washington's voiced concern over turkey's decision to buy a russian made air defense system it's even hinted at the possibility of sanctions go against any of its nato allies with similar ideas now when it goes against our policy to have a nato ally such as turkey use an ass four hundred system part of the problem with that is that it is not in iraq for a while with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds of trigger cancerous action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and cities around the world so the s four hundred the russian made missile system capable of hitting multiple high speed aerial targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars and the first systems will be delivered next

year be looking to bolster its air defenses since the u.s. withdrew patrick missiles from the syrian border region back in twenty fifteen mean time russia has long time partners in the arms trade from all over the world as the head of the state arms exporter explains. the s four hundred is the most advanced missile defense system of the world's countries are already lining up to purchase it we have gained a firm food hold and the arms sales market to other arab countries there is a drug just not botanists it with india and china are our allies in the galactic security adroitly organization also work with our military industries on more than icing on the voices but it was only used to promote jim jeffords told us he thinks washington's angry over an increase purchase of the s four hundred systems because it undermines u.s. attempts to damage russia. the people behind these policies do not look at russia as a partner at all they look at it as an adversary and that their goal is essentially

regime change in russia buying russian weapons is not bad because they're a competitor for business they're bad because there is essentially a full scale political warfare being carried on against the russian federation by the agency is that the american government i don't know that this is nationally what president trump ones but it's certainly want to department of state department of treasury and other organs of the government want and the purchase of russian weapons is bad because russia is bad i think that not only with regard to arms purchases but every other excuse we can think of we will find ways to put new sanctions on russia or countries and companies the deal with russia here on this child off the break coming up it's a dirty job on the streets of san francisco the ongoing drive to clean up the cities but the rewards for doing it what take your breath away.

join me everything on the alec simon shore and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business. say the collapse when the soviet union collapsed because the u.s. meddling in boris yeltsin and all that's going on they have the skyrocketing alcoholism and. here in the us because you have this normal financial aid reengineering take all the money being printed and put in the pockets of a few folks and leave the vast majority in a state of zombification this is the collapse gap he was talking about the us and the soviet union both collapsed in the one thousand nine hundred ninety period is

just a stick in the us as she describes it longer to realize that. i gave her a good morning from r t m e kevin zero in next that in the us state of louisiana for anti pipeline activists in the journalists have been arrested and charged under a controversial new law under the legislation they could end up behind bars for something as simple as stepping on pipeline land the house bill seven twenty seven as it's called which took effect on the first of august this pipelines is critical infrastructure it explicitly prohibits trespassing pipeline grounds and with those running afoul risking a hefty fine or as many as five years behind bars over it now activists say that

a number of state police were also working for a private security firm to protect the construction site while off duty the officers has since ended that line of employment apparently let's take a look at the pipeline that's provoking all this controversy.

let me think of the right word. city as well as. the desperation because companies disclose these legislatures in trying to hide how pathetically un-american this kind of a law is because privatization unconstitutional actions that have not been held up in the supreme court clearly don't measure up to the law of the land the constitution this needs to be understood as something that should be contained it is so that it doesn't spread throughout the united states and so it does not spread throughout the rest of the world. and the whole the activists used to speak in the part of the dakota pipeline protest that was against a route that runs under a leg kona sioux indian reservation was feared would damage drinking water supplies

that. on the most occasions those protests lapsed into violence with state moving forces as well as the national guard engaging in violent standoff at times with the activists offices deployed pepper sprayed tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon the crowds sometimes have freezing temperatures hundreds of people were injured some seriously now police to fend their actions and the activists were trespassing rioting in described them as very aggressive but it would hold again believes it's highly unlikely and some pipeline activists whatever incite violence in situations like that. i believe it's any kind of perceived bias and if that would ever occur we need to be under incredible scrutiny because it's doubtful that season which advocates for farmers rights advocates for landowner rights advocates for. seeing the climate future are going to resort to that

kind of to set it in a civilized approach. in the wake of the wind rush scandal in the united kingdom that saw members of the african caribbean community facing deportation a nurse whose father came to britain after the second world war is now struggling to prove his citizenship she told r.t. shut the edwards daschle has story. i had to stop working i lost my job i was a registered nurse i went into financial difficulties i lost my dad in twenty two or my brother to suicide i ended up stealing monies from patients and. have it ended up in person getting affairs and. everything just accumulators it was just like a knock on effect people are dying people have literally died off stress people have committed suicide because of this it's been a tough road for sharon a former n.h.s. nass who's facing deportation despite having lived here most of her life while

waiting for an update on her status she was told she could no longer work and was advised to seek charity help in order to feed her kids if they can just allow me to go to work at least i'm not allowed to claim benefits and the person said not you're not allowed to claim any benefits you have no status so i said to her home i suppose to feed my child he's twelve he didn't do anything wrong and she said well go online and seek charity the forty six year old was born in germany while her father was deployed during his service in the r.a.f. her family moved back to the u.k. months after her birth i mean our family has been connected to to england for years everyone was proud of him being a soldier saw because of my dad service i shouldn't work my challenge of stuff and i should be pushed into destitution that's it and i should be proud that he was serving the queen in the royal air force. that's a punishment has siblings who were born in the u.k.

have never faced problems with their status but sharon has been told she is not british on the grounds that she was not born within the nation's boundaries sharon believes she has rights to citizenship because of her father's service there's a document called the queen's rules and regulations of the armed forces and this control is everything you do as an as an army personnel wherever in the world you are and it says in black and white any children children should not suffer from their citizenship nationality problems anything were when they were born they should be treated as born under just soil if there was one the home office said inaccurate legislation summary of legislation so history in the queen's document is wrong one of the girls said well i'm not nationality trained i said so where where you dealing with me but you give me a british but at the cricket so you have me on your numbers that i was born in britain but then i'm not british the home office has previously said that there is no guarantee for children born abroad to non british citizens to claim british

nationality even if their parents served in the armed forces sharon now has no choice but to wait for an appeal decision on october the fourth sharon is just one of dozens of descendants of the wind rush generation who have had their lives turned upside down by the government's hostile environment policy to clamp down on illegal immigrants i just think it's a racist thing i don't like to preterists as him but. who is it happening to is a minority groups or if it's a met my knowledge a group then i put it on to. proper accommodation service would be a breeze supposed to be there to help you from a cultural place to stay almost where they were in the world when you wanted the owner composedly of course choose who you would like to host however this aspect raised the issue of people being denied booking because of the north african names it seems journalist. says that when he tried to book that apartment it must say his

reservation was canceled with an explanation his friend who he says has a good french name later booked the same apartment for the exact same dates no problem but he says this therefore is a clear example of discrimination well after the journalist wrote about his experience on twitter it was quick to respond expressed regret over the incident and stressed its opposition to all forms of discrimination we were joined by political commentator nicholas markovitch and french lawyer jose marti to give us their thoughts on the rights of the owners to choose their guests or not i think what we have to see if there's a deeper problem than just refusing to read it because as you said the purpose of renting is making money so why would somebody not read it i think there's a problem with. the form committee in the large sense today in france which has got a bad image and some people would rather not rent than rent to people who got this bad image and i'm very sad to hear what. this guy was just saying will be giving

some are jews who are racist people who don't want to see enough african coast in their house is putting this idea in the head of some people who sometimes. don't meet one north african in their. lot of people will the people i mean from our factory. crime incivility to terrorism and unfortunate use are some of the reasons why we speak a lot of the north african community today and people will relate to that and decide that the president not grants to these people or people coming from those regions i don't agree with the thing that we can sum up the reality of people acting. having delinquent behavior just by giving the roots of these people these have nothing to do this has nothing to do to explain the behavior again i'm not saying the end tire north african community each there are

a lot of this is a significant. interest and they're not easy let me answer i'm to i'm just telling you there is a problem which has to be settled i know people from the north african community what ashamed of what other people in their community doing and you can see this unfortunate on a daily basis imagine the french person who has no contacts with the north african community who read the press on a daily basis and weeds people who have been committing crimes who have been terror who are terrorists who are advocating death to france or to take a chance and every time to read this unfortunately again i'm the first to say unfortunately unfortunately they see that they're often associated with the name from north africa now if there are people who are considering that the route the original behavior the. patient or the faith or the own faith is. a good purpose to discriminate they are wrong on their own not respecting the law this is what we have to remind in in the states which is

a state of low. san francisco the golden city known for its base views and stunning landscape is apparently these days awash in human waste the problems go so far the special crews have been launched to clean up the place. the worst we've seen i will say that there is more there's more fifi's on the sidewalks and i've ever seen you know growing up here that was something that did not weather and no warmth that you've ever seen and i've ever seen for sure. san francisco is but you can see it's where you needed three hundred fifty thousand dollar income to afford a median priced hated in a city that has just announced a peep patrol to clean up the streets instead of telling people to use a bathroom san francisco is going to send a patrol to pick. the six person crew that goes around the city to clean

up how much would you have to make to do this job. nobody wants to step in feces i have children i don't want to do that either i don't like finding use needles but there are approaches in the city is trying but we actually need some federal help in this case in my opinion. you've got to get your hands dirty if you're going to achieve you possible. other support you have for breakfast too much revenue around the world to bring you the latest world news from moscow twenty four seven don't let her up for the stories that matter to you straight to mobile device it's a kevin over here in moscow saying for now good morning.

so wrong. just don't call. me. to say pilot distinct concepts of. engagement equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the aftermath of the cohen guilty pleas and man affords conviction what does it

mean for the president and the russian probe to take a look at that on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king michael cole and donald trump his personal attorney and fix him plead guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not afford the former campaign manager of the donald trump's friends eventually campaign convicted on eight charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least. it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks in its twenty month existence so what does a man avoiding throwing cases being the donald trump and where does robert malas russian probe which has been a thorn in the president's side for well more than a year there's echo from here for answers to these an. issue it's

a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching trump. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats say he's in a data coconspirator total nonsense and the republicans are saying there's no risk at all let me tell you as a criminal law scholar not as a supporter against them i can't paint against him here's the situation a candidate has a perfect right to contribute as much as he wants to his own campaign and so is donald trump paid two hundred thirty two hundred thousand dollars for our money to women if he paid out of his own money there's no crime at all nothing at all maybe there was a reporting requirement that's like jay walking of but if in fact michael cohen

paid it without authorization from the president with no expectation of being paid back then it was michael cohen who committed a crime because a third party can't contribute more than thirty two hundred dollars to a campaign so the prosecutor has him self a little bit in a catch twenty two to the extent he said that it was directed by donald trump he loses the criminality because the president is entitle to direct his lawyer to make a payment from the president from the candidate to his own election campaign and to the extent he says it wasn't directed then it's only the crime committed by the lawyer not by the candidate himself so this business of an unindicted coconspirators total nonsense you can have somebody commit a crime michael cohen without the person who directed him to do it being guilty of a crime because the person who directed to do it had a perfect right under the statute to make that controversial alan ball logically we both know if the progeny michael cohen put didn't put

a bizarre money in the present reimburse a matter of minutes and that is giuliani admitted that that's what happened sure a let's say on the strict legal code you're right but isn't this a case of if it looks like a duck. and it sounds like a duck and feels like a duck it feels like a crime nerd hero guy saying hey you pay this and i'll pay you back to. the doesn't look good out it doesn't look good it's terrible and all of my life i made a distinction in my last several books between political sins that look terrible and actual federal crimes and under the rule of law it's very important that we keep that distinction sharp and so what i think trump has done is committed massive political sense for which he should have to pay a heavy political price but he's not gone over the line in my view and committed any serious crimes he may have the campaign may be guilty of failing to report a contribution by the candidate that generally results in some fine but not really

any kind of criminal certainly not allow me a slight billing but what a selfie he can be an unindicted coconspirator if it isn't a crime right that's right yeah so why did he and his prosecution think it's a crime why do they disagree with you well the prosecution hasn't said that it's only been pundits who have said that the prosecution says that it was a crime committed by michael cohen and that's a plausible view if he made a contribution or excess of what he was allowed to do that would be a crime but if it's the president's contribution it's not a crime and so you know remember there's no indictment here or we have a plea and an allocution and the elocution isn't admissible against trump in any court proceeding and it's just like it was if it was a statement made under of the civil proceeding it doesn't have any real impact

criminally look i spent a lot of today reading the morass of laws that regulate campaign contributions and it's very difficult to figure out what does and what doesn't it's very complicated you know thomas jefferson once said that for a criminal statute to be. alet you have to be able to understand it while running while running with it you know and i can't even understand this why well sit while sitting it's very difficult and the idea of threatening people with criminal prosecution for the general open ended statutes should threaten every civil libertarian but civil libertarians are so against trump that they're prepared to compromise civil liberties and rule of law in order to rid the country of a president who they think is to serving the interests of america and as a civil libertarian yourself have you lost some friendships over this and are you a little embarrassed when trump quotes you. well i have lost friendships over it i would put it differently i've learned who my real friends are and i've learned to

the phony friends are many people misunderstand my position they don't know that if you were equipment elected president they were going after i'd be saying the same thank you making the same arguments and they would have built a statue to me on martha's vineyard because what i'm saying helps trump people have refused to associate with me they told others not to associate with me. they have tried to shun me in every possible way but i have a thick skin and it's affected my wife she's lost some friends which is ridiculous why should my wife lose friends she doesn't even agree necessarily with what i'm doing but the emotions its own people feel so strongly about this that they're prepared to give up friendships over differences in interpretation of the constitution that's all this is about difference isn't interpreted in a lot allen you didn't have to speak out you don't have the right that both i did why do you want why did you choose to i didn't choose to i had to i'm a civil libertarian and my position is i have to always pass the shoe on the other

foot to suppose would have written it merely when i have to write it for donald trump i can't apply a deferent a separate standard i wouldn't have written it if the a.c.l.u. were involved in defending the rights of donald trump but they've chosen sides and they're on the other side completely i wouldn't be doing it if other civil libertarians or criminal defense lawyers i'm the only man standing i'm the only guy who's making this trip an anti trump pro civil liberties position and i have to keep making it i think i owe it to myself i owe it to people who want to hear what the constitution says and i don't think i can remain silent to be silent would be hypocritical for me what do you make of the man of four decision trump said he feels very sorry for well managed for would not have been investigated probably not prosecuted if he had not been close to truck don't believe me on that listen to judge ellis the presiding judge in the case he. that special counsel wasn't interested in metaphor is crimes they were just interested in squeezing him and

getting him convicted so that maybe he will either saying or composer composing means obviously elaborating embellishing on stories prosecutors don't want witnesses to embellish but witnesses often do because they know the better the story the better the deal do you think the president will pardon them it's possible he certainly has talked the talk apartment him he said he's a decent guy is a good person that he worked for reagan and it worked for this and that so it's certainly possible he's not going to parton cohen that's for sure he's declared war on cone conus declared war on him with conan trump it's a zero sum game and they're going to fight to the end. ok are you as a citizen how concerned are you about russian interference with american elections very concerned and that's why i call on day one for a nonpartisan expert commission like the nine eleven commission to look into the

whole issue of russian interference with american elections it would've been much better it would be transparent there wouldn't be political there wouldn't be targets on people's back but this time we'd have a report we know what russia was doing and we could stop them from interfering in the three thousand and eighteen elections having a special council did not serve that purpose so i care deeply about russia collusion i think russia did pollute our metro with whom they clearly want the truck to be president they didn't want to be the president they're continuing to collude they're now going after you know republican think tanks that are anti trump and russia is the villain here and we should have a commission to probe that the one good thing about the motor investigation is that they've indicted twelve people will never bring them to trial they're not coming to disneyland any time soon to be served rested so i think it's going to be a pyrrhic victory but nonetheless it's true that russia did try to fear with our election the coup didn't somebody but the question is with whom inclusion of course

is not a crime it needs to be an act that violates the criminal law and the only time pollution is mentioned in the criminal law is when for example football teams collude in order to raise prices or violate and i competitors why do you think what do you make of the white house counsel mcgann spending thirty hours with more well i think in the end it probably backfired on the white house i think the white house in good faith thought that if they allowed mcgann to provide the information that would help bring the investigation to close but it's going on and on and i think now the current team probably is but sorry i'm just spec. that they allowed him to testify or or sit down at length because you know even though he says that trump did nothing wrong he can fill in blanks he can help put together the jigsaw puzzle that the special counsel is trying to put together so in the end i'm not

sure if it will help trump or hurt trump but it's not something as a criminal lawyer in retrospect that i would not what do you make of rudy giuliani saying truth isn't truth about what he meant it's so clear what he meant if a person testifies truthfully it was speaks to the prosecution and says truthfully i didn't know about the meeting at the trump tower i didn't tell call me to go easy on flan i didn't say we're mcgann says i said but if he's in contradicted by other witnesses even if he's telling the truth he can fall into a predicate perjury trap so what he was saying is the truth is always determined by prosecutors who can decide which truth to believe of course in science there is a true sceptic or vision but there is a truth but in a criminal justice system it's often the prosecutor and ultimately the jury and the judge who decide which truth to believe when you have to think. so you're saying.

is right but he put it very in artfully i would have put it the way he put it i think if he had explained it more carefully that even if you tell the truth you can end up being charged with perjury if somebody else tells a different truth that the prosecutor believes that's the way i would put it now and thank you so much the book is the case against the v.g. can trump the guesses the felix frankfurter the professor of law remember this at harvard law school thank you so much alan as old goat oh it's a pleasure thank you be well stay right there we'll have more politicking right after the break.