is that russia and the united states that also apparently in talks to prevent any potential use of chemical weapons but the danger remains the worst case scenario and international escalation militarily the rebels stand little chance against the syrian army what could save them is a foreign intervention caused by for example a staged chemical attack syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use it when you can there is no military necessity to snuff and so the russians to assert that the syrians have no chemical weapons sensible people will not use militarily useless means to draw the fire of three powerful countries upon themselves we have no information about chlorine being to live or to consider it as an invitation to the rebel groups to stage another chemical attacks as they did it in the east and that is what happened last time say the russians they staged an

incident in ghouta that led to a u.s. french and british cruise missile barash against syria. these time what with the military build up the stakes and reask of an escalation will be much higher but it hasn't begun yet there will be a big conference on friday but chances of a peaceful resolution look slim the russian reconciliation center has been trying to broker a deal but the jihad ists remain defiant once the ball is that there is many years to meet. really and immediately trapped between the hardest and the syrian army

if talks fall through with chemical weapons used if this battle drags on civilian casualties will sought not to mention the danger of an international escalation and escalation is imminent how that develops we don't know whether it goes. very fierce in the form a very fierce confrontation between. on one side and its allies and syrian army and its allies on the other side we don't know hope that it. is it wind in other areas like most recently in dying southern syria we are faction leaders understand that this is a force that they cannot. compete with or fight effectively and they save their people and their cities a lot of destruction and death in that case you know people could go back to under

government control as soon as possible to normality basically as soon as possible and we understand that many of them are hoping to achieve such a feat with a decisive battle looming civilians are fleeing the area i think humanitarian corridor. excuse me set up by the syrian government and russia. and i asked some of them i did became in a tense one holding us as hostages but it was cold in our counting minutes here in tasmania force and some of this humanitarian courage oh is are some patients. are ever going to buy him from even the conditions were dire there the militants

don't let anyone go we're screamed with just because on our backs. the palestine solidarity activist from norway claims israeli soldiers have shot her twice where the rubber bullets in just one week she caught one of the incidents on camera. including. injuries four. years if you're pointing that. you were asked by an elderly palestinian man if he could accompany him to get his car back that the israelis had taken him as an economic shield so they had suits in front of them there's nothing happening at the moment sir he decided to go with him and leave or approaching the idea man and them with their hands in the air and the postilion man he walked

a little bit faster than the so he reached them and we held back and i think you can see very clearly from the show the that i got my hands in the air. and there's no one around me when they shot me but i am absolutely sure they shot me on purpose another person from crawford quadroon he was hit and i had not so long ago and he lost sight. and news also unable to close his jaw i've been to the protests five four or five on four or five previous occasions so i knew they would be firing rubber coated steel ball and sequence which to have before but always stayed to the side or at the back of the demonstrations on there as an observer to to witness what is happening. but of course there is a risk when attending anything that's where the i.d.f. is crystal fast claims she was first hit in the stomach even though she had had her

hands raised and later in the same week hit in the ankle while rubber coated steel bullets are seen as non-lethal the injuries they inflict can be severe particularly when fired at close range the forty three year old activist has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims to land which they argue is occupied by israel. the israeli army told r.t. false had been standing among the rioters at the time who had been violent towards soldiers it says it will investigate fast herself ses palestinians are being subjected to continual violence i think it's nearly one hundred people have been shot with live ammunition over the years. hundreds have been shot by these bullets that i was shot with have been tear gas that had skunk water into their houses but they're not getting any attention. to what is happening and share it with a rolled and hopefully someone someone. you know some attention on them

will be back after this very short break stay with us. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury or somehow want to be.

considered like the blue cross this is what the forecast for you in the morning can be good for the. interest of all those in the waters in the. first six. welcome back the french presidents build himself as the main opponents to the hardline anti migrant politicians currently holding power in italy and hungary now it's off to the pair united to fight existing in migration policies and found to take power into their own hands in the next elections for the european parliament we can go live now to our correspondent sean o'keefe penske in france so charlotte

are we seeing a new confrontation emerging within the e.u. here. yes absolutely we're seeing clear signs developing as we head towards the european elections in twenty nineteen and what we're seeing is the big divisions between the leaders of e.u. nations where the money all might go the president of france declaring today that he would be in opposition to the leaders of italy and hungry if that's what they wanted and he would stand up against their policies take a listen to what he got to say. it is indeed clear that today there is a strong opposition between nationalists and progressives and i will not give anything away to nationalists and to those who deliver this hate speech and so if they wanted to see me as their main opponent they are right.

well that's what a president might call had to say of that meeting on tuesday between the leader of hungry viktor orban and the deputy prime minister of italy material selvi need now they met yesterday and they bonded very well. one of the issues that they were discussing was the migration crisis to the single over the last eight years and that you said that they would look to work together to solve that crisis. so the current situation is like that there are two sides one is led by man alone who is supporting migration we are on the other side trying to stop illegal immigration all of this issue is strongly debated inside the european people's party and we want our line to be accepted. we're asking for collaboration first of all from the large countries the countries that share a border with us like france the first person who should show his sensitivity and

solidarity is the french president by reopening the border at ventimiglia and he can do so even tomorrow morning. well the two you have not always seen one hundred percent on the issue of migration we know that much. in italy has talked about italy burdening too much of the responsibility of the migrants and wants them to be dispersed across europe whereas what we've seen from hungary's prime minister viktor orban as well as leaders of countries such as poland and the czech republic is a point blank refusal to take any more he quits in but the two have come together because they believe that they can the best main opposition to the current status quo in the european union was look at some of the figures now of the migration crisis in two thousand and eighteen the figures show that so far around eighty two thousand migrants have come to europe across land from the sea in addition to that

fifteenth fifteen hundred people are feared to be missing or have died in the crossing in the mediterranean that's in stark contrast to the figures for the whole of two thousand and seventeen which saw around one hundred eighty six thousand people coming to europe and around three thousand people being declared. missing all feared dead as part of that crossing into europe now italy has been sharing the majority of the burden over the last eight years in two thousand and seventeen around one hundred twenty thousand people arrived in the tweet that compares to just under twenty thousand so far in twenty eighteen so you can see that the figures are anything but the reality is that this migration crisis continues to cause a huge rift here in europe and it looks like it's more to get good to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to those elections just in eight months time the question is which side is going to win out will it be those

who approve migration to want to disperse migrants across europe or will it be the voices that are anti migration. shallow thank you for those data. reporting live from paris. now to the u.k. now where the women's minister victoria at the kids has been criticized by right scientists that's after expressing concern over the rising number of children now wishing to change their gender. i read in the paper recently there has been a large increase in the number of teenagers who are identifying a search and i think we need to get down to the reasons why this is happening it may simply be a case of greater awareness it may be that they see it as an answer to questions they are perhaps not asking themselves. transgender issues are increasingly being raised in the u.k. with initiatives being launched to recognise the community's rights one recent

example is edinburgh university where new students are being courage to wear badges with the words he she or they indicating how they want to be referred to the campaign is being run by the university's students' union as a part of an effort to avoid so-called mis gendering however students should not use the term preferred pronouns emphasising it's not a preference but a necessity we debated the issue with activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john galt. trans people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about gender reassignment career without very very serious long protracted thought and it is often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home and very high rates of suicide and attempted suicide so this is not a decision that a young person takes lightly and if they make the decision but they feel that they

are one gender or another i think we should respect that i don't think it's a big deal to it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to other people so i don't i agree with that but part of same token they should respect our rights to have a different view and when you talk about this this is always brought there than about trans and serious sides it isn't because they're struggling with the fact they think they're in the wrong body that lage generally to the serious side it's aster when they realize they've made a dreadful mistake which is why the woman's minister or the education minister is right to say we need to look at why more and more young people are trying to go through this we need to look at why puberty blocking drugs are being handed out like smarties they don't know their own mind i agree with you peter it must be agonizing to needs time ministry thought about and they need to be of an age where they know that they are in the wrong body not giving them out to six year old eight

year olds and ten year olds and you know that's happening peter and it's wrong let's be reasonable if somebody feels they are you know being assigned the wrong gender they're in the wrong body i have enormous sympathy for them but we shouldn't be kind of i don't really want to use this word but encouraging it which is what our edinburgh university is doing well no one is encouraging them and nor should anyone encourage them this is a call that's coming from the young people themselves whatever university is doing . if they have said people can change once one day to the next that's quite clearly absurd but you know what if the purpose of these badges is just to raise awareness and in particular to make transfusions and their friends and allies feel comfortable safe and accepted i don't think that's a terrible thing i think it's just a common human decency to be current i know that's perfectly reasonable have made this decision what's not reasonable and how down

a minute you are universities are trying to tell lecturers it happened at university of toronto of course famously with jordan peterson where they totally had no use things like hello ladies and gentlemen hello boys and girls they had to fit into these new pronouns if they want to say today i'm a man tomorrow am a boy the next my fridge freezer so that but i don't have to fainter i don't want to get into a situation well i have to change pronouns i have to change the english language for a minority of very small minority they are tracking my freedom of speech my freedom of expression trans people our reality they have existed since time in world war throughout history i think the fact that there are more people coming forward is because there is greater social understanding and acceptance the stigma and guilt is fading away the issue has been discussed more openly and that is why more people are coming forward and violence trans but it's still a tiny tiny minority

a minority that is no threat to anyone and i think we should live and let live and except that people who are different for whatever reason including because the generosity that they have a place in the human family. and such a thing i think international will be back at the top of the hour. camera. roughly once they showed some movie you for the. uncool videos and someone with the broken string of. going down on string i don't roughly don't t.v. welcome to max kaiser financial survival guide.

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family plus he could a car bomb i just bought that already and yes it will be and he thought of getting up there calling with you you're seeing him in ticket yeah. you just got to go you . elaine. hello and welcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle for mainstream media fuel america's cultural wars do they magnify political differences it would seem so how else could it be if the only topic that is discussed and argued over

trump are journalists infected with trump arrangement syndrome. cross talking trumped arrangement syndrome i'm joined by my guest rob talban new york he's a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post also in new york we have lionel he's a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and in plymouth we crossed through patrick endings and he is a journalist and writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wire dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rolls in effect means you can jump in anytime you want lionel let me go to you you're also referred to on this program as fella my first question is here does the do the corporate mainstream you remember that program did that do they do the corporate mainstream media. do they contribute to the cultural wars it is are we so is divided and is everything is contentious as it really is or are they dismantle for their own political purposes go ahead lionel

yes no yes no and sometimes the corporate first of all correction my dear friend it is not the mainstream media used to be that mainstream media they used to be mainstream they're not this is the mainstream media social media different platforms that's mainstream they are an existential fight for their life so within the particular parameters of their working environment yes they mix it up and people are scraping does the rest of the country mainstream heartland mainstream america care no no there you go so ok but ok but rob i mean i get we all get lionel's point but they still think of themselves as the mainstream and representing. the population what they really do is represent power particularly on the left i would say but i want to stay with this magnification here because if you

look if you watch c n n n m s n b c and then you watch fox on the same evening you'd think you'd be in parallel universes i mean you really would have a. sense that both are in some kind of never neverland and having nothing to do with the world outside go ahead rob i was one of the token liberals on fox and at one point i think i made over two hundred. ten appearances on there over the course of a couple of years. there they were pursuing back then i think more of a fair and balanced attitude but now well i was always like the washington generals the team that never beaten the harlem globetrotters you know i was going in the know that five other people were going to beat up on me but i was allowed to voice my opinion i don't really get that sense anymore i sense that the people that they pick to to give a liberal perspective are speaking of outrageous claims and comments and policies

and they're taking an extreme so they can say hey look at this kooky liberal he is just like bernie sanders but but we also have a divisive president who has a very that acrimony throughout the country and we have politicians on both sides that are taking more extreme points of view and you're going to have news shows and stations that are going to be representative of those those policies and beliefs and then those that those bases are going to go and watch those particular stations and channels ok lionel doesn't agree but i'm going to go to patrick first here i mean rob brings up a really good point i mean donald trump by any any measure is a very contentious president i mean i i watch all of his town his stadium appearances i mean he goes out there ok and his base likes it ok but he does give the mainstream of the liberal mainstream media or this c.n.n. and some b. c.

the people like that he gives them a lot of cannon fodder to want to work with patrick you know i think earlier your point it's a central crisis that the mainstream media. he's going through it's not just in an existential crisis it's a financial crisis so what you have now is they've been forced to basically run click bait and if you're talking about broadcast television it's one crisis after another or one sort of trump derangement crisis after another with the print with the washington post i get the daily alerts every day and michael cohen said this michael cohen said that steve bannon's gardener heard him you know whatever singing russian in the shower so this is the daily sort of fodder because they can't they have to attract the audiences they have to get the clicks the very thing they accuse of the independent media the very thing they decry on social media they themselves are the worst offenders now so they need a crisis this is the sort of recurring theme with the mainstream media ok it's

actually always been like that for many years you need a crisis if it's not political to be the way you have a good but patrick going to go to lionel but i get what you're saying but what about a real crisis because. sensibility stormy daniels isn't a crisis for me i could care less ok a creepy porn lawyer i could care less it's in one ear out the other and i don't those are minutes of my life that he will never get back that's why i don't watch those stations here lionel you were disagreeing at some point go ahead jump in to my dear friend the intellectually sapient mr cobb i disagree in one respect what roger ailes die fox news as we knew it di absolutely die next with a d.c. fox merger disney rather to me fox merger even though they swear that the news division is different you are seeing a watered down and the dying saccharin version of what was once fox at its and you can argue about this best and the like with all due respect also my

dear friend peter why do you like has nothing to do with what these people are interested in this is a twenty four seven runaway. a train that you want to be run away you have to keep feeding the boiler and you are pouring everything into it you have a newsroom with twenty something i'm sorry to say per d.m. folks who i have no journalistic ability know no experience of any kind of t.v. or whatever they are just there to click and just feed ok i'll sit but now you know there's no room for correction but if i could never know but the point is here is this dividing the country i mean i understand how it's made and why it's made and i understand the bottom line here but it is dividing the country i mean jim acosta i mean what it describes to journalism ok i mean and they probably think he's doing a great job rob if you were nodding your head go ahead he's not he's not defied ok ok go ahead go ahead rob jim acosta is not dividing that ok i'm sorry i'm sorry

it's all right go ahead rob lionel consider this ok i'm going to start at the top with our esteemed president donald j. trump when you have a white house press pool they usually normally interact with the white house communications director who for quite a while was hopes his hope picks the way it used to run and i was not a huge fan of president obama only voted for him once jen psaki who was a communications director disseminate that information to her columns team the columns team then interacted with various people in the press pool and disseminate information to them so they could write about it i don't think that's ever been done under trump so you have pressed people that sit around twiddling their thumbs sitting and fuming going what am i going to do what am i going to write about i think i will say that trump is a jerk and that he's disorganized and he doesn't do anything really because the evidence going on that he needed comes to me has twitter hey that's my job and dear

let me go to patrick because you know we've got to. i think hang on hang on line him you know we've gone back and forth on this program with all of us all of us here. about twitter and and it's got those pluses and minuses here but again the traditional mainstream media lionel ok this is where they creates an opening for them is well ok so you know these different strategies they have their pluses and minuses patrick go ahead and claim it yeah i think you're kind of talking about two different things here but let's talk about social media for a minute because these are some of the you know same corporations that are now overlapping with broadcast media and with mainstream print and they're also working hand in hand with the first draft coalition all these sort of concepts to police fake news and so forth they're they're ideological you know in the united states and you know their ideological dependence is really on the state you know and i

think this is the mainstream media's problem as well they need access to the state they need access to power they also need access to corporate money and hence they become a tool of government when they become a tool of corporate propaganda the same goes for the silicon valley facebook might be a democratic progressive in the united states but believe me they're absolutely colorblind internationally because they need access to all these markets so so i guess we're talking about media i think we can open up the conversation now a little bit more but but in terms of the united states unfortunately even if as your previous guest said they're going to be briefed by the white house team i think they would throw that briefing in the waste bin if they received it before from the you know the press pool received under this administration because they're hell for leather really just bent on you know having this president impeached yeah well that's a lie let me go to lionel before we go to the break here i mean you know i see.