because the owners did not shoot around a corner. and shoot camera. roughly once they showed some leave for the. videos and someone with the broken eastern. down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . the white house threatens to revoke the security clearances of six obama era intelligence officials accusing them of politicizing the public service and leveling baseless accusations that preston trump. also just our seventeenth century slave trader is remembered has divided the city of bristol in southwest england old terms what the plot is going to be so you because you've got to put things into context of what we. know you'll get guess it's money it's

already told us what up pluck i mean look at. the former trump advisor come to the fire after he announces a new foundation to reportedly foment a rightwing revolution in europe he's taking aim at the liberal plan to piss george soros has been running the left. this is our change national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned six pm welcome to the park. donald trump is considering revoking the security clearance of several obama era intelligence officials the white house press secretary said they had politicized and in some cases monetize their access to sensitive information and may baseless claims about the president reporters were quick to question the implications of the threat. and the like and he wants to punish them for you know 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 in 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 fishel so 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 kill them up and not take 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 no need 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 who are 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 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 a president if. he chooses to bear to resize them 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 team 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 spray 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 monetizing his security

clearance is john brown and making millions of dollars they volunteered 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 pocket from the new forces of emerging former top spies who are turning to political activism. are to the new york the editor of defense and foreign affairs magazine gregory coakley 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 making extremely

common sense designed deliberately to undermine the current u.s. government now this is this would be treason of all the most governments around the world there are profound cases of damage to the united states' image to the united states' ability to function. even national security sense from what we've seen from this range of ok shows commenting in the last eighteen months to two years. a proposed park on a stature commemorating a seventeenth century merchant is dividing locals in the english city of bristol edward colston 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 coal since past city authorities have announced plans to add

a second inscription to the monument they propose including a parable paragraph explaining about the enslavement of africans around twenty thousand of whom are said to have died as a direct result of colston's involvement in the slave trade some locals are now calling the move pointless and for the statue to be removed altogether we spoke to racial equality campaigner we 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 ripped operate them babies from their mothers 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 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 familiar ates 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 signing so for me you look at the history of but we've got to put it into context julie fifty million people is a lot more don't know about and simpler thing one could recall in for what we know and redesign and find it that day historians of the tie are all consensual around that figure so i think as you need to get your facts straight it all depends what the plot is going to be saying because you've got to put things into context of what was up and 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 round so that's what i. want to be 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. zeal of 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 your lies as the most horrific period in bristols is free 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 iraq legal why why r t why do you subjecting me to the most ignorant based racist. rewrite of the street

a week early but obviously. the name of the white man who's got no idea how we all believe in marriage to the comments i'm with girls laymen 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. president terms former chief strategist steve bannon is looking to foment 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 website the daily beast bannon's organization will be called the movement and is expected to have its headquarters and brussels it won for polling think tank research and advice for european right wing groups he says the aim is to counter the influence of the open society foundation which was set up by billionaire george soros to promote liberal democracy then in supplants are already causing serious concern among some members of the european parliament an attack on freedom and democracy in europe we will not

stand idle we will respond we have to fight now with good arguments confident and true it's a frontal attack on the e.u. and european values. we asked a former m.v.p. from greece's series a party what he thinks of balance initiative and what it might mean for europe what is wrong with promoting an alternative does it not 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 these. 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 as 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 if we know where

that money comes from they've got to fly in those themselves but they've they're financing their of sims for what their example sort of the roots. are you know call the previous variable or be you 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 in many countries it's not the left they need an alternative well yes. sort of the left hold so you admit that there is no you know it's but it's very easy to be a democrat you don't use a. scapegoat whether this mr soros or this group is the recruiters

are you why workers are going to be excluded right so we couldn'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 the 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 if you see so many people are removed from different places you've got to you'll 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 record yes there are people we united states great britain other people have bombarded you know they destroyed the crowd and now they are denying the story and political responsibility and this is the same it is the same goes for the people not represented by regrets coming from

africa what devastated i forgot for a dictator essentially you know they reached european governments they have to take their responsibility part of the. greek authorities say at least seventy four people have died in the country's deadliest wildfires and over a decade over one hundred fifty people have also been injured in the inferno which is continuing to devastate several areas close to the capital athens. brussels has come up with a new plan for handling the migrant crisis that story and more after

a short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy glue from day shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful and very critical time time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. people criticize us for the question asked and they want to know why we're not more critical of russia the real question is how come we're not shooting 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 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. welcome back to the program the european union has given more details about how it plans to help member states deal with the influx of margarine through the continent as it attempts to quell the mounting discord over the crisis. reports the e.u. it suggesting could pay up to six thousand euro is going to host them in secure 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 migrants that have 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 a rifle over the next two rainin see in two thousand and 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 the forcing 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 bloc particularly by italy who recently talked about the fact that it was close its pool to my quince. enough is enough saving lives sees a juicy but transforming its really into an enormous refugee camp is not italy is done bowing its head in a baying this time someone saying. 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 votes to dog who 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 the european commission white paper which has 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 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 their mood is secure and happy with paying for this so what we'll see is this logic countries possibly contributing more to this new 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. 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 and eighteen world cup performance everyone has given his backing to the star player. such racist treatment towards a young man for his religious beliefs is unacceptable he has given his to the german national team. it was a photo with everyone back in may that resulted in anger from politicians the german football association and media alike all leveled at as.

you can tell in that. he calls add on his president and lets himself want to graft in from the pictures of muslim congress someone that is not german and someone who does that should not play football for the german national team such a photograph has a symbolic value and it is definitely not what is needed at the moment it is clear when you play for germany you represent the country and the german values. the first serve also with a plan was a mistake it is still a mistake the reason as it also gave did not convince me at all he speaks of respect but that raises the question of how it is respectful for the victims about a man's policies respect for journalists who are in prison only because they have done their job.

what what we have seen here in the german team is basically a. reflection of what is going on. so government job and politics we have we have to do for you case on the. thrillers. multiculturalism was basically of the. elements of the media of the green stuff this social good equality and this is with the rain away it is getting slimmer and slimmer. and as it also took to twitter accusing the team's management of discrimination the german football association has emphatically rejected claims

made by isil that they have been racist and disrespectful to him but the footballing body did accept that it could have done more to protect him now that the top footballer has quit some boys are continuing to criticize the midfielder while others are sympathizing with him. as he knows the chancellor holds mess with a seal in high esteem and is that the c.e.o. is a great footballer who has done a lot for the national football team he has now made a decision that must be respected if planets and in any case the truth is on the peach the fact that the germans were knocked out of the won't cop has little to do with mr or even his picture taken with president. former manchester united and australia goalkeeper mark bosnich said he understands very well how are still feels as a son of a migrant himself but you do have immigration there are going to be issues and you know it is understandable when you are either a son little grandson all second or third generation immigrant into account your feelings towards you so what's the country that you're originally from and also

feeling for the country where you're at at this moment in time so i can understand where he's probably from completely well i think it was very unfair i mean germany had a very full world cup visit i was there for me wasn't any better or any worse than any other was if you look at the statistics which i'm so you really think you know he was actually quite ok he's been a wonderful serve germany over the years he won the world cup twenty four years without. being german player of the year old on several occasions before him and for yourself a wonderful career. 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 in spain's breakaway region catalonia and with nasa celebrating its sixtieth anniversary if parent lee has gone into orbit as well.

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 is mean since two thousand and eleven no african-american astronauts from nasa had been in space has had the opportunity you know it does raise the question what's going on are the russians were fusing to launch african-american astronauts. if that is the case i have never heard that. certainly i will start asking that question now that you've mentioned that to me but i have not heard that and i am unaware if that's the case.

and i seriously do not believe it was the russians our russian colleagues partly because them 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 know a testament to that it was that i think some of the people there may have known that nasa 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 african i have i've been accepted quite well by my colleagues from russia like people from

our ross cosmos and the killed or injured 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 eps you know from from flight i don't we assume that there is some sort of physical reason. you know why that happened not i'm not privy to her medical. information. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can find us on all of your favorite social media platforms up to the minute reports thanks for to me i'm.

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for common ground. well in the report on nice guys are all kinds of exciting stories developing right before your very. serious hey max i want to say i don't need to toot our own horn but i'm going to we were right and b.b.c. newsnight were wrong and that is according to bloomberg and a former i.m.f. official and they say basically kaiser report was right newsnight was wrong newsnight was wrong not only like once but like two three four five six times in a row back in two thousand and fourteen. with the introduction of sanctions against russia and the tumble of the ruble. well during that time b.b.c.

newsnight said there would be a current account crisis there would be a debt crisis and basically russia would fall and we covered the story we had leant how again on telegraph journalists and we had constantine and i was episode six nine five and this is december twentieth two thousand and fourteen and here's a short clip of liam halligan talking about the nerves of steel coming from the kremlin i actually think even though the current the interest rate move that we have seen has been dramatic from ten and a half to seventeen of course the six interest rate rise so far this year the central bank hasn't actually fired its big guns yet we have had a little bit of currency intervention it's mainly been the conversion of the ministry of finance is existing on the books flows from rubles.