is certainly had a point of view he was if you remember he shook obama's hand he really who is hoping that there was going to be a new approach from the united states didn't happen so it is about dialogue it's about compromise politics and above all if i can give you an overall opinion of mr putin he said he's the ultimate negotiator you wear you out he really believes in talking out everything there's no there are certain points of interest for every country has its national interests and he constantly harks on this russia has its national interests and he's open to the gut to negotiating anything but those national interests and when you cross the line. he will let you know as you know i pushed him whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession in what's going to happen next year there were times i riled him more than once but i am concerned and the reason i undertook the series

was i was very concerned about going back to my relationship to russia what happened to the american russian relationship that had existed in two thousand if you like your film can change american perception and put all because in her column dolly in a is to some degree i tell you more than several million people saw it which is and this is on a premium cable channel showtime is not on a national channel like in russia so you have a limited prescription audience that it was seen and seen again but it was also shown in europe in a lot of places and we had a very good debate in france i was public television channel three in france and. you've heard vedder in the x foreign minister of mr beattie all defended the movie very well i thought against and the several other people against the opposition it was the debate was very french but in other words in europe in germany france these things matter italy very important now whether things change as

a result it's hard to tell because the recently as you know the united states congress which stuns me voted almost unanimously for sanctions to be expanded against russia. this happened recently so it seems to be almost a reaction to trump. as putin says a domestic politics you feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin to help syria's i'm not sure i can tell you what is in donald trump's head on all the anyone can and if they tell you that i don't think he's stupid i think he's a very sharp guy and i'm sure he wrecks respects the. he may misunderstand mr putin too so i don't know but he certainly hasn't lived up to the idea that he gave many people during the campaign that he was against any foreign of the interventions that he thought the united states it squandered its resources its assets in wars abroad so we there was his thinking that it would change but it hasn't changed not

because of his willpower it but because he hasn't been able to get anywhere in his administration it behaves been stuck in gridlock from the beginning opposition has been severe also because of russia now because no let's can i ask you really that has been the excuse the has been attacked profoundly for russia there's no evidence as yet and i've seen indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i could i don't know that the polling is off on it it doesn't make sense if you're saying no one that is elected gets to change the system does it even in america 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 through 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.

roughly once they showed some. cool videos with. more. t.v. . welcome back to sophie and co now the other day i sat down with the legendary filmmaker oliver stone in moscow bookstore and asked him whether a second cold war was just a figure of speech or as terrible or. 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 that you like vietnam among others korea. you wonder how many people died in the name of that cold war you know millions of a 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 in 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

it they can't get 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 i 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 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 nine that nato would not go east one inch if the germany's were united he allowed for that and that has not happened nato has been accelerated under the not going to the american under clinton and and bush and obama. so 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 and the context in which this book came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had to sidestep 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 going to end it's always messy. you're young like you know you must be in your son or not that young but thank you 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 and declaring and making the soviet union the fall guy after having won world war two they made them the fall guy for war two two 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 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 that 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 and 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 been asking 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 i want you mention how does a person in america when you pretty much denounce a lot of troops 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 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 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 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 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 it might lose its

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 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 it is 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 and 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. their reality are you 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 would completely all your nuclear arms and have a regime change mr putin resigns which is insane 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 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. 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 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 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 in 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 tinder box. 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 live you make at movie about this and you

shouldn't 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 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 peace. oliver stone thank you very much i was looking into a lot of what they were think.

i am. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just new leader hasn't been there we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

twitter is fake news fail the social networks accused of posting this information as it's revealed funds diverted from our to ad revenue encourage false stories about so called rush limbaugh. also this hour washington gets the cold shoulder for imposing sanctions on middle east nations as iran says there will be no negotiations with the u.s. and turkey calls the move a step in the battle but together in a server and then you seek to stop your strategic partner in the box. and newly declassified cables reveal cia director gina house bills passed involvement in the agency's torture program giving birth in detail to what was done.

this is art international coming to life from the russian council. the words just turned one am 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 supposedly russian bots and friends telling her went over the details earlier with my colleague you know neal 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 six thousand 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 twenty. second january what i've been doing with a lot of 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 you 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 has treated interference in the banal a scandal we never said this the fact that limit is 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 t. 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. iran's supreme leader has rejected holding talks with the us following president trump's offer of

a meeting to improve bilateral ties and they bluntly worded tweet ayatollah khomeini railed at u.s. officials comments about iran and for mentioning talk of war to which the ayatollah stated there will be neither war nor negotiations relations have been increasingly strain for months since the us re imposed sanctions against the country now those had been suspended. as a part of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which the u.s. withdrew from in may now under the new u.s. sanctions iran's barred from buying american dollars and also from trading in metals including silver and gold besides that it limits the overall flow of iranian currency and targets the country's auto industry had every imposing sanctions on iran 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 want to leave i don't know that they're ready yet the preconditions know they want to meet only any time they want as well as they ran their similar anger from neighboring turkey this president described the new have to trade tariffs against a fellow nato ally as a breach of trust. the satish did you act on one side as a strategic but on the other you five bullets into the foot of your strategic partner together in nato and then you seek to stab your strategic partner in the back. the tariff slapped on turkey come in the wake of a dispute over the detention of an american pastor aluminum duties have been raised twenty percent while turkish steel is now subject to a fifty percent increase tariff it said the turkish lira plummeting in value hitting a record low against the us dollar turkish stocks have tumbled as well we heard

from political experts now ankara and tara for their take on the us penalty case. not only in by literal but also in the context of nato and. the cries of beautiful problem because if you are to increase and the turkish reaction is very strong the public in turkey is under. the do consider this as an act it gives the turkish national interest and it is considered as an economic war where the american money play to the economy this type of crisis between america and turkey will have further consequences for the original global developments i think donald trump are playing with fire when trump behaves like that towards towards turkey then obviously iranian leaders say that. talking to trump is useless when trump

speaks about negotiating with the iranians the iranians say well first. show that you are committed to a peaceful solution show that you are prepared to abide by american commitments and then we can start thinking about the notion of negotiation one day 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 an erratic and he's not someone that the iranians can deal with. new revelations have emerged on cia director gina house bills passed involvement in the torture of terrorist 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 describe torture sessions run by

psychologists working as contractors for the cia techniques range from physical abuse and psychological harassment to isolation in boxes. the joes included hooded confinement of machinery in the large box forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the wall and. interrogators covered the subject's head with the hood 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. these are the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorist captured in two thousand and two he spent four years and cia black sites including the one in thailand under gina hassels 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 the committee released

a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him however when questioned by the senate before taking office housefull 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 former cia officer ray mcgovern says war crimes were perpetrated at that black site in thailand. gina has phil 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 derogatory information on herself before the hearing she supervised the torture to see the graphic and detailed out running terry walling does nothing short of

banging someone's head into a wall in the water treatment as waterboarding condemned by all manner of nations because it 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. thousands have gathered in yemen to mourn and bury dozens of children killed in a saudi led coalition air strike that hit a school bus incident potshot and was condemned around the world. earlier local children and their mothers gathered outside the u.n. offices.