you know when we hear anything. drone strikes played a key role in the so-called war on terror which the u.s. declared following the nine eleven attacks targeting hostile militant groups as part of that military campaign the u.s. has carried out strikes in afghanistan pakistan somalia and yemen however drone strikes have resulted in munis civilian casualties in every country involved in the campaign in yemen for example up to two hundred civilians were killed in u.s. led drone attacks. the the the. the. the the. virtual. the.

let's bring in jonathan shafi he's from the new foreign policy group now getting teach on it what do you think about the timing of the statement from the u.s. military if i don't join celebrating in the country for around seven months already why don't we just hearing about it. well often and this is what happens of course the deployment of drones by the united states not just here it was a sweet across the region and not just on donald trump but under obama's way o. and often doesn't come to publicly for many months after the start if they do a toll and that's because the new show day of this kind of war feel is to be there as far as the post we can they don't want and the the headlines domestically and then a when it comes at least that's it comes to many people is a shock not to people who study and drones are used by the states i would imagine

any civilians who just found out about this will big pretty concerned to think that on drones might be circling above them the question is all the civilians at risk would you say. well they most certainly are high i mean if you look at the statistics for the deaths of civilians caused by american drones they need a truly shocking and a as a series what they get sedating that this isn't a new posi this is something that is it was ramped up massively during the obama administration and this is of course continue. of the posi so civilians in the area got not just every day but say they should be concerned about the kind of damage that these drones can do and we've seen on numerous occasions hundreds actually over the years civilians have been killed and of course that the action from the local population is what you would expect one of anger and one that wants to see these drones and most of the country it's quite an incredible situation if you if you suggested and the other country having armed drones over say the u.s. it would be an absolutely ridiculous thing to think to think going to see another

public outcry. well i think that the attention that these things get is going to increase because if you think about the level of analysis that takes place i mean certainly new foreign policy but share i represent is looking to to publicize these things to make them more transparent but we do have a problem when it comes to accountability and of course it seems more and more that countries like the united states can float regulations can take part in these missions without their own populations knowing about it and of course that means that giving some kind of politico transparency to these kinds of things is obsolete or. maybe it's not us exceptionalism i'm not sure that the u.s. claims it's going to bring the region closer to paste you see any any sort of valid ety within that playing. i think the problem with that is of course that's always the claim that was a claim of afghanistan of which there still are not. the claim that there are you can even go all the way back to vietnam of course this is always the public

relations clean and the reality of course is that the united states is looking to secure a puppet in the regions to secure its own interest in the region and indeed to expand its power across the region and therefore public safety the safety of civilians and bring about peace we're all actually subordinates those interests rather than really appreciate your time and if he is my guest on a thing shafi convene a for the new foreign policy cred thank you. concern over global conflict feelings of helplessness and spending more time on social media they could be symptoms of a new mental condition therapist in the united states say that they are seeing increasing numbers of patients with what they call donald trump anxiety disorder apparently it affects both supporters and critics those that dislike trump worry that the world will end supporters feel isolated from society and even their families them attracts also fret about the origin of trump success the twenty sixteen election which they insist was rigged by russia with more is killing more

but. the ideas that are commonly labeled as conspiracy theories at this point are most commonly associated with right wingers and top supporters in the public mind however it seems that liberals also have their share of tinfoil hat thinking polls show that fifty five percent of democrats believe that russia actually did tamper with the voting results only thirteen percent of republicans buy into this idea which is pretty universally rejected even by the staunchest russia bashers stari know of no evidence that through cyber intrusions votes were altered or suppressed they did not change any votes tallies or anything of that sort so if russia did indeed carry out election fraud on behalf of donald trump why would james clapper and john brennan and the intelligence community say that they didn't do that are fifty five percent of democrats actually convinced that the cia is covering up for

russia that's quite a conspiracy theory we decided to ask new yorkers about it do you think that russia changed the voting results in the last election no no not at all ok and fifty five percent of democrats apparently believe that why media that's why. propaganda fake news trump says it best they're delusional misinformed or they have their own agenda beyond that something else do you think that russia changed the voting results in the last election s. can you tell us now well i'm sure through technology they were able to somehow finagle possibly i think so i've heard that a lawyer. oh yeah maybe but i don't know that they found. one story that you keep bringing up and attack president trump and i think they're going to try to milk as much as they can but. i personally don't see any

evidence of fresh million or elections i look to prove. yes. our media is a pearl and wall in the united states if people don't know the truth about what's really happening pressure is not the enemy that they make it out to be some people think that the moon landing was fake others think that nine eleven was an inside job and it seems that the majority of rank and file democrats believe that somehow russia got into voting machines and changed votes for hillary clinton to vote for donald trump the truth is out there but perhaps people should look for it someplace else. artsy new york the frenzy over trump which even so his hollywood star vandalized last week a spot to ride response from pranks this. little girl the. only.

reason there is sidewalk somewhere russian trump star can be moved to yeah destroying trump's hollywood star is great but have you tried voting in the midterm elections. president now has security out there on the boulevard protecting his star. to syria now where militants and rebels are refusing to surrender despite an advance by government forces towards the northwest and in the province locals meanwhile have been leaving the area russia sponsored humanitarian corridors.

at. the minute and secure and good to us they demanded six million liras they too called two sons when we reached the checkpoint they threatened us and you have to turn back now we're going home where from up while the who. she was. the device helps to detect explosives and weapons we press the button and scan the object it has a special indicator this call is one hundred percent clean but we've seen calls live with the full.

support all majority of people come with skin and breathing problems all children and the mothers have been checked over so they were given recommendations and medicine to start. with and if you want. to keep. international relations professor talk to the law believes the humanitarian code or is a good development for the future of syria. with. these kind of. it's difficult to for the remote to go back to their homes and.

villages especially after the terrorists organisation in control of these areas are speaking about the. future of syria without stability security by the tories and there is nothing churchill because of that i says that it's very very important and it's at the end of the day have been the. to war to make economy to to have a step after the civilians of the. fascist war against the syrian people. monday marks one year since the death of khalid journalist working with r.t. arabic he was killed by islamic state shelling in syria was just twenty five in his own r.r.c. sort of a special award to recognize the best reporting from war zones a ceremony which is just ended in moscow began with a minute of silence during the awards khaled's mother gave

a poignant speech in arabic to watch the not the newer members have been middle sort of. surgical of a certain angle had a bad idea with the moment. that us the. i mean there. is a little kylie and. mend in america nickel morphia had a duty. because i had been abused i had it going and that i could emerge as it hasa if you let's say let's. get out there to show their. side pixie of us and i had them in ages it was me and that is it is it a hired gun or how can the who. don't know how can gamble a matter him. artie's also created a documentary about howard's work in syria is a preview. yes

but he loved life the morning of the day he died i was worried my mind started to come up with the scariest of images i was afraid he'd be captured by ice so i had a very bad feeling. we were near the front line the syrian army was battling i saw how work was over

and we were about to pack our equipment khaled stood near it i put our helmets on him i just wanted to take a photo as a memory of my work with the film crew in the explosion came. along i realized something had happened to him i didn't know what exactly out of habit i started to film everything after i began filming i so lost in the camera. i tried the room then realised i couldn't move my legs i couldn't see anything my eyes were covered in blood mixed with dust a call for khaled but nobody. i

don't want to go on that mission but how did that hear i had of me she was bright and very determined she was a good journalist and you could see that by his reports she did a lot not only for journalism but for his model and as well he helped people soldiers she would bring them food and prompt mind. action omar fresno that i want to do something good for people family did a lot for me and now i'm trying to do everything for my last ones that's my main goal. millions in zimbabwe have voted in the first presidential election since long time leader robert mugabe was ousted voter turnout has been high the first time in almost four decades mugabe's name hasn't been on the ballot but it's raising hopes

of that home and abroad and he stevens looks at how this could mark a rebirth of the troubled african nation. this election in zimbabwe is a huge milestone for what's been a very troubled country with an even more troubling financial crisis and here's why is the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty the name of robert mugabe isn't featured on the ballots he was at the helm of the country for almost forty years and it seemed nothing good price in the way his departure from his presidential throne was as quick as it was unexpected the big coup unfolded after a fight for power between mugabe's own wife and his right hand man the first lady also known as gucci grace in the voice president nicknamed as the crocodile beach accuse the other of poisonings and death threats and it seemed grace had won her way when her ninety three year old husband sacked the vice president personally the

army stepped in taking control of the capital just as the parliament was moving to impeach robert mugabe he quit to now a smooth transfer of power in the crocodile finally got his teeth into running the country. with elections seen as a clash between two main candidates and man and god is a member of the ruling party and the incumbent president appointed after mcgarvie had been ousted although unsurprisingly hasn't been given the backing of the gobby claims that he grabbed power from him illegally his closest rival is nelson he's the current leader of the opposition and i recently qualified pastor if elected he becomes a bubble youngest ever president at forty the votes are still being counted results are expected to be announced at around five days time the two front runners are polar up. it's not only the generations they represent but also their political views and god favors good relations with russia and china his rival chemise is pro western he travel to the u.s. to meet state department officials and members of congress at the end of last year

listing all the howard feldman says that washington's playing a dangerous game by interfering in the vote i think it's a fairly dangerous and fairly obvious if they're the us are going to have some form of influence recent days we have seen the withdraw of finding from the americans from n.g.o.s we also do know that there are still sanctions that the u.s. have applied to this infinitely some form of. politicizing of the oil interference of the elections by the americans and i think america is playing a quite a dangerous game with this because if the wrong candidate as far as they're concerned which is been and if he retains power if he is able to succeed to it and it does look like he's going to that america will certainly be left on the outside of it having used the influence financial and political influence during the run up

to the election i don't believe it's going to be if you do positively when it's a result has been announced. many countries have strict rules on what can and can't be done during political campaigns in zimbabwe is an exception some of its restrictions during this election though the quite unusual.

the world's deadliest infection may become more expensive to treat that softer the u.s. asked for a paragraph to be removed from a u.n. draft resolution. the initial resolution data from july tenth was obtained by a from a source involved in the negotiations tains a section calling for team being judged to be made more affordable on washington's request that was scrapped doctors without borders explains why its inclusion is essential. and she has to be able to. take measures to remotes. generic manufacturing other words competition for. for drugs when medicines are unavoidable for

and she or when there are new generic versions available it's a part of the. international. norms and every country around the world has it really that's countries have their rates too through the use of these folks ability years. tuberculosis kills three people every minute it mostly fixed the lungs but can also attack the nervous system it's twice been declared a global health emergency in just the last two decades alone but it's far from cheap to treat and it costs fifteen thousand u.s. dollars per patient the drugs industry does lobby washington extensively the industry spent a whopping one hundred seventy one million dollars on lobbying just last year doctors without borders adds that the u.s. was lobbied to amend the un declaration on t.v. this is not a new element i mean those of us who have been advocating for affordable access to medicines globally for the past twenty years know that

a number of countries are very very strong pressure of their pharmaceutical industry who are constantly asking for much more more not all these stronger monopolies longer monopolies because of course that it's much more profitable for themselves and we know that the united states is very strongly influenced by the pharmaceutical lobby and it's therefore that they are bullying other countries to accept. the deletion of troops sex ability and numbers rather to date for the latest at the top of the hour. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle's trumps imitation to putin to visit the white house is postponed putin turns around inviting trump to moscow have a grand plan regarding russia or is he merely keeping a campaign promise this and much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking trump's agenda i'm joined by my guest here in moscow erich krauss he's an independent political risk analysis we also have. political analysts with international and in london we cross the charles schumer bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first in london here we had after the afterglow of helsinki trump appeared to have want to have another bite at the apple and then he changed his mind we can talk about why that happened and then putin turns around and invites trump to moscow the same kind of perilous jeopardy or is a different gambit in play go ahead charles in london what i think presidents can show what is possible and what is possible once the. sea or shall we say what trump himself might even call the deep state he's pushed to one side as we

know it house and it was very much of a one on one conversation apart from. the interpreters and we still don't know the full extent of what was discussed and although much in american media and british media even have pointed to that in a very prejudicial way as if we should know everything that is discussed between leaders of course this is completely normal of course when it comes to conferences and meetings between people of course there's an awful lot of chatter that goes on behind the scenes and that's as it has to be as in any negotiation and. himself would point out few people in the planet as he would say know more about negotiation than he does but of course i think the reaction back in united states and the united kingdom. countries that of course are very much opposed to policies in many ways his policies of trying to seek some kind of agreement with most countries and certainly with russia and probably behind the scenes with china and as we saw korea of course we can talk and we have talked many times in the past on this program and elsewhere about the vested interests in not promoting that kind

co-operative agenda there's an agenda of course of confrontation and there are too many vested interests in now and we can go into so i think from what i've expected to be a response he received and he's played that quite well if you like go to the media go to the deep state establishment the political establishment united states by saying hey we're inviting this arch enemy of the entire world as putin is portrayed in the media over here to the very homeland itself then when there was the shock and awe over that and then when nobody actually came played it by saying ok well and then of course in steps always the grand chess master and invited him exactly exactly in action because i could understand why trump backed away because i think he wants the mid-terms to get out of the way and we still have the moeller investigation going on here but what it putin invite trump. basically putin has

other things. then the united states mr pool. that is russia is faced with a lot of challenges with a lot of things which need reform and there is no interest for the russian state for the russian deep state whatever to be engaged in constant warfare with one of the largest and most powerful geo political players on the globe so basically putin's line is very simple he is looking for relative the talent is willing to be able to talk not shouting for already they've already met the man they've already met say i mean it seemed to me that you would need some kind of concrete step and that you know and kind of agreeing with eric here i mean ok the ice has been broken but what could the russian side expect with another meeting so close on the heels of helsinki well at least some improvement there with the russian diplomatic premises and the u.s. which are being all killed by i'm sorry against that war you know russia. famous american courts are just slow but also let me remind you who told us that

was postponing the meeting john bolton course said that let me quote him i'm there when chart is over well to hear from john bolton about we don't that is something that is going to you know you know what that tells me and tells me that john bolton loeb's power he wants very key because you know you want to try to it's not going to be over any time soon it is the one straw that the u.s. democratic party has to. eighteen months after the election they're still argue with the referee this is a no no they are one of the things gentlemen i keep saying this one that maybe this is going to be my signature comment for the year ok trump is mitt putin campaign promise kept ok check done let me go back to charles in london i think all of us took a look at this article in the spectator and there's no author attached to it trump

a train is the elites a sense that the. us always is a peer in democracy loving you know it's really quite interesting because the authors of this article essentially say that trump is the first post exceptional as president of the united states it's a remarkable characterization go ahead charles it's one day i it won't surprise you to hear that i absolutely agree with yeah i think it's an excellent article yeah it's very well timed and i think it hits the nail on the head and i would recommend readers viewers to try and get a hold of that and you know to eat it myself but it's actually in line with what yourself peter myself and others two and a half years ago on this program and elsewhere we were discussing that this is likely to be what would happen in india and having it's not just as the article says that this is why the state dislikes trump it's why they disliked the prospect of two and a half years ago because they predicted that this is what's going to happen trump is effectively as the article says he is a transactional personality he's

a president that conducts diplomacy in terms of trying is actually is another something just to say transactions in terms of business although he does do a lot of that as well and again i would say that none of what i'm saying here is in support of term or against from his just seems to me to be a factual observation there he regards diplomacy as transactions and therefore of course he benefits very much from his business experience and he conducts one to one meetings and not just with putin but around the world and that is bringing some benefits it is reducing tensions at a time when much of the world ok you used you use that term loosely based busa term benefits that's very interesting benefit benefiting who let me read part of it here but in crucial ways the national is bigger he trump and bodies is not necessarily one in the same with the exceptional nation meet those which has animated the self conception of the american political class for decades for his detractors in in that.