agreed upon by everyone the way which trump is benefiting putin is not in dispute and at the end of the day it's fairly obvious after this summit to anyone for whom it was an obvious before that putin is completely manipulating trump. going to say
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the the russian federation oversea deny that but then if and that's certainly the view that you're reflecting is that is the view certainly of when the gold neoliberals you are you being there nafta t.p. talks people talking about the green rooms of the w t o a corporate interests not invited to this white house they know putting pressure on the white house because for so long so many global activists have hated these agreements like nafta and so forth and believe that it's corporate interests that have been there in the shadows organizing things are they not let in through the white house oval office no. that's a good question but i have to go back and say that the concern about u.s. national security with respect to the putin's relationship with trump is not a concern of neo liberals it's a concern of everybody i know who is an expert in national security many of whom are quite conservative but having said that the answer to your question is it is it
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is a misperception that the global trading system serves corporations and doesn't serve everyday people it's a correct perception that corporations lobby and get in the door of congress and in the door of the white house and everyday people and sometimes their interests don't get in the door as well particularly their consumer interests and their labor interests which also represented washington by consumer groups and labor groups but not as powerfully as corporate interests but in the end the global trading system all these trade agreements actually serve everybody's interests and they're very complex and their impact is complex and most people who are opposed to trade agreements and their impact on the united states i wouldn't be opposed if they understood them better and just finally and very briefly isn't it ironic then that this global trading system was a big part of the twenty zero eight crisis ghibli and it led to the rise of donald trump jeremy corbyn here in britain and the rise of new movements in europe and of
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course brics it now andrew i don't agree with that at all here in the united states it was president bush's deregulation in the financial sector that sent our economy off the cliff but the global trading system has shifted the american economic demographic though it has cost us a lot of jobs in the center of the country for non college educated people and gained a larger number of better jobs on the coasts and elsewhere for college educated people and that has affected our politics and that's something that unfortunately we really don't have the power to prevent it's like going to the shore spreading your arms and trying to stop the tide from moving in trade agreements don't cause that problem trade agreements slightly improve the upside and slightly decrease the downside of that problem but they don't cause that problem and they're not making the problem worse they're making it only slightly better so that's a problem but it's not trade agreements that are causing it or has a mag gold thank you. thank you after the break we go to the nelson mandela
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seventeen you re exhibition also attended by prince harry and make them all told to us all they've a cabinet minister and the anti-apartheid activist lord payne with mandela's liberal legacy actually improved living standards for ordinary south africans told us of more coming up in part two of going underground. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see if. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery ash was a german company growing untold develops in the demise of drugs it was promoted as
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completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said she's just got choked up mimics a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. and. i. was the nelson mandela a free man. taking his first steps into going to south africa.
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determined. not to. miss. out. into the. welcome back where at the queen elizabeth hall on london southbank today to celebrate the one hundredth birthday of a.n.c. president nelson mandela backed by russia and china mandela was a tireless activist in south africa but also in later life a powerful voice against the iraq war and sanctions on cuba he's remembered here at the nelson mandela santini exhibition one of the organizers of the exhibition is former labor cabinet minister and the apartheid activist mona hain who joins me now thanks so much for inviting us to this amazing exhibition tell me about the
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significance of an exhibition about a leader from a country now talking about as a leader of a brics country in the developing world in the emerging economies. of the south well first of all the exhibition is free it's been able to be said because of general sponsorship and we were thrilled that the the jew conductress of sussex opened this because that is in the. to attract younger people particularly to learn about mandela in their thousands and tens and tens of thousands of visitors here over the next month running up until the nineteenth of august but of course for the prime of his life nelson mandela was in prison twenty seven years of his life in prison most of it on robben island in a tiny cell where his head hit one side of of the bed and his feet still hit the other side of the the war he was cramps in there and it was a really tough struggle and the international emcee of ponce movement was led from
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here in london so we wanted to bring the sex of bishan from johannesburg specially curated for london to bring the story of the international struggle alongside nelson mandela because the two are intimately connected when you look at the history of the great free nelson mandela concert at wembley stadium. at which rock bands and stars of the will played in one nine hundred eighty eight to celebrate his seventieth birthday one hundred thousand filled the stadium six hundred million watched it live on television events like that and much tougher of in stopping the spring ball or white spring rugby tours taking action to try and get economic boycotts imposed it was a big holiday struggle and this exhibition brings it to life and reminds everybody of the history of course you say london being an important place for this struggle because britain supported apartheid south africa and one of the conservative
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parties favorite prime ministers margaret thatcher called mandela a terrorist going to your book your new book why even when he was sixteen leaving south africa. did you know then that he wasn't a terrorist now also monday denounced five years before he walked to freedom and began to transform the country and the. a peaceful change from the evil of a policy to a nonracial democracy he was denounced five years before that by the british prime minister the terrorists wired that she do that because the west with the exception of scandinavian countries like sweden in particular did not support the anti-apartheid struggle they claim to be against apartheid who wouldn't the most evil institutionalized system of racism the world has ever seen who wouldn't say they were against it but they didn't do anything about it on the contrary they gave
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a nod and a wink to the protests or a government to continue to sell you know says and they sold arms they continued the trade they sold tortured quick moment and so on and trained a lot of their intelligence services who committed assassinations against international and he of course said leaders tried to assassinate me with a letter bomb which fortunate tell me that or this letter bomb in one hundred seventy two well i suddenly opened this or rather my younger sister opened this bulky envelope on the on the breakfast table with a pile of campaign a mail as was has happened to me as a party leader at that time and all of them and there was this horrific thing that i'd never seen constructed in bolsa would have terminals in the warriors and the only thing that saved me according to scotland yard's antiterrorist squad that descended on the house and made the bomb safe was a a fault in the trigger mechanism because it was a group of exactly the same design that murdered ruth first
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a noted anti apartheid activist in mozambique in one thousand nine hundred two the wife of the going as party leader just over the wife of the a.n.c. leader yes and communist party leader south african from his party leader just level. and and who was responsible for that one and i mean for london it was elective is i mean this is just this picture inquiry into secret services in so on i mean there was anyone arrested the. and nobody nobody did. it was exactly the same type of letter bomb sent by the south african security services by boss as it was called very appropriately the bureau's state security council appointed leaders around the world and killing many of them is when the british government was supporting the south african government well they would claim they were supporting the south african government but in practice by default or actively by supplying arms and so on they were and for instance they opposed our international this is a conservative government opposed our international campaign to isolate white south
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african sports teams why was that important you may think where does sport fit into that the big picture because it's in the end the economy and all the people police state alive the apartheid police state in this case because white south africans were absolutely fanatical about their sport the world said it. treated a policy it's in almost shunned apartheid so it said but actually white south african teams were fitted in london in twickenham rugby grounds at lord's cricket ground the international stadia of the world despite a proxy even though they didn't represent the country they represented the white minority only so action against sports action all across the board was very very important grannie's boycotting outspan oranges trade unionist taking a solidarity action people trying to get on as manufacturers not to sell their arms
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to the white south after all of this action then with the internal resistance led by monday. and his the president of the a.n.c. while he was in in prison all of a tomboy who was based here in that resistance inside the country then sparked a change that was supported and provoked from external pressure is your family thrown out basically for. their opposition to it but what did they make of the armed struggle when when mandela embraced it as a means to overthrow the apartheid system my mother and father both south african born and i was brought up in pretoria as a young south african boy they fairly uniquely amongst white south africans there was only a tiny minority eight by name on oversea who took a stand against apartheid because the white minority was so privileged but they also understood why no nelson mandela had had to resort to the ruler action had to
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resort to on resistance not to target innocent civilians in the way the terrible wounds that civilians were killed of a few were killed by the strategy hundreds wounded strategy the wounded and yes we believe was moved but the strategy most of it was like this there was other action taken bundle a decided on the strategy to hit the states and he was a fighter the armed wing he was but remember remember he didn't found the armed wing in one nine hundred sixty one nine hundred sixty the armed wing of the ops and nash african national congress m.k. i'm always sees where he didn't found it nor did his fellow leaders embark on that strategy lightly only after they'd been banned as an organization only after strikes stay at home was busboy rent boycotts protests of his of a peaceful kind only after those had been viciously suppressed by the aforesaid government did they say we've really got no alternative but point is that at the
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time when you most need support where if you got that support violence would never have been necessary you don't get it that's the history of struggles for rights and it was certainly the case for mondale as a in see it apartheid south africa you don't mention the i.m.f. and he came under huge criticism for selling out the nineteen fifties freedom charter which you do quote from in the book but not the chapter which was about nationalization of. mines i mean what about the grid system that he was basically he died in a south africa more unequal than under apartheid is as the council of churches have ever been judges of that's true and the world today and the eck and the neo liberal economic system governing it which which in fact south africa just as it does every other country is creating a much more on equal world and he didn't want that now if you look at the transition that he masterminded and they lived there is criticism of
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a particular from young radicals in south africa today and others saying that he compromised too much essentially the deal was whites controlled continued to control the economy. with black increasing black economic empowerment but blacks the majority control the government the democracy side of this what i think should i don't think he was unable to manage if you have to understand one there was strategy and in my view not just understand it but to support it to recognize this was a mighty police state he had to negotiate with his of the presses to give up their power that's very rarely if ever been done in history there's a choice in government and it would be good if it yeah but equal inequality is worse here in britain inequality is worse in every part of the world but inequality is not to do with that it's to do with the fact that we have an economic system across the world which in rich is a few and to break from that in one country is really hard now having said that i
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think the a.n.c. should have been done a done much more not just for black economic empowerment at the top putting black businesspeople on the boards of companies rather than just whites as has been the case but actually empower workers from below and give them a stake in their own industries and a stake in the well then that might of change the picture and that's what's got to be done no. look and thank you thank you and if you're in london you can see the nelson mandela santini react submission of the southbank center screen as a whole until the nineteenth of august and that's it for the show back on saturday and it's the worst violence in northern ireland for us to speak to the song the murdered human rights lawyer half a newcomer about the british government to do with loyalist paramilitaries to kill his father till then he would talk to us as a media will see on saturday sixty nine years to the day the united states senate ratified the north atlantic treaty establishing natures nations have been responsible for aerial bombing about yugoslavia afghanistan and iraq syria.
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the very idea of a trump who he summoned was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least think agent dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown has the establishment lost its mind. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education its high
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education is becoming just another product that can be pulled from the souls but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good. luck with this almost kind of fellow they could to me. is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm running stream or higher education the new global economic wall. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and. want to. have to go to press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should.
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right we're also starting five guys at the studio house a signal. he's not going to talk about no fly just maybe right after the mars explorers what do you put up there. rocket. to say last week. about the last room welcome to sophie until i'm sophie shevardnadze and today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our guests this. little rock little.
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a series of horrific scenes inspired by fake news on messenger service once up. a top u.s. commander in afghanistan was back on his word hours after suggesting washington is willing to engage the stalled for the taliban even though they're considered a terrorist group. give me thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. d. range of how the u.s. president has branded those who put him under intense pressure for in his words getting along well with putin after numerous democrats lashed out at him for siding with russia's leader. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of it was a betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more
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heartbreaking to me in a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy disgraceful performance or the president. is able to confront russia and he. was facing a huge backlash over his closed door talks with putin in the finnish capitol hill thinking critics are even demanding a hearing to establish exactly what was discussed by the leaders of the us president claims that he misspoke during the summit and saying that he saw no reason why russia would have america's presidential elections should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that end i think that probably clarifies things pretty good bye. i have president putin he just said it's not
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russia i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public why do reputed pitch to shadow trump got beat up a lot of what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president he had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster we discussed the issue with for a vice chair of the u.s. libertarian party national committee. we have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turn
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tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering a lot and showing any a lack of any kind of real backbone on this but it's not only trumps the statements of the summit that the smoking uproar in the us media putin statement that he wanted from to win the election has been hailed as a major revelation but is it really takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really.
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president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you to write any of your officials to help him do that you're such a loser yes i wanted him to win because the truth will bring us russian relations back to normal you think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandalous who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did run president from when yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because
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it's happened before here's what putin told us in two thousand and twelve about candid it barack obama it's just sort of you know. upon the feels i think he's the only one who really wants to change much for the better but can he really achievements move the let him you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him as no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalib mo but went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about a us presidential candidate what you make of that neither one of them are on it yet . actually what putin said about obama. well i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is an obvious man an honest man
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who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything said about obama is not going to be. you know caught in the media you know chumps way more talk about trump it's way more. you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there was it was just framed president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning
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of his reset policy an outstanding example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely ordinary and formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lott amir putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so don't some call up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it it wants to be friends of course it does
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sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody bad knuckle brule between the two presidents. the russian meddling saga once again dominating the us media agenda or a new character has appeared in the story the u.s. department of justice is expanded its charges against the governor right advocate russian citizen maria buton and she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government and the more policemen investigating what exactly can turn a low be it into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media and political establishment. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as
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a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a
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coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now what's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to lattimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that a court. the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter
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which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use if they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rank on monday buton as attorney made a statement denying she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to her. while the russian embassy in washington says it's not being granted access to boots and the materials in her court case have also been sealed the embassy notes that it will continue to stand by butanol using all legal means available russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a horror has reacted to the case saying it seems clear the f.b.i. is carrying out political orders. rhetoric of the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to insist buton visited trump in the oval office of the users pointed out the reality.
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is a trial of vigilante mob attacks incited by fake news they've dozens dead across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal one of the latest cases indian police arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over a fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of my this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has a fill what son chats and he has the most uses of the messenger service by any country only boy has more. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labeled as
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a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook page or spaces on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but in another suspected case of lynching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this footage shows the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends
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one of them qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india but poaching to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it we're stressing an education campaign in india on how to spot fake news and rumors. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether
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a story is holland to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death these days how are almost even before. but the one used to be legalized it is not strictly on the border region but knowing what was wanted in a large sandbox and things of the skill of these much bigger it is much harder most people. have this problem besides the raising of information. there. is the centralization and create chaos and also the sense of mission that it can so
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this is definitely one of the. few known that is gone because it's gone it's the norm when you go to society you are. going to look at how much of government the country has to also exist in some of these so he's provided. mike an entrepreneur must famous for his space x. companies used to be the dolling of the public media but now he's facing a backlash when you look at why after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of
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the bank the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan as reiterates the dramatics by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the taliban one day later though he said his words have been mischaracterized by some outlets and insisted he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization. mr paul said that we the united states are ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process more real for motion of six to promptly those statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards last in peace was mischaracterized like as war in afghanistan a seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban controls roughly forty percent of the country and there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his twenty six
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thousand campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last month or a three day ceasefire but civilian casualties are at a record high one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of the year according to the u.n. that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems the us doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero. thirty years in prison if you picked up the taliban side even point before the call for the taliban cannot win their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die the united states government is treating afghanistan like
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another state in the in the country and this is not you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the civilians who have often a strong and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via been raiding houses at night they have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have a direct negotiation with taliban undermining afghan civilians he once you know there was a lot of criticism about this mission and change the a tone and they said what we didn't say we will directly talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the of the united states and our troops and stuff this is not the first and they have done it in the past so they will do it again and again. the russian foreign ministry has commented on reports that members of the controversial
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saving to the white house missile being evacuated when maria the heart of us says that there may be more quote provocations as the humanitarian group leaves the country. details on the four mysterious false let's go live to auntie's maria for notion of maria what more can you tell us about russia's reaction. well indeed we have heard reports about several nato countries discussing possible evacuation of the members of the white helmets groups working in syria to some western countries reportedly due to fears of assess the nation of these people by damascus and russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has expressed deep concerns over the move stressing this will be a large group of people according to some reports around one thousand individuals with in fact unclear intentions and controversial reputation. personally but as nation of congo according to the information we have the one how
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mr convoy arrived in the town of live and a month and rivals for several chemical experts who sells the missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and looted by the what how myths will be used as intended are even when is the nouns that these members of the white house have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this purpose on the syrian government says. the white helmets group was founded in turkey and is funded by several western countries they claim they're working in syria to save lives to help people but they have been repeatedly accused of working rather on the side of really just extremists in syria and there have been many pictures emerged showing the the members of the white helmets group shoulder to shoulder with al nusra front members this is and the tour is jihadist group operates in syria for many many
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years they have been accused of being behind several deadly incidents in syria that they have helped orchestrate taking to later put the blame on the scene. in government and therefore lobbying their interest of the countries. the syrian president bashar al assad to go so it is a controversial group and their reputation is not clear we've also heard from the russian defense ministry they presented at the dentist and witness reports that ricin a chemical attack in syria that white helmets group was widely reported it was a fake following all these reports washington stopped earlier this year funding this group but later resumed it so the reputation is actually control and indeed they could be a risk behind the move of evacuating around one thousand people from this group to
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western countries to europe hand us back to you so our correspondent or if i'm not sure with the latest thank you. musk the moment hind and space x. has suffered a slight fall from grace of. those under fire for calling one of the time cave rescue a ping the file it's a slur for which he's since apologized as political donations of also lead to attacks online. everyone knows he won muskies tony stark he's a hero superstar entrepreneurial and must go on the great fun of a long lost i love you you know i think he's a genius i. just
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hello and welcome to cross talk were all things were considered on peter lavelle the very idea of a trumpeting summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essential he agreed the u.s. and russia should at least engage in dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media and the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown has the establishment lost its mind. crosstalk in the helsinki summit i'm joined by my guest michael o'hanlon in
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washington he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution also in washington we have daniel ferrazzi he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in london we crossed to marry the chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and guardian all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate mary let me go to you first in london i guess your most important takeaway impression of the of the summit in helsinki and what was accomplished two points go ahead mary. well i think the most important thing was that it happened a tall i was one of the people who was actually quite in favor of it happening and felt the to should have happened much closer to the beginning of donald trump's presidency and i'm sorry that it wasn't as to what it to achieved i think that's probably best summed up in a phrase that president putin used in his initial statement where he talked about first steps and i think it was probably unrealistic to expect anything other than
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the thing more than first steps but i think at least that was a complete but of course in in the twenty four hours after the summit and after the press conference i mean what we've seen it's been a complete demolition from washington i mean personally i'm just amazed looking at the u.s. response or at least probably what is better called the response of the washington political establishment the swamp that's what i call it ok michael is that the same two points to you i mean you're the most important question you had in what was the competition if anything go ahead michael but first peter greetings from the swamp here in washington in a second congratulations to russia and russia congratulations are an amazing world cup we all enjoy that around the world and i think it's worth emphasizing such points even on a serious political talk you michel because it is bring us in the last hour we did
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not feel very isolated from the world ok so thank you very much it was a wonderful wonderful experience going at my two points on the summit go ahead yeah and then secondly i agree with mary's main point i think that it was good to have a summit i do regret that our president president trump probably did not handle the question about the twenty sixteen elections very well i understand why he doesn't want to get into that in a press conference where he's trying to sustain a positive vibe with president putin but i think he should have therefore given a non-answer. rather than what we consider in the united states to be a wrong answer and that unfortunately did take the entire political commentary really on both sides of the political aisle here in washington in a negative direction against president trump not so much against president putin not so much against whatever substance may have been discussed privately but against that particular handling of the twenty sixteen election issue i hope we can move beyond that because i would like to view this as mary says at least baby steps towards a better relationship well you know daniel you know it seems that you know i mean
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trump is accused of coddling enemies in and dissing friends but you know the u.s. media centrally coddled of lattimer putin and demonized the president of the united states those questions and i saw that preview before that the press or jim acosta people like that they already had their knives out they weren't going to listen to the president they were just going to ask questions as if they were in washington d.c. they had no interest in what the two presidents had to say but he went there and i'm afraid and i'm going to agree with michael fell for it we should go ahead daniel. yeah i would say washington would have woken up to a neo con nightmare no matter what happened there didn't even need to be a press conference this was all a foregone conclusion i will agree with mary as well i am pleased that this took place i'm also pleased that a great world cup was pulled off as well but you know this language today is against president trump and against putin as well all across the media you watch
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morning joe and it just on and on and on for at worse a across the channels fox news is inflamed c.n.n. and there's this short history in memory of president bush and vladimir putin having a good summit together trying to get at that time there was the possibility of russian involvement in the european union and nato itself president obama and medvedev their famous on camera. off camera cordial relationship back and forth hillary clinton and the reset but because this is trump and because there is actually a chance dialogue and progressive steps being made on syria on ukraine and on other issues this is let up this town regardless of what happened here if it seems it has little to do with what actually happened in helsinki let me go to mary here we have former cia director john brennan quote donald trump's press conference
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performance in helsinki was treasonous he is whole we in the pocket of putin republican patriots where are you we have james komi wildly i mean you know lordy james komi oh my goodness he says patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president oh are they calling for a coup like they pulled off in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen go ahead mary. well i think they're probably calling for something a lot short of that but i think what is behind what they said i mean aside from being a sort of need jerk reaction that they regarded what donald trump sad as being as betraying. as it were the good name and expertise of the united states now both of them are hardly friends of donald trump now so to an extent. they were cheerleading or at least whatever the opposite of cheerleading is in
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washington against trump. but i think there is a real problem here. what was donald trump supposed to do when confronted with what was going to be the question because although you know what's been sad. is well he should have given a non-answer well trump you know very often he's not diplomatic in that way he doesn't really specialize in. and so i think there's a real problem what was he supposed to say from his perspective was he supposed to say oh no you know now i believe all these all these claims that russia are into fan to our election and colluded with my team to get me elected or was he going to say which has been his position all along that he actually rejects these claims even though a section not all but a section of u.s.
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intelligence actually says he supports them you know you know michel the thing is is that. i agree with mary but you know obviously trump is not a man of nuance ok i think all of us would agree with that and everyone watching this program you know but what kind of answer was he supposed to demand from putin i mean he could say i listened to what he had to say but we have to move on because i mean it's a bit rich michel when the united states for the last seventy some years have been throwing a lections undermining democracy installing governments i mean all over the world and so the russian military or counterintelligence they kind of poked around i mean it's part of their job they would be remiss if they didn't do it ok i don't understand this kind of moral outrage that someone might do what we do to the whole world all the time go ahead michael. first of all peter i think you have accurately explained the way that for example president putin probably looks at this problem
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whatever he may have authorized in two thousand and sixteen and i believe he did authorize meddling in the us and we have no evidence of this bill really have no evidence of that right. right we have no evidence either i just told you what i think ok i think we have pretty good evidence but i'd rather not i'd rather just accept your point that what you're doing is describing a worldview which has some basis of history behind it because you're right historically i don't believe this happens in this way anymore but historically the united states like the soviet union during the cold war both engineered a number of changes of government and certainly were very interested in shaping the politics of a lot of countries around the world and we still do that although i think by more overt transparent means even today president putin thinks he's just i genuinely believe that's how he looks at the problem but what i would have suggested that president trump say is i'm not here to talk about twenty sixteen but we do have to harden our democracy against any effort by foreign interference from any source or maybe eighteen or maybe that one or maybe your average or maybe predicted from the
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democratic national committee to be predicted to be america's democracy that way it is will only let me become a go to go not what i was but i will not do you know what i mean well i mean i mean if there was anything rigged in the two thousand and sixteen election talk to bernie sanders about it all right daniel let me get a go to you will be finishing up this part of the program go ahead. i would say that this will continue of course our tension and russia phobia there's a refusal from the foundation of this to accept russia as the soviet union down to even the language they don't talk today about president trump and putin being like medvedev and obama and bush and putin and it's all in the terms of kennedy and nixon and these grand soviet meetings the world cup is another way of i mean how dare we say that you guys are in the twenty first century the second poor. of it being you know on the summit like aides said the press conference could happen or not and this would have ended up in the same level of tension and the irony is at
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the point that you made peter we meddle and in fact everyone saying today trump should have said if you meddle in eighteen or twenty you know our relationships over well hell bent right here at the national prayer breakfast only a few months ago in washington d.c. there was a fundraiser held for putin's opposition right at the same conference where president trump was speaking so we meddle in interfere all over the world and this is a big large powers do but i mean president it could have been brought right back from putin to trump about how overt you know raising money and giving a forum to his opposition candidate how much more blatant of interference can you get than that ok when we get we're going to go to a break here but you know the interesting thing is that i don't think it actually has much to do with russia anymore it has to do with impeachment and that's what it looks like to me or i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to
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welcome back across like we're all things are considered i'm peter about we're discussing the helsinki summit. ok let me go back to mary in london and as we finish the first half of the program here it's seems to me and i'm going to express my opinion is that no collusion is been proven actually the last indictment actually should make that clear rod rosenstein why he announced to the public is a mystery to me i don't think he should have done that but nonetheless so collusion is kind of off the table and obstruction of justice that's pretty dicey too but russia treason and this is what we're getting treason when you when a political culture starts using that term very loosely you know you're in trouble here and this is something from the atlantic james fallows and this is where it's going this is the moment of truth for republicans the g.o.p. can either defend the united states or serve that the damaged and defective man who
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is now its president and this is their going into. the midterms the election this is what they want to do they want to start picking off moderate republicans as they go into the election here it's because donald trump is a traitor that's their new message here i think that's disgusting ok when you start questioning other people's patriotism you know you're in a bad place go ahead mary. well i think i think those were the very extreme comments from the extreme and people who were talking after the after the press conference i think that in one respect maybe they reflect the views of people who still hope against hope that the may possibly be grounds for impeachment and obviously we're looking at the sort of pre run up to the midterm elections and i think that's entirely right but what i find very difficult to gauge
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from here is i understand the mood in washington and to a lesser extent i understand it as it were on the on the coasts and democratic dominated coasts but i wonder how much trumps natural constituency heartland america is going to respond to this do you think it's going to pick up the idea that the president they elect is actually disloyal to his to his odin people or are they going to say no no the establishment the establishment has betrayed us not the president you know mary it's true it's really interesting i've been saying over the last few weeks here and i and viewers will know it i think you know how i think the trump has this envelope in his pocket and he pulls it out after every single promises been kept i met putin ok check supreme court justice check jobs tariffs check check check it's not about america first it's about donald
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trump first ok and as far as the heartland this whole russia gate nonsense for them it's essentially nonsense it's a stick to beat the president and it's the liberal media that does it so i think that's already answered let me go to michael because michael and i fundamentally disagree on almost every single thing ok except for the world cup was great but i want to be friendly to my friend michael because i think the. one of the things i think is so tragic is that you've been mentioning. on the margins you know the essentials behind the case for russia did meddle in the election and i you know what i think you're a good honorable man and you believe what you say but people like myself actually believe i actually believe what i say too and this is the log or head that we have come into and i and i think disagreement is really really good and we have a good banter but i'm not going to say that you're
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a traitor to your own country because you disagree with me and i think this is what's happening right now in the u.s. and that can lead to no good and go ahead michael no i agree with you on that point i think mr brennan who's a very honorable man an important man in our country because he was a cia director he really would have been better advised not to use that word he could have been very very scathing in his critique of the specific sentence that donald trump used in regard to this twenty sixteen issue i think he could have been very tough on that particular point but one thing i learned a long time ago even before getting into public policy debates in television is when you're going to criticize somebody criticize a specific thing they did or a specific word and give them a chance therefore to make amends don't don't try to make it about the broader character now donald trump does invite debate about your character sure because we know he is a very controversial polarizing figure so it becomes almost a temptation rather it's a temptation that people are better off trying to resist the specific in your
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criticisms that's the way i try to operate with this or any other president you know danielle ok i'm going to get real part of it again right now you know i looked at you know james komi comes out with a measured brennan comes out i wonder if peter struck is talking about this here i mean the i can understand how donald trump i mean he's been an office you know five hundred days plus you know and he still having to have to deal with when his brennan going to be deposed when is he going. to be questioned ok i would like to know that ok there's a number of very thoughtful smart people that think that brennan could be one of the primary movers behind this big conspiracy i mean it seems to me that he's projecting so much because he has a lot to answer for and he won't because he would everybody right everybody wraps themselves up on the flag on this one and that's where it gets really dicey go ahead daniel. also brennan has been chastised by his own colleagues senate
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democrats for lying to congress as well and nothing ever came of that on critical intelligence testimony both behind closed doors and overtly this is interesting that part you're bringing into the politics of this that base trump thing i'll give him the most credit in the world as a lifelong democrat turned into a tea party evangelical baby boomer fox news viewer you know individual good bridges all of titian good for you know it's his base. he knows his base better than anybody that's why he tweets the red meat to them i think that checklist you have we're going to end up seeing that on campaign rallies across the country the next few months they will not move the needle and the more the elite engages and slams him on this press conference and engage with russia and try to promulgated further russia phobia more of his base will completely turn that off now the
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interesting part taking place the last few days and into the next several days is that fox news itself the channel that protects the president is definitely there neo con faction and there is tacking well to lift glee since this press conference so that may have been times temper a little bit a fair chunk of carlie certainly continues to travel down the straight line and i give him kudos for that he did a great excellent job yeah ok absolutely mary let's get back and subs. because like i like michael i'm a policy guy i like policy ok all of this is great entertainment you know if you love or hate someone it's still winter training you know did you see the needle movie at all for syria ukraine arms control these are topics i'm interested in and i would like to see address is your going that something is started even if we use the term baby steps. yes i mean i think that quite a lot has actually started and that you know if anybody actually listened or
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remembered what putin was saying in his statement at the opening of the press conference which has been practically written out of the script now because american domestic politics has taken over there were the there were some quite specific moves which i think at least make it possible that can be there can be advances there was the question of syria and the united states helping with reconstruction and setting up actual arrangements for that to happen. there was i think probably the most disappointing from my perspective was that i didn't see any real progress on ukraine. though putin really answered for trump when he made clear that there was still disagreement and that trump hadn't actually surrendered on the matter of crimea which is what people had suggested he might do in advance i think there are going to be working groups set up on the various arms
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control treaties existing ones that need to be. continued and maybe new ones in the pipeline so i think there's been progress on all those areas plus the actual fact that this meeting happened so that. an atmosphere and. dialogue of a so it could maybe sort of all has been established so i think we are further forward i think we're further forward maybe not very much but i. we often michael basically the same question i mean you're a policy guy i read your stuff in the three areas that i mentioned there has the needle moved in your mind because you know putin was the one that brought up about crimea if you don't let me give an example for our viewers here i think a lot of people don't know that after the baltic republics were brought into the soviet union during the second world war the united states and its allies never recognized the baltic republics as part of the soviet union but they had arms
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control agreements trade agreements the leaders met each other they had high points and they had low points but that didn't stop that bilateral relationship so why can't we do the same thing now ok the united states and its allies did not does not they do not recognize crimea as a part of the sovereign state of russia but life goes on and you know you know the the the people of the crimea already made up their mind i mean it seems to me common sense but common sense doesn't prevail go ahead michael well i agree with most of what you and mary just say that she did a very nice job of summarizing what we know about the policy discussions especially on syria to some extent on crimea and your point's well taken that this is something that we can disagree about but yet still contain it doesn't have to dominate the relationship i would like to see a fuller discussion on security in eastern europe as you know but maybe there were baby steps accomplished at least. let's go to daniel daniel i mean how is term i
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mean does it in trump's mind was this a victory because i haven't heard i haven't read it read only. the summit here i mean how is he going to sell it because i did notice we're rapidly running out of time nobody in his inner circle has actually spoken to the press that i'm aware of go ahead. i think the jury's out as to hell he'll react in how hill assess this over time and if the elite media continues to assail him and his base stays with him it will be a very. dury and i think on these key points syria ukraine and arms control we will know when weeks and months whether the needle is move whatsoever i think on syria is where i'm the most cautiously optimistic that there may be some sort of path of agreement that we could move forward in the norse and as well in the with the regime but we shall see over the next weeks and months and no matter what happens from the u.k. to the u.s. we will still see prolific a didn't cross the news this attack as well as russia is
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and russia phobia is the enemy and the responsibility for anything that happened in our election to bragg's it and stead of the internal revolt you know let me get a. government failing that people let me close on these words here when the debate is lost slander becomes the tool of losers socrates that's all the time we have many thanks to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember cross hospitals.
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chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery as a german company developed from the divide a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything. she said is just cut short our minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then never apologize for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. trump syndrome that's what the u.s. president says critics are suffering from after a huge backlash by mainstream media and democrats for the helsinki summit with the russian president. even though they're considered
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a terrorist group. good evening and welcome you watching r.t. international. trump the range meant syndrome that's how the u.s. president has branded those who put him under intense pressure for in his words getting along well with putin this is after numerous democrats lashed out at him for siding with russia's leader. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of who it was a wholesale betrayal of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me in a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy disgraceful performance or the president. is able to confront russia
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and he. is facing a huge backlash of his closed door talks with the finnish capitol hill sinking critics or even demanding a hearing to establish exactly what was discussed by the leaders after the us president claimed that he misspoke during the summit saying he saw no reason why russia would have come out because presidential elections should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that's probably clarifies things pretty good by. president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what a reputed trump got beat up a lot of what worries me about you mr president here is you seem to say only good
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things about your enemy it was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president to get a chance to show the world see to the men and women in uniform and said he betrayed them it's a disaster we discussed the issue with vice chair of the u.s. libertarian party national committee. they have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turn tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after another so if he can actually take that
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and say you know what i retract the apology i wasn't wrong we need to put we need to put a leash on the american teligent service if he could do that that would be fantastic i don't see that happening though what i see is someone who's blustering a lot and showing any kind of a lack of any kind of real backbone on this but it's not only trump statements of the summit that the small uproar in the american media to stay been the team wanted to win the election is being hailed a major revelation but is it really. takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to agree with you on the because the truth will bring us russian relations back to. you think it's
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a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandalous who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did run president from when it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best phrase country and no it isn't shocking because it's happened before here's what putin told us in two thousand and twelve about candid barack obama just sort of. my partner feels i think he's the only who really wants to change much for the better but can he
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really achievements movie let's him you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor why else would putin support him as no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling calum open went out nost new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about a u.s. presidential candidate what you make of that neither one of them. yet. actually what putin said about obama. well i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama's not going to be. you know caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more sexy in you know
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intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make big deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there were it was just cringe president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy now standing example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that
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congratulated putin which is completely you wouldn't formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lott amir putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so don't some call them up to say at a boy russia has made no secret of it it wants to be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as acceptable but times are different now and you get the impression that the only
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thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody ban knuckle brule between the two presidents and it's not just mainstream media and democrats who are obsessed by supposed russian threat to america is the favorite topic for tech johns like facebook twitter and google to. it seemed to me you were a little bit vague about oh yes we found hundreds or whatever i'm asking specifically were any of those other countries besides russia that were using your platform in appropriately it should be a yes or no i don't have the details i know we definitely work to detect and repellent but who are any of them foreign entities other than russia i would have to have my team follow up if you came prepared to help the democrats establish about russia but you can't point out any other country is there right congressman we've put public statements. you're not answering the question only go to. about on
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google did you detect any other countries besides russia our security team is trained to protect our services from foreign and you're going to get into my question i my guess would be that our security team you're here to gas. reaching our security from other foreign governments as well but that information has helped confidentially even internally are you going. to condemn the russians thank you how about you mr pickles are you prepared to identify any other foreign countries are just here to help democrats place russia after seventy years of russia helping democrats make these decisions based on. if you're very good at dodging the refusing to answer that question. with the russian meddling saga once again dominating the us media agenda or a new character has appeared in the story the u.s. department of justice has expanded charges against the gun rights advocates and
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russian citizen maria buton if she's not direct make use of being an agent of a foreign government auntie's caleb maupin has been investigating what exactly can turn a low beast into a spy in the eyes of mainstream media and the political establishment. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen
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a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe as a lot of your posner the russian american t.v.
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personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the disinform ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that a court. into the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday buton his attorney made a statement denying she's an agent said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to her. and while the russian embassy in washington says that its not been granted access to boot the materials in a court case of also being sealed the embassy notes it will continue to stand by
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bhutto using all legal means available sources foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is reacted to the case saying it seems clear the f.b.i.'s carrying out political orders rhetoric of the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to insist putin had visited trump in the oval office of these as though pointed out the reality.
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there. is a trail of vigilante mob attacks incited by fake news dozens killed across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal or the latest case is an implicit arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over a fake rumor spread that he was a child kidnapper the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child
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abductors has filled once up chats india has the most uses of the messenger service by any country police has more. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook pages faces on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but you know now those suspected of lynching was suspicion of
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child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this british shares the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india porting to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boys returned the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to
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do something about it restructuring in education campaign in india on how to spot fake news and rumors. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death these days how are almost even before we were believed to be legalized it is not strictly on the region but knowing what was
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wanted. for such things for the skill of these much bigger it is much harder most people. have this problem also besides the raising of information for solution groups there. is decentralization and chaos and also the sense of mission that so forces definitely is one of the. few known that is gone because it's a complex you not want to go to say you are. going to look at how much of government the country has and we need to also discipline some of these service providers the. famous for his toes there in space x. companies with a dulling of the public and media but is now facing a backlash we'll look at why after the break.
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when lawmakers manufacture can be sentenced to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room real news room. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now
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for watching closely watching the hawks. come back steve russian foreign ministry has commented on reports members of the contrition the syrian troops the white helmets of being evacuated spokeswoman marie has a heart of us says that there may be more quote provocation says the humanitarian group leave the country where if a national has more. we have heard reports about several nato countries discussing possible evacuation of the members of the white helmets groups working in syria to some western countries reportedly due to fear is off assess the nation of these people by damascus and russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has expressed deep concerns over the move stressing this will be a large group of people according to some reports around one thousand individuals
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with in fact unclear intentions and controversial reputation we may shoot in far more artsy according to the information we have the one helmets convoy arrived in the town of adlib and among the and rivals for several chemical experts miss out the missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and loaded by the white house will be used as intended are even when is the nouns that these members of the white house have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this purpose on the syrian government the white helmets group was founded in turkey and is funded by several western countries they claim they are working in syria to save lives to help people but they have been repeatedly accused of working rather on the side of i really just extremist in syria and there have been many pictures emerged showing the neck the members of the white helmets group shoulder to shoulder with al nusra front
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members this is and the tour is jihad his group operates in syria for many many years they have been accused of being behind several deadly incidents in syria that they have helped orchestrate taking to later put the blame on the syrian government and therefore law being their interest of the countries we share in the syrian president bashar al assad good so the reputation is actually control for sure and indeed that could be risks behind the move of. curating around one thousand people from this group to western countries europe hand us. the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan has reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the possibility of direct talks with the taliban on day later though he said his words have been mischaracterized by some outlets insisting that he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization mr said that we the united states are ready to talk to the
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taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process more real for motion of six to promptly those statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards last in peace was mischaracterized america's war in afghanistan a seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban controls roughly forty percent of the country currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops they should and even though donald trump promised during his twenty six thousand campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last months or a three day cease fire for civilian casualties are at record highs one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of this year according to the u.n. that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems the us
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doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them to go get it settle the taliban crumbles there's a drought. there you didn't get picked up by the taliban side even point for the call for the taliban cannot when their choices are to reconcile and live in a relevant or die the united states government is treating afghanistan like another state and you and your country and this is not a you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the civilian who for afghanistan and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via been raiding houses at night they have been
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killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have a direct negotiation with taliban undermining afghans so very easy once you know there was a lot of criticism about this and change the a tone and they said well we didn't say we will directly talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the of the united states and our troops and stuff this is not the first and they have done it in the past so they will do it again and again. the man behind tesla motors and space x. has suffered a slight full from grace of light entrepeneurs under fire for calling one of the thai cave rescuers a paedophile it's a slur which has since apologized and his political donations are also led to attacks on blind. everyone knows he long muskies tony stark he's
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else choate's seemed wrong all right old roles just don't hold. any new world view yet to shape out this day become advocates and indeed for many equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do you should look to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president injury or something or want to be rich. have to be right to be precise as to what before three in the morning can't be good but. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question.
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the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education low its high education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold to understand just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could know most of the regime look good is also the kind of fellow i couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model for college i was born now in an extremely more high education the new global economic war. but if you're.
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