live. the white house threatens to revoke the security clearance of six obama era intelligence officials accusing them of politicizing the public service and leveling baseless accusations of president trump. also this hour how his seventeenth century slave trader is remembered as divided crystal in southwest england. old friends will the plot is going to be so because you've got to pull things into context of what was up you know the sun now you would guess it's money it's a regularly scheduled run just walked up like i'm a lawyer. and a former trump advisor comes under fire after he announces a new foundation to reportedly foment a right wing revolution and europe he's taking aim at liberal plans for frist george soros has been promoting the left.

this is our to international coming to life from the russian capital with me john lucas welcome to the program. donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officials the white house press secretary said that they had politicized and in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information and be baseless claims about the president reporters were quick to question the implications of the threat. he's been chosen to live and he wants to punish them for that no i think you are creating your own story there is the president doing exactly what you just said the president doesn't want all these people doing politicizing matters of national security by going after his political enemies people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security plans or.

six people were named including former heads of the cia f.b.i. and n.s.a. all of them have been critical of trump's administration and the president's policies and all of them were barack obama era officials it's believed two of them no longer have clearance but they themselves say if it is revoked it won't really change anything the security clearance has nothing to do with how i or any of us feel about the president i don't get briefings i don't have access to any classified information it's frankly more of a courtesy i don't go back for classified briefings won't have any effect on what i say all right. killam up and now takes a look at whether the move is a necessity or trump looking to clamp down on u.s. intelligence the former heads of u.s. intelligence agencies are now dabbling in politics the fired f.b.i. director james comey just advised the democrats to steer clear of socialism.

democrats please please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left this president and his republican party accounts going you to do exactly that now this comes just after his recent tweet and which he said that the only way to support american values was to go democrat. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall policy differences don't matter right now history has its eyes on us now james komi fits in with a big cast of characters these are former intelligence officers were now telling us what we should be thinking about politics i know we're not nazi germany all right but there is a commonality there and a fear on my part that we have standards we have to live up to having some understanding of the levers of power that or available to the president if. he

chooses to there to resign from. those. downright scary and and disturbing there's a big question first of all in terms of those who are on mr trump's ask whether they can continue to serve in good conscience an individual who basically portrayed his nation now it hasn't always been like this former cia top boss george tenet became a private investment banker he left the public eye after leaving office and a former f.b.i. director louis freeh he launched a private consulting firm here's why it's kind of a big deal it turns out that former intelligence officials usually keep their security clearance. he's john brennan monetising his security clearance is just around and making millions of dollars they've fallen secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on donald trump so even after leaving office they've still got power and connections that they could use to further their agenda

on the intelligence. so whatever happened to a quiet retirement now in the air pockets around the new forces of emerging former top spies who are turning to political activism it will happen r.t. new york the editor of defense and foreign affairs magazine gregory coakley says that in any other country such behavior would be considered treasonous but what we've seen lately and the last two years is. the situation with people like director of national intelligence clapper and the like brennan. and so on have been making extremely comments designed deliberately to undermine the current u.s. government now who says this would be treasonable the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united

states' ability to function. you know national security sense from what we've seen from this range of. commenting in the last eighteen months to two years. i propose plaque on a statue commemorating a seventeenth century merchant is dividing the locals and the english city of bristol edward colston who was a prominent figure in the city's history but also the slave trade much of his wealth was acquired through the royal african company which held a monopoly on the trade of gold ivory and slaves and some residents want to raise awareness of colston's past city authorities have announced plans to add a second inscription to the monument they propose including a paragraph explaining about the enslavement of africans around twenty thousand of whom are said to have died as a direct result of course involvement in the slave trade some locals are now calling the move move pointless and for the stature to be removed altogether we

spoke to racial equality campaign or at least just for and stephen morris from the english democrats. why have we got the statue of a man who sold millions of africans into bondage and slavery rip topic and babies from their mother's breast separated families killed maimed and murdered millions of africans but he gave money to charity so we should have a statue of him in our town square we have to look at the full history of the of the slave trade this was going on for thousands of years before europeans arrived africans were enslaved africans and selling them to the arabs way before we got there and it's actually quite unfair to judge the past by today's standards and today's models so for me a tz is part of the history but it really got to be showing the full history of what was going on at the time and not just to be a scene until european issue against the slave trade when the slave trade was very

predominant across the entire continents at that time so for me you look at the history of but we've got to put it into context will actually look pretty million people is a lot more noble and simple thing one could go on for what we know and redesign and find it that day historians of the tie are all consensual around that figure so i think it is you need to get your facts straight all depends what the plots going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of what was going now you're the guest is just going on a complete. whatever whatever point he was trying to put forward whatever argument he was trying to put forward is actually been lost and he's actually rants now you all the guesses this man is a racially and all the ground so that's what i. wanted before i moved trying to put forward i'm going to pluck there then you have to make sure that you put it into context of what was happening around the world we shouldn't be imagining and

celebrating colton it should be either bristol. see above shame we too can go in and all the order of colonial aspects and really of the past can go in but i don't way it should be could check july's as the book to refute period in bristol's history you cannot george historical events by today's standards you have to look at what was going on at the more blood was enslaved by blacks than there were by the europeans so he needs to tell us all the laws why when i walk eagle why why are to you why you subjecting me to the most ignorant based racist. rewrite of the street everybody but obviously my. name. who's got no idea how we all believe in marriage to becoming. more blacks was enslaved by blacks than they were by the europeans so he needs to needs to actually look and stop being very hypocritical.

present terms former chief strategist steve bannon is looking to ferment a right wing revolution in europe he's announced plans to create a new foundation that will unite and empower the continent's populace the initiative was revealed in an interview with news wire website the daily beast bannon's organization will be called the movement and is expected to have its headquarters in brussels it will offer polling think tank research and advice for european right wing groups he says the aim is to counter the influence of the open society foundations which were set up by billionaire george soros to promote liberal democracy parents' plans are already causing serious concern among some members of the european parliament and attack on freedom and democracy in europe we will not stand idle we will respond we have to fight now with good arguments confidence and true it's a frontal attack on the e.u. and european values. we asked a former m.e.p. from greece a series a party what he thinks of bannon's initiative and what it might mean for europe.

what is wrong with promoting an alternative does it not to challenge views so you get debate you get conversation instead of name calling people in the united states . if you follow the money so where the money was going to finance the. movement which so movement rather for the division of europe and north korea the unit you're right could that argument not be made to george soros says well why shouldn't these parties and groups who have support of large swathes of the population get some help from the outside the same way that the left has been getting help from soros and other like minded billionaires this is not the point where yes we know where that money comes from because of the flying hours themselves but they have their financing their of sims for what their example for the reefs. you know called the privilege list would be your creased yes well that's

not really on the working class telling us is that there's a lot of working class people who fear that their jobs are being taken by possibly by immigrants possibly by other forces at play and they are voting for who they think will be able to solve those concerns and at the moment across europe and many countries it's not the left they need an alternative well yes this is. sort of the left hold so you admit that there is no way you know but it's very easy to be a democrat you don't use a. scapegoat whether. mr soros or the scapegoat is the recruiters or you wife workers are going to be excluded right we didn't you guys that settled in britain would have breakfasted but now that that's true that's the reason you don't have to be an extreme right winger to have views on immigration do you when

you're seeing so many people coming from north africa and sub-saharan africa into your nation that they did not vote for. so you know well of eve you see so many people are. devoted pleasure you have to we will ask why yeah and the people who you know they're coming from the. middle east that we started all of the people out of all of these are repetitions there are people that we united states great britain and have other people have bombarded you know they destroyed the crowd and now they're at the ninety eight and he started going in political responsibility and this is to say it is those same goals for the people not the represented by the immigrants coming from africa what devastated i forgot color of the character centuries you know that reads european governments they kind of can take their responsibility part of. the theme of alleged russian meddling seems to have touched a multitude of areas in recent times from presidential elections in the u.s.

to rebellion and spain's breakaway region catalonia and with nasa celebrating its sixtieth anniversary it's apparently gone into orbit. looks like we've had fifty two american astronauts launched by the russians what's interesting is not a single one of them with an african-american none of our african-american astronauts have ever been launched by the russians and so i mean since two thousand and eleven no african-american astronauts from nasa have the space had the opportunity you know it does raise the question what's going on are the russians refuse to launch enough american astronauts. if that is the case i have never heard that. certainly i will start asking that question now that you mention that but i have not heard that and i am going aware

of that and. i seriously do not believe it's the russians are russian colleagues partly because i'm and i've been through the training with them and i think. i was able to develop really good working relationships with everyone there and. you are a testament to that it was that i think some of the people there may have known better chance of the speaking of doing this but they were adamant that i had to complete all of the training.

we heard from an aerospace engineering professor who explained it was likely medical restrictions that prevented apps from taking part in the expedition. you know i wasn't there to hear the statement but i can tell you that i have africa have i've been accepted quite well by my colleagues from russia like people from our ross cosmos and the killed this that sort of applied mathematics and i personally as an african-american of never experienced any sort of discrimination from any of my russian colleagues if nasa decided to pull astronauts that's going to be you know from some slight i don't we assume that there is some sort of physical reason. you know why that happens not i'm not privy to her medical. information more news after a short break. but

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something want to be rich. that you'd like to be close this is like the three of them or people. interested in the why is it that. i should.

thank you for come back to the program it's being reported that the pilot of a syrian aircraft that was shot down by the israeli military earlier on tuesday was killed in the incident the copilot is also said to be missing the idea said it fired to an aircraft missiles at the jet which allegedly flew roughly one and a half kilometers into its air support air space the incident is believed to have taken place over the israeli occupied golan heights the plane reportedly crashed on the syrian side of the disputed territory this all comes as the assad government pushes to regain full control of the south west of syria close to go on hides. the european union created a new plan on migrants aiming to soften positions of such states as italy are to

charlotte devinsky. by charlotte what more can you tell us about this. well the e.u. it suggesting could pay up to six thousand you are. going to host them in secure a migrant center is here in europe the e.u. as we know has been searching for a political solution for some time now to deal with the tens of thousands of like winter that been coming across the mediterranean to european shores for the last three years already in two thousand and eighteen we've seen around eighteen thousand people rifle over the mets to reign in sea in two thousand. seventeen that was a hundred and twenty thousand people and in two thousand and sixteen it was even more around one hundred eighty one thousand people making that crossing and landing in europe and as we know that many countries on the mediterranean have dealt with the burden of that and so the e.u.

has been looking for this political solution to try and ease some of the tensions within the block particularly by italy who recently talked about the fact that it would close its ports to my quince. enough is enough saving lives sees a juicy but transforming it's really into an enormous refugee camp is not italy is done bowing its head in a baying this time there's someone saying no. well we have had a little bit of a row back from italy in the last few days it's now said that while this new idea is on the table and it's being thrashed out it will allow us to do a clue the next five weeks or so and those centers the idea would be to be able to process more efficient the asylum claims for those who reach european soil for mediterranean countries well where's the money going to come from well the european commission white paper which is suggested this idea says it will come out of the

european budget now as we know the european budget is paid as a percentage of g.d.p. by the members of the european union so large a countries with large g.d.p.'s pay more such as germany for example now that might cause some anger and annoyance in germany where we know that there has been some resistance to the tens of thousands of migrants who've come into the country over the last three years people unhappy with the fact that they feel that they buddhas secure and happy with paying for this so what we'll see is this logic countries possibly contributing more to this plan which may appease the smaller countries making the much more happy to receive migrants but at the end of the day will people be questioning whether countries like germany are essentially now going to be buying themselves out of this crisis are to starla devinsky thank you for bringing us that report. a football player of turkish origin has quit the german

national team saying he was abused for a photo with the turkish president and used as a scapegoat for germany's poor two thousand eight hundred world cup performance everyone has given his back into the star player. such treatment towards a young man for his religious beliefs is unacceptable he has given his to the german national team. it was a photo shoot with everyone back in may that resulted in anger from politicians the german football association and media alike all leveled. no no no no no no. you want. me to try to.

follow such a photograph as a symbolic value and it is definitely not what is needed this is clear when you quit your job you represent the county the german values. the future of also with that a plan was a mistake it is still a mistake to say the reason is it was ok did not convince me so he speaks of respect but that raises the question of how it is respect for the victims of a policy perspective journalists who are in prison because they have done.

as little took to twitter accusing the team's management of discrimination the german football association has emphatically rejected claims made by israel that they had been racist and disrespectful to him but the footballing body did accept that it could have done more to protect him now that the tougher bar has quit some more says are continuing to criticize the midfielder while others are sympathizing with em. as you know the chancellor holds most with us still in high esteem and so does feel is a great footballer who has done a lot for the national football team has now made a decision that most here is attached to us if you find it's one and in any case of the truth on the team the trash that the germans are not going to want to copy has little to do with me still having his picture taken with president obama. to discuss this further let's now bring in former manchester united and australian goalkeeper mark bosnich welcome to the program now germany of course prides itself

on its openness to other cultures or politicians trying to make gain out of a silk comments saying he doesn't feel wanted but the some are and some other common say which are very sober and completely understandable he has some comments on the other side which i think black understanding as well i think people have but i understand in may myself i'm a son of the evergreen here in australia from croatia and when you do grow up there are segments of every population who don't see you as being part of the actual nation so i'm sure that message from his comments would have suffered some of that during that time growing up and of course that was the outbreak of world cup with the photograph that he took with president has gone on which i found quite astounding because you know it is understandable when you are either a son or grandson and sick about the generation immigrant into the country to have

feelings towards you so what's the country that you're originally from and also feeling to the contrary where you're at at this moment in time so i can understand where he's probably from completely and what do you make of the criticism of a sales performance at the world cup in this century him being made into a scapegoat for germany's overall playing at the world cup. well i think it was very unfit i mean germany had a very full world cup visit i was there for me wasn't any better or any worse than any out applies if you look at the statistics which i'm so you every think you know he was actually quite ok he's been a wonderful germany of the years he won the world cup twenty four and as we know. it's been german player of the on several occasions before him and force yourself a wonderful korea like i said i thought the whole campaign from germany was a poor campaign they're fighting to be made a scapegoat i think just really amazing way out general newspapers and the media look to try to blame lampposts and would be the manager. for that generally how how

these in football but for them as a messy people in countries just the focus in pretty much on one play i think is really cool form and why do you think other voices less critical including the german government spokesperson are now starting to be heard only after he's quit. well that's a very very difficult question to answer i think obviously the german government has had a policy for quite some time about integration in general segments of the population who are pretty much fed up with. being some are now at the world cup and speaking to two german gentlemen fantastic guys and just speaking to them in general and one had one point of view and now they want to have another point of view but angela merkel has as made this a policy of those about integration in the history that you want to keep along that saying well i'm just totally understandable this evidently there are problems if you speak to people from germany there are several problems and

a probably have the need to sort of the so this is obviously something that's come out into the public and people are going to address this issue in the way that they have in the past to keep along their own side on mark bosnich us former australian goalkeeper and sports pundit thank you so much for joining us on the program. that's our global news update for this hour thanks for tuning in. right now we're all set to start in five guys nothing in the studio has a signal. he's not going to talk about no place just maybe right after the mars explorers were you would have their own unique. record. to say what. people don't.

know they in this room welcome to sophie and tell i'm susie shevardnadze and today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is who've good luck little. people criticize us or they question us some that want to know why we're not more book for nickel of russia and the real question is how come we're not tooting russia's horn more because they are been genius during this crisis but that would be i think a little bit you know over the top to simply point out all the good things that they're constantly doing so we just try to take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact is that they're making all these other economies look stupid like a pair of. leaf

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