as usual the lists are. able to get these crazy and the sense of syria to be extraordinary what they've done save lives sort of the one how many nice people help the rebels they did in save civilians the new looks out for rebels. and war activists can stone says western powers who support the white helmets know full well who they're involved with i don't think they're naive the people in the establishment they know exactly what they're doing the establishment knows full well that this group is part of the arsenal of weaponry that is being used against illegally against the government of syria and they continue

to give out money they are attached to our they are terrorists and they are telling them that they are conducting they are saving syrian civilians well there are a lot of testimony from syrian civilians that their white helmets never help them so these people are not heroes but they are portrayed as heroes in the west if someone put it here one of my colleagues in the peace movement said they are the sugar coating on and off ugly and the illegal war. in the u.k. the question of what to do about british citizens who went to fight for jihadi groups in the middle east but now want to return is back in the spotlight that's after the appointment of a new director of public prosecutions max hale who was once an m.p. as a quote politically correct snowflake well that mr hill came into the spotlight when he was working as an independent review of u.k. terror laws some of which he argued should be scrapped he was slammed for meeting

with the organization group which is widely seen as advocating islamists but hill's own stunts on jihadists has been branded quote scandalously feeble by some of the u.k. media here's one of his statements that did spot controversy really we should be looking towards reintegration and moving away from a notion that we're going to lose a generation due to this travel those who travelled out of the sands of naivety possibly with some brainwashing on the way possibly in their need we have to leave space for those individuals to be diverted away from the criminal courts. my colleague neil harvey debate of the issue with a panel of guests. there has to be holistic approach through a balance of using the judicial system for people who have committed a crime by joining prescribed organization and a rehabilitation program and i think mike who recognizes that and his review of the terrorism strategy is bringing holistic piece together our counter radicalization

and i count as terrorist has been absolutely a joke we have had the government listen to stream live. what it is i want everyone to anyone tell you what i'll finish doing i'll finish doing my bit so we have a situation we've got british kids in syria being radicalized now we don't know who's committed what crimes now i do we bring them back home all we are going to take them out with. strikes which are about twenty percent accurate or drone strikes which ten years of use in afghanistan or pakistan show up out there for six or seven percent accurate indeed no drones are two percent accurate about ten twenty percent accurate you're lucky you're you're going wrong and. i'm going to get analysis from doing alternative facts. i just want to listen to a sound bite of boris johnson of course we legally justify those drone strike assess nations as preventative to stop future acts of terror in syria but that's

the mosques the reality that killing them is also richard beauty of payback for the film the executions of innocent people is that the right motive for what was the foreign secretary talking about basically an official. government stance a vengeance is not appropriate what we're doing if we follow mr barr is johnston the strategies that we are really french are using our justice system to the usa because usa has a death penalty but the reality is that we are using our sovereignty and telling the world that britain is not competent enough to really. sort of put through criminals through the criminal justice system. british citizens we need to deal with our rubbish we've got to bring them home if they are capable of being de radicalized and we can deal with them like they do in some of the nordic countries or some the scandinavian countries and we integrate them into british society great how do you go in and arrest these people bring them back in

a most little police corps to be put in a cozy cell to them go through a judicial system they're in a conflict zone they're a threat to this country so the legitimate military targets we do not recorded we do not count civilian casualties we do not count collateral damage if that is believed to be very rare on the ability the response no no no no no no no no no on the first series in parliament it was absolutely clear the m.p.'s came forward said we have no record we have no evidence and the reason is we do not count them i just want to sort of move on to a little bit different as you know in the last few days over four hundred white helmets activists in syria has been taken out under escort by israel to jordan and there is some expectation that they would be given british nationality or their european nationalities these white helmets were working hand in hand with ice and terrorists in syria at the end of the day on the one hand we are saying that terrorists should be taken out by drones then and other sort of firepower but

on and at the same time we let go of over four hundred white head miss terrorist who are operating in syria to come back to the u.k. not only. to sort of do it to be radicalized but to be given nationality and to roam freely as some humanitarian workers. an increasing number of celebrities are getting into trouble for old tweets but in america just how much trouble seems to depend on political the filiation playboy cover explains. it's become a sport watch someone climb to the top and then knock them off the perch using their own less than savory quotes like t.v. actor roseanne barr who lost her long time job a.b.c. following a very racist tweet it also happened to katie mchugh a journalist who used to write for the breitbart website after her anti muslim

tweets came to light the same fate be felled the sisters stars of the go with no job instagram account they used to have a talk show but it was canceled because they were old. and islamophobia tweets resurfaced on top of that left leaning liberal media outlet found out that the sisters have a conservative news pundit for a mother who likes donald trump a lot in fact one thing all those disgraced stars have in common is that they're politically conservative although recently the liberal camp has been hit by a string of very similar scandals james gotten big hollywood film director made guardians of the galaxy turns out ten years ago he was making jokes about rape and paedophilia his bosses at disney had to sack him the creator of reckon morty and host of the harmon town podcast dan harmon he had to apologize after an old sketch where he rapes

a baby doll called the attention of the twitter sphere the host of the daily show travel no recently faced criticism when his old sketch poking fun at aboriginal women in australia cropped up online who dug all this up the conservatives to find some politically incorrect skeletons in the liberals closets my chin of it all right blog keen to get revenge on the left was the one who found the james gun tweets he's loving the fact that the lefties are getting a taste of their own outraged medicine. i enjoyed just the wrong human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards twitter is just modern day gladiatorial combat but there is a slight difference in how the conservatives online mr mean is and the left wing liberals offensive jokes are playing out trevor noah and dan harmon have managed to hold on to their jobs james gunn did get fired but

a lot of the so-called liberal elite standing up for him james gunn is one of the most loving caring good natured people i have ever met he's made mistakes we all have i'm not ok with what's happening to him james gunn i think you for your tell and your decency and your evolution as a man i'm pausing myself to take everything in before i speak out of them i just want everything to know i love all members of my geo t.g. family some have even started a petition to rehire him the choice is fair wasn't quite as forgiving when it came to roseanne barr's hateful language shame on you the real reason and a b c network now a single apology can get me to respect your despicable racist character and racism in mainstream media now. i am hurt embarrassed and disappointed the racist and distasteful comments from rosie and inexcusable a.b.c.

and disney do the right thing there are still boundaries in the age of trump that cannot be crossed thank you for putting values above money rosenhaus self has picked up on it i'm disgusted to read all the support for james guns paedophile jokes as the same people supported blackly sue me for a joke they didn't even understand digging up dirt is one thing but it looks like it's more likely to stake if you're on the right side of the political spectrum part twenty past the hour here in moscow around six hundred migrants have breached the spain morocco border with over a hundred injured more on that after the break. and

when else should seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to say proud just to come after. and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out in the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. questions.

thanks for sharing your friday with us here at r.t. the last day of the brics summit of major economies brazil russia india china south africa on the way the participating countries have already agreed to cooperate more closely in a number. that's a cross live now to the host city johannesburg. joining us live site of the last day of the summit what has it produced so five. hundred scuse me the friday the final day of the summit is expected to have a much more relaxed compared to say to you the main day it's a few a business to business breakfast it's a few meetings the pinnacle of the day. of putin's media conference which is said to be held at around lunchtime well the more relaxed was hardly

a surprise these judging by how the city went all you need to know is vladimir putin's final meeting final. that was with his indian counterpart and runner modi wrapped up way past midnight so technically on friday so no wonder that today the world leaders are taking it easy speaking of the thursday a lot was done it was packed with action now of course to the extent that word can be used in regard to a political summit lattimer putin met with south africa and with the with the. indian with the argentinean counterpart so would snore just as the brics leaders who are here but also the leaders of other nations who got lured by the economic promise of the summit. also among those who said together set down together with latimer putin face to face what was the president of turkey recipe. well the way that meeting went kind a hinted at the potential bromance between the two leaders have

a listen. problems to have noticed that our cooperation has led to jealousy from others. good thief who promised to ask me out to restore to ask. her if we have a deal only when you stuck on weeks you know restaurants will go to the races to your pleasure. well speaking about the agenda it was if not dominated but focused a lot on trade of course and in the spotlight was the u.s. readiness to start trade wars to unleash new tariffs is pretty much all breaks nations were hit by new binding by these tariffs and i spoke to a number of experts i spoke to south african ministers in the you all have stressed that course while it did hit the economies of breaks nations still every cloud has

a silver lining in here it's the fact that now the brics countries are only feeling more desire to unite and to work more closely together while also sending a message encouraging other economies perhaps emerging markets rather to do more business with breaks with counterparts especially across the atlantic i will be staying here in johannesburg following all the latest including glamor putin's press conference of course and i will be bringing you everything on that too much it's time to go through the last day of the bric summit in johannesburg thank you. so the five brics leaders did gather of course for a group photo but not everything went to plan. what our new slogan. when we start running is can you believe it two years from now is going to be keep. them a ship. keep america.

around six hundred migrants have breached a border fence separating spain's north african territory and morocco. police say the migrants mostly from sub-saharan africa turned violent throwing

molotov cocktails and feces at least one hundred thirty people injured. two spanish outposts in north africa and every year hundreds of migrants try to jump the fence as the latest incident was off the spain's foreign minister raised the alarm over the situation. this is more serious than the euro crisis the migration problem must be solved on the ground and the countries of origin otherwise we're just shifting pressure from one place to another since twenty fifteen the migrant flow into spain has been increasing dramatically almost. thirty thousand migrants entered the country last year while more than twenty thousand had to really reached spain in twenty eighteen we spoke to keep best former head of the immigration advisory service he thinks that the e.u. has failed to find a way to share the burden of the migrant crisis people now see space in

as a better bet than italy who's trying to close its borders completely this again as always and this is been going on for years and years and years without a successful resolution and it is because the e.u. collectively in the member states have been unable to come to a proper equitable burden sharing of how to deal with migrants coming into europe a lot of the states are not pulling their weight are your world headlines continue in about twenty five. is democratic socialism the future of the democratic party the future of america is moving to the left a winning strategy to take on donald trump's vision of conservative populism one thing is undeniable mainstream politics in both parties for under pressure to

evolve and become more accounts. this is harlan kentucky. over all of these groups places you could organize very fanny's are you in. a coma and he said he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polarizer said. that it was a laugh to see these people a survivor disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. the fallout from my cold calling secret recording it's taken the talk away from

helsinki but it means more turmoil for the white house and take a look at that on this edition. welcome to politicking i'm larry king but now you know about the secret recording of a conversation purportedly between the candidate donald trump and his former personal attorney michael cohen what's the political and legal fallout for mr trump and the republicans we'll talk about that with. powell the democratic strategist julian epstein who served as chief minority counsel of the house is. forced distaff director of the government oversight and reform committee he's in washington and then lands down virginia john wood backed republican strategist former chairman of the republican party of virginia oh soon attorney and small

business owner julian what's the legal value to mr cohen of releasing this the legal significance is there's all kinds of potential criminal violations here the story relating to karen mcdougal a playboy playmate that michael cohen and donald trump were apparently trying to cover up by getting a news publication the national enquirer to buy the rights to it so they could bury the story very likely involves campaign finance violations that trump and michael cohen were trying to obstruct any inquiry into and this comes on the heels of an ever widening inquiry into the president for obstruction of justice and the rush into ferentz probe so the president's woes jets get worse and worse from a legal point of view republicans abandoned many republicans abandoned by the president on his recent foreign policy excursions whether it was the helsinki summit or whether was north korea that doesn't seem to meet materializing and on

the domestic front. republicans seem to be abandoning the president on the trade wars john the other republican. this conversation purported between trump and michael cohen how loud resonate with republican voters if at all. well i don't think it at all it will at all actually i mean i think his numbers when republicans were up around eighty eight percent as a last poll that i saw you know just to respond briefly to the legal aspect of this lanny davis is a pretty competent attorney i don't think he would have allowed this tape to come out if he was scared that his client was going to be implicated some kind of criminal matter related to it so that's a bit of a leap to say that there's criminal liability associate with the president or michael cohen because of this tape mange to be seen but this has nothing to do with the rush of collusion this is an entirely separate matter and i think one of the things the white house doesn't do well is differentiate between the two in other words the white house is having the president constantly messaging on twitter and

whatnot that this is a witch hunt while the collusion part of it in terms of the president's role in it there's no evidence that that's occurred but there has been substantial indictments of different things of russians and other people related to interference in the election which is a whole separate matter but the white house needs to do a better job of differentiating the president's role and how that is a witch hunt how they found no evidence of collusion by the president despite only one of these about the president than women john why do event joe insoles continue to support him. you know one of the things that evangelicals have been fighting for for decades is supreme court nominees and that is something that i think they are really committed to and i think evangelicals are are aggressive voters on the issues that they care about most because of that i think that's the chief issue that's driving them to the polls not to mention this is about the most conservative administration we've seen maybe since reagan and i think that it's it's an amazing

situation to be in for certainly because donald trump is not someone you would think would be an evangelical voters favorite candidate so is just a aster ask john the question is do the evangelicals believe in all and all and an eleventh commandment now which says that it's ok to cheat on your wife and lie about it so long as you support the right candidate for the supreme court is that would have been joe i but because i remember having this because on the other hand when president clinton had an extramarital affair and every republican want to impeach him for it just curious as to how republicans rationalize it when the shoe is on the other foot now actually if that's revisionist history because it was actually for lying under oath nobody was impeaching the president for adultery and quite frankly i wish we'd had this conversation back in the one nine hundred ninety s. as well because if i throw back at you you know did democrats excuse the behavior and they did in droves so let's just let's just stick with the president let's stick with the president ben jealous right now i am very evangelical zx to your argument

believe that it's ok to cheat on your wife and cover up about it and lie about it so long as you support the right candidate for the supreme court as your position. i think i think the position that you're taking is that you know it's ok for bill clinton to do it but no no i'm asking about donald trump and i think i'm asking about it's a false argument that's why you should also document it was you want to know was where was where were you a minute ago was that ok well as those was lying under oath democrats so where were you that's roundly. roundly content you want to let me a lot to answer the question democrats roundly roundly criticized clinton for that which you don't do in the case of donald trump that's point one point two is let's stick with your argument now you just your response to larry was well even jellicoe holes and conservatives give donald trump a pass not only on the cheating of the on the one on the wife not only with the with with porn stars and playboy playmates not only on all of the lies that occur

on a daily basis relating to russia not only on the obstruction of justice issues not only on a long litany of issues we can go through because he supports the right guy the for supreme court and i just want to focus on your argument here for a second that's the argument you're making well the question was why do evangelical voters support trump and i was taking a gander that it was on the supreme court to the chief issue and i think what you're trying to do is you're trying to justify your favorite president bill clinton's behavior by comparing it to donald trump's look here's the deal the american people are on his watch and worse they elected donald trump hillary clinton lost get over it yeah let's go to morrows that's another argument poor reportedly it is a bipartisan push to impose new sanctions on russia it's gaining ground in the senate you think we might see that this john. yeah we might i think a lot of most republicans have been pretty consistent and i would i would join in

this russian interference our election is something that should be condemned defended against should be aggressively pursued investigation and otherwise and i think republicans are really interested in pursuing that i think that's different then then that the accusation that somehow donald trump colluded with the russians but i would join with the republicans that have been aggressive on this and i think they should impose additional sanctions on russia for what they did to our election for to visit julian the visit of mr putin to the white house will not happen this fall but will happen early in twenty nineteen what do you make of that change well you've heard in the last week just dozens of republicans mccain. graham ben sass the chairman of the foreign relations committee corker on down the line roundly condemned the president as being and that confused. ill informed on the

facts in berra saying i mean these are not words from democrats these are words from repugnant republicans have used in the last week so i think there's been a firestorm of criticism from his own party and i would point out to my friend the criticism and the sanctions are not just about the interference in the elections which is now undisputed essentially by everybody other than the president or the president has different stories depending on which day of the week it is but it's also because of the annex ation of crimea it's the interference in syria and the attempt to block buttress a dictator in syria it's what's going on in north macedonia what happened in the united kingdom it's a whole series of things that republicans have taken a starkly different position republicans and democrats alike have taken a starkly different position from this white house on john it's the most investigation is not wrapped up before the twenty eighteen election what effect will that have do you think on the elections. you know i would agree i was watching morning joe this morning and lot of the folks on there were talking about the

impact this might have an election and most of the and they're not donald trump supporting progressives on the show believe that there would not be much effect of the small investigation on the midterms i think people really are looking at the kitchen table issues and that's the republicans ought to be talking about we ought to be talking about the impact the tax cuts have had in the economy we ought to be talking about infrastructure all the things that the president has gotten done for deregulation and i think that's what people are going to be voting on julian do you think the democrats are going too far left. i think there's a danger that they could go too far left and i think they have to be cautious of that i think it's a big tent party and what i think you've seen in various races whether it's connor lamb or or the recent race in new york where the fourth one third ranking democrat was had lost his seat i think democrats have a wide enough tent to be able to appeal on

a broad based set of issues i would also say that i agree that if mahler doesn't make a move very quickly in the month of august i think it would be inappropriate for him to make any moves before the election the way jim comi did in two thousand and sixteen in terms of this point as to whether the public cares about the mall or investigation i mean i just think my friend is mistaken on that it's true that the republicans don't but independents and democrats who together make up a substantial majority of voters all support the mauler probe all think it's very important all think there's something significant here john i hope the democrats campaign on the investigation i hope that's all they focus on because if they do they're going to lose and i think voters are not going to be motivated to show up to vote for democrats in the fall because they're all over this investigation the same thing happened in the one thousand nine hundred voters were turned off by the constant investigations of bill clinton we should stick to the issues and that's how we went john didn't.