aircraft makers and so on who are losing these multi-billion dollar investments as a result of these sanctions not the u.s. companies aren't so heavily involved themselves so the e.u. understand this is an attack on then this is a ramping up of beggar thy neighbor policies of the type that we saw in the thirty's as in the run up to power blocs actually going to war militarily and we're now seeing this the early stages of this manifesting on the economic battleground which at the moment is in iran but this is a battle between the u.s. and e.u. as your package again pointed out so very significant development is there is this donald trump trying to negotiate with rather aggressive tactics better deals with pretty much all of america's partners or anybody they have a deal with around the world be it nuclear deal with iran be trade deals with china or with. just this him trying to look for a better deal for the u.s. everywhere. as i say i think that i don't think that's really

the full story i think this is about i mean of course he would love it if iran rolled over and who could look like the the big man who forced them to give up their missile program or something like that but i think the aim is actually a lot more a lot deeper than that this as i say this is about. not just not changing iran's policy of destroying iran's capacity to act as an independent regional power you know this is this goes back to media post cold war period the idea of full spectrum dominance there should not be any region in the world where the u.s. does not have absolute military economic superiority in any regional power any power in any region of the world that has some kind of influence beyond its borders is a threat to that to that to to that design so this is not about getting around to change its policy this is about destroying around capacity to act as an independent power

so in a way that the aggression itself is the point the war on the population the weakening of the nation is the point is not a negotiation strategy that is the very purpose and thrust of this policy as well as as i say it's international dimensions of actually. trying to sabotage the european rivals of u.s. capital as well at the same time i think the the e.u. response to this i think it's largely bluster i don't think they will be able to get very far is a legal let's stick approach you know and terms not really as we well know not really about following the law that the whole sanctions are illegal go against international law go against the treaty that has been upheld by the u.n. security council etc he's not interested in these legal niceties about oh the european companies you can take the u.s. to court and so on if they get sanctioned that's going to go nowhere this is a rule power play. it's going on and i and the e.u.

i think unfortunately. doesn't quite understand that and even if it did doesn't have really the means of dealing with it the problem is that european companies can be cut off from the u.s. controlled global financial apparatus if they do business with iran that you can't really protect them from that because they need to do business in dollars with the u.s. with the u.s. financial system europe's been very slow to wake up to the dangers or the reemergence of these tensions the rest of the world the brics the global south and so on especially china and iran as well have been trying to ease themselves off dollar dependency set up alternative financial market architecture and as a result this pressure won't work against china i don't think i think china iran is too important for china for china to be to be scared away by this but also china has its own currency which is becoming in internationalizing its currency has got

his own alternative banking system so the u.s. doesn't have that hold over them anymore but they still do over europe europe been slow to it's hasn't made any attempt to dealing so therefore is completely at the mercy of u.s. policy dan appreciate your time thanks for talking to his don't glaze book my guest independent political analyst ok. conservative american activist candor so interest being briefly suspended by twitter for mimicking the racist tweets of a new york times journalist killer morgan has a story. 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 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 johnson was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter twitter is 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 candace 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 i'm replacing wants with blank i'm in tweets of bones the 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 over twitter suspension can disowns was confronted on the streets by factious protest this was. owens was having breakfast with another conservative activist colleague when protesters gathered nearby demonstrate his could be seen during some shouting stop white supremacist including the racists the split with the on the scene. as for you journalist to even do a good speech you can switch in this case and then. eventually for blocking the

count they called it an era do you believe that it was indeed an era. well i think they got themselves in a bind because they you know they jumped so quickly to ban what was. you know a satire the only thing it's not i would also say that that owen's was not really accurate because they implication was that these things happened when john was working for the times and they actually were apparently from two thousand and thirteen so you know it's of it totally valid to call up. what people have done in the past but to imply that they did them contemporaneously to where they're currently working in a news situation is misleading to your readers so i think there's a lot of issues here it's a real it's a real stew of things but the first point i would make is that twitter is not

a utility it's not even a media in the sense of like say a new york times that can have its own policies for what is acceptable and not in its in its news content and so for them to jump in and totally censor someone and block them from appearing is you know their prerogative you can question it and question the wisdom of it but they haven't broken any laws or violated any journalistic standards or anything like that. so. you know let's let's be clear it's not as though the new york times had fired a reporter for something that they wrote at the time or didn't. if you have any sense you know you make you make some interesting points that is new york times journalists as you pointed out these actual tweets from the past before time. it raises an interesting point though we've seen quite

a number of high profile people recently released jobs because of revelations of tweets they made in the past you know raise the question of whether that. history of her should have been covered a lot sooner well i'm not so sure we've seen so many people fired in the past i mean if you have some tell them to me we've had people fired for bad behavior in the past like with me tube. but i can't you know nothing leaps to mind of somebody having been fired for a tweet they did five years ago well i'm thinking of the guardians of the galaxy direct. thinking of well more recently i think it was roseanne barr with tweets that she sent out and that was more contemporaneous but it seems like there was. this is something that now becoming more frequently occurring it seems that people's twitter accounts but also twitter history is being is being looked at is

it not relevant the thing you know the comments that people have made in the past does not represent who they are shouldn't shouldn't be about let's be honest but let's be honest about it don't imply that it's something that she currently did if you want to they she did this five years ago. why did the times hire her you know that would be a valid thing don't don't imply that she's doing that now. that's a lack of integrity journalistic integrity on the part of breitbart if they didn't make that clear which it appears to me they didn't ok it's a fair point many thanks for joining us to discuss this story journalist dave lindorff my guest thank you. thanks for having me. 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 the islamic state after the report was we launched the campaign to find any relatives of those children and

several people came forward saying they recognize some of them this led to those orphans being reunited with their families years after their parents had left russia to join i saw one correspondent in a culture respond to those families to find out whether they've managed to move on following the tragic experience. so. if. a year ago two small sisters had caesar and fights 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 is now the two

rooms upstairs that were once home for their parents their grandfather on var 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 plays well the oldest sister is open and active fight scene is quite close to often 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 he. tells me how the planes arrived and dropped them off and let. anybody to. unbar often speaks about the day in august twenty seventeen when they discovered their beloved granddaughters were still alive one of them look at us. and who's.

in may twenty fifteen both of fund our son secretly left russia to join i sell his al destroy took his wife and two young daughters and never revealed his true intentions. that it's actually is what about a week after they live. 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 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 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 that 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 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 artie reporting from russia's republic of dagestan that was the first in a series of reports on the fates of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join islamic state for the week we'll bring you of the stories of how returning is adapting to life back at home. two people have been confirmed dead and sixty others wounded in a major explosion near belong in italy the shocking moment of the blast was

captured by an eyewitness. what. happened after a gas tanker was reportedly involved in a traffic accident and burst into flames on a busy motorway and the revere calls who caught up in the blast while part of the motorway fly over collapse. the jersey city of agadez once prospered as a transit city for those heading to europe but a migration deal with the european union is now radically change that situation.

you're going to need to agadez economy was a thousand times 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 a negative as 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. all and. as they terry i say this is facing our own lloyd

erlick a man with an invalid. for another in the days 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. about with the dice. well you would often i see that. on this edition of crossfire we discuss whether detente is possible even desirable

why isn't it a good idea to get along with russia and much much more. camera . roughly once the show it's a movie for the. future own two videos and so move with the broken eastern. down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . show welcome to. the nazi white supremacist movements are back in the headlines in the u.s. and my guest today knows all about it he founded

a hate group that were into one of the biggest gain had groups in the u.s. before renouncing them relent and now working to counter its message of hate how to contain the appeal of right wing well i ask arnold the callus. author of my life after hate. political extremism the rise of the u.s. with the far right groups grow in movement by the fire a campaign rhetoric of president donald trump. uncompromising reaction from the left with clashes between the two sides becoming ever more violent is radicalism threatening to split america into the message of hate groups be effectively killed or shouldn't just be banned for good. artemy cayless welcome to the show great to have you with us. are the recent white lies. atter rally in tennessee created a lot of hype police were on alert people praise for brawls bloodshed like the one

in charlottesville back in august but why power protests were actually out numbered by counter protesters and bystanders are white supremacists going out of fashion or is it just the calm before the storm. i think any type of words of from israel it happens in the states the lloyd's of promus are going to be outnumbered they're ready for that it actually helps to fuel their victimhood narrative that there is there are facing these extreme odds so fight for their people's whether their old number or not the attention they get is really what they're after well at the same time the number of hate groups have been on the rise in the u.s. for two years with over nine hundred in total acting now in your country that's according to the south unpowered a law center another we search suggest hate crimes rose up to twenty percent in two thousand and sixteen why is this happening how to explain the trend i think because

of the current political climate where not only acceptable but being put in the policy that immigrants are a threat to the muslim people or. gives a car launch to disgruntled white people in the united states to act out in the same sentiments would often result in actual violence and certainly fuels the rising membership of aid groups. well during the rallies and shallots still back in august white supremacists where eagerly. talking up their support for trump does he make them feel emboldened is this related yeah absolutely since before the campaign. white supremacy groups in the united states have been huge supporters of trump feel they have an ally in the white house. and we grew muslim or

a time as. gay rhetoric is really the same talking points that groups like the ku klux klan and the national socialist movement have been using for years so as much as he may say all the wise the policies that he. would should include atrocious things like deporting ten year old girls in the hospital who are there for surgery back to mexico that's the kind of stuff it's a promise like to see. think that they really believe they have an ally in the why those but it so do you think trump has a thing for those kind of groups i mean he refused to specifically shame they white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville where an anti rastus protester was killed media that asked trump supporting the far right do you see that way as well . or is a lot of file facts just say that while adjusting for one president drones actions

he is very quick to condemn football players for peacefully protesting and he calls them sons of bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under sloss that goes in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes him days to respond to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and well he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he's p. has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe he counts on their support who knows. i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his

actions are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i think he's well aware of the white supremacy fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could be a reason why takes him so long and. neo nazi groups were as he has no problem condoning football players of color who want to make a statement well in all fairness right after shallots feel he didn't sign a resolution condemning hate groups stat espouse racism extremisms in a phobia anti-semitism white supremacy so you feel like he maybe has one thing on a paper and other and he's had it's hard to say where is that because he's

been very erratic. throughout this in the early days of his presidency and he's been all over the place is his cabinet is completed numerous times about his tweeting. the people around him wish they could get more of a handle on him and obviously he refuses to do that so yeah he's all over the place and i know that he is probably condemned to hate groups and that's fine but when you condemn hate groups and then you enact was just lation the deports families just because they're the wrong skin color or they came from mexico i don't think he's really busy deporting people who came from eastern europe or people who came from canada it seems that all of his actions are focused. people with darker skin so when all of that happened then charles felt tromp blamed both the right on the left for clashes he also felt some animosity towards yourself from the left

rights are anti side and other similar movements becoming a part of the radicalization problem. that's one issue where i do see president drums and i have also been. very frank about my condemnation of the far left and the anti four groups i do believe that they are a part of this problem i think the fact that the united the right rally could cone on a brawl from the and the really help small their membership i recall in my days as a white supremacist we would drive six hours of them as they go and fight and if so the violent resistance that and the folk presents to nazis does nothing but serve their purpose it also drives people from the political center further right i think charlottesville is instigated by the far right that used to be front and center that needs to be acknowledged but the far left certainly played their part in that

melee and unfortunately they will continue to do so the fire red and white supremacist groups claiming that they are a reaction to movements like black lives matter to the new loud and somewhat radical if they will write scripts do they have a point to stand against them. yeah there i think the more radical all the leftist groups be calm and the more they emerge themselves in identity politics the easier it is for the far right to recruit there have been leaders of all right who make no bones about the fact that they do identity politics for white people and in our universities in the united states and in europe. basically if you're a white kid you can either confess your privilege and condemn your whiteness and. what you have to do to be an ally to people of color and anyone else who's

oppressed or you go off to the all right there's really no middle ground for anyone who existed anymore and i that i believe that that is largely because of the militancy of these for a claim radicals on the left so what they're doing does serve the purpose of the far right and vice versa every time the far right rears their heads the left goes oh see that's why we need to do what we do and we're going to double down on it and it becomes a cycle and they both kind of feed each other while most. people in society who just want to live their lives are kind of caught in the middle you know i also heard that several universities in the us have been offering housing gang creating learning communities for black students only by california state and the university of connecticut favor explained this. down to to the need to actually create safe environments for.