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 wants with blank i'm in tweets of bones that 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 can't is so stupid 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 and americans just don't see eye to eye following news of her twitter suspension candice owens was confronted on the street by protests. with was it was. was. always was having breakfast with another conservative activists colleague when protesters gathered nearby demonstrators could be seen following drinks and shouting stop white supremacy while calling them racists police quickly on to the scene. it is being 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 that we launched a campaign to find any relatives of those children and several people came forward saying they recognize some of them this led to those often spinning reunited with their families years after their parents had left russia to join i saw a correspondent in the coach of a spoke to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on after the tragic experience. so. if. a year ago two small sisters had caesar and fights hemo were brought back to their grandparents who at the time lost all hope of africa seeing them again they say

they feel safe here in this house the sister salue can behave like any other child of their age despite their traumatic experience their playground as 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 he worked. tells me how the plane has arrived and then left. on bar often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved

granddaughter source in my life one of them look at us. and who's. 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 after they lack. 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 is 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 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 stories and the children were recognized. series. 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 and of our sas it's only now that some of the girls fear is being left behind i do you just keep their visa remembers how difficult and dangerous it was to go to get water so when they arrived as if 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. if there is any 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. which. i do not question i see reporting from russia's republic of dagestan but i was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join islamic state throughout the week we'll bring you other stories on how return these are adapting to life back at home.

to people being confirmed and sixty of those wounded in a major explosion near belong port in italy the shocking moment of the blast was captured by an eyewitness. it happened after a gas tanker was reportedly involved in a traffic accident and burst into flames on a busy moments away a number of vehicles were caught up in the blast on part of the motorway fly over also collapsed. it was present on 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 force thank you very. much going to be a 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 . not everybody's enthusiast think about the proposed military space program the pentagon's lukewarm response to the president's plans that's just one of a number of signs that there's a disconnect between trump and his military 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 for 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 kids for soldiers. we get you know we're going to require legislation a lot of detail play i mean. we've 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 it will come and i've heard rumors of people talking about the trial but it's not over what is 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 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 just about 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 want to play 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. or get rich in 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 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 rather briefed on . these big events to and the space force per se may not be the way to go although i don't think he's ruled it out entirely. a british man who worked as an inspector at an american military base in germany is suing the u.s.

army david paterson and his colleagues were unwittingly exposed to a toxic form of cadmium with the u.s. army sending a warning letter only a year after the job was done back in two thousand and seventeen he was overseeing the cleaning of contaminated army equipment. a couple of minutes from here for this white powdery substance but like told though a very fine variable. was so we actually started cleaning these boxes well so any really it was a mission. in the any knowledge of the deal or actually doing those boxes what's what. and when it's warning letter sent a year too late the u.s. army said that skin and eye contact should be avoided also recommended wearing special protective gear are standing near the contaminated boxes one of the risks was that the cadmium covering the equipment could become airborne and then it could be breathed then

a highly toxic substance is known to cause cancer and affect the central nervous system and it could even cause kidney failure acute inhalation may cause death on receiving the warning letter david paterson made contact with the u.s. army. their reaction was one of the they are treating it as though it was a host's just not accustomed to customer genic dangerous dust the day before the inspector arrived from the journalists orifice they ripped out every case of the fifty cases then what they did they actually got all these fifty cases and then the policeman one area or been to the sun the wind the rain and was only three metres from a drainage system unions in germany have reportedly already raised the alarm over the working conditions at the us military base urging the authorities to take action but the army says the equipment was mishandled in june some equipment was cleaned incorrectly this was done by eight employees in one department we get the

boxes civilians we work in the boxes we clean the quint. we get the believe that we are responsible for everything why the box is not not dangerous i've been there know or was there working for the same company sixteen months until i or my most and asked until i demanded that we have some type of action on these boxes i was sacked from m n equal results s. and i am taking them to court for a legal sakhi and gross misconduct then we shall stop about your s call and the army we've across the comment from the u.s. army and other firms involved in the contract. city of god dess was prospered as a transit city for those heading to europe but a migration deal with the u.s. now vertically change that situation.

you're going to need to agadez its economy was a files in time stronger before the migrants came in large numbers and bought a lot of things in the city they were paying taxes even vehicles now they don't even contribute ten percent of what they used to the economy. that is frankly in agadez we don't understand the e.u. the whole of the agadez population doesn't understand the politics of the european

union the new border of the european union is not on the side of the mediterranean in libya no it's right here at the gates of agadez this is the new border of the european union. after the real oh and. of they. i say this is a known void there we came in with canada. for enough of them and this woman before the introduction of the long migration was a money making activity not only for territorial jurisdictions but also for transit cities now with a look at the migrant flow if we compare the number of people passing through agadez to cross into libya we see a reduction. of state with r t updates coming your way and often are.

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a bird. or a little smile at. hello 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 me he's a political analyst with an international and in cyprus we have alex christopher 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 appreciated 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 partially 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 like me and not only me but people more eminently apologists 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 russia in the united states should have is called into question by people like max boot 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 a put in 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 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 ukraine he was wrong it's absolutely amazing that the the if this guy any airtime whatsoever and we can remember i think was three or four of us back to remember that tucker carlson had max boot on show and tucker carlson crushed dollar he crushed him and he showed what an idiot max would match 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 perfect harbor well i think you know i was very impressed when several u.s. senators and other prominent politicians when they compare the two thousand and

sixteen election and then ledged russian method into a part of harbor 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 there 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 they're on 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 true. with 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 gain 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 blog 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 have bolton and once again they're pushing out the narrative of russia election ackley

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 going to solve something by. then of course is already saying that 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 to 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 which is 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 interested in a different line here you know this reminds me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight zone ok the other 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 term for thirty years that means there's the assumption that somehow of your some circumstances russia is going to buckle what 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 and. 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. and the cia and all the rest of them and when the israelis always have an influence in american politics but the interesting thing is to say 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 regards 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 statement here i mean well i don't expect here but do you know putting russia on a list of state sponsors of terror that is that's a little bit more than grandstanding ok and erica you know we go to the me 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 but oh it works on a lot of assumptions for example it's just to penalize russia for the production and use of chemical weapons you know who used chemical weapons ok there is that doing one thing you know where people who were shown to be go by the by accountants 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 continue to happen but it's not only r t in a few other outlets reported the backstory to this this of false flag operation and

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