well i think. there is still some fear just possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slow see entire families islamic state ramps up at tara campaign in iraq as a government security advisor and the media staying quiet on the increased violence to prevent panic. the number of leisel kidnappings surged in the summer now the special forces to not have enough resources to come to the militant style is there hiding out some remote mountainous areas. also this hour the prospect of a second summit between donald trump and vladimir putin struck fear in the media and among u.s. politicians despite a recent poll suggesting most americans are in favor of closer ties with russia. is important you should revisit. the french president goes on a trump flight tirade against the media over tailing of the scandal involving his

top security aide. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow and thanks for tuning it we start with breaking news from syria medics and the soft western city of psuedo have told r.t. that almost one hundred and fifty people have been killed and scores more wounded in a series of terror attacks the deadliest attack took place when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated himself in a marketplace two other militants were killed by security services as they prepared to carry out further attacks in the city the other assaults happened happened in nearby villages syrian state t.v. says islamic state was responsible for these attacks come as forces loyal to the assad government push to capture the remaining eisel held pockets in the southwest of the country. meanwhile i of i saw appears to be on the rebound in neighboring

iraq with its fighters launching a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing seven months after the iraqi prime minister declared victory over the group a security advisor to the government told us that the number of terror attacks in the country doubled from may to june and. in june the i saw millet's steps up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases with the doctors and killed civilians that's twice the number in may when i still had been devastated by the government military crackdown we asked the iraqi ministry of internal affairs for comment we'll bring you their response when we get it right ghazi of now looks at the changing nature of the terror threat in iraq and the tactics being employed by resurgent eisel. it took very needy the entire world united to defeat isis caliphate in syria and iraq they did it they destroyed the caliph it albeit at

a huge cost and proclaim victory some did more proclaiming than others coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the terror but done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq a case of celebrating a little early isis was never beaten and they lost the battles but the war's far from over they've gone back to basics hidden run raids assassinations insurgency terror but. there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slaughter entire families if you were there you probably know want to stay if i were to go back who would protect me and my family they would just come over and slaughter us and forces in the camp to protect their lives in iraq isis has gone underground these area of iraq is

colloquially become known as the triangle of death because of this new insurgency. they operate in small groups half a dozen jarvis that moves making it incredibly difficult to track them down. because remember there are still a few i saw a sleeper cells hidden in places such as the desert the forests on the islands of the river and among civilians few sleeper cells doesn't do it justice kidnappings killings have sawed as much as ten fold in just a few months in iraq a government advisor told us they target officials plan. bombs set up think roadblocks and murder will then vanish sometimes with prisoners. the families children of these soldiers that were kidnapped by isis begged the

government for help to find whoever kidnapped them to secure their release anything they got nothing and went on its own those are the men who protected the prime minister the minister of health and many other things source this is their reward for this service been dumped here on the floor. some of the hostages one thousand dead and their bodies mutilated likely tortured before death and their corpses rigged with explosives and the government's afraid that freed of people finding out how bad it's becoming you could have iraqi state media staying silent about the kidnapping also says not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue the number of ice or kidnappings to surge since may be another special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants down and that is they're hiding out some remote mountainous areas i still have managed to find sources of funding in

the so-called triangle of death they terrorize the locals hundreds of villages in that area has been depopulated but now the terrorists use them as military bases jails and commando units iraq is that a crossroads it learned to level the cities to defeat isis caliph it but that doesn't work anymore isis is an idea of zealotry fanaticism it's also an outlet for desperation for violence for blood and ideas the hardest the wall to kill. president mccrone has broken the silence over his disgraced top security aide who was caught on camera beating up a protester after taking responsibility for the scandal surrounding the incident he lashed out at the media for its handling of the story going as far as saying they no longer seek the truth charlot even ski has the details of this scale. well in

the last week french media has been in a complete frenzy over this scandal which emerged involving top security aide alexander. well but now a has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president marc corn made of this affair he said to a group of his deputies of love of public amash the buck stops with him that he and only he was to blame but then he turned around and then laid the blame at the press in the way that they covered this story essentially saying that the press and commentators were acting like the judiciary and were not looking to seek out the truth so we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images are they showing

with a desire to uncover the truth to present facts in a balanced manner. i see media policy want to become judicial ones well we know the president might call on the president from the united states have been pretty chummy for a long time but it seems now that president michael might be taking a leaf out of gold from books in the way that he deals with the mainstream media we know that dog will trump has been at war with the mainstream media since before he was even elected c.n.n. is fake news i don't take questions from i'm against the people that make up stories the level of dishonesty is out of control i'm not going to give you a question you are fake very fake the fake news those who want to talk about a buzz feed which is a failing pile of garbage writing it i think they're going to suffer the consequences well some may think it's not the best idea for a president not going to follow in the footsteps of. the president trump and we

also know that president micron's approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged now the russian media has long been familiar with criticism and being under fire from president matt gone but it now seems that that criticism is extending to media outlets in france. facebook has shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens artist and into the controversy. full centuries these were considered priceless treasure as and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platforms take box approach to ads means that console the difference between art and pornography annoying art galleries and museums all of about open from visits to mark zuckerberg about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of art by bits of paul reubens

even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is make you live for all the difficult lost in the append that to add to the facebook see they've even all suck a bag to discuss the matter. so who is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings of famously known to feature nudes and cherubs sometimes delicately draped with cloth but this artistic taste is a big no no with the media giant strict advertising rules they call the flemish tourist company thinking if he's not appropriate for facebook he's not appropriate for you and if you have a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect your good spirits even if artistic in nature this includes paintings individual bodies such as the budget speech cleavage story but it's just that we put you in front of this painting we are searching for. you for

facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is great payoff spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to post artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that is in the stricter guidelines and could be rejected but facebook might be playing it safe for different reasons back in two thousand and seventeen facebook came into fire for failing to may have sexual images of children and also failing to stop leaks revenge porn photos all this spot concerns of facebook. moderation system facebook's very baltic census flag posts but it appears it makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and autistic nudity but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from arts as you just saw visitors to the ruins . were joking we prevented from seeing paintings by masters to protect them from nudity the marketing director of visit flanders told us how people responded to the

prank bell they reacted very funny actually because they were not always aware that this kind of artist or paintings are not able to be shown on the social media they were not aware of it and actually we were not aware of it either because we have planned a whole campaign of facebook to make the world to aware of the cheers of flemish masters and it was only in february that we found out that all the new it in the paintings was blocked by facebook but we absolutely know do rules of facebook and about advertising but we would actually it's an open invitation to facebook to make them rethink the rules that they have because we believe that not showing the new paintings is like covering up five hundred years of our art and western history i understand of course that they need to be very clear little rules and very good at

facebook pay so much attention but we think that might be possible to make a clear distinction between. paintings or art which is completely different from from newt or pornographic knew it run two of the trumpet and some it could be on the cards as the kremlin receives an official invitation from washington that story and plenty more after a short break. it's. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to make that first move and here we are in an age where men are scared to make the first move don't know how to make the first move don't know what's right to make the first blow. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine tempting each day. eighty five

percent of global will you long to the ultra rich eight point six percent market so thirty percent is one of your home with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and get going rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one shows you know who are to miss the one and only. welcome back to the program a second round of talks between donald trump and bottom or putin could be a step closer the kremlin is confirmed has received an official invitation for the russian leader to visit washington in the fall and says although nothing's yet been arranged it acknowledges the need for another meeting

a recent poll taken in the us indicates that over fifty percent of americans may back a second summit and over sixty percent believe that better relations with russia would be beneficial for the u.s. meanwhile the u.s. state department spokesperson says she does not believe that russia has received a formal invitation that would be something that would come out of the white house so it's you know you'd have to direct that question to the white house about. whether or not it was a formal invitation i don't believe it's been a formal invitation but really i'm speaking that's out of my lane and so i just refer you back to the white house my understanding is that nothing has been set up at this point many u.s. media outlets have been voicing grave concerns over the relationship between trump and putin some claim that the leaders' summit in helsinki last week marked a major realignment of the current world order so america explains we don't trust russia we don't trust we never well they're never going to be our friend that's just a fact this president is dangerous that he's in bed with putin all of his allies have connections with russia the kremlin and the oligarchs i think he is putin's

apprentice the next time the two leaders meet could be at the g twenty summit in argentina or right here in d.c. in the nation's capital and apparently john bolton national security adviser will be working out all the logistics the next time he's in moscow but the last meeting the helsinki summit that took place last week provoked a total hysteria here in the u.s. the media accuse trump of treason just for talking to putin calling him names like a trader a week poppy a kremlin stooge putin's puppet and even accused him of being affiliated with the f.s.b. and the k.g.b. so it was totally outlandish. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of the groom enters it but it is there were sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances

by an american president why is president trump putting himself in this vulnerable high stakes in area and letting lattimer putin lead. man that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down they stand by him to washington so let's collude again. and there has been no let up in the de lucia of russian meddling allegations the secretary of homeland security told reporters in the u.s. the government needs to prepare for further interference from russia donald trump quickly fired back at that statement saying must go might just meddle in the upcoming midterm elections but only to help the democrats i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fight the new president has been tough from russia to me he will be pushing

very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump in the latest episode of larry king show politicking c.n.n. journalist jake tapper says the trump still does not believe the allegations against russia after president trump had publicly sided with putin. over the u.s. intelligence agencies over whether or not russia interfered in the election dan coats put out a letter affirming that it was in fact russia. president trump tried to walk that back but as we saw just recently president from just called the russia allegations of russian interference hoax so we know he doesn't believe that dan coats is in the doghouse because he is saying what he thinks is true and what the intelligence community reports to be true. is john kelly still got the quality you had. i don't think so but it's also just a question of can anyone rein in president trump can anyone try to get president trump to act the way that

a normal president would act to back the intelligence community to back his own intelligence officers to lash out emotionally on twitter i don't think john kelly could it has obviously been able to has not been able to do that i don't think there's anyone that could really be able to get president trump to do that whether it's of jared or ryan's priebus or whoever i mean president trump is going to be who is he. i trample have plenty to distract him from the russian meddling saga this wednesday with the commission president and washington for talks but it's not expected to be an easy meeting with john quite younger ready to stand firm on brussels tariffs and trade barriers they came into place after america slopped terrorists the tariffs on steel and aluminum coming from the bloc prompting the e.u. to respond with like for like measures and right before the meeting trump gave some insight on the current state of global trade negotiations. tariffs of the greatest

either a country which is the united states unfairly on trade negotiation fair deal where he gets hit with terrorists he says simple as that and everybody's talking remember we that he keeping this being roped will be great and the trade standoff hasn't exactly helped create a friendly five trump went as far as calling the e.u. commission chief a brutal killer well describing europe as an economic and euchre has had some harsh words as well. trump told me last week john claude you are a brutal killer but it is the first time that luxembourg has become a threat to the united states of america he meant that i think as a complement to them even though i cannot be sure those are also now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we will now impose tariffs on motorcycles harley davidsons on blue jeans levis on bourbon we

can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid totally unacceptable that it can't which is imposing unilateral measures when it comes to. create. if mr younger is looking for inspiration before his meeting with donald trump he could look to some of the european leaders who have already met with the u.s. president. thank you very much but the speech was just to long as you told the united states which is most natural meant exactly the united states of america you have a regular column for the whole world. you know you tell the truth in the future you . think t.v. you really want to see if they can work something out there we do work it out that will be positive and if we don't it'll be positive also if we don't know what

you're thinking about the stars are far and near one of those other. we've. elected. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.

thank you. thank you. the u.s. senate has revealed this year's defense policy bill that puts conditions on u.s. arms sale to saudi arabia for their operation and yemen. it won three assurances from saudi arabia that it will do everything to end the yemeni civil war and eliminate civilian deaths but as often explains there are ways around the policy now at first glance it actually looks like washington is starting to distance itself from saudi arabia's war in yemen as washington scrambles over amendments to the new defense bill the secretary of state would have to certify to congress that the saudi coalition is undertaking efforts to end the civil war and reduce the risk of harm to civilians. without the set's vacation the united states would be banned from refueling saudi coalition aircraft commissions exclusively focused on the

civil war some media outlets are all over it but listen to the language undertaking efforts to end the civil war now that's a clever way of shielding themselves from criticism and allowing any real effort some measure their progress now the saudis have been saying the same thing for some time now that they are taking measures to cease the conflict and they've also been playing the mercy card they've actually donated a billion dollars to the united nations for relief in yemen but that's help for the very same country they've been bombing for over three years with civilians dying by the thousands. to. get. the thing is under u.s. arms control policy it's illegal to export arms to countries that target civilians

well not anymore one word changes everything now the white house says it is legal to sell weapons to countries as long as they don't intentionally target civilians but when has it ever been intentional. and while the defense spending bill is being discussed the saudis already bagged themselves a new contract lockheed martin just signed a deal worth four hundred fifty million dollars all in the name of global security the deal will see saudi arabia acquire full surface combatants as possible launch agreement with the u.s. to improve global security and support economic progress this is nothing other than an attempt. by congress to put lipstick on the pig in other words to make something

that's gross and awful and illegal and immoral and on ethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle kaleb mop and r t new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of air strikes and some have hit civilian air areas however they always deny doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that has the rebels pose a threat to its borders. that's our wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more.

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join me every thursday on the elec simon sure and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world's big part of the. 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 of the bad 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.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle can you think of a more intriguing story line one that includes an attractive russian woman money guns politics power and yes unfortunately. this is not a story line but her life at the moment is she the most recent victim of the west's phobia towards all things related to russia. talking we're able to now i'm joined by my guest way mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst and co-founder of veterans intelligence professionals for sanity also in washington we have joe lauria he is the editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost my hillary clinton with forward by

julian assange and in london we have alexander make yours and he's a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ray let me go to you first in the swamp in washington d.c. how do you what do you make of this. story here because it is the timing is very interesting she's being charged for not being a. registering under the far a law which i find quite interesting is that about half of washington d.c. does some kind of influence peddling for foreign countries in they're not registered as a foreign agent is she just being picked out because she's russian go ahead. peter first full disclosure i want you to hear this from me rather than from the f.b.i. i may be called a coconspirator very quickly because i have met. oh my god oh.