sense if you're saying no one that is elected to change the system doesn't even you know what for in america yeah well that's what mr putin says at the end of the interview if you remember he says he's been to four presidents and i asked him what's changed and he said basically nothing so he's indicating that there's a bureaucracy he called it a bureaucracy in america they call it a deep state bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia for the most part united states been highly negative since one thousand nine hundred seventy since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson said american troops to siberia to join the british expeditionary force.

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boom but. welcome back to sophie and co no the other day i sat down with the legendary filmmaker oliver stone in a moscow bookstore and asked him whether a second cold war was just a figure of speech or as to or more to it it's the figure of speech for sure cold war it's a. very dangerous war it's on the you know you can even say that the original cold war was really a cold war where there were so many proxy wars that were fought in the name of

fighting communism. like vietnam. among others korea. you wonder how many people have died in the name of that cold war and you know millions of the third world people have been hurt after all over africa there was battles. and certainly in them we've seen now in the middle east we've seen enormous amount of damage. the specter of communism doesn't work anymore the united states was not able to use that but there is and haran carry over in fact and i'm sure that's in the minds of those congressmen when they vote against for the expansion of russians actions in their mind it's some form of the old russia and they can't get they can't get one side of the line away in the eighty's in the ninety's how come it came back so strongly i mean what is it going to take for that paradigm to disappear from american mind generation was quite surprised by that i was in fact shocked i talking to mr gorbachev was one of the most wonderful moments

of my life it was i felt in one thousand nine hundred ninety in my lifetime was a spring springtime of hope a new feeling that this thing was going to change you know that the the wall came down. all the europe eastern european countries expressed love bloodless revolution really a bloodless revolution and russia. relatively both. and i was and mr gorbachev you know was not the crook in america we saw him as a lion as a hero and in this country of course he was seen as a weak man who had lost control of this of this empire so it's a whole different view of it and i've been see mr gorbachev since then i've been through his criticisms of mr putin and i have to say the last time i saw him he said that mr putin is the guy for now whatever they say because america has violated that compact he made in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight eighty nine

that nato would not go east one inch if the germany's were united he allowed for that. that has not happened nato has been accelerated under the not go under the americans under clinton and and bush and obama. so and mr gorbachev has pointed out also the the what mr putin says is they greedy on the abrogation of the a.b.m. treaty by the by bush by mr bush in two thousand and one was a vast mistake it and it undermines the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. archie has covered one of

our yemen aren't you guys how are some to report any and i don't have a laundry list i want to be add more about this every and the context in which this book came out fails in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had two sides that where against each other and now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is not a pipe holler and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it all on themselves and all this conflict that you just mentioned and many more that we didn't mention are going on because of that and we don't understand how they're going to end or if they're going to and it's always messy. you're young like hell you must be in your thing or not that young but. i guess you know to me the original cold war was very confusing and not so clean us against them in fact

i went to vietnam as a young man believing that we were fighting communism in other words there were a lot of disguises and when you look back at the whole history of that period as we tried to do untold history the united states i would have to tell you that it's very clear that it was a farce that the united states really pulled the wool over the world's eyes and declaring and making the soviet union the fall guy after having won world war two they made them the fall guy for war tutu and equated hitler with stalin and also all this stuff went on it comes out of the this misunderstanding of what that first cold war was america has spent a fortune fighting this war and it's deprived its own people us the american people of better education better system more security health welfare all these things that give me those problems now this social net that's disappearing. could have

come out of that instead of being the the money being spent on the cold war so we paid a huge price for it and it never let up i remember in eighty nine there was talk of a peace dividend they talk of it what happened to the peace dividend a few weeks after the berlin wall fell mr bush sr was. going into iraq sending five hundred thousand troops to the middle east and i pointed out it was a big thing because we went when we sent five hundred thousand troops to vietnam was actually under lyndon johnson that was a huge deal in the press made a big big number out of that not not since world war two that we knew those numbers were too big we were fighting with too many men we don't it won't work it was too big and what happened we forgot about it reagan mr reagan helped a lot with his campaign to forget the vietnam war and we were sending a half million men again abroad to fight in the middle east we never got out of the

middle east. i made a movie about it called w in which dick cheney the dick cheney's character have to ask what what's our exit policy says there is no exit and the truth is we haven't there is no exit to iraq where here those five hundred thousand men in one form or another have never left the middle east so this is heartbreaking stuff if you have any sense of history. i knew it was a mistake i thought the iraq war one was a huge mistake i thought there was plenty of room to negotiate when films like that come out w for instance or at the untold history of the united states the one that you mention has a person in america when you pretty much denounce a lot of tropes and facts in american history i can't tell you it's easy but i think it's the most some of the most important work i've done in my life i'm very proud of those two films i've paid a price for because i guess some people will you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is no center

in the united states political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton camp people came into power the center right has become the right and there's no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the green party among others arrows make fun of it. you know why i don't know me so well a year in america i always had the feeling the democrats would the the people at least we were concerned about peace now that seems to have been squandered that feeling is squandered and i don't sense any any sense of consensus the only one who did it was bernie sanders and if you remember correctly he very rarely mentioned foreign policy he stayed away from it because he knew that was a third rail for him and he was to socialistic for america to actually well i don't know much because america may hand up in relatively has to go at least may have to go more socialistic in order to survive because if things fall apart and we

continue to have crises after crises stock market explosions and so forth and meltdowns there has to be you know right now i'm there when i would have trump to change something you know but remember a mr obama song what was it seven hundred fifty billion dollars into the economy that's i would call that a socialist move. so you know where the united states is going is a very it's interesting i think i'm going to try to stick around and see because i think that's a great question it sounds i mean just to be on the sidelines and see what happens it could get really ugly and be pretty nasty too in terms of casualties and of course united states i would skip i'm scares me in the sense that they might lose it's self control and out of the sense of panic and fear attack. this concept that russia is responsible for everything is insane but it's very easy to to resort to that kind of nineteen early one nine hundred fifty s. primitivism like a joe mccarthy i was told when i was

a young boy the soviets are in our schools they're in our colleges they are there they're creeping into our system where the soviets are going to take us over without even a war that was i heard this from serious people. you know you have to allow that this mentality exists and when you're around a vigilante mob that hangs people it's scary because you common sense goes out the window it's the first thing and decency and humanity you go out the window so it scares me that mentality see now that you know a lot about politics you know politicians and you know something about scripts give me a scenario of how this should work out. every little you ask me for a movie from my point of view from the american side it's not going to happen any other way and that's what's frightening because i don't see that russia can take any initiative at this point except for surrender with completely all your nuclear

arms and you have a regime change mr putin resigns which is insane such a happen because the russian people support him i don't see any way out right now. no third parties do exist they come into being there's de gaulle's that come up from charles de gaulle you hope for a french leader or a european leader i was very disappointed in merkel throughout this whole process because she knows better she knows the real story of ukraine she doesn't fall for it because her foreign minister was involved they knew they knew what was going was a coup d'etat the ukraine and but in other words there's has to be some kind of european leader the kind of thing you know to america and i think you know that's one way of putting it mr de gaulle i was around when mr goss said no to america that was quite really have friends you know look young to you i mean they have. their own way of going to go is really a proud man and proud for france. one hopes for that but there's other ways that

the blocks can be broken there's of course china that's a huge number but the united states has to hit a hard line on china doesn't say it like it does say it about russia but the reason that we're our mean korea to the degree that we are and japan is truly against the chinese to encircle the chinese. but i worry about korea because we again have so much or so many arms we put into japan and korea. you know these things can but it can blow up in a second it's like a tinderbox. well it doesn't look good at your age i would like to live out the rest of my life you know what do you do what do you do you bringing attention to it that's the best you can do right now. to my view you should make at movie about that and you shouldn't certainly not in your career i thought it was an increase of four hundred s. why did this because i did care and i want to i want i want peace to have a chance and i think every time i talk to mr putin over those thirty hours i never

sensed any other desire in his part but to have a balance of power respect for each other sovereignty and a sense of peace in the world here and that's what people don't accept from him. they can't believe that this man who was they consider a villain is a number of pierced. oliver stone thank you very much it was so feeding into a lot of what they were think. few.

politicians to. put themselves on a lot to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. for some want to. have to go right to be close that's what the book for experience more can't be good for. i'm interested always in the waters of our. fair city. america was never great was founded on a rape in a murder. nothing changed so we said no response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get shot every

day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. how. soon is 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 why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. because he was an artist that's not the word of sympathy i want to take on most of enter and i've learned the lesson just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sites the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to ask than call mom

. listen to point zero five and up next time i get i'm in a lot of class and i want that. to happen and they have to watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the one time move the political rivals because both of you who feel you can beat up to the government both offensive struggles and many couples won't. kill which at the push concluded bills and spawn both both of both of you up with a few of the hope of the. thank you. my.

yes. you. twitter's fake news failed the social networks accused of boosting distant from ation revealed phones diverted from revenue encouraged told stories about so-called russian ball. also ahead this hour newly declassified cables revealed cia director gina hospital's involvement in the agency's torture program giving the gruesome details. under suicide bomber targets the electoral commission office in the afghan capital while a four day between the telephone and afghan forces leaves hundreds of people dead including civil.

wherever you may be chiming in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neal good to have you with us our top story twitter's fake news crusade seems to have fired its emerged out. from revenue earned from r t before we were bound for modernizing on the site actually boosted the spread of full stories about supposed russian vaults in france well let's get into this now with r t correspondent double quarter well this is interesting give us the line of this story first of all don't well it all started with twitter's anti dissent from ation campaign and that was where it funded research organizations to collect fake to collect information on fake news outlets and one of these and for one of these organizations was belgian ngo disinfo lab.

following when you policeman's during the twenty sixteen u.s. campaign which involved the purchase of commercials by russia today in sport nick committed to redistribute the one point nine million dollars to organizations fighting this information. is in full out received one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in january twenty. right so we're going backward just over a half a year this info they received the phones back in january what i've been doing with them what are they come up with said well they formed a list of twitter users which who are writing a lot about what was called the but now a case and that was one french president macron his bodyguard was labeled a so-called rusa file now these users were also branded rissa files and some high profile people on the list didn't take too kindly to that hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you if you need to leave me to

remember is that you're even dumber than you look so i number one four four five to purchase ration number one four eight zero two database censorship manipulation of information the secret service nice new world but then how did the story of a kremlin twitter plot against the money will appear which it did how did that come about well the mainstream media took this to a whole new level there were people talking about a russian plot and even disinfo lab itself was surprised at this interpretation we did not modify the conclusions of our study a lot of media reported that we studied and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal we never said this the fact that lawmakers all the government spokes person immediately exploded this for political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study. but here's the kicker artie paid twitter one

point nine million dollars back in two thousand and sixteen for advertising and ironically after they blocked our t.v. and sputnik from advertising on twitter part of that money was used to fund this disinfo lab research project and now this research is being used by the mainstream media to slander russia itself or the plot thickens donald quarter thank you for. moving on new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hospital's past involvement in the torture of terror suspects the files were really spying the national security archive date back to two thousand and two when the hospital run a secret cia detention center in thailand they describe torture sessions run by a psychologist working as contractors for the cia techniques ranged from physical abuse 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 ruling panel interrogators covered the subjects head with the hoods and left him on the wall to pull. shaking and asking god to help him repeatedly. interrogators were going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. well here's the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorist captured in two thousand and two he spent four years we know in cia black sites including the one in thailand on regina hospital's watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay and that's where he remains 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 hospital 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 well former cia officer ray mcgovern told me earlier a war crimes were perpetrated at the black site in thailand. gina has was not or 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 supervised the torture to see the graphic and detailed how to run

the interior walling that's nothing short of banging someone's head into a wall in the water treatment as waterboarding condemned by all manner of nations because was practiced by the japanese general or to war 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. a suicide bomber has detonated explosives out the office of the electoral commission in the afghan capital kabul people had gathered there to protest the disqualification of multiple candidates running in parliamentary elections journalists phasey reports from a couple. 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 but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this 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 every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government

of. 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 it's a first in the afghan election history meanwhile the city of gal's knee which is located around one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between taliban and afghan forces official reports say hundreds have been killed on both sides. again has more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghan government. minister of interior. confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the taliban 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 or now withdrawing from those locations that have been committing. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days the situation is actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and wounded and i have seen fresh footage from gaza that is telling lots of stories inside the city people are really scared the highways have been blocked since for days the communication has been down and people cannot communicate with their relatives or we even cannot talk to the more our local officials or residents in gaza it has been a very harsh time for gaza neared has been like a waltz to city but the government is now saying that they are trying to expel the taliban and.