that is something russia pointed out in its official response again we have to state what was still to be obvious despite our desire it's impossible to comment on statements made without any evidence and that are clearly created for public attention it's sad that a big international company that successfully worked for a long time in the russian market and has to be a part of the witch hunt now has invaded washington but microsoft insists the threat is there and oh how convenient already has a solution on stand by microsoft account god will be provided for free to come pains and candidates it will alert them of potential threats and educate how to keep networks secure so a threat of no threat microsoft has nothing to lose but this new product of theirs won't market itself. the syrian army appears to be gearing up for an offensive on the country's last major rebel stronghold the battle for the enclave it would mark

the final stage of the conflict if assad's forces manage to retake the area it will bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign many western media outlets have been doubling down on the narrative against damascus with some saying assad's forces are certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties same media though fail to mention that more than sixty percent of the enclave is estimated to be under the control of hardline islamist groups that have been accused of war crimes are trying comments. these you augur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much about this part of the country the northwest basically here in and around it is where you'll find all the armed rebel groups the ones still putting up a real fight no wonder getting hold of this area would be the ultimate success for damascus five days after multiple airstrikes hit this once quiet neighborhood

province killing dozens of people shattering whatever illusion of fifty to me if it existed you listen to the c.n.n. piece and get the impression it looked province had been a peaceful oasis still showered by those bombs how about telling the viewers about the dicey melting pot it actually is the syrian army has been on a mission to win back land those rebels or even internationally recognized terrorists who stood in their way were given two options take out the white flag or get a one way ticket to it no kidding some were moved there on buses and that's when the real mess began instead of teaming up various groups and went to war with each other and let's not forget some of the mightiest organizations running the show their moderates. h. t. s. or high yet to. arguably the most powerful and hair raising the very same

people who used to be known as moose or syria's al qaida branch and if that name doesn't ring a bell just picture nine eleven or any other bloody carnage that took responsibility for. this is quite a trio to those who've heard of nor aldin. likely associate them with the beheading of a palestinian boy on camera they've also been blamed for torturing journalists and aid workers jaish al islam paraded kate's hostages through the damascus suburbs they once controlled only to use them as human shields later this group along with . was firmly on the john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed

by our by book by joshua. by al-shabaab it seems even in london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send any more cas to fighters and ad lib as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of the hottest t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from edward province on twitter but online many warned by and the media's attempts to portray that place as just rebel held clave so the question is if libya's mainly ruled by al qaida who gave sky news the exclusive access they are not rebels there. which rebels did you get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the

siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in the east in rebel held area of aleppo mill your seat in the battle districts of rebel held east of the unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad and. the russians there was no mention of the hardest though and there since something our reporter saw with their own eyes. we're in the al assad. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again thank god beyond that you're into the rebel held parts of aleppo that is the black flag of nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war. it is though time and

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come back this is our international american journalist has published a new investigation exposing washington's efforts to interfere with the internal affairs of countries around the world and undermine rival governments max blumenthal went to an event organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit ngo that was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and is supported by both of the democratic and republican parties currently operates in more than ninety countries and the national endowment for democracy says its work aims to help non-governmental groups promote democracy in those places and blumenthal couldn't help but notice some parallels. right i covered the ceremony because these organizations are doing exactly what congress accuses russia funded media outlets control farms of doing in the united states they interfere in other

countries politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly and in the name of spreading freedom. are two spoke to the journalist behind the report next blumenthal he told us more about his findings so once again. i'd like to express our sincere gratitude to bipartisan. support and also u.s. congress people as well and u.s. citizens eventually we are doing to score with the u.s. citizens tax americans have no idea that they're funding an organization that's explicitly dedicated to meddling in other countries affairs interfering in elections toppling often democratically elected leaders and spreading public relations campaigns to sow chaos against countries that resist washington's agenda but here you have kind of open acknowledgement from this korean activist who is behind the transitional justice working group which is responsible for

a lot of what congress states and knows about north korea's suppose it human rights violations so basically the united states is paying for its own findings to ramp up sanctions and hostility against north korea and what's really interesting about this event that i attended in capitol hill is that it was timed to coincide with the trump him summit it was essentially a u.s. government backed event undermining a u.s. government initiative to foster peace between north and south korea and that to me seems like almost and in a form of internal interference you think that the national endowment for democracy . if there is a peace treaty that they should cease funding civil society groups that seek a transition or. change you know i think i don't know that that's what they do but i do know that they promote human rights wherever they end and i mean for example if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the

hype i support the work they do i think it's pretty obvious i mean two things are going on there first of all you have. these activists and organizations that are funded by the national endowment for democracy the us regime change arm in south korea who are dedicated to regime change in north korea really worried that the money is going to stop rolling in from washington if there is a peace treaty so basically conflict is an entire industry and it's part of this fake human rights and democracy promotion industry so pelosi wanted to duck that issue and then the other issue she wants to duck is the sheer hypocrisy of supporting an organization that funds civil society groups and opposition media to topple governments and so chaos and sovereign countries while complaining that for example this network r.t. does that in the united states and that's exactly what nancy pelosi and her colleagues in congress do every day when confronted with the issue there's nothing

they can do but deflect and run away as palosi did. a lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty five years ago by the cia it's even more the case since the color revolution model has been introduced. and what the ne d. does is what the cia might have done to salvador allende in she lay but they do so overtly and therefore avoid a lot of the scrutiny from congress it looks like they're funding democracy and legitimate protests but they're directing their resources exclusively against countries that resist washington's economic and political agenda it's an extension of the cia but it seems like it's pushing human rights and things that americans can get behind and that's why they receive so little scrutiny from the public it's very clever actually. there are concerns that the large number of child

slaves trafficked from vietnam and china could be working on canada's farms in london it comes as figures disclosed under a freedom of information request showed the scale of the illegal drugs cultivation the high number of cannabis farms across london and trafficking of vietnamese children to work in them is extremely worrying potentially thousands of children and young people are being trafficked from vietnam and exploited by ruthless criminal gangs. hundreds of cannabis farms have been discovered in the british capital in recent years and specifically that number is said to be at three hundred fourteen that's one farm every two days from january twenty sixth in until april this year and of course what makes these matters worse is certainly concerns about who it is that's being to work at these farms or factories as they're described we do know that experts from campaign groups have been raising red flags about this issue for at least a decade now with headlines circulating in the british press on and off throughout

recent years trying to raise a tension to this issue however experts are continuing to say that large numbers of children and teens from countries like vietnam and other places are trafficked to work out these kinds of farms and indeed this is being described as extremely worrying it's being said that over two thousand suspected trafficking victims were referred to officials just last year and that's a number that's being described as the highest on record and one of the concerns that containers have on this issue is that oftentimes these people when discovered working at these farms could be treated as criminals as opposed to victims and this is certainly seen as a very serious issue and we have sent out requests to the home office to the metropolitan police and trafficking groups such as anti-slavery international so we will be certainly updating this report once we hear back from them on this topic.

from two hundred fifty protesters at the university of north carolina chapel hill pulled down the controversial confederate statue on monday night the one hundred five year old monument known as silence had long been seen as a symbol of white supremacy. i. wrecked it in one thousand nine hundred thirteen a commemorative of those who died fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war monument had had a polarizing effect on campus for decades and had been vandalized in the past although many see it as racist and offensive others argue it is a part of the south's heritage and that it should be therefore preserved one of the protesters was arrested. political activist anthony rogers a right to and a conservative radio host dave perkins and joined us to talk about the implications of the move and how society should deal with the vestiges of the confederation

period. they're abandoning the historical context or forgetting why those statues stand there who it was that put them there what the thinking was at the time and what the statues represent the history that led up to this or that person being remembered in the statute these statues are a continuation of that history of white supremacy that quite frankly this nation was stolen on slash founder we're talking about symbols that were standing couldn't place really to fight for an oppressive system there was chattel slavery that readily did black people as an human as property what was the history that caused the extent you to appear it wasn't just a simple we love them as racist southerner he's a general in the civil war he's a k.k.k. guy he was racist i put that statue up because they were racism he was racist and they wanted to remember him in the context of everyone being racist together that's

hyper simplified and stupid and ignorant of history why don't we hear it works people on the right talking about slavery that's happening right here so to say that we come back far along i don't think that you can say that you have a president who is incited by the us against people of color. whose dog whistles at recent have become full on the ones which have led to people like our sister on heather being killed in charlottesville last year on why don't we see conservatives talking about that hate why don't we see conservatives going up against a president who has literally hundreds you talk about prudence when you're more concerned with a statue than you are n.f.l. players having the rights it's need to stand up to reece's the white supremacy that run this country everything that happens here in the public square and public view is political those young people believe it or not do not come up with this plan on their own it isn't a spontaneous organic demonstration it's a political plan involving street activity designed yes to divide us because there

is an election coming up in just a couple of months of midterm election year where all congressmen and one third of senators are up for reelection it's not divisible at all to the top of your presser what's that this is it is forcing people to have to look at something to have two or three symbols of white supremacy when they're going to school for young black and brown women so on their currency to see white men who say machinery against their insistence who say she or slow kind of teach that to me it's the visit and not talking about it is that this is a doesn't for me i'll be back in about thirty one and a half minutes with more news you're watching our two international.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school this list i'm show business i'll see you then. a response to the two thousand and eight crisis was that the global bankers got together they really architected the global financial system to a standard a ten time the impact financial crisis in the future they did nothing however to undercut the ability for the bad actors the global banks to increase their balance sheets in the leverage by ten times and now here we are in twenty eighteen and in fact now the balance sheet of these banks in the central banks is ten times more level.

readings in salutation. on the state of u.s. foreign policy john bolton the current national security advisor recently lamented the we once had a capacity for clandestine efforts to overthrow governments i wish we could get those back well mustache johnny is probably roasting model weenies and popping champagne bottles in the styles of this week as one hundred because august nineteenth marks the sixty fifth anniversary of one of the most notorious acts of meddling in twentieth century history the cia sponsored planned and instigated coup in iran after years of being labeled conspiracy theorist quackery in two thousand and thirteen the cia finally admitted its responsibility along with britain's m i six for orchestrating the nine hundred fifty three cooed saw the removal of the

democratically elected iranian prime minister mohammad mosaddegh from power and replacing him with the brutal and violent shaw muhammad of the lobby all of this of course in the name of protecting western oil interests you see move that could committed that most heinous of international crimes he he nationalized the british anglo iranian oil company horrible horrible vicious and evil of him given his country's most valuable natural resources back to his people i mean as crazy. tragically the one hundred fifty three crew and agreed just act of war and superpower meddling is still causing blowback to this day in fact this week so iran unveil a new domestically manufactured biter jet in response to the united states crippling sanctions and president trump's chest thumping hostility towards the country or any and president rouhani stated at the end veiling the enemy should see how expensive and invasion of iran would be why does not the us wage

a military attack on us because of our power you see this fear of us aggression is rooted in that fifty three despite despite what recent bad. affleck movies teach us about modern world history you see there is no such thing as what about it's only context when you are watching hawks. but if you get the. real thing. at the bottom it's. like you know that i got. the. welcome aboard the watching the harks i am tired robot and i'm happy for

a while it's so yeah. many years later here we are and people wonder why i ran a such a big deal why why is there all this hostility why was the nuclear why did they work so hard to have and why does that matter event that we just sort of quit the whole thing and move done a lot of history a lot of history sixty five year anniversary and i remember when you would talk about us involvement in the removal of the crew and people would be like that is crazy conspiracy theory talk how dare you mention that we would never ever do anything like that and the cia would never do anything like the number of our intelligence services and community they would never was it all happened to them or was it for some of them. but then in twenty thirteen they finally admitted yeah we were pretty much we orchestrated that we did that there was no it's out of themselves here but it worked and i was so creepy about it is they treated it back

read and look you know they still do today they treat it as a normal part of like foreign diplomacy the formerly excise section of internal history entitled the battle for. wrong was really supportive and it literally says the military coup that overthrew most of the of his national front but it was carried out under cia direction as an act of u.s. foreign policy conceived been approved at the highest levels of government even eisenhower signed off on this war while just active foreign policy that's not only smaller than meddling that's an act of war that is his foreign policy raising him saying no no you elected this guy is your leader we don't like him so we're going to put him back and i mean it's just got it into perspective one of justin trudeau down here in the canadian army of came in and said you know want trump that's it dragged him out of office and said no we're going to put somebody else and go put out would be ludicrous right it any if any other country tried to do that to night

stand there would be especially if they have the ability to control the media the way the cia correct yes so here's the thing about it wasn't just controlling what was going on on the ground in iran you have to control the narrative back home and so all the august seventeenth of nine hundred fifty three the c.i. a there was a memorandum that revealed. how they were able to sort of trick the public into thinking certain things were a certain way that weren't entirely true in that memo they stated state has passed the word to v.o.a. which is west of america and instructed its own press relations people to avoid using such terminology as plot etc. you know but we don't do. you get voice of america which is you know a government funded u.s. government funded outlet to purposely make sure that the narrative didn't make it

look like a coup d'etat to make it look as if it just magically happened in the u.s. didn't have any involvement in it and the central intelligence agency which i don't know when they became an arm of the military. they're suddenly going on and i think that when we know later. all ran in the united states this is not the beginning nor the end of this issue oh no it's because when we see it years later and there's a lot more very foul things that keep happening all the time yeah you know what thomas carruthers of the carnegie endowment for international peace actually argues today that in that same sort of tone is that. unlike russia electoral matter meddling u.s. democracy promotion does not favor particular candidates or undercut the technical integrity for elections all my whole. exercise their basic political and civil rights. i think that's kind of crazy but i think what honestly you can't end this segment about iran with no mention what happened to iranian oil company which is

what all of this was over that they were going to private they're basically nationalize their oil that later became be peaceful marriage and if that would have stayed in iraq. we never would have had the b.p. oil spill probably. in a rare event u.s. politics someone is actually being held accountable for their decisions while in office on monday this week michigan judge david goggins ordered the state health director neck lion to stand trial for his actions during the flint water crisis line is accused of involuntary manslaughter for failing to alert the public of a legion errs disease outbreak that is believed to have led to the deaths of two citizens artie's ashley banks has more. nicholai in michigan state health director is being accused of failing to alert the public to flynn's water crisis why in phases involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men who died from a legionnaires disease outbreak in flint he also faces charges on misconduct in office

and the willful neglect of duty lyons is denying any wrongdoing however judge david goggins says these deaths could have been prevented if the outbreak had been publicly known despite lyons pending trial michigan governor rick snyder is sticking by him snyder issued a statement saying he has quote full faith and confidence and will remain on duty. as unless convicted of a crime after a full trial by a jury of his peers snyder and lyon announced the outbreak in january twenty sixth team although lyon knew there were legionnaires he says being reported months earlier experts say the outbreak was caused by the flint water crisis back in two thousand and fourteen however attorneys for alliance say there isn't enough evidence linking the christ says to the legionnaires outbreak the crisis began on april twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen when the state emergency manager

decided to switch the city's water source from the detroit water system to the flint river and order to cut costs during the summer months residents began complaining about a foul smell as well as side effects they experience after drinking and bathing in the one. many residents were then faced with a legionnaires outbreak and in the months to follow many officials would have faced charges for their role of not properly addressing the crisis lyon is the highest ranking michigan official charge and an investigation led by the attorney general's office fourteen other current and former state and local officials have been charged with crimes related to either the legionnaires outbreak or lead in the water four of them have agreed to mr mueller plea deals while the remaining cases are still active unlike these other employees the lions and one other official have been allowed to remain on the job despite facing criminal charges and washington

ashley banks art. or you talk about one of the worst black eyes in the history of the many black eyes that we've. got to be up there and our federal government's complete lack of reaction or as if well it's your problem that is what really got me you know it's that thing of going went where was obama where were you where were the progressives where were those people who say no we're going to do something about those i'm a nothing happened nobody of responsibility that's all that passed the bar the bar pass a budget and you know they wouldn't give the men money to fix they would give money to fix that what's interesting is people are hungry for people to not to take the fall to be held accountable for their failure as a government officials in fact when the judge announced this decision there was a woman in the chambers who actually yelled out yes yes yes there there that have.