to be me we can call them the our own name that we want to make a living we won the election and it just took her ten minutes to hack a replica of an election office website in one of the battleground states. these are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty was three hundred eighty million bucks these are child hackers i mean contestants they tap their keyboards to prove that within minutes america's election systems are a piece of garbage thirty five out of the thirty nine youngsters taking part this year were able to do just that so how come there haven't been any warnings for a grown up specialists well actually there have always been the writing machine is you know it's you know eighteen different states and it's extremely easy to get advantage of this time it's mostly it's a let me show you how quick it is that a little under two minutes. you don't need any totals to do that.

and now i have. full advantage it looks like you don't have to turn pro to be a meddling master and outsmart security efforts worth hundreds of millions of dollars don't bother guessing hole be the ones to take advantage come november we've already been told many times there's no doubt russian hackers ahead of the midterm they know it was arrogant and security of. the russians are targeting members of congress the u.s. midterm elections are just around the corner and russia's attack continues to haunt the united states russian election interference in the twenty eight hundred midterms the russians have not reduced their hacking it's even the first thing the prodigy's at the conference will tell you right there which could also be a great excuse. when someone asks the suits why the system's vulnerable to say the

least by the way when the good will hackers looked back at their previous conference they wrote if russia can attack our election so can others iran north korea isis or even criminal or extrude groups because let's face it if hacking an american election is child's play perhaps it's time the guys in charge did their homework on where the real threats are. new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hospital's past involvement in the torture of terror suspects the files were released by the national security archive and date back to two thousand and two when hospital run the secret cia detention center in thailand they describe torture sessions run by psychologists working us contractors for it they see. techniques range from physical and psychological harassment to isolation

in a box. dittos included hooded confinement of machinery in the large box forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the walling panel interrogators covered the subject's head with the hoods and left him on the waterboard shaking and asking god to help him repeatedly. interrogators were going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. well one of the files contains details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorist captured in two thousand and two he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in thailand under gina hospital's watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay where he is now his case was highlighted back in twenty fourteen by the senate intelligence committee the committee released a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him.

however when questioned by the senate before taking office possible insisted that intelligence gained from al qaeda suspects proved vital the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that statement. senator i i don't believe that torture works i believe as many people directors who have sat in this chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack a former cia officer ray mcgovern told me earlier thought war crimes were perpetrated on the block site. gina has carl was not was playing fast and loose with the truth at her hearing and she was allowed to do that if she was allowed to classify the gerakan tori information on herself before the hearing she supervise the torture of law to see the graphics and to tailor not run the interior walling

that's nothing short of banging someone's head into a wall in the water treatment that's what aborting condemned by all manner of nations because it was practiced by the japanese general whites who want crime and so to see this kind of thing revealed in gory detail the only solace i get from this is the fact that our system of law sometimes works and that is that the national security archive that did a freedom of information request for this got these details. ok moving on now a suicide bomber has detonated explosives at the office of the electoral commission in the afghan capital kabul people have gathered there to protest the disqualification of multiple candidates running in parliamentary elections less course like to the country and the local journalists will turn feisty so when

you're welcome have there been any casualties in the attack what are we learning about what happened. yes as you said some of the supporters of those candidates who were disqualified from to run for the parliamentarian elections they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering detonated his explosive head off approaching the gathering and he killed himself and one other from from the civilians who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against the r.u.c. or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and

a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having a responsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of manipulating the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first india. election history yeah we also know the parliamentary elections they are happening in october on there the fear that that a toxin this could exacerbate that's that's a big fear we also are hearing that there was fierce fighting boule today the last number of days what do we know about that so.

i just i was just hearing. the press conference by minister of interior minister of defense they were specifically talking about clashes in gaza need to minister of interior said that confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the taleban in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i have. heard from some local sources in gaza need that taliban actually are now with the rolling from those locations that have been committing. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days i have also spoken with the taliban spokesperson he said that the hunger and poverty was actually one of the major problems and they actually went and brought into a government store and distributed to food for needy people and this situation is

actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and wounded and i have seen fresh footage from gaza new dad is telling lots of stories inside the city people are really scared and the highways have been blocked since for days to come indication has been down and people cannot communicate with their relatives or we even could not talk to the more our local officials or residents in gaza it has been a very harsh time for god. it has been like a waltz to city but the government is now saying that they are trying to expel the taliban and they are trying to secure the city but we will see what will happen next yes thanks for bringing us up to date on both of those stories journalists will turn phasey live from the afghan capital kabul. more news in ninety

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government has the chance to do what failed to do. the. keys of the central bankers and they will the economist. in germany slammed president trump's new trade tariffs on the e.u. saying they are damaging the economy the u.s. has already increased rates on steel and aluminum for europe and its key nato ally turkey we won't let washington dictate to us with whom we can do business. this trade was slowing down and destroying economic growth and creates

a new uncertain suze and interesting statements that peter altmire the economy minister gave to one of the big sunday newspapers here in germany and what we can infer from that is that this is the exact opinion of chancellor angela merkel mrs merkel never want to come forward with a statement unless she really really has to and of course peter altmire being one of her most trusted cabinet members he was the head of the chancellery for five years between twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen so what he says can be really taken is the word of angela merkel what mrs merkel and or germany says is usually in lockstep with what brussels has to say on these matters so we can really get ghana that this is the opinion of the european union but it's not just the e.u. berland mrs merkel or mr altmire that have issues with tariffs trump and trade at the moment in turkey well they've seen a much tougher reaction in fact on sunday while the german economy minister was

speaking to sunday newspapers over the weekend president ed the one we're speaking to must crowd saying that if this trade war wasn't well backed down from from the u.s. side then well turkey could start looking for allies and friends elsewhere who you know. we will respond to the one declaring war tree to the whole world. new markets finding new corporations and allies. at the crux of the problem between and washington is the pastor andrew bronson now he's been in custody for two years in turkey so far there's a deadline set for his release of last wed in state that wasn't met and when that wasn't met on friday trump brought in new tara fs against turkish exports of metals now that means twenty percent tariff on. being exported from turkey into the united states and fifty. percent on steel now what that scene is on monday the

turkish lira dropped to a record low against the us dollar and the words from mr over the weekend of prompted it's well quite colorful way of saying no to the u.s. dollar across turkey. but ultimately what a trade war creates its own certainty and uncertainty is kryptonite for business in a trade war in the end everyone loses in everyone's economy takes a hit and not is why we see in the reaction from this side of the atlantic. the

israeli prime minister is digging in over another large scale protest in tel aviv against the recently passed nation state law which are israelis claim makes a non jews second class citizens benjamin netanyahu say's the rally's under line they need for such a low emission. we received clear testimony of the urgency of the nation state law we saw palestinian flags in the heart of tel aviv we heard the calls with blood and fire we will redeem palestine many of the demonstrators want to repeal the law of return cancel the national anthem for the power flag and cancel israel as the nation state of the jewish people now it's clearer than ever that the nation state law is necessary we passed this law and we will uphold it. protests was the second in as many weeks and saw tens of thousands of our observant jews turn out in tel aviv the. both are

a bit appealing for democracy equality and for the law to be abolished some sign said resist apartheid. well the nation state law was passed last month it is similar to a constitutional amendment recognizes israel as the homeland of the jewish people it also underlines the quote unique right to self-determination but also during raids or a break from being an official language critics say the law not only undermines fragile guarantees of a quality in israel but opens the door for open discrimination against non jews but this law is trying to incite in the state a war between brothers a war between the jews and the arabs and we will not accept it we have lived together and we will die together in this land because i'm not asking for a right i deserve to have these this is what i deserve a someone who lives in his country i'm not scared of anything but i fear that this

law being a basic law will drag other laws from which we will suffer this is the law it is. a language. against the. people of this and we can't agree for this law well i got some opposing views on the controversial legislation earlier. this law actually doesn't change anything for the citizens of israel he does not discriminate or take any rights through and the law simply says that israel is the nation state of the jewish people it which has been long overdue and this law is a basic law and that means it's constitutional which means. apartheid state for jewish people only well i think that what you just heard is the exact example of why we need it you have a person who is not an israeli citizen it is that my country in israel all citizens

are equal under the law the third biggest party in the parliament is their party and what i find shocking is that people who condemn the bare existence of the state of israel in any border are saying that we are and they say which i think is just appalled this law says that this land is only for half of the population and the other half would be discriminated against it does not identify the borders of israel which means that this system of discrimination includes not only palestinians inside israel but also by the students in the west bank and there's a sort of the right engine then scenario where sometimes people mistakenly called the west bank it's a you didn't run it's a jew free state as a jew not allowed to be there this law does nothing about you then scenario unfortunately you know you would implement israeli law project in some area just doesn't touch it that's not true do you agree that we should have a palestinian state or not there finitely not but i think what we have come along using is that you want another state but you also are you working on right israel this is telling me i can't have citizenship but he wants to continue to occupy my

land and he says i cannot have a state and we cannot have a two state solution and yet he speaks that it is a democracy. you know a full debate is right now on our youth chub page as well the issue that just won't go away immigration into europe is the focus of today's cross talk peter other guests are up next. with whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm

interested always in the was a. question. america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we're dealing with. people is sad every day she is just people kill each other blacks were killing children. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down by law enforcement. this country

doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with life and this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm funeral of well all across the western world the so-called melting pot is melting down immigration legal and illegal is probably the most contentious and divisive issue energizing voters in italy for example the right and left have united on the issue in germany the government may collapse and trump has made this his signature cause can the

status quo be sustained. stocking immigration i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he's a historian and specialist in international affairs and we have roland benedict or he is the co-director of the center for advanced studies your ex research and her god that we have ralph niemeyer he is a german journalist and author all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated i had to go to john first in paris and i just kind of kicked this whole discussion off by an observation i've had over the last few weeks and months particularly with the events going on in the united states it appears that virtue signaling his replaced policy and debate because all we're supposed to do is to think emotionally about this and not use our heads and i think this is what the establishment media and

establishment parties want us to think that way to address this issue and if we stop birches signaling maybe we could come up with some solutions your thoughts john. well there's a lot of propaganda involved isn't there i mean we've just seen in the events on the mexican border these very propaganda. pictures of children a supposedly being separated from their parents i'm sure your viewers will remember the picture of the poor little kurdish boy on a turkish beach the dead body of a little boy he was a victim of the migration crisis in the broadcast of his photo was used to elicit sympathy for the plight of migrants and it worked very well but when boy of the same age was killed in a terrorist attack in barcelona the policy was not to show his dead body out of respect for him and for his family so we can see that these images are being used to drive a political agenda and that is the problem the problem is that this immigration is

being driven by a political agenda it is being driven by a political agenda of european states who are demographically weak the demographic pyramid is inverted there are more old people the young people and for many years and decades now economists and policymakers have decided that in order to rectify this demographic problem in europe we need immigration we need to bring in people from outside in order to pay our pensions and that is the immigration issue. and as long as that ideology remains in place as long as the ideology is believed by these people as it is most notably in germany then i'm afraid the problem will continue ok roland you know thing is that this this is approach with open borders but if you believe that there are open borders then there are no borders to defend i think that's the paradox of what's happening in the western world you want to have open borders let people come in but then you can't defend your border when it's

necessary go ahead roland. well. look there is no starts seeing like a political entity or a community without borders never in history and unique borders wide because you have to define delimit so it really did see your loss and that is what the left the school of frankfurt school you're going to must says what their system series says so borders that some seeing good or not something better when we had the in europe. city kids once very strongly left the historian to political correctness really believed in because politics on new phoenician of identity and for example disbanding group and ended the excelled of the european consortium on political research and in brussels would say today is that we need to define our identity as europeans much more no european way right and in

a less exaggerated cosmopolitan way because we can't live without borders because if you have no borders you have no rule of law and order finish and you know where you lost a leg and we're not ok let me go to you i mean ok we have a lot of consensus here the media is for open borders the political classes for open borders but didn't know what the voters aren't for open borders and we're seeing it in election after election i mean isn't it time that democracy be recognized again in the european union i mean we have the austrians we have the italians we have also a new car i could use term fifth column in germany right now that it's waking up to what voters want to and they're running on these issues go ahead ralph. yes of course it is true that bordeaux mirth i must say are leftists and i am not calling us out of after. at stake because they tell us a lot worked out front of

a lot. behind those people who already live in our country and we need to not take care of them refugees have nothing to do with the fact or do them up good enough anymore as was due to privatization of the pension scheme or that of a interests are not good enough or that the rent is too high for apartments those are not due to the refugee crisis but it came up with people are realizing to every left behind and they said hang on a minute. as well so this is but a leftist made a key mistake in recent years and especially given two thousand and fifteen happened mrs merkel once and called it a decision he said be a shock to us you are going to manage it down and people said why don't we manage with ourselves first of course there's a right wing nationalistic. parties are coming up because they take voter sentiment serious. to do that and especially to. have failed completely

and that they stood amount of border like. there were no borders and no states which is of course not true there are states and beneath states of course and otherwise we have a mickey no one wants to live and i know you must think does this also bring star and american government because she lost control yes but john you know the the interesting thing is that with these waves of migrants or asylum seekers who are never term you want because it seems to me most of them vast majority of for economic immigrants here but you know they don't really come in on the layer jets do they to germany they don't know they don't fly into airports they kind of walk through the continent you know that's what makes me feel really bad for the greeks in the italians ok i mean if germany wants those people fine but it's not being done the right way even according to e.u. law it's ok so i mean the germany cannot be that the decision maker of the image.

nation in europe that is intensely and identical radek and against the rules of the european union go ahead john you know there's no doubt that the rules are being broken because indeed germany by saying that a million refugees are welcome and then by trying to offload them onto other members of the european union worlds indeed breaking refugee law and breaking the european union's own rules that's for sure i'm in strong agreement with what roland said about borders and the need to protect them but i have a different conclusion i disagree that this is a european problem and indeed i think that the or that this can be solved with european measures and i think that the the reflex position of european leaders which is to say that we need to european solution to this problem is precisely wrong it is precisely the fact that we have a european union with a borderless internal space the showing an area which has caused the migration

problem in the first place i first visited the song at camp near cali in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the migration crisis that we're talking about now didn't start in two thousand and fifteen it started in the one nine hundred ninety s. when italy joined the schengen zone and from that moment onwards the borders of the mediterranean were on the english channel here and it's there is a direct relation of cause and effect and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen after hungary and creation and the other countries built fences to close off the balkan route is that national solutions are the ones that solve this problem not european ones and we are now i hope seeing the same result with the italians who are taking matters into their own hands nationally defending their national territory and it's only by doing that with because they have that the navy.