take steps towards ending russia's international isolation ending those sanctions and despite their major differences they do have common ground for example on the overall nuclear deal on various economic issues and michaels the russian language which is knowledge of germany that you have always maintained at least a core deal relationship. with michael moore well we don't know each other well enough but i'm amazed by her ability to listen. to. this because there will still insist that it is known that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is

a possibility that we can make exchanges i have also gotten very good smoked fish. angular from time to time since a couple of bottles or rather a burger. or germany isn't putin's only stop off on saturday before he gets there he's playing a social attending the wedding of austrian foreign minister cameron commercial and businessman. the ceremony will take place at a vineyard in austria's stereo state and while some are guessing whether putin will offer a dance to the bride or what present he has for the couple others have slammed the foreign minister for daring to invite puter.

fifteen million dollars. the physical abilities of. tree did. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of a space course from donald trump and fighting robots across the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go. now on the surface a new grant from the pentagon for extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f.

operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. please. now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s. military has engaged in this kind of research.

now at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as lab rats at the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it it was all classified now the public documents indicate these new experiments will not involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized very well documented history of u.s. military research they'll certainly raise an eyebrow. r.t.

new york. graffiti has been appearing in the spanish city of encouraging the holiday makers to jumpoff hotel balconies and some of their suggests that the potentially deadly practice known as balkan is actually fun well one of the messages mockingly claims it improves the quality of life for locals now. the two jumping into a pool from a balcony old climbing from one balcony to another the risky activity is growing in popularity with tourists and some hotels have banned it and even introduced fines.

balcony graffiti that sprung up in boston has some online people pointing out that this year alone six people died performing the stunt most of them from the u.k. or ireland the u.k. foreign office as well. against engaging in the practice but the victims were typically drunk and lost their balance so we got some reaction from tourists and boston are not thankfully save lives we need to postpone that i am out that night ok then there is no sir like many messages saying violence like things are against us i guess the same in them like they want to have the city photos and they know it's important to maintain jobs to make some money out of tourists were i don't i think this is some kind of tax why can i have this many tourists on the on that it's not comfortable for and i've been in evidence of this as well i think last night such a scene that's just so old and so much. shit excepting. boring

formalised shouldn't really aggressive things to escape this it's the main source of income. but nothing like that since. i think it took place if i would live here and i would see guys ruining my city. hall style sometimes as though like more news after the break. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling classes and project themselves. with the primary go around the lives only one person told.

to ignore middle of the room signal. to. relieve his. child's seemed wrong all but all were all just all. in the world to get to shape our lives just because to add to it and in detroit it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. it is good to have you with us today two palestinians were killed in the gaza strip on friday as protesters attempted to break through the border fence with israel the

demonstration is part of the great march over time which started back in march this year about one hundred seventy people looking killed by israeli soldiers during that period tel aviv says the protests are a couple of terrorists and also based reporter him to qatar i was at the latest protest. by listing news continue to protest for the twenty first friday they israelis continue to fire tear gas canisters and live ammunition on the palestinian protesters. that the situation now is escalating as the palestinian protesters are trying to burn you to burn some tires to blur the vision of those ready snipers that israeli forces continue to fire more to gas canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the front at least two colace immunes injured in a very very critical condition as you see palestinians are are bracing the palestinian flag. throwing stones on by israeli snipers and this is how the

palestinians have been gunned didn't have a right to snipers and the israeli forces oh my god like many in this unit you just got to stores are being fired that gun on the palestinian protesters and down as you see it they have to be fired on the part of student protesters where your gas canisters are being fired from all directions as you see the place is filled with with white smoke everyone is suffocating from a tear gas fired this is also one of the injuries are from the tear gas fired just right now. no signs for the first time i see this there is no fence where the palestinian protesters had that maybe. if you do break the friends. i've marked it was five. guys that kind of thing and how badly did you break it up friends that i'm sorry

but i still. think the shooting live ammunition on the part of. every one is going back. meanwhile the israeli defense forces say the response of the troops to palestinians trying to break through the fence was in accordance with standard operating procedures another protest was held in the west bank this friday and people marched peacefully against the demolition of a local village. but. i'm here to support the people of the village i hope that people come from all over to stand with them so we can be sovereign in our lands palestinian activist i mean me joined the protest in my seventeen year old was recently released from jail after serving an eight month prison sentence for slapping an israeli soldier in december last year she condemned israel's decision to demolish the village israel claims it was built illegally and has offered to relocate locals to a neighboring site. so russia is at it again

that's the claim in a new article in us magazine the atlantic it says the kremlin has set its sights firmly on meddling in the upcoming midterm elections with russia's objective being to weaken america well the article goes on to explain all russia's alleged three step plan to break american democracy first for example unleash the russian hackers second by a corrupt us politicians and third support those who think favorably of putin and it's not just the russian state that's come under suspicion the atlantic also claims that this channel helps to undermine democracy by inviting on guests who question mainstream narratives the name of brandon straka as an example he's the founder of a movement encouraging democrats to walk away from their party though the atlantic fails to address the other outlets that also have him on as a regular guest. well i i myself was

a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals friends strake is spent years as a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the left has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. political commentator line all told us what he things is behind the anti rush articles like that of the atlantic. nobody ever calls these people to task they are paid for by volume or how many likes to do you get how many clicks hey that was a great article factually incorrect. factually a baseless and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of this this monster of this

modest monster that you must feed constantly with this no rush no nato no bad guy no bogeyman so there's many reasons why the boogeyman the straw man the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained because it fills because somebody talked about what time did the power of nightmares it was a real b.b.c. documentary and you need something to see here you need something in historically in this post you know cold war a red baiting this russo phobic hysteria feeds into this is well and there is an audience for an. occupy london appears to have been the latest victim of facebook's recent spree of shutting down pages the social justice movement had its page taken down for several hours and the movement says this is not the first time that facebook has tried to censor its content occupy london is a social justice movement founded in twenty eleven it's part of

a global movement that's organized hundreds of protests typically against financial elites of the movement says its founding values are equality and diversity occupy london has a significant social media presence with around one hundred fifty thousand followers on facebook now some say so pro palestine posts by occupy in london might be to blame for facebook's action we have asked facebook for a comment a social media giant has since apologized to occupy london saying it was all one big mistake when george bought one. of the movement's activists it's not entirely convinced. we just. sort of a blip a mistake out of the blue it probably wouldn't mean very much so the problem is this is part of a massive rear guard action i think by the establishment or anyone can go online and see the evidence this themselves chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist it's been one of those exposing most of the details of this but effectively what's happened is that in the name of dealing with

i can use a many progressive websites that have been a major part of you know bernie sanders jeremy cobain etc. they used they found the traffic going down. websites like alter net truthdig that you know mainstream progressive web sites is in a traffic light down by seventy percent and these algorithms devised in private nobody can inspect and have a huge impact on more information the world gets to see about what's going on and that's a hugely significant here going forward the relevant thing today in terms of discussion is still a very powerful force online and has millions of people engaging with its posts and so it's very important that they and others like them on not in the name of fake news effectively removed from most people's internet searches and i think this is a huge issue going forward bearing in mind that google and facebook are very very close to the american establishment you know the washington post is owned by jeff bezos he will say this and that but not surprisingly he's very keyed in the using

the washington post to make sure that the internet allows his all totals to come up at the top of such as a no arms. talk wrapping up of the program for this hour here we're not here to national thank you for sharing your saturday with us here at moscow just twenty seven am now we certainly back soon with more.

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing. the road a simple i want to be a lantern i want to last but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sites the drug used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. the last day and. there have been some and get them in order that. they can what are their options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house over. the. many couples won't. put impulse response both of you up as opposed to the

whole. and i imagine a time when you're watching a special edition of going on the ground award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger will now be in our news here is starting in september but this is one of his most recent interviews with us in it he went beyond the headline. on sirius those three yemen and north korea. case you didn't know it is a mayday today you. tell you protests in france have turned violent forcing from east to use tear gas and water cannons and the west more than two hundred attacks this. corruption this seemingly they see. a truck stop made a protest in support of workers' rights turned violent in cities around the world.

as the tear gas settles and rain washes blood from the streets of europe after this week's global mayday uprising i'm afshin rattansi and this is going underground special with me for the whole program is that journalist and filmmaker john pilger let's start and go straight to austerity before we go to foreign policy even in australia i know another first world country the levels all sterile. since the twenty eight crash a stir to supply globally so the same policy of extreme tax cuts the trump as opposed to go in the united states that we've we've had in this country for for very long time it's called neo liberalism they apply so

you have or this called an underclass people working for. temporary visas for low wages this is become the pattern and all rich countries it's the kind of. darwinian economics that those two thirds of those who've got it through really well those in the middle who aspire to do well are usually and that and those. in the bottom of discard it and yet of course while as you say these two thirds have been suffering since twenty eight or even before then there is money for wars what was your reaction when you first heard of the anglo american french missile attacks on syria it's built on a series of i would call them lies fabrications. the calculus sakhalin duma resume clearly said this is why britain has to go in and fight and

think it is not a regime they says it's to people leave frankly and she's yet to convince us that she has a right to be believed because. almost everything to do with foreign policy has shown to in the end if you take the the the sols pre attack that is on rattling so far east for example the o.p.c. w. report on this which was not reported include in the bar a tree report from its major of a power tree in switzerland which said this this was no no of agent this wasn't know for sure it was something entirely different julian about the wheelchair attack we're told are you sure so it was sold protect but they are connected because it leads then we leads then to the attack on syria. the there is overall a campaign against russia this is

a very long campaign it's been going on since the russian revolution but it's intensified in terms of its propaganda in a way i've never known i've never known journalism. to be so distorted in order to sort of this propaganda be the attack on on on dubai was based on when i quoted the law i when you look at the available evidence the real evidence the evidence that barely sees the light of day. then there's no justification for it whatsoever. there's no real evidence of a chemical attack so what we're seeing is is the most intense. campaign of propaganda at least since the iraq the buildup to the iraq war in two

thousand and three it's comes from a great tradition that comes from nineteen forty five the cover story for dropping two atomic bombs later discredited right through to the beginning of the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin so we had years of misery and devastation in vietnam built on a lie when the be going to understand this when we're going to send understand there's no sturrock will patton and we see that played out now almost through the propaganda that's presented as news i think we'll get you that many mainstream media journalists have short term memories perhaps but they are handed as they have always been handed press releases from government they routinely say russia has obviously rules invaded in area of europe and now they're being told we have proof

that they have launched a chemical attack on english soil first time since world war two and and the journalists say all governments cannot possibly be lying about such a serious event i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i've worked all over the world i'm a reporter. i would say there is a pseudo journalism now the kind of journalism you describe i wouldn't describe as journalism to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the very end to thesaurus of what real journalism is fortunately we still have it in the grate on. the mavericks like robert fisk who's single report from duma

showed almost without doubt the whole hickman's so far he interviewed a doctor who'd worked at this particular facility there was no evidence the doctor made a mockery of macros and maze and claimed. to have seymour hersh now who can't pump be published in his own country has to be published in germany probably the greatest investigative reporter in the world hersh last year may his own reporting his own investigation made mockery of these so-called. chemical attacks. i've never known the time when so cold as you describe it mainstream surely. a satirical to. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into

a propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed right against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the macho on russia. but the surrounding of russia with bases with american bases with nato missiles the provocations day off today. suggests this in syria where basically the russians and the syria some succeeded the the the rebels. most of whom harvests an extreme islamicist supported by the united states supported by britain us to present to as a credible opposition within syria but the whole point of all this is to take syria from the russians since the nine hundred fifty s.

if you read the documents you go back and read the declassified m i six dispatches from syria they've been trying to do those things the nineteen fifties syria hasn't been controlled in the same way that iran hasn't been controlled this is i hope this is not the last stage i don't think it is because in syria it appears there's a major defeat and what way of seeing is a reaction to that but of course you mentioned some world renowned journalists have you been surprised about how they have been taken as apologists for putin and by presenting the opposite there it is oh of course not. a big cold everything throughout my career that's a badge of honor. you're a good reporter only if at some point. authority established forces about

who. about whose nefarious activities an invasion enjoy writing label you a dupe but used to be a favored or an apologist. robert fisk knows this very well that's happened with every great story he's reported then they say great story because he's reporting as been of the highest order since i've known him as would see more. as with with people like gareth porter a great investigative reporter who you'll never see he's an american you'll never see it is so cold maidens for you newspaper writes all of it but read his material about iran it's based on fact you mentioned iran how serious is this narrative not going to twist away but maybe while still remaining on syria but

going to focus on some kind of imminent war on iran especially as we know john bolton is no national security advisor go chill go it on the whole boat and this this and mike pompei of who is the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteen fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pill was.