take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact that they're making all these other economies look stupid like. double you know militants were standing five hundred meters away they could easily see the surveillance were rounded few minutes later they began bombing the area and even queuing people with their goods a deadly air strike kills fourteen in afghanistan with children among the victims r.t. speaks to locals at the sea. be watching a new twenty four seven four c. language t.v. channel that will span not only television but radio digital and social media format after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal and threatening new sanctions the u.s. now launches a media campaign against iran. and israel evacuates members of the controversial white helmets rescue group from syria every recess

will be in canada and europe at the request of western allies. a warm welcome and a very good morning to you it's nine am here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me thank you erin. now fourteen people including children have been killed in an airstrike in afghanistan in what was meant to be a military operation against the taliban is not yet clear if it was carried out by afghan or u.s. aircraft r.t. visited the scene of the attack most of the dead all reportedly women and children afghan officials say the u.s. says it conducted in their strike in the area but had caused no civilian casualties the locals we spoke to have a very different opinion though as more aghasi have explained. after seventeen years the nile. it's propaganda by the enemy foreign troops are our friends and we

don't target civilians u.s. forces did conduct strikes and on the ground assessments of those strikes reveals no indications they caused civilian casualties. taliban propaganda they claim with an on the ground assessment to prove it who can argue with that almost sounds like the results of a scientific experiment would have helped of course of that actually visited the place. the americans never visited this area and i'm witness to this national defense forces visited the area to check in first they wouldn't let us drink out the dead and injured. foreigners didn't visit this area. they are lying a delegation came here from the local governments and security officials ok so if you think that locals all of them at their word it's the afghan army that lied to

the american troops it wasn't until the neighbors relatives erupted in outrage that authorities admitted to potential civilian deaths even the un is on the case so what actually happened. was standing five hundred meters away they could easily see that civilians were around a few minutes later they began bombing the area killing people. i saw the parliament with my own eyes the americans first used artillery. did my home my aunt's home without giving us a chance to flee. then they used a big ball and we felt like we were in hell around us was covered by gunpowder and . my sister and all my family members were unconscious in the. first shell the area where there is an aircraft bombarded it with three bombs. and one when

we dug out the victims from the rubble. found the hand and shoulders and other parts of one mark and buried him. the victims in the house and his wife and daughter in law. those four grandchildren two sons and more difficult to spin them as enemy fighters even with the pentagon's notorious guilty until proven innocent casualty counting mechanism and locals survivors don't have a lot of faith in justice. my expectations are that they will tell us it was all of them and i've seen no proof that they were taliban fighters this is not the first time. they always kill civilians and never give us a chance to speak up so they can say that they.

have lived here for a long time. and they have never seen anyone given a. province which is partly controlled by the taliban has a history of strikes going astray in two thousand and fifteen when the us had the doctors without borders or healing. the pentagon denied that at first until eventually barack obama himself had to apologize in november last year when the u.n. investigation found that the u.s. had killed ten civilians in a different strike again denied that even offered a investigation and again eventually ended up apologizing. we asked the u.s. department of defense to comment on the situation as well as nato and the un until activist richard becker says it's business as usual for the u.s. . well i think there's been hundreds and hundreds of such incidents in afghanistan

every single time we hear of one of these incidents like this where this one and. we hear they were all terrorists first and then someone goes out you go out and they interviewed the villagers and they say no they were just villagers and. then the military says well we will conduct an investigation and then it's off into the ether and you know very little ever happens no matter how terrible the atrocities are but this better happens over and over again and no matter what kind of apologies or excuses they're given that it's repeated and it's repeated and repeated over and over again. donald trump has lashed out at a wrong he tweeted on sunday that two wrongs should not threaten the u.s. otherwise it will face serious consequences and this relations between the countries continue to detail we are apes the u.s. now has the wrongs media and its sites there covertly plotting terror attacks in

the heart of europe destroying israel at the core of the regime's ideology that's committed supported many acts of violence and terrorism against both countries now the united states is undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure camping to cut off the funds that the regime uses to enrich itself and support death and destruction the b.b.c. is launching a new twenty four seven four c. language t.v. channel that will span not only television but radio digital and social media format so that ordinary iranians inside of iran and around the globe can know that america stands with them. the u.s. secretary of state also said america is not afraid to challenge iran with sanction at the highest level he's also called on other countries to join the economic pressure on iran and turn to wrong say's the u.s. may regret its decisions. on the machine was he did not play with the lines around you will regret it. a hard one nuclear deal was struck between global powers and iran back in two thousand and fifty it wrong agree to some limitations to its

nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in may the signatories on determines that the agreement stays in place for when u.s. diplomatic digimon says that the u.s. intentions in iran okeh it once regime change i think the symbolism of giving this speech at the reagan library was that he was driving maliki to the fall of communism but somehow. he says regime change is not the goal but frankly from what he describes it seems to me that it amounts to regime change we have to be entirely different motive governance in iran from what he described to satisfy what he laid out so i think he's basically saying that we want to support a popular movement to bring down the ayatollah has regime in the same whether i mean isabel and so we need to turn block and that radio broadcasting would be

a catalyst for the. newly released us government documents show that the f.b.i. suspected that one time trumped campaign advice they caught a page had close ties to russia the documents were released after a freedom of information act request from a group of media outlets the documents cover the reasons for why it's happening trump's former aide the f.b.i. believes that page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government there is probable cause that such activities involve or about to involve violation of the criminal statutes of the united states now it's not clear from the heavily redacted documents that exactly why i called to page should have been put under surveillance while the former trump eight himself says the accusations against him are a complete joke. this is so ridiculous it's just beyond words it's just so misleading going through those four hundred plus page documents you know where

do you even begin it's literally a complete joke and it only continues it's just really sad president trump say's the f.b.i. and department of justice misled the courts to obtain a warrant to spy on page he also says that the claims of collusion with russia all found were kate it documents do reveal though that carter page had once lived in most go for three years and in two thousand and sixteen they allege he met with senior russian officials to discuss the sanctions on moscow and compromising information about hillary clinton they also showed that investigators have been looking into page per page as possible connections with russia since two thousand and thirteen other for long before donald trump was named a presidential candidate political commentator gene allowed in say they would insist fishing grounds for surveillance placed on cost of page. there has been nothing no one indicted no evidence whatsoever of any sort of

pollution you know the media has started to conflate medaling inclusion those are not the same things this is shocking to watch as an american perhaps most of all shocking to watch how some on the left and in the media on the left are not even shocked because they should be because this isn't like america the way they're treating this president feisal were and should be the hardest thing in the world to obtain for the american government to spy on a private american citizen should be the absolute most difficult thing ever certainly if a question does ca should not be a vehicle to a fight so weren't the motivation for the story that the left keeps telling makes absolutely no sense when you consider all of the disconnects that exist in the story and the fact that there is zero evidence zero indictments based on anything even close to collusion a number of enterprises in the us that have recently made political donations have

rapidly found the business climate improved for them raising the question of cause versus correlation artie's egos done of takes a look. it's no secret you need money to win a political race if you're an american politician donation is key but don't fret there are always business sharks happy to support you cause you just have to find your match and here are the lucky ones who already did. the new york governor for instance was blessed with a hundred thousand dollars from the coffers of the winkles twins co-founders of facebook and now cryptocurrency moguls what an act of generosity of good faith and what an act of good faith from the new york authorities approving the crypto currency exchange for the twins. correlation doesn't mean causation of course but there's a clear countrywide pattern here in florida to act which if donated to the campaign

of the incumbent governor and later those same firms were approved a two hundred and fifty million dollar investment from the state's pension fund. surely completely unrelated to their generous donation to a tennessee member of congress is accused of setting up a study to keep an emissions rule loophole intact which serves business interests over a truck dealership which yes donated to her campaign. and while the quid pro quo relationships above can only be seen as allegations the next one is a taped confession they were. supposed to. be very good if. they're going to. do is it going to be the be. the would be. the what you just

heard is reportedly a georgia governor candidate admitting he back to bill him. self realized was disastrous just to make sure his opponent doesn't get the money from a law being firm to fund his campaign what is an open secret as well is that a low base job is to pay the right people otherwise those people won't even listen to them. the hierarchy in my office in congress if you are low beast who never gave us money i didn't talk to you if you were lobbyists who gave us money i might talk to you of course businesses will give assurances left and right that they get into politics because they care but practice shows those bedfellows are shall we say more than cozy political analyst charles or truth or such a waste of money should be considered a crime. what we see in government the scale of spending in government is so vast

in the united states we spend six trillion dollars a year all in now a lot of that's on social benefits about true two trillion dollars a year on social benefits but we purchase our government purchase lots and lots in the way of contracts and that explains why. donors are so happy to part with sums that seem large one hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars they do that because under the obama administration as a recent example in the stimulus plan i think almost a trillion dollars eight hundred billion dollars was spent by our government our projects that manifestly did not create a single job where did all that money go nobody seems to know and this kind of stuff happens all across the united states government sadly i think it happens in many governments around the world and you know the debt that's been piled on this global economy has got to a point where people around the world should velvety as to what happened to all this money why are people trying to buy these politicians it should be

a really long jail sentence time crime or to engage in this type of political corruption there ought to be incentives to expose it and to get this money back to the taxpayer so we can pay down our debts israel has helped hundreds of members of the controversial white helmets rescue group please syria we'll tell you why after this very short break. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get 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 for watching closely watching the

hawks. with no make this manufactured consensus stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent. nor middle of the room six. welcome back the israeli prime minister has said that his country and mission to the evacuation of the controversial white helmets group from syria at the request

of donald trump and other western allies. if there be one hundred days to go and trump contacted me as did canadian prime minister trudeau and request. to hundreds of white helmets from syria these are people who saved lives and whose lives were in danger of. passage through israel to other countries is an impudent humanitarian gesture this is relevant he waited over four hundred members of the group and their families to neighboring jordan after calender britain and germany reportedly agreed to accept at least some of them as refugees syrian government forces have launched an offensive against militants in the south of the country where members of the group were located. upon request of the u.s. canada and european states israel has completed a humanitarian effort to rescue members of the syrian civil war is ation the white helmets and families they were evacuated from the war zone in southern syria to

a neighboring country now the idea of has caught us to quote an exceptional humanitarian gesture it has said that it carried out this evacuation at the request of the united states and several european countries and that the request and we became several weeks ago at this belonging to the white helmets consider themselves rescuers who risked their lives to hold save civilians but the organization remains controversial particularly over where its funding comes most of its funding is from the west and as such it is criticized as being an organization that promotes waste an interventionist agenda for example more than thirty two million dollars comes from the united states it also receives funding from the netherlands from denmark germany canada and new zealand.

now we're still waiting for russian reaction but when the first reports emerged a few days ago over this planned evacuation the russian foreign ministry said that there was concern over so-called provocations that could happen during such a move me she said and far more artsy according to the information we have the white helmets convoy arrived in the town of italy and among the end rivals were several chemical experts missiles and missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and loaded by the white helmets will be used as intended art even when is the now is that these members of the white helmets have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the

possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this procreation on the syrian government now with all these controversies surrounding the watch helmets they certainly are risks and could be more risks around the sea of accusation in addition to the evacuation of the white helmets the area has seen hundreds of militants and left families moved to the rebel held role the evacuation comes as the syrian army advances along the country's southern border with egypt with jordan the area has long been held by western backed militants seeking to overthrow president assad finesse a billy who's an independent investigative journalist wonders why the white helmets are more privileged when it comes to evacuation then ordinary syrian civilians. this is an exceptional evacuation it's an exceptional evacuation for an exceptional organization created by the exceptional list regimes in the united states and in the u.k. and in the e.u. the nato member states but also supported by particularly qatar and saudi arabia we

saw or. protest by the u.n. agencies or demands rather that the white home it's been evacuated and given priority in a fact over civilians and that's what we're seeing now is saying syrian civilians being left at the border of israel on the border of jordan while the white how much are again being given exceptional progress through those two countries and on to the countries that are supposedly going to host them. germany is one of the world's largest arms manufacturers and to export it but investigative reporters redfish claim that not all german arms all sold legally has a part of that report and you can watch it in full on youtube.

germany gets a lot of praise for its reasonable approach to politics but the german government has a dirty secret while germany prides itself on having some of the toughest arms export laws on the planet it's actually the fourth biggest arms exporter in the world lawyer holder wrought by hour has taken one of the country's major on as manufacturers and one of the world's biggest small arms producers the infamous heckler and koch to court they stand accused of illegally shipping weapons to conflicts on the heckler and koch trial. is not using that word too often it's historic it's really historic because it shows the i would call it blasphemy this cheating of etiquettes of the german government because the german people like we strictest in arms trades and rio really looking carefully well weapons go six former heckler and koch employees all the way up to

then c.e.o. peter buyer there are in the dark the eagle on shipments they're accused of include sixteen batches of g thirty six assault rifles some of which ended up being used in a tragedy which shook the world. in two thousand and fourteen forty three students became collateral in mexico's bloody war on drugs when they were kidnapped by corrupt police who handed them over to the new tourist guerrero's who needles drug cartel at least several of the students were killed by the heckler and koch rifles all this extra attention has been an extremely uncomfortable experience for a heckler and koch the company is incredibly hostile the media interest and public attention it didn't take long for the police to arrive to stop us from filming in the town's residents were particularly enthusiastic to speak to a seal. in open the. mention tend. to tell as i'm. as

a. tired. oberndorf residents have good reason to be fearful of heckler and koch raising the lawn has come with great personal cost to the whistleblower at the heart of this case. by client here lost his family he lost his job he had to leave the country he was frightened. understandable if you were part of an producer so you could imagine how they could get rid of fuel we approached heckler and koch multiple times to discuss the allegations cited in this report unfortunately despite all our efforts heckler and koch were very happy to see us. like wow. if. you don't want to say something. to me to get an export license german arms manufacturers have to go through several

government ministries who will check that the shipment destination isn't subject to any sort of ban by german law if it is in the arms company's application fails then they have another option they can appeal to the federal security council and here's where things get interesting this council is made up of a handful of senior ministers who sit down with the german chancellor angela merkel in a secretive meeting where they review the application and decide whether to approve it or not the details of this meeting are never made public there is no media presence or independence group and because this process is so opaque it's impossible to know whether it's vulnerable to corruption systems or mess. in the name of the german government this is. crazy. it's immoral and unbelievable.

what i've got you can have your say on all of our stories by following us on social media we'll be back in about half an hour with the latest headlines you see there. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race move this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. to one else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain comes to the ticket and engage me because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to give us a little bit politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. we're going underground as philippines president rhodri go do tatay delivers his third state of the union address as he allegedly prepares for a bilateral free trade partnership with the u.k. despite the arguable brix of chaos sure to unfold at today's second checkers away

day coming up on the show as thirty five countries ratify the international criminal court new crime of aggression we asked one of its architects u.n. special representative christian went away why britain appears to be shying away from a law that could have stopped the invasion of iraq and is tourism a intends to double the number of british soldiers in afghanistan seventeen years into the war we speak to a journalist on the ground in kabul amidst the continuing qana catalyzed by a major nation intervention plus get today's country house but given by to raise a major disgust breaks it we speak to n.g.o.s global justice now about secret trade deals being discussed that could put corporations in control and lives at risk dollars or more coming up at today's going underground but first this month marks fifteen years since the death of u.k. government scientist david kelly after he tried to warn the british people they were being lied to about the reasons to bomb iraq here was former u.k. labor prime minister tony blair when asked about the need for

a further inquiry into the circumstances of his apparent suicide the attorney general grange expected to make an announcement today as to whether there should be a new inquiry into the death of dr david kelly and that i think you've written some of that has weighed heavily on your mind over over the years would you welcome a new car i think i'll let him make a statement on this i mean that was all the was an inquiry which went for six months headed by a senior law lord. so. i mean he loves to make a statement i really don't know what the question was answered sufficiently for you at the last incline well as far as i know they were but maybe he has different information but frankly i doubt it but i'll wait and see what he says and i honestly don't know i have no information that is different from the information given to that inquiry that went as i say for six months the man supported by jeremy corbin's opponent today johnny blair defending the widely derided hutton.