struction from domestic problems the whole thing is quite a conundrum for me why they continue to try to politicize this issue and use sanctions or some way to help them domestically except that they're trying to cover up their own shortcomings their own short changing of the american people and to try the blame our divisions in our economic crisis in our racial divide here on an on an outside power which is the oldest trick in the book going back to the beginning of civilization if the democrats lose or do not do as well as they hope in the november election having used rusher again as their as their main talking point they may have to readjust and realize that the progressive wing of the party is growing and that the american people don't give a damn about russia and that they have to finally address the real issues here and leave this russia issue alone and get back to normal relations with this country that is that it's imperative for. for world peace essentially if the russian president vladimir putin has washington's latest sanctions against moscow kuntar productive he made the remarks during

a joint press conference with the finnish president in helsinki where last month a lot of effort met with donald trump still to say it's a song regarding the sanctions those actions are counterproductive in meeting this especially when it comes to a country like russia it's not just about the u.s. president's position it's about the position of the so-called establishment the ruling class and brutal i hope the realisation that this policy has no future will come one day cooperate in a normal fashion. troubles broken nights out the border of a spanish enclave in morocco where hundreds of african migrants attempted to storm the coastal city of some way to in their efforts to reach europe the resulting clashes saw police officers attacked with us it. sounds. like you don't know.

god police there say seven officers suffered burns from acid on another caustic substance thrown at them it's the second time in a month that migrants have attempted to breach the border of the spanish territory inside morocco in july a run six hundred migrants tried to break through into so it on mainland europe meanwhile stuff at one migrant center near brussels have claimed they are being regularly abused and threatened by migrants with more your summary if an auctioneer . when workers signed up to help it in migron center near brussels they knew the challenges they could face but now there are green allegations of abuse and violence as stuff come pouring with their stories they have no respect for the volunteers they take drugs in the morning and some see they might attack the women working at the center as soon as something happens everything is done to protect

the refugees they always have an excuse because of their difficult past many refugees and sold to threaten the stuff but nobody says anything on condition of anonymity workers also complained to local media that a colleague was attacked with a chair leg when we reached out to police brussels for clarification they confer and they've been called by the center but stopped short of giving any details we. yes indeed we have already intervened at this center the response teams were called three times over the past week in situations like these there are issues either between migrants or between the migrants and the organization itself they do not respect the rules or that sort of thing and that sparks conflict the angio running the facility insists they haven't received any complaints from the workers at the center and says it fulfills its mission well. i've been working on the ground for

three years now and i really truly have never seen anyone attack a woman they're obviously mentally ill people who insult others then the tension rises but i have never heard any threats to this belgium case isn't an isolated one and a volunteer group here in france that helped migrants claimed they had faced similar issues from the beginning our mission was to serve drinks and bread and we've done this for twenty months every day during the last month we started questioning our mission because we don't want to volunteer to be put in danger they have nothing not even tents they sleep on the ground in. sometimes workin out by the police in the morning they keep them unused to you guys to move them so when they come to us they're stressed and nervous twice last week we had to stop serving food to let the tension come down this is something new for us so yes we are stopping officially some sixty two thousand refugees have crossed in mediterranean to arrive in europe this year it's not quite the crisis numbers of twenty fifteen but the problem still

exists and isn't going anywhere soon. police in germany say they have foiled a possible terror plot in berlin and have arrested a suspect of russian origin or europe correspondent peter oliver told me more earlier but prosecutors have confirmed that a thirty one year old man who's been named as is the standard protocol with just his first name and the first letter of his last name as markham at sea has been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack now police and counter terror officers raided an apartment in berlin on wednesday morning now the operation on wednesday was intended to both arrest the thirty one year old man but also to determine the location of the explosives that were believed to have been stored in that apartment back in twenty sixteen is part of a wider investigation into

a twenty two year old man in france in conjunction with french authorities who's been named as claymont b. who was arrested last year on suspicion of plotting a terror attack now the two men are believed to have been planning an attack together and that they stockpiled large quantities of explosives in the flats that was searched today in berlin there's no word on what their target their intended target was but what prosecutors have said is that the two men were planning an attack that was intended to cause the maximum amount of deaths now that's at our quiz. foiled inadvertently by the police after it seems that the two became spooked after the amount of police attention that malcolm at least see was getting that prompted the thirty one year old to remain in berlin but his twenty two year old believed conspirator to flee. and eventually into france where he was arrested about ali c. will be before

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a great idea you should get stuck why would. why you had better where you please what are you hiding yes i mean well here's some of the reaction we got among other londoners. could be sort of a sportsman like a climber. could be also a terrorist my immediate reaction is terrorists first so it's a bit scary. but at the same time as i do scary might be just sports equipment you find a menacing no no the problem is i'm from canada so all i think of is someone being warmed to me it could be a good winter outfit. it's not up healing to me at all i don't think you'd be allowed in banks and. it's not just so much that what's going on. is as if these could have i don't know you can see it was so severe them

with weapons and weapons guns pulling something like that why the trying to cover the faggots by. i don't see why you watch. you wouldn't want to have a face out you know inviting is not going to make you to buy you know you you know do you know the branded name i don't think it's really a fashion police i think they might have changed to colors that is tilted to charges. but i think it's good to. make a profit on the back of that kind of image and it was encouraged more gangsters and stuff you think here of course that's nothing to do with nike if they don't get it from making they get it from somewhere else if nothing else oh my god where being seen around with people wearing. yeah lots of varied opinions there on the company itself ses the product is available in multiple markets around the world adding that it does not condone or encourage gang culture in any way it is now removed the sold out item from its website. an 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 mark spoonful attended on a bent organized by the national endowment for democracy it's a nonprofit non-governmental organization founded in one thousand nine hundred three and is supported by both the democrats and republicans currently it operates in the us you can see there were one hundred countries well the national endowment for democracy say's its work aims to help non-governmental groups promote democracy blumenfeld couldn't help but notice some parliaments. 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 to interfere in other country's politics and with foreign money. the only difference is they do it openly

and in the name of spreading freedom. while activists out the meeting were quite clear on their agenda as they themselves explained so once again. i'd like to express our sincere gratitude to buy pot of. the poor and also us congress people as well and us citizens eventually we are doing this work with the us 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 then 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 regime. ange 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 and i mean for example if russia were funding civil society groups inside the us and that going into the hype and put to 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 u.s. 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 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 this is r t international coming right up with them left being heard increasingly larger run the world wants actually are they calling for in twenty eight enough debated next.

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hawks. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle remember when the political left stood up for free speech and equality for all and live remember when the mainstream media called for the same tone and tenor of political discourse appears to be a turning point if you don't agree with the left you face insults harassment and even violence is the new civil war on.

cross talking political civility i'm joined by my guest rob talbot new york he is a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post in west palm beach we have dr gina loudon she is a psychology expert and host of america trends with dr gina and in los angeles we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate gina let me go to you because i know your political stripes pretty well and reflect upon what i had to say in the introduction to mean if you don't agree you face insults harassment and bile and representatives beliefs about what it means to be on the receiving end of violence it seems to me and i don't want to overdramatize things but over the last few weeks it seems to me that part of the political spectrum wants to normalize political violence in terms of speech at least go ahead gina in west palm beach yeah it's discouraging because i think that my whole political life

my thing has been that sometimes i'm wrong and i hold myself out to the fact that i may be wrong but i enjoy the civil discourse some of my favorite things to do have all. and shows like yours where you can have a conversation and a civil dialogue without ridiculing the other person without calling them names without accusing them of some form of bigotry but the left has taken a tack you call it a civil war i'm calling it an uncivil war as a massive step away from the civility and then they tend to want to do this blame game and blame the whole thing on the fact that the president is somebody who hits back just because conservatives traditionally have never hit back and so i think that it puts conservatives like me in a in a really discouraging place and that we've always wanted somebody who would hit back the bully on the playground right i think that's a good thing because bullies in politics they shut down civil discourse but in this particular case i think the left has taken it far too far steve case one but there

are a lot of other cases here that we're seeing almost every day now and the political environment you know. i used to remember is that ok i can understand you know the liberals used to be the ones that were taller and in one of the dialogue in wanting to engage people and now we have a president which who can be quite vulgar at times i think everybody on the panel in our viewers would agree many times he's a pretty he's a bit rough ok but why does the left now have in the late that i mean aren't they supposed to be better they've always presented themselves as being the better part of the political spectrum it seems to me they want to get in the mud. and fight it out that way which is not really part of the left's tradition at least my reading of it go ahead. well there is an old expression that you don't get into a peeing match with a skunk and i think it's been a huge error on the part of democrats but i'm going to make it clear donald trump

has set the stage for all of this and if there were sixty thousand people in yankee stadium and everybody cheered for him except one person he'd be tweeting about that one person that doesn't like him but i don't think that the democrats are doing the right thing my fellow democrats and in the attacks that they make against trump against his allies just in general i think maxine waters is is the biggest enemy to the democratic party is look like an idiot saying the things that she says and does and i i find it repugnant i've been attacked because. i'll speak and i'll say well as a democrat and then i get blasted on twitter from people saying you can't say that you're not a real democrat you're a phony you're you're you're a plant you're a bob and so it's like oh i can't have any kind of dissenting opinion i have to just have an automaton o'clock response and you know all the drama will be oh i

mean rob that is what gets me angry with all due respect what do you expect from identity politics ok if that's exactly where it goes you're not getting the old you know then you're an enemy that's what identity politics does let me go to ron ron what does the left hope to achieve by this strategy i mean you know you don't have the leadership speaking out against that schumer said something and then he got attacked for it again identity politics comes into play it's a losing proposition i don't know what the democrats hope to achieve by going down this path go ahead ron but you know i don't want to split hairs on optics here but i think when you're in the in the topic of this conversation when you say the laughed. really referring to is the democratic establishment good in the corporate media and i would argue just for optics sake that's not the left one could argue

that something like m.s.m. b.c. and the democratic establishment that is in fact the liberal establishment but when your say liberal you should be using it in the field loek sense percent to the left in the best of times and are sent to the right on it affects them a very severe the question that's actually they are wrong there's nothing actually progressive i agree with that ok but in the end the questions that i set out to everyone here i said stablish minute left so procreation and ok but let's but my question is what does the establishment left want to achieve by taking on this strategy all it does is increase you know it just increases the volume in the temperature of political discourse when we have no to the point where we don't have any ok go ahead ron. oh i agree with you and i think they really thrive on creating this am i caught me a we're not trump and trump's awful and we're not that when it comes time to talk to policy they really don't have any

ideas you know we live more than ever before we live in a two party system lewis black said it best the republicans have bad ideas the democrats have no ideas so when you have a absolutely no ideas and when you have this president that's kind of a knee jerk reactionary you know that says you know some outrageous things sometimes what else can you do but then get in get into the match yourself and gauge in the hyper partisan click bait culture that were a part of and try to run with it and hope that maybe you beat a republican or two and twenty the third priority of the democratic party is winning their first priority making sure progressive policies don't happen their second priority which those two things kind of go hand in hand is pleasing their donors their third priority maybe beating a republican or two by engaging in just partisan bickering you're getting all three of those things accomplished while you're in those top two things accomplished

everyone's at third want to maybe maybe not so rep a recipe for disaster ok. reflect upon the fact that recently over the last week or so it's been conservative women particularly that have been attacked in public we don't have to go through all the names there's so many of them out i mean i thought the democratic party loved women and respected women go ahead gina. yeah we have the whole when they go low we'll go high thing it looks like when someone goes low they're going to go lower the whole war on women thing they've turned that into a war on any woman who disagrees with their politics i would really like to get back to a time where we can have a conversation a little bit like we're having right now frankly where probably the three of us wouldn't agree on policy matters much at all but we can definitely agree that civility and conversation are much more intelligent way to go about establishing policy that works for america they end slinging insults and especially as you point

out to peter it's the identity politics i would argue not the president the identity politics that have brought the democrats to where they are in what is amounted to a truly uncivil war that is really among the left in this i mean the right we're getting along pretty well not perfectly but pretty well i remember a few years ago when i thought the republican party was imploding but at this point i really think that identity politics is imploding the left that they have got to get some issues to stand on and to work together frankly because even if the three of us four of us sat down and discuss policy we could agree on we could find something that all of us are passionate about and we could fight together on that but rather than that the american people and especially the traditional democrats out there they're watching this lunacy go on the left and thinking i don't know but i know that's not what i want and they'll lose in the midterms because of it i feel quite sure at least at this point if something doesn't change fast you know why

can't the establishment democrats rein these people in are they afraid or do or they're worried to be their bases drifting to more progressive socialist we could look at what happened in new york i mean what what what what still lack of reaction because it seems like the lack of reaction shows the huge splits within the party go ahead. it's a completely fragmented party right now there is no leadership who can you see is the leader of the democratic party not seeing any sense of booker. maxine so you know and here's the here's my proclamation for the democrats that they bet that they have to get the sky is always blue water is always wet and donald trump is always going to be donald trump so stop complaining about what he says and what he does because he's always going to do that while you throw some policy at us and tell us what you.