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had a choice of either going to cuba or coming to moscow and each owes mosca and i know that you have something under the table to show as i do have something i have my my my props here. did you see this yeah and i can see the name of legendary russian hockey player who just lost fifty seven. why do you have a. look at this and obviously we have your name here as well but so so when i was growing up i didn't want to be a journalist i can tell you how i became a journalist but it was completely accidental my dream was to be a hockey player. but my reality was that i still don't get i wasn't good enough. i was always very enthusiastic but on town that hockey player but my friend i'm working with. on a number of projects one is the first and last hockey game ever on the north pole can you skate really you've got a year because next year around this time is basically to call attention to the

environmental crisis of the north pole and also the sort of political tensions the arctic countries the vatican. there's one more can remember what it is they're all getting together. i usually do political journalism and i think. right off the bat i can say that this is unfair and usually experience to have russians and americans doing anything constructive because from my experience they only bigger but it's good that you guys can do something in the in the current environment and i think so and you've been to war and. i feel. because of our shared experience and because i'm looking in your eyes i can tell that. when when you go to war as a reporter there is something that happens inside you and it changes you as a person and it compels you more or less for the rest of your life to look for

other ways to resolve issues you visited a number of floors zones but did the one that you remember the most would be a your coverage of the day first gulf war for which you were actually fired from and b. c. . it was clearly and correct me if i'm wrong you were specifically fired because you sell and it's a billion deaths all inflicted by the americans that was clearly an act of censorship but i think from my experience at least censorship in different come countries. realize in different patterns how do you figure out how it works in the united states. you know it's affected me in different ways i've had the misfortune of being blacklisted twice i was blacklisted for public television not for war coverage but for a documentary about health care because the documentary pointed the finger at the

sort of greedy financial interests that were keeping americans from getting the best health care. that was it for public television. but the sort of interesting thing about the united states is that sometimes the door opens and door closes and the door open to n.b.c. and i was the only independent reporter to work for any of the coral networks i had total editorial control of my reports which is i have more editorial control than anybody here at r.t. has i think there were a number of circumstances general electric which is. a big powerful country company a company that has a lot of military industrial interests bought and b.c. and from that moment. the gangplank was out for me but i think that i may i may be mistaken but judging from your previous interviews i think it was more specific you went to iraq you filmed the shooters that were you were not supposed to sell me you managed to smuggle it into

a back into the united states in your socks you brought it to the n.b.c. executives and what did they tell you. that every time i go to the third world i make trouble for them and they're tired of it but if you actually look at the footage what was the problem with your behavior over the actual material that they hear and in fact. the regular news staff was devastated by this and they had all supported me they had seen the footage and were proud that somebody from their team had gotten this despite saddam's attempts to censor me you know we had three babysitters there were three pages of rules and regulations we broke every single rule they tried to kill me on the way out of the country put a gun to my head and spent five minutes trying to pull the trigger to kill me and i got the stuff back and everybody was proud of me and what was there what was on the there was on the film i mean basically the smart bombs were not smart this was what we were being told in the united states during the war that this was the first

bloodless war in history the first scientific war in history. and let me tell you when any country believes that they can make war and not hurt people they become even more dangerous and so it was it was crucial to show these reports to the american actually show it to the american people when they should have seen it during the war one of the tragedies of the war and it's and it's studied in journalism classes there were a number of hand wringing retrospectives about the way in which the press had not fulfilled its duty to the country during the war and they didn't well you know what's interesting to me is that americans like to use the examples of the first and second iraqi contains as something that they regret but i think. thinks has been repeated recently for example the united states military has just taken over the city of. isis used to claim as its capital it was taken by a very very have the aerial bombardment. practically no building is left

standing in that city they're independent reports of thousands of corpses rotting under the rubble and they're still very very little if any coverage on the american that's for x. doesn't that suggest that the system that you encountered baghdad is still in operation these days i can't talk about that because i haven't been to syria i can't talk about those reports because. i don't watch the news. when i spend my whole day doing what i'm doing my don't know about you i want to watch a hockey game on t.v. i don't think i've watched. cast in twenty years. i didn't even watch my own reports because as soon as i finish with my own reports i was on an airplane going to the next war so i can't comment about that i thought that the way in which the press was treated during the second gulf war because i was embedded for two months in baghdad was respectful was honest and was transparent and it was the three

hundred sixty degree difference from the first gulf war first gulf war. the press was treated like a bunch of dogs in the alley you've been to numerous war zones but you decided against going to syria or for that matter to libya why is that why didn't you want to go there. i'd make a calculus. before i decide to go someplace i would like. i'm happy to take a risk and happy to risk can say i'm happy but i will risk my life if i think that the report that i make is going to change something. and that's the sort of sophisticated combinations of things want to have to be able to get to where i want to go i have to be able to operate with some degree of freedom people's minds have to be flexible enough so that if i come back and i say listen this is what i think the truth really is that the listen to me and i need an outlet and i don't have any of those conditions. when i stop working for n.b.c.

i began to do documentaries and sort of let's get on the plane the bells ringing over in syria i'm going to be the first person in the front the first person back in those days i could beat anyone in the world sure you're good but i could beat you but documentaries is different and documentaries is a long slow or thoughtful process and and there are only so many places that you can show them and we basically make one documentary every two years every three years in the case of cuba to be forty five years the conditions and i felt bad you know because in order to take this risk you have to believe that there's something about the way in which you see the world that is important for other people to know otherwise it's insanity to go to these places and you have to have that burning. burn burn inside you so the first couple of times wars happened without me. like you had to tie me to the mast because but i didn't have any place to show it you

know you weren't there but they were. a lot of coverage of both the syrian and libyan conflict and it was. very much split along the ideological lines because i could see reports of my western calling for example from libya voice with their own this same way or in the same building working you know from the same desk but they would show something totally totally different i mean the reality that i wouldn't even recognize and i'm sure they would say the same things about my reports we are now in the age of propaganda war asbos truth post-fact do you think you could even adapt to this kind of working environment i did pretty pretty good in egypt so i was in the square in egypt for the revolution . it's a pretty good film it played on h.b.o.

we didn't win the oscar but we got on the shortlist for the oscar awards and so made a film from i don't know if you appreciate. like my type of way of doing things it was a quintessential film the way in which we do it very well received so. the opportunity still do exist and you know it's also our responsibilities as reporters to. try and be as honest as possible to not have an agenda. when there's lots of forces pulling us this way and points out what the it's not about having an agenda i think from what i see at least i think many western reporters they come to cuba or they come to syria with the preconceived notion of what that country is and they do their reports from the balconies of the hotel we call a balcony buzzards a little whatever i mean. things to get more things in there they stay the same so you know listen. the first report i ever did for n.b.c.

. was the first time i'd ever been in a war zone and i was up in lang's on vietnam the chinese were on the hills shooting at anything that moved and i like a moron i'm walking down the street there with my vietnamese buddies in the church church so you know what i did. everybody else runs for cover i grab the microphone and i do with the end up because that's all it ever. existed and so i said i'm telling them what was obvious i'm here i'm lying son that people are shooting at me and my name is john alpert and i'm working for n.b.c. news i looked at that and i said you know what that's the last stand up on their feet i never i never did another one i was so ashamed of myself because all i was doing was copycatting you know they all wear the same clothes they wear the trench coats in the winter they wear the safari suits and they walk around with briefcases and question what the heck is in their briefcases you know what it is speak up and they spend the whole day waiting for the sun to get into the right position they've

got somebody standing there with the tray to reflect and they're there on the balcony well i think so shame on them and here awards to people who go do something different and it's and it's not just the american reporters seen the russian reporters i've seen people like this all over the world and there are reporters from every single country who will get dirty and will try to understand what the people are doing well. definitely and that i just. a minute left and i want to ask you perhaps a philosophical question but still i think much of the global tensions still centered around those concepts of freedom democracy tyranny development human flourishing and what always strikes me is how differently they are interpreted in different countries what freedom means to an american is very different from what freedom means to a cuban or to a syrian or even to a russian for that matter. difference is a genuine do you think we will absolutely be able to arrive at. you know some

common understanding of what freedom really. i think it's always good to have differences. but we can't let those differences separate us and what we need to do is. even even though we might look at the word. differently we need to. walk through the world holding hands and talk to each other about our differences like we're doing here today. you know mindful of being branded as a kremlin sympathizer because i think in this day and age even appearing on this network may get you in trouble getting to anybody who knows me knows that i've always been my own person and people have respected me for them that's why they invite me to come back time and time again and that's why this project about the first and last hockey game at the north pole which is by the united nations that's the other well i certainly would together and i'll teach you how to skate you want how to skate well but i'll teach you

a well i will definitely try my best but in any case i hold that we can discuss your next project let's say in a year's time in this very studious thank you for being here today i invite our viewers to keep this conversation going on our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart.

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i. a dangerous escalation israel responds to palestinian missile attacks with a series of strikes the latest of which has left at least eighteen people injured in the gaza strip warning you may find the upcoming images disturbing. forty civilians including children reportedly been killed when a saudi airstrike it's a school bus in yemen coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international. and other news the kremlin blasts new u.s. sanctions on russia fiction's a response to what washington views as russia's poisoning. her pal and his daughter

in march. facebook relies on nato and u.s. funded experts to tackle foreign influence on this platform we'll take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online. thanks for joining us this is our internet. eighteen people have been injured after the gaza city cultural center was hit in an exchange of fire between israel and palestine that's according to palestinian sources. i. the israeli military carried out a series of strikes on the gaza strip on wednesday nights in response to palestinian missile attacks against israeli territory. there was.

one of the i.d.f. strikes killed at least three people including young pregnant woman as well as a rape team month child a local journalist was present at the funeral. we are now we did it by sitting in the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we not somebody an innocent but yet were killed yesterday during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that is a plus three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby as you see thousands of palestinians are participating in the. whining that does the policy here. and the baby oh you see these features i think the airstrike came from this side the smell is very bad where blood is

filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shot heard with pieces of their body were they were not in a complete body jean and the journey ran to the most to find out if the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people screaming were heard inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown apart baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was injured in the leg stomach and head and strikes were launched. till dawn the israeli forces kept on seeing airstrikes where the palestinian resistance

also fired rockets into israel palestinian side that they would confront blood with blood and strikes with their strikes so far there have been announcement but he agreement between the israelis and the palestinian factions where yesterday was a very very tough night on all the palestinians in gaza strip. so while the pilots are calling for the part of the flight just stated that there might have returned palestinians continue to grow tasking to demonstrate yesterday. bring out a new skill it's an end in the war against the palestinians. meanwhile the israel defense forces report that around one hundred eighty rockets were fired from the gaza strip the i.d.f. adds that its retaliatory shelling targeted more than one hundred fifty terrorist sites most of the palestinian strikes and open spaces but at least two landed in one israeli town causing destruction and casualties according to the i.d.f.

seven israeli citizens were injured. the un's middle east envoy is now warning of devastating consequences for all people if the israeli palestinian conflict continues to escalate and climb again of did that the situation could quote rapidly deteriorate. in yemen fifty civilians have been killed by a saudi strike most of them children according to local sources or the seventy others were reportedly wounded the strike hit a school bus and a marketplace i must warn you you may find it coming images disturbing according to the latest info from the red cross twenty nine children were killed all of them under the age of fifteen forty eight other people were injured including thirty children the strike at the north of the country which is under the control of who think rebels the intervention against them began in twenty fifteen in an official statement defended the attack using the rebels of using children as human shields.

the targeting today is a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to target the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them. on the first on this month the coalition is hit residential areas a week ago in a raid on her day the same port the main transit point for aid to yemen claimed the lives of fifty five civilians one hundred seventy others wounded humanitarian groups have urged the coalition to protect the civilian population as well as medical staff and facilities have been repeatedly hit by rights. of the red cross in sanaa told us that the situation in yemen is appalling. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty to forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen

a humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a popular issue that has been brought to the brink of collapse the whole system is decimated the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and the hostilities going on so we really do think. more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with will exacerbate an already humanitarian situation even more we see violations cross the country and it's nice to. issue or speak about civilian casualties in a matter of less than a week so for us this is painful. whenever resistivity and casualties we are i mean. this is just horrific.

moscow is calling on britain to make public its work on making navi chalk style military toxic substances comes after america unveiled fresh penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agent service group palin's daughter in the u.k. in march russia's consistently denied the claims received discuss the new sanctions with my colleague initial setting. the united states. two thousand and eighteen determined that the government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals despite any new evidence coming to light the us wants to impose sanctions on russia and this is in regards to the form of poisoning form of double agent sake a script on his door to you back in march now the sanctions will be implemented and two sets the fish sets will ban licenses for the export of sensitive national

security goods to russia including electronic items and these kind of exports have been previously allowed on a case by case basis the second round of sanctions though will be more severe this will be the prohibit us baron colognes the temptation of carrier landing rights which we could affect flights from russia to the u.s. and fed the restrictions on exports and imports as well but the u.s. says they that the second round of sanctions will come into effect unless russia provides reliable assurances that it won't use chemical weapons in the future and agrees to on site checks by the u.n. but when you say reliable assurances it was last year twenty seventeen the international community the o.p.c. w confirmed the destruction of all chemical weapons in russia exactly the chemical weapons watchdog verified the destruction and can fend this in september two thousand and seventeen but we're still waiting for now evidence as to why sanctions

of being imposed now and the u.s. has already implemented measures you might remember that around sixty diplomats were expelled by the u.s. last spring when this saga fest escalated but when questions at the press conference the state department official didn't mention any fed the reasoning behind the sanctions whether this was because of old evidence or new evidence let's take a listen to what they had to say. where are you getting the conclusion that freshie is behind this creep are poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the scriptural affair we've been very clear that we agree with the assessment that it was a agent and that the perpetrator was ultimately the russian federation i leave it to others to give those kinds of details of what we currently understand obviously from reading the press it appears that their investigation is ongoing in terms of the scope and nature of the details and of its implications but i'll leave that to others the key words there from the officials where only.