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welcome back to sophie and co now 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 raised or more to it it's a 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 you 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 this 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 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 you know the under the american under clinton and and bush and obama. and mr gorbachev as part of their own 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 the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the center 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. orci has covered what about yemen aren't you. reporting the end of it. i want to talk more about this and the context in which this book came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold wars in place it was just clean cut you know you have two sides to it where against each other now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is paul or and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it on themselves. and all those conflicts 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 can and or if they can and it's always messy. you're young like hell you must be near thunder not that young but you think 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 an 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 going 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 are giving us problems now this social net that's disappearing could have come

out of that instead of beans 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 said five hundred thousand troops to vietnam was actually under lyndon johnson that was a huge deal in the press made. big big number 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 are at the untold history of the united states i want to even mention how as a percent in america and 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 paid a price for because i guess some people would 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 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 about 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 and they want no way to trump to change something 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's 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 it might lose it's self control and out of the sense of panic and fear attack. this concept that russia is responsible for everything isn't saying but it's very easy to to resort to that kind of nineteenth 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. a reality or you're asking 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 so to 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 yeah 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 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 is to hit a hard line on china doesn't say it like it does say it about russia but the reason that we're arming 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 this thing 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 this and you should certainly not in your career i thought it was an increase of four hundred s. when i 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 on 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 peace. oliver stone thank you very much it was francis made so dating into france to live with everything. seemed wrong all wrong just don't all. get to say

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the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. because you have got the most you know that's not the little sympathy i want to take on most of the entry level in the us to some just about us but i think many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the drift used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best person asked mankell mom. listen you know no i've ended up my son i get i'm in a lot of class and i want that. they had water they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the one town over forty gravels this is going to be one of the if you beat up to the blue dome of the old offense it stumbles on many couples won't. kill which at the puts concluded bulls and spawn both both up for a few up of a few the hope of the. twitter's

fake news fail the social networks accused of boosting disinter mation as it's revealed funds diverted from party ad revenue encourage false stories about so-called russian bots. also this hour washington gets a cold shoulder from posing sanctions on middle east nations as a round says there will be no negotiations with the u.s.

and turkey calls the move a step in the back. and newly declassified cables reveal cia director gina hostiles past involvement in the agency's torture program giving gruesome details. this is our to international bringing you here live news update this hour welcome to the program. twitter's fake news crusade seems to have backfired it's emerged that funds diverted from ad revenue earned from r t before we were banned from advertising on the site actually boosted the spread of false stories about suppose a grudge spots and france doesn't quarter win over the details earlier with my colleague you know neal. 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 in for one of these organizations was belgian ngo disinfo lab following when you police during the twenty sixteen u.s. campaign which involved the purchase of commercials by russia today in sputnik to be committed to redistribute the one point nine million dollars to organizations fighting this information. received one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in january twentieth this info will they receive the phones back in january what i've been doing with them although they come up with sits 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 groups of 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 are even dumber than you look so i number one four four five two.

purchased 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 looming all the government spokesperson immediately exploded this for political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study but here's the kicker our team paid twitter one point nine million dollars for advertising and ironically after they blocked our team 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. new revelations have emerged on syria director gina hassels 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 haskell ran a secret cia detention center in thailand they described torture sessions run by psychologist working as contractors for the cia techniques range from physical abuse and psychological harassment to isolation and boxes. the joes included hooded confinement of machinery in the large box forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the wall and kind of interrogators covered the subjects head with the hoods and left him on the wall to. shaking and asking god to help him

repeatedly. interrogators were going to get the truth out of the subject eventually . these are the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorists captured in two thousand and two he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in thailand under gina house watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay where he is now his case was highlighted back in two thousand and fourteen by the senate intelligence committee they released a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him on the sherry however when questioned by the senate before taking office hostile insisted that intelligence gained from 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 former cia officer ray mcgovern says war crimes were perpetrated at the black site in thailand. gina has to go 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 derogatory information on herself before the hearing she supervised the torture to see the graphic and hear tale don't run the interrogating does nothing short of banging someone's head into a war in the water treatment that's waterboarding condemned by all manner of nations because was practiced by the japanese girl or to look crime and so to see this kind of thing revealed in gory detail the only shallow so you 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 to chose. iran's supreme leader has rejected holding talks with the us following president terms offer of a meeting to improve bilateral ties and he bluntly worded tweet i mean it rallied against u.s. officials excuse me railed against u.s. officials comments about iran and fermenting talk of war to which they ayatollah stated there will be neither war nor negotiations there have been months of increasing strains after the us reimpose sanctions now those have been suspended as part of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which the us withdrew from last may now under the new us sanctions iran's barred from buying american dollars and also from trading medals including precious ones besides that it limits the overall flow of iranian currency and targets the country's auto industry ahead every imposing sanctions on iran mr trump threatened dire consequences only to backtrack

days later offering an olive branch. to iranian president rouhani never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death be cautious so i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with a rant if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready yet preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. live rection now from iran and slade mohammad marandi welcome to the program you are a professor of politics at tehran university so we wanted to get your input on this story we've seen trump try this formula before with north korea first threatening making insult and then extending the olive branch why do you think it's not working so far in this situation. well one reason is that the united states has international of the case obligations. in

the nuclear agreement that it has cast aside and when the united states is unwilling to abide by its obligations then there's really nothing to talk about because first of all the united states has shown itself to be untrustworthy and second of all in future let's say hypothetically the iranians speak with the americans and come to an agreement who's to say that trump will not tear apart another agreement in the future and as we as you just now show to your audience one day trump threatened iran with. death and destruction and a few days later he speaks about unconditional talks his secretary of state says one thing he says something else so he's reliable he's untrustworthy he's erratically and he's not someone that the iranians can deal with well anyone has used the same terminology saying that donald trump is on these trips and not

trustworthy and calling him unpredictable is there any chance a bilateral talks even beginning to get off the ground from here or is there just no going back. i don't think that there was any chance of talks between iran and the united states until the united states backed trucks in one form or another the united states had an agreement with iran countries like russia china britain france and germany as well as the e.u. for all of part of the negotiations these negotiations took many years and when they were finally signed and americans agreed to and it just simply cannot tear apart it and agreements that's all these countries have invested so much in and therefore when trump speaks about negotiating with the iranians the iranians say well first go back and show the.