the united to steer things it leaves on a different planet from the other nations of the world for instance they are imposing that ifs intrusive pettis that if so against china and still they have the temerity to go and ask china not to import it but on the end or in how what kind of logic is that it is américa who will be. not iran ok look fascinating to see we're going to have to leave it there that was talk to mandy solomon a international oil economist and professor of energy economics too we appreciate your time thank you. now in other news it has been one year since we first reported on russian speaking children found in an orphanage in iraq following the brutal military operation there against islamic state after the report was we launched a campaign to find any relatives of those children and several people came forward to say that they had recognized some of them this led to those orphans being

reunited with their families after their parents had left for russia to join i still correspondent with in a court chain of us spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience. itself. was. a year ago two small sisters tied caesar and for a team were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of ever seeing them again the see they feel safe here in this house the sisters luke and behave like any other child of their age despite their traumatic experience

their playground is now the two rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on of our hasn't changed a thing since they left and now the girls play so round and buy things that once belonged to the black public while the older sister is open and active fight scene is quite closed off and seeking the confort of her grandfather. which she doesn't let me go anywhere she says her dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where he worked. tells me how. the plane has arrived and then left. and are often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughter source in my life. in may twenty fifteen both of fun of our sons secretly left russia to join i sell

his al destroy took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. it's actually. about a week after they left i received a message from my son saying they are in turkey i replied what do you mean in turkey instantly i understood everything and felt terrible this sort of thing happened a lot of the time a lot of young people left some went to join militant groups others went to iraq or syria it's not. often called his father but the last time he got in touch was when the fierce fighting began in moscow a short time after he and his wife were killed in a drone strike leaving her. alone weeks later they turned up in an orphanage in baghdad scared and traumatized they were among the group of children who could speak russian he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children

were recognized. that's years ago. i remember when the film crew arrived and they showed me the footage i could not believe it i could not believe that it was possible that my girls could come back home. despite the joyous the long awaited reunion this past year has been difficult for the family of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear is being left behind i do just keep their visa remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrived as they were always thirsty they drank like five liters of water a day only in these past two weeks has not stopped and they no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucuses just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have

to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world. i do not question r.t. reporting from russia's republic of dagestan and that was the first in a series of reports to you on the fate of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join i still throughout the week will bring you other stories to or hire attorneys or adapting to life back oh oh . now a conservative activists in the u.s. is hoping to self suspended by twits if a mimicking the racist tweets of a new york times editorial board member so let's get more details and i think he

joins us from the u.s. it often means you kind of just run through them exactly what's happened here. well candace owens who is the communications director for turning points usa which is a conservative organization she took the tweets of the new york times journalist sarah jong and replace the words white with black or jewish the response of twitter was to then remove candice owens account for saying that it violated the rules against hateful conduct this is candace owens explaining how simply read tweeting taking tweets regarding white people from sarah jones and changing replacing the word white with black or jewish got her account suspended by the social media giant let's take a listen to campus owens on the surface i actually agree with twitter's assessment i believe that what i said when i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet

about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the right race now at this point twitter has come forward and actually apologized they've reinstated candace owens account but there was a twitter storm in response to this move many saw it as exposing a double standard let's take a listen. by the way as you go cooping city tweets i'm replacing wants with blank i'm in tweets of bones there for twelve hours double standard kenda so once replaces word white with black and jews get suspended this

is what we all call a double standard every time i see one of these i can't help substitute black for white counter so instead i will never understand the double standard why it's acceptable to so many now there's also been a controversy surrounding her with competing at page sarah johns we compete at page simply describes her as an american journalist specializing in law and technology topics now as essentially prevented any any reference to the ongoing controversy regarding her tweets specifically criticizing and targeting white people however it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but you know sarah john that these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we could pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that so questions are being asked but the overall situation is being pointed to as another example of

controversy regarding the issue of race and free speech in the united states an ongoing issue which is constantly bringing forth situations in which americans just don't see eye to eye sure ok i think it's kind of it was kind of more and therefore if you'll let us know if the international going to take a quick break since e-mails. you know world big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than

we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and 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. game camera. roughly once the show and some will leave for the. future own cool videos and so on with the. down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . people are confirmed dead and sixty wounded in a major explosion there but on the airport in italy the shocking moment of the

blast was captured by eyewitnesses. by the footage demonstrates the chaos after the incident it happened after a gas tanker was reportedly involved in a traffic accident and burst into flames on a busy motorway a number of vehicles were caught up in the blast part of the motorway fly over is also collapsed of course will bring more updates as we get them. the us president donald trump has reiterated his plan to create a military force in space stressing that this new wing of the american military would have both defensive and offensive capabilities. space force thank you with that's going to be great looks so much is happening now in space i mean your great defense i'm not just talking about mars and the moon i'm talking about tremendous defense capability offsets of capability it's in space so we're

going to do the space force. but not everybody's enthusiastic about the proposed minute for the space program the pentagon's lukewarm response to the president's plans is just one of a number of signs that there is perhaps a disconnect between trump and his military at the moment is done enough explains. throughout his short political life donald trump has been taking an unequivocal stand that he is the biggest ally the u.s. military could ever wish for we salute their sacrifice or we salute the flag they fought to protect our great war for us the men and women who paid the ultimate price for victory and for freedom. the women of the united states military these are our finest but just over a year into his presidency the commander in chief has been all but drifting further away from his million strong core right now the white house and the pentagon are

squabbling over donald trump's initiative to create an additional military branch a space force. the pentagon was unimpressed about this a year ago the pentagon isn't impressed now is the space force get its procedures we know what you're going to require legislation a lot of detail play i mean. we have not yet begun in the past eighteen months the pentagon started through trove of public embarrassment because of their want to be biggest fan for instance this march donald trump casually remark that u.s. troops would be pulling out of syria in the nearest future the bomb shell decision the pentagon was not only unaware of but also disagreed with apparently will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon

very soon will come and i've heard rumors of people talking about the trial but it's not over what did the announcement this week change anything in that since nothing actually has changed fast forward next month trump says he wants to deploy the national guard on the mexican border well let's just see. the pentagon didn't have too much fun when it had to take the rap for this we're going to be guarding our border with the military members who are likely to be involved this overall expanded operation so that will all be determined by the requirements that are given to us that's true but i don't have any specific details on what support we could provide be they will provide us with the requirements and then from that will determine how many and what's the mission and how many will deploy back in twenty seventeen trump went to france where he saw the iconic but still day parade wow that's nice why don't we have something like this you thought some reports

suggested no one wanted the parade but trump reluctantly worked on it in a hands off mode the due date is just over three months away now the event is reportedly in the early planning stages and it's still unclear who's going to foot the millions of dollars bill some orders trump is giving out of all places on twitter last year he first tweeted that the u.s. would not accept or allow dot dot dot nine long minutes passed before he resumed. does anyone else in this room have any intelligence coming out of the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. their job or some coffee this list of when trump pushed the pentagon right under the bus is nowhere

near complete so with the space force initiative the u.s. military's well apparently struggling to get its hands back on the steering wheel he says i but he welcomes the advice from the likes of of medicine and pompei o. and bolton who are all considered the war cabinet but he makes the ultimate. decisions when it's time for a decision but when it comes to throwing out ideas that doesn't necessarily mean he's consulted with anybody he came up with the idea before consulting with everybody he made it known publicly and then once he began to get further briefed on the issue i think he's beginning to understand that the space force per se may not be the way to go although i don't think he's ruled it out entirely so that's how the news is looking so far today here in r.t. don't forget that we've got plenty more stories for you to say at our website you can find that at our.

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that of that's known as the i and then i conclude that it just is out in. the south. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten bicolor find happiness each day . eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first second and fifth cornrows to twenty thousand dollars. china's 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 just to show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust.

and what politicians to do something. to put themselves on the line to get. the reject. so when you want to be president if you. want to. to go on. this is what the four korean people are. interested in the water. polo and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire as we discuss whether detente is possible even desirable why

isn't it a good idea to get along with russia and much much more. cross talking detente i'm joined by my guest here in moscow erich krauss he's an independent political risk analyst also we have to be he's a political analyst with an international and in cyprus we have alex kristof or oh he's the director and writer for 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 let me go to alex first in cyprus we have a new phrase that's popped up in the last latest news cycle and that's criminalizing diplomacy and and a steamed expert probably the greatest living expert on russia in the western world stephen cohen was on c.n.n. with well someone with a very dubious road record when it comes to foreign policy mr max boot before i go

to you alex let's have a watch at this clip. i've been studying russia for forty five years i've lived in russia and i've lived here and you're going to be actually was it all actually for us and we would want our viewers sure hasn't read. it excuse me what did you say to me i said you've been consistent in apologies to russia in those last forty five years. i don't do defamation of people i do serious analysis of serious national security problems when people like you call people more like me and not only you maybe people more eminently apologise for russia because we don't agree with your analysis you are criminalizing diplomacy ok alex criminalizing diplomacy i think it really hits the nail on the head here because any kind of rational thought about what kind of foreign policy or bilateral relationship brushing the united states is called into question by people like max boot they gets

a lot of air time for reasons that are is a mystery to me go ahead alex. yeah i find it strange that max boot is calling stephen cohen to put an apologist i like to call max boot a war machine apologist he's an apologist for the military industrial complex he's an apologist for war criminals has this guy gotten anything right ever in his career he pushed iraq he was wrong he pushed libya he was wrong he pushed syria he was wrong he pushed you crane he was wrong it's absolutely amazing that the the if this guy any air time whatsoever and we can remember i think was three or four of us back to remember that tucker carlson had max boot on a show and tucker carlson crushed dollar he crushed him and he showed what an idiot max max who is an apologist for stupid people around the world but he's very popular ok because he says the right things to the right people well. stephen

cohen also has to explain to my example that they still called russia madelyne it's not pearl harbor well i think you know i was very impressed when several u.s. senators and other prominent politicians when they compared two thousand and sixteen election and they alleged russian made that into part of a lot of the people just told hey you know my father survived but harper he saw what it was police you know stop doing that you know these kind of comparisons are insulting to america in the first not only is that we have a new call for sanctions coming out of the u.s. senate now i they're on they're on vacation right now on their own leave so i don't think they're going to act upon it but it is it's really just virtuous signaling ok and i think what you continue to see this in two minutes is one ups ship basically there is a large part of the american political establishment which is desperate to find

something to be trump will. and that is the russian card and nobody loses points for beating up on russia now that the fact is this goes against american fundamental diplomatic and geopolitical interests which you really to avoid creating a coalition with between russia and china isn't their problem their problem right now is to score quick political gain yes alex let me go back to you in cyprus quick political game and of course they're getting it but the implications in the long term are are fundamental because i think now that it's a generational thing i mean why in the world with russia want to have better relations with the united states it doesn't have much trade ok the issues that there are there's a bring them together russia co holds most of the cards here and you have a political establish in the united states that is at war with itself so i mean detente is possible but the americans and the foreign policy blob assume that

russia wants that i don't think that's the case go ahead alex and how can you have detente when just the other day you had this bizarre white house press briefing there were all the guys were there you had christopher rah you had coats you had bolton and once again they're pushing out the narrative of russia election involvement keep in mind they're not saying meddling anymore they're not saying interference now it's involvement and of course you know it's defining what the hell this is they're just sitting there and they're getting to get this is tribes deep state these are the guys are going to trump administration or the deep state and they're pushing this narrative and they're scapegoating russia because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know there's going to be some meddling but how when where the assumption that it's going to be we remind you that the election has not yet happened and it's

going to be in november themselves and by then. this is already saying the head of the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russians involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all that just called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin said gretchen two thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and into a little different i mean i really don't this remind me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight zone ok this is the. fortunately have to take it seriously you are talking about what is russia one from the united states russia wants to be left alone it has its own problems russia is still undergoing

a major restructuring and the americans have managed to weaponize finance they can cause a lot of damage by blocking people from the international financial system they block them from the dollar system first but then the european banks are all running scared of the u.s. treasury so they can do substantial damage and yes the political dialogue put it here in washington has become a done for thirty years that means there's the assumption that somehow of your some circumstances russia is going to buckle when that is a wrong assumption russia is most certainly not going to buckle and russia has survived very well everything they've thrown at it for the simple reason that russia has a very conservative fiscal and monetary policy the central bank has done an excellent job of insulating russia from the sharks but it's still very inconvenient to. this draft all has not yet been published by the n.c.a. graham has already begun and that's why i think when they they proposed that they

went on recess they have no intention right now of doing it just. it is part of the chorus yes the background go ahead but the things that we know about it are already very very sinister not only for russians any of our who is suspected of influencing their american elections can be barred from entering the country maybe even then we can be just as i did to really get alexander. we got to the punch line before me is that mean the f.b.i. in the cia and all the rest of them because again the end of the israelis always have an influence in american politics but the interesting thing is that they're not addressing the real meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election and that isn't the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. and the corporate media don't forget. yeah the d.o.j. of the f.b.i. and let's not forget the real election battling was also against bernie sanders and it was hillary clinton and the d.n.c. that regard bernie sanders from winning winning the democratic nomination and the

bill that they're proposing right now is very sinister indeed they're even asking my secretary of state to examine placing russia on the state list of terrorist sponsors that's how hysterical this feeling is becoming coming out of grand stated here i mean well and i don't expect here but the you know putting russia on the list of state sponsors of terror that is that's a little bit more than grandstanding ok and erica you know we got to be here it's hard to walk these things back and my question erica earlier is this isn't working under the assumption that russia is going to surrender that is a wrong assumption well it works on a lot of assumptions for example it's not just to penalize russia for the production and use of chemical weapons you know who used chemical weapons ok there is that duma thing you know where people who are shown on d.v.d. oh by the by comments to be victims of a chemical attack later on these people healthy and alive address the press

conference in the cake and told how these fake wheedled was made that actually you continue what you just said happen but it's not only r t in a few other outlets reported the backstory to this is of false flag operation all the others concentrated on the who paid for these people to come from damascus to the cape well these people are on the view that you showed to the whole world you said they were victims of a chemical attack why don't you want to listen to them you really have to really go to really go to alex you're going to go back to cyprus one more minute before we go to the break here so it looks like russia russia russia is this going to be continued all the way to the midterms or in lieu of the mule the report go ahead alex yeah i think even when the mueller report is is finalized and i think we are coming to an end it's very apparent that the whole russia thing is just going to.