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tv   Sophie Co  RT  August 13, 2018 5:30pm-6:00pm EDT

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friend or foe what's your take what's the russian now behind essentially winding everybody up abroad with punitive policies. well i think this is to be honest with you i really can't there's a lot of people that try to understand president trump but what i do find very interesting here and what i'm very confident in explaining is the what this shows whether you know whether there's a rationale behind it or not whether it's a good move or not or productive for the united states or not this shows truly that the united states still maintains its agency in the world. and in particular the middle east now during the time of president obama there was much talk and reports and an understanding
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a consensus started to appear that the united states is becoming a weaker country now it's becoming less significant and other actors are playing a bigger role. what i mean what these. tariffs for these trade wars these pulling out of the climate the rattling a lot of cages if you like to say and in layman's terms. it shows that you know it still has its weight and is still very significant and coming back to the theme of the the report today it still has a very leading say in where the year anian negotiations go now the fact that the european powers have formed a front this i think is a. a symbolic front but nevertheless not as powerful but more powerful than the other attempts that were made in the early two thousand the
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three because this is now our european union and now it's not just. european you know a misunderstanding on what is happening on the ground on iran but this is now their discord and their disagreement on how to treat iran and reapproach iran is part of a broader european american. rivalry going on so i find that very fascinating the thoughts of aziz in middle east politics expert thanks for coming on the program. new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hospital's pasta involvement in the torture of terrorist suspects the files were released by the national security archive date back to two thousand and two when housefull run a secret cia detention center in thailand they describe torture sessions run by
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psychologists working as contractors for the cia techniques range from physical abuse and psychological harassment to isolation in the box. dittos included hooded confinement of machinery in the large books forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the ruling. interrogators covered the subjects head with the hoods and left him on the wall to be. shaking and go to open repeatedly. interrogators we're going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. well these are the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda suspect captured in two thousand and two he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in thailand. watched he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay where he remains his case was highlighted back in twenty fourteen by
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the senate intelligence committee now 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 had 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 while former cia officer ray mcgovern told me earlier work crimes were perpetrated at the black site in thailand. gina haskell was not was playing fast and loose with the truth at her hearing and she was allowed to do that she was allowed to classify the
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derogatory information on herself before the hearing she super virus the torture to see the graphic sanity tale don't run the interrogating does nothing short of banging someone's head into a wall in the water treatment that's one of boarding condemned by all manner of nations because it was practiced by the japanese during war two 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. it's been another lethal day and a gala stand that we've got they recently feels coming. so
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it seems wrong. we're all just don't. get to see her out of disdain. and in against. israel. once and find themselves worlds apart wait just to look for common ground. here now this new attempt at a global town a global currency big. that will be controlled by any government so it has the chance to do what mail to do to escape the tricks
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of the central bankers and. the economist. just approaching seventy minutes into the program welcome back a suicide bomber detonated explosives out the office of the electoral commission in the afghan capital couple people had gathered there to protest the disqualification of multiple candidates running in parliamentary elections fast approaching journalist phasey told me earlier more from a couple. 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
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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 land grabbing 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
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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 in the afghan election history let's stay in afghanistan because the city of 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 facing again has more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghanistan government minister of interior. confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield. 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 are now withdrawing from those locations that have been committing
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. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days this situation is actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and 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 that 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 near 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. when recent studies say the taliban forces control or at least have influence
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in more than forty percent of afghan territory right middle east expert ali risks these america's war on terror not only failed there but has actually boosted extremism. called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as this war has turned out to be an utter failure it was in a stronger position than it ever was ever since it was our state from power but i think the u.s. can do anything if it continues with its own focus just on military attacks you know militarily speaking it hasn't succeeded so i don't think there is much that the u.s. can do in that regard i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing a wrong strategy. in depicting terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has led to the growth of terrorism instead of leading to the altar the curbing of
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terrorism i think that is clear from what we see in afghanistan. a hacking contest in the us has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure it turns out an eleven year old can do it's picking up the story this hour. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contest's real too it's for kids and it's not being held in russia wide this is america anyway meet the winner eleven year old audrey they need . to be me we can call them the our own name that reminds me 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
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are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty seeing 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 milling machine is 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
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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 us. external actions are just around the corner and russia's attacking teams 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 systems vulnerable to say the least by the way when the good will hackers look back at their previous conference they wrote if russia can attack our election so can others iran north korea isis or
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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. royalists in australia rejoice that you know you can no order your very own free portrait of the queen all you have to do is contact your local m.p. and sign up for the nationhood programs good.
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thank. you place christ casual shot of please in front of some gum trays if i want some making a little big hole formally and madge elizabeth the second. period . so new stories for noah but one of the most racially divided cities in america since louis in missouri is the focus of our documentary today in our t.v. block lives begins in moments. was
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it. was was. was was. join me every thursday on the i like simon show and i was speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion
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dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit for sure and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial plant but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom by . the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. costume dramas to us that's a lot of sympathy i want to take on last and i want the last post on this about but if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the refuse to
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share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best person as bank of mom. policy to point out. that at best i get a man a lot less than the one that. they can watch as they options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all of the political rivals. both of you what if he had to be about to be. a said sit struggles of many couples won't. kill the chance of putting food impulse response both of you up of up to the bulk of the.
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ergo it was founded on a rape in a murder. nothing changed so we send all response to these situations still killing. us sad every other day people kill each other black people kill each other so it was just no way sad people are going to just sit back
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and allow children to shut down law enforcement this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us this is kept me happening in america.
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whole. michael brown say his name. there by one benefit he. just shouldn't be. there are people are fighting. for three years you should pay as man. we miss you we love you you should offer a revolution. when his whole country for his whole world. the thing about my brow was before that it had been several decades is america at uprising like that you know and we got a missed opportunity i feel like with the ferguson situation.
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not. the people of all the praise yet to put right good people but alright the real but. the state isn't for us this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. you can't talk what a machine as a machine so you can have a real conversation about real life and feelings in what people are going through what a machine what a robot. you can only. surely a robot has got to be taken down in a polish was when they made a constitution and all this it really was in may for me.
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why people don't want to lives next to black people and so they created soap suburbs and small little time to fight for you since lower speeds small the details existing can sell a lot of flats and this a lot of homes sold instead poor people just back to back on top of each other. i live in the home which is lying in the light when the core of his pours in the state police don't call too often people get shot every other day kids get sad people kill each other black people kill each other always had a gun has something almost always drug related to samos or. black people have always been the target. of.
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the law does says it was a cool dude you know he was serious and he loved black people. who love this people enough to sacrifice and so he starts organize people started to start his all organization to actually try to fight some of these. d.c.'s in the world no other. than the police when allowed. for. a procedure called. she was something you may have is nice. to see you miss you the piece she was that made me want to see if you'd stop on the phone this is semi so she becomes a money tree poverty creates crime yes anywhere you get rid of poverty you get rid
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of crime you sample is that simple people are poor here this is one of the lowest minimum wages in the country cost and police harassment. the drug epidemic like it's a lot of different factors that you're dealing with heard that. white supremacy benefits from that the capitalistic government benefits from and we sin here we starve so people look at us they think body just savages away animals what they had they don't want to do better is not that we don't have opportunity to do better. or worse.
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is a safe to go here and still. bent on your belief in god the net and something that happened last year definite possibility. no guarantees in life as a. cyclist has probably more abandoned houses than any other city in america its size. people. with children they you know they move to the county they move to suburbs for better schools and for. safer streets and all that kind of stuff. there was a man. i was looking for you is a water are you doing that a keeping fit hold they have me i love my love that will keep you fit. we're going
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to bang. going good i'm going to get you to get well we got other stuff just good to get to all to the south to sandwiches you oh sorry that's our brother. yeah you go. his mom passed that's right he's a pretty good zoom and i do her spirit everything that he say and i'll try to live by will you one of the one of the advice to me is always do. you know i hear sometimes you run the people that you just really glad to see when you get out here that's what i was going this one of the brothers i was really glad to say i'm. sorry joe. jones.
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believe that anything that happens in a person's life is not random. and that there is a divine design behind it. baptize a young man it was passed in the church and we have to grow old missouri and i baptize him if watching bury him and seventeen. and i had to do was funeral and watch his mother and his grandmother whom i was very close to god started speaking to me about the violence then and very young eulogize a young woman who was shot in the head in broad daylight in a park in front so there were these things just kept happening these young people just kept dying who were in my sphere of influence. and i believe that god was speaking to me about going into the streets then and i decided then that it just made sense for me to go out where the violence is and
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interact and engage the best way i could and that's what we believe one person at a time one street at a time one neighborhood at a time. people strong feelings and also after the death of my more people were shot more people were robbed. it's becoming more and more bad. of your. guns you just want to. move you or move the money goes you might much more risk more risk. more breast implant. time i think christine have all dressed in. my.

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