that in future with with the regime regime in washington who's to say that the united states is going to abide by those commitments until the united states pulls back from its current position and remove the sanctions in accordance with what was agreed agreed upon through the nuclear deal then i think that negotiations are a part of us is saying that these sanctions are aimed weakening the iranian regime but in your opinion will they also hurt the iranian people. but i think from the very beginning the united states has been targeting ordinary iranians the united states is has very good relations with israel which we is now really officially an apartheid regime with the new laws it has very good relations with saudi arabia that exports extremism. is the backbone of the

ideology of isis and al qaeda we know what the saudis have been doing across the board in yemen in qatar in in lebanon kidnapping the prime minister of that country and in syria. but the united states has no problems with any of these dictatorships with any of these races regimes they only have a problem with iran which has elections which has checks and balances the problem and then the united states senate sanctions ordinary iranians they are trying to strangle the economy as trump says these are brutal sanctions so he's trying to kill ordinary iranians by the private in them of medicine he's trying to. destroy jobs he's trying to push people into poverty and of course as a result people die this is the objective of the united states of course obama did the same thing a few years ago. it's not as if this is something that only trump does but trump i

think is more crude and but less hypocritical than someone like obama who's more sophisticated and but at the same time more hypocritical when it comes to these things so the target is ordinary iranians they want to make iranians suffer so much that they will force the government to kneel and i think this itself is a sign of iran's. powerful legitimacy if the americans really thought that the islamic republic of iran was so unpopular why try to punish ordinary iranians to make of them neal forced the government to kneel so it shows that americans. this this paradox is really under resolvable they recognize that the internal legitimacy of the state is is high because of the checks and balances in the elections and the only solution is to is to mass suffering to make people so mitt but ironically i think the americans have united the political establishment and the overwhelming

majority of iranians we will have trouble in the months ahead there will be economic difficulty and i think there will be problems on the streets some people will demonstrate there may be riots especially because they are being in the b.b.c. v.o.a. in other words persian language western outlets are trying to encourage unrest and they're trying to create fear in the country but they will i believe they will definitely fail and the iranians will shift to using nine dollars though shift to asia or to china or to russia and the united states in the long run i think will lose more than anyone else despite the pressure that they're putting on iran for me by some very interesting points that thanks so much for taking the time to come and speak to as my guest is outside mohammad marandi politics professor at the university of tehran thank you. onto other news the conservative activist in the u.s. has found herself suspended by twitter for mimicking racist tweets of

a new york times editorial board member with the story is on the scale immobile. she's been removed from twitter because they say that her tweets violate their rules regarding hateful content candace she's from turning points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took tweets from new york times journalist sarah job and simply replaced the words white with the words black or the word jewish hundreds of tweets from sarah jiang regarding white people she simply changed the target of the tweet from whites to black or jewish when she did this the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her posts and ban her for making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah jiang was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with twitter with twitter assessment i believe that what i said what

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 the right race this was candice owens first statement to her followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard by the way as you go. tweets and replace the points with blank i'm in tweets of. i was double standard kenda so once replaces

word white with black and jews get suspended this is one we all call a double. every time i see one of these i can't help substitute black for white candor so reduced it i will never understand the double standard why it's acceptable to so many now the wikipedia page of the new york times journalist is also in question now the page simply describes her as a journalist and has minimal content regarding the controversy surrounding her tweets it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we could pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that so it seems that many people are looking at this case and looking at the statements that sarah john has made regarding white people and saying that this is a double standard so a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech americans just don't see eye to eye following news

of suspension can disowns was confronted on the street by protests. i. was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague and protesters gathered by demonstrators can be seen throwing drinks and shouting white supremacist and calling them racists police were quickly on the scene was. and it's 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 to the report was that we launched a campaign to find any relatives of those children and several people came forward saying they recognized some of them this led to those orphans being reunited with their families years after their parents left russia to join our correspondent in the coach and spoke to those families to find out whether they have managed to move

on after the tragic experience. so. if. they year ago two small sisters high g.'s and for tina were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say they feel safe here and this house the sister salue can 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 surrounded by things that once

belonged to that if a black couple were while the oldest sister is open and active fight scene is quite close to often seeking the confort of her grandfather. she doesn't let me go anywhere she says had dad also left in the morning and never came back in the evening she tells me how the gas station where you work. 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 more than what i said. in may twenty fifteen both of fund our son secretly left russia to join i so his al distraught took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true

intentions. that it's actually. about a week off today. i received a message from my son saying they are a 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 and all 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 args he reported from that orphanage the story spread and the children were recognized. yes 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 joy of 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 still just keep their diesel remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrive it's a they were always thirsty they drank like five liters of water a day only in these past two weeks has that stopped and they no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear that they will never see them again i think i would do this if 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 that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join eisel throughout the week we'll bring you other stories return these are adapting to life back at home. two people have been confirmed dead and sixty others wounded in a major explosion near belong in it so you think shocking moment of the blast was captured by an eyewitness. to what. 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 while part of the motorway fly over also collapsed. u.s. 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 the space for space. that's going to be great look 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 office of capability it's in space so we're going to do the space force. but not everybody is in use yes dick about the proposed military space program the pentagon's lukewarm response to the president's plans is just one of a number of signs that the disconnect between trump and his military is don of

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 fighters 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 bin 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 so very soon would come and i've heard rumors of people talking about the trial but it's not over when i think the announcement this week changing anything in that sense 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 route 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 first but i don't have any specific details on what support we could provide but 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. there are 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 about the latest news for you half an hour see that. you know world's big partisan movie lot and 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 on the bad 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. got afshin rattansi we're going underground seventy three years to the day the united states used weapons of mass destruction against the japanese city of hiroshima to kill tens of thousands mostly civilians coming on the show as folks in

disney report results this week is that murdoch disney or donald trump we speak to braveheart in bourne films actor brian cox about exploitation and predatory capitalism in the new series succession and is britain's independent office for police conduct independent collusion with former legible of police chief inspector want charles is great nephew died accidentally after contact with u.k. police told the civil coming up in today's going underground but first what's the beef between u.s. president donald trump and multi-billionaire politics influence a child's coke when people act in protectionist ways they wreck barriers which makes everyone worse on. the urge to protect ourselves from. change has doomed many countries throughout history and this protectionist mindset has destroyed countless business as well charles koch there the powerful koch family

before being characterized as a joke why donald trump but the koch family with their ninety odd billion dollars isn't the richest in the world com costs the n.b.c. network even made a video guide to this family saudi arabia's brail family has a big family tree for now just focus on. the late king the current king solomon and proud prince mohamed and some britain of course is selling them weapons to yemen right now but the u.k. has also been subject to the whims of a family that owns one of the big four supermarkets as it was near the town of kingfisher the thomas walton a struggling young farmer and his wife nancy lee started their family and it was here that their son samuel more walton was born the founder of warm up there which has just been awarded the u.s. payton to eavesdrop on shoppers and employees in stores but while bloomberg just released their richest families top ten including chanel's where time a as do ma ma. and al brecht's al the it's

a media conglomerate families and citizen kane that usually gonna most attention and play fifty three thousand people around the world we are proud and great to go and. distinguish doc has come to the mind of a fair few journalists are viewing a new h.b.o. series about rich families currently screening around the world on t.v. and on demand it's called succession it's executive produced and directed by adam mcconaughey who won the oscar for the big shorts it was created by the writer of veep in the thick of it show and in the loop everything i've done i've done for my children i know i made mistakes but i've always tried to do the best by because i love. brian cox then known for his role in the king of family drama as king lear known for churchill the bourne films x.-men two braveheart and rise of the planet of the apes to name a few brian is an emmy and empire icon went to a nominee for golden globe after and screen actors guild awards he joins me now

brian welcome back to going underground so who you're playing dog sumner redstone walt disney what it's succession about none of the above you know i'm playing someone who's a self-made man it's kind of curious in a way because i really want to play scottish interesting if you played this kind of scattered slogan rawya sounds vaguely scottish and said not only he's going to be american as he armstrong worked on v yeah well he's a great us and it's his baby in the loop fantastic great wonderful wonderful wonderful writer group of writers the writers was fantastic so anyway he he he said no no i think it's got to be american adam mckay who was the who directed the big short who's sort of gave it the series its style he said i'm sure that it's got us maybe and then they came up with this idea that it was canadian which is fine so i was canadian and i was born in quebec and then just after i done the ninth

episode the ninth episode of mine peter freedman who plays my number two i keep firing throughout the series and he suddenly said you know friday i had to do the sign. means in the additional dialogue required when you dump something you said yeah they've changed your birthplace. i said yeah i said release it yet you know it's not on the quebec i said so where is it he said it oh i can't hang on a minute so he got his device and what i hear is the m e-mail he said oh done the scotland which is where i come from. maybe have a conrad black problem. because media moguls have been the talk of all the press interviewing this but you in variety say something about the fact there's nothing even citizen kane like it's king lear that inspired it's probably more keenly i think there are elements of citizen kane no because of the background

which is not revealed about his background so there's a sort of mystery and dissension in mysterious logan but i think king lear is the obvious because. the difference is of course king lear and he spends most of the but he spends the play haven't given his empire away whereas logan roy is in the process of taking his empire back having felt that his children have somehow not stepped up to the mark on but the stance of the story it's a kind of morality tale in many ways it doesn't fit any particular genre so therefore it's original because it doesn't as soon as you think it's one thing it moves to being something else but with the children it is this per any real problem of children of inherited wealth and their sense of entitlement which comes from nowhere nice all their fault it's just the way they've been you know they've been. sort of conditions since childhood and that's the problem with these kids and the

old man feels a soft and he's right he's not wrong he's absolutely right so in a sense they go through this rebaptised fire in order to find themselves again logan is a really interesting character because you always talks about the games it's the game and they never get the game which is what the business. as far as he's concerned the business is this elaborate game that he protects and loves and enjoys and he loves it in all its element and and particularly in its savagery and he likes it when it's more savage but the kids don't quite get that they they are savage they are savage their vile but they're not they're more vile than savage. but i mean they this is there's class war yeah going on and well yeah it is a different war but it's also to do with the current climate in a we we live in really barren political times when there's no there's no moral

leadership whatsoever so everything's up for grabs and i think that's what the show captures brilliantly that the lack of moral imperative and how people are all juggling for squalid position i think the president the united states would beg to differ there i mean the field column the fetus real moral clarity there and if it was the trumps because trump run a rather big conglomerate is a media conglomerate with and he's not as intelligent as trump is not nearly as intelligent as not going right as if you have a favorite daughter there in this yeah i have a favorite your anchor is that she's intelligent cordelia she's intelligent yes is delia but she's the person that's most like him because she's questions everything a political question then it's all about battling with different conglomerates social media firms that kind of stuff there's no element the democratically elected power could impinge on these people well yes but it's also it's also who's in the pay of who you know who you know everybody depends on everybody else. and i think

it's shown that you know the administration's question. you know last group you know not just trump i mean trump's kind of some obvious but there's also questionable things that happened before to get the u.s. ambassador and i'm going to. you can't do that you know so we get we you know there's a lot of that and a lot of you know you could say clearly that. a bomb his hands were tied for far too long or he allowed his hands to be tied to long you can actually stand up and what he should have done right at the beginning because he lost a lot of time and i think that's what happens i think the hedging their bets all the time and and of course somebody like logan or. and all murdoch and that's probably what they have in common they understand that they understand when they hedging their bets so they can they can plow right through that and he fears amongst the cost of you is might be expected just to be disgusted that their media

is undoubtedly because of people you know because it's highly entertaining it is out of thing is funny it's highly entertaining and that's what keeps it going and that's also you can't believe you know this that this is a character i think it's in the head of goblet when she shoots herself the judge brack says but people don't do such things and that's what you can't believe you cannot believe the profanity that goes on you can't believe the double dealing that goes on but it's it's the world it's what it's about you know we see it all the time and especially now and we get so obviously on this all the time there's anything marxist about all this class conflict there's also a race that's another elevates and it's a race and also logan has turns out he has a little bit of exam agenda with these on background which we isn't totally revealed told in the first season will focus on a second but he's he you know he looks at the house where the wedding is for instance and this is built on slavery is built on loans built on this these values

of you know what and also not honoring and thought he talks about not on doing immigrants he said you know they were the you know use in the seventy's and use them to do the mopping up but they don't actually all of them and it's an logan's right you know you do see that but then also he's also. venal as well. because we know that meritocracy is something that say rupert murdoch does support you doesn't like the royal family is right i mean over here i don't know what perils you see here in britain because it's the brics it is who say the establishment to control the media who and the shadowy elites they're stopping the will of the people who voted for bricks you know with the brakes it is just playing on the idea of little england the gist of it it's so futile it's so obviously futile it's about you know keeping that well in place you know jake would be smog michael gove the johnson.