rift here in europe and it looks like it's once again going to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to the elections just in eight months time the question is which side is going to win out. we spoke to writer and political commentator john bricmont who feels anti immigrant sentiment is becoming more and more popular within the european union. we've michael should be worried about that celine is far more popular in india and mccoys in france and of course all banning hunger is even more i mean older both show that in the election sure there well expect a large block of. the beauties to get like did you see in france. i mean the. republicans are already taking the opportunity of having a very in and i imagine these girls which is between you can this because the family friends is not really my dad he did it with the fans but he's not he's a good. that's a different question but he's the one guns are not that many it's

a few hundred years there but the right is going to jump on that and i expect them to make it and i didn't find any with the x. national front of me just now that i'm in the national gathering or something like that on the money and and then they will probably win against michael on the left is not going to win and that's what he expects. the last stronghold of rebel on terror groups in syria the northern province of idlib is surrounded by army forces with a decisive battle looming the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned that the u.s. really prefers regime change not within the area of terrorists. now when the u.s. is steering the situation around it lib we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the west front and great britain destroy them last year.

we have the impression that u.s. threats against damascus are aimed at preventing terrorists from being expelled that. learning the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared was aimed at keeping al nusra that which. we believe these egotistical unilateral political games to a counterproductive. we believe all the conflicts should be solved multilaterally with open contacts between the countries including regional countries. as tensions mount in the russian center for syrian reconciliation says it has received intelligence on of the livery of toxic substances that the province it claims the materials been brought in with the help of the white helmets rescue group for use in a false flag operation russia's previously warned militants are preparing to stage a chemical attack artie's morag as the of has more now on the potential escalation of the situation in. the stage is set for a final and it looks like

a bloody battle the battle for aid lib tens of thousands of islamists rebels from all over syria and the world against the syrian army and its allies no wonder then that the stakes here like never before i q's ations provocation and chemical scandal it's not an even fight the syrian army is stronger which means jihad ists need all the help they can get from abroad. following the alleged good take chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will

try to stage as similar incident in he'd like to draw the u.s. france and britain in get them to hit a sad again russia says an incident is imminent especially after the u.s. and allies jointly stated that they would act if it looks like as had launched another chemical attack that's almost an invitation to do so says moscow it would suggest now when the u.s. is steering the situation around we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the u.s. france and great britain destroyed them last year you know what the u.s. answer is we never said that from the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra day counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or die for the jihad ists rebels nowhere left to run nothing left to lose and their spot. says the west the gulf which have

pumped billions upon billions of dollars into a cause that's on its last legs the mascot's and moscow are trying to work out a deal to reduce perhaps avoid the bloodshed but the job just aren't up for it syria russia adamant this swamp of terror and zealotry has no future. group this is the last place for the terrorists so from all points of view this abscess should be removed of course what everybody's fearful of is escalation given the us russian military buildup in the region everyone has a gun pointed at each other and given that this is it the final act of the syrian war the urge to shoot might just be overwhelming with a decisive battle looming civilians are fleeing the area through humanitarian corridors set up by the syrian and russian government.

and i asked about them i did they came in a tense one holding incense hostages and it was cold in our county ten minutes here in tasmania crossing some of this humanitarian courage to is our salvation. again i am from if the conditions were dire there the militants don't let anyone go we escaped with just the clothes on our backs. donald trump has accused google of bias the president claimed only negative coverage about him was being promoted and val to take action and also warn that facebook and twitter are taking advantage of all people google search results for trump news shows are either viewing the

reporting of fake news media in other words they have it rigged for me and others so that almost all stories and news is bad fake c.n.n. is prominent republican conservative and fair media is shuts out illegal ninety six percent of results on trump used for national leftwing media very dangerous google and others is oppressing voices of conservatives and hiding information in news that is good they are controlling what we can on cannot see this is a very serious situation will be addressed. and the white house has not yet given any response to the issue although we did ask for comment that's despite trump's outburst attracting plenty of media attention it's not the first time of course the tech giants system has come under fire much research and studies have shown google time the results for its users also google itself admitted automatic algorithms can

sometimes have issues since they're created by inherently biased humans and dougal has addressed trumps accusations they claim there's no political agenda to a search engine and its results are not biased towards any political ideology legal and media analyst believes the most crucial part in this case will be when the tech giants have to answer in court there's different ways it's interesting the methodology do you ranking shelving shadow banning algorithm. if i have a library and i put your book in a part of the library that nobody ever knows about in the basement that nobody has access to but i say so much here in the library we have it nobody's ever seen it nobody has access to it you know we're getting into again a new world the long always lags behind technology nobody drafters of our constitution the bill of rights never imagined that we would have this but it was

going to be interesting to see is how the courts deal with this and how the international community does this and or these organizations so great and so large and so rob the naggy in their colossal size that that trade agreements or trade considerations can be implemented it's going to be fascinating to see. palestine some authority activist from norway claims israeli soldiers shot twice with rubber bullets in just one week she called one of the incidents on camera. as you point the notion. you were asked by an elderly palestinian man if we could accompany him to get his car back that the israelis had taken as an economic shield so they had it in front

of them there is nothing happening at the moment so we decided to go with them and leave approaching the i.d.f. mian and with our hands in the air and the postilion man he walked a little bit faster now so he reached down and we held back and i think you can see very clearly from the show the that i got my hands near surely and there is no one around me then they shot me. absolutely sure they shot me another person from crawford quadroon he was hit and i had not so long ago and he lost sight in one eye and news also unable to close his jewel 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 bullets and tear gas which they had 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 kristen force claims she was first hit on the stock market even though she had her hands raised and later in the same week hits on the ankle rather coated steel bullets as soon as non-lethal the injuries though they inflict can be severe particularly fired at close range the forty three year old activist has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims the land which they argue is occupied by israel. now the israeli army told r.t. foss had been standing among the rioters at the time who'd been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate force ourselves says palestinians are being subjected to continual violence i think is 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 had been tear gas they had skunk water into their houses but

they're not getting any attention we are here to witness what is happening and share it with a rolled and hopefully someone someone will you know get some attention on the. other budget plans of a large us government broadcasting agency have revealed washington wants to create fake cuban social media accounts to more effectively spread anti government news these are the plans of the broadcasting board of governors which is an independent government agency that has access to markets in one hundred countries and reaches at least two hundred twenty six million people worldwide clearly more than takes a closer look at how the us is doing exactly what it accuses others of doing. imagine a government utilizing social media to sow discontent and unrest in another country the us media would be outraged they would never stand for it the russian government exploited social media platforms paid social media users or trolls russian backed

operatives continue to infiltrate and manipulate social media to hijack the national conversation well according to the congressional budget request of the broadcasting board of governors a us government communications outlet the broadcasting board of governors is an independent agency of the united states government supervising multiple networks with a weekly audience of two hundred twenty six million people in one hundred countries through t.v. radio and internet apparently the us federal government is doing just that they are setting up a facebook account purporting to be native cuban accounts they even openly admit that they're doing it in fiscal year twenty eighteen the u.s. office of cuba broadcasting is establishing on the island digital teams to create non-branded local facebook accounts to disseminate information native pages increase the chances of appearing on cuban facebook uses news feeds the same strategy will be replicated on other preferred social media networks so almost

exactly what russia is being accused of doing is being openly done by the us government so where's the outrage if this is something that is unacceptable why is the u.s. government doing it openly without even much secrecy we can say that the u.s. has always had double standards it's in its foreign policy the u.s. has intervened in other people's elections in east a hundred other countries a foreign power finances political groups in the united states that are going to run in elections that is illegal in the united states if the united states does that in the hundred of the countries in the world facebook has recently been on a crusade to close down accounts that are deemed to be inauthentic hundreds of russian and iran. and accounts have been shut down we've removed six hundred fifty two pages groups and accounts for coordinated enough into behavior that originated in iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the middle east late in america yuki and the us we reached out to facebook to find out if they

would apply the same treatment to networks owned by the b.b.c. gee we will let you know if they give us a response the broadcasting board of governors twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two strategic plan continues now on bush's roadmap to refine and expand the reach and impact of u.s. international media in support of american strategic interests so what exactly are these strategic interests well take a look at these latest headlines from t.v. marti and outlet owned by the broadcasting board of governors. expert calls out failing or a girl ations of the cuban private sector. for activist groups unite in miami to protest against the latin american dictatorships remember how russia is accused of selling discontent for american society by pushing controversial issues that's what the usa is doing to the small island the problem is very few cubans have regular access to the internet so now the state department is creating a task force for the purpose of expanding cubans access to information i.e.

the information that washington wants cubans to hear but we want people to have broad access to information and cuba is no exception to that cuba has a low internet penetration rate is certainly not a secret while they have opened up a little bit not to the level that they should have it is preposterous to claim that studying and issues such as internet access is an open and transparent manner the cuban government has called this to be a subversive act we disagree with that we think that that is ridiculous that there's a new level of u.s. intervention to try to try and undermine the cuban revolution. it overthrew the cuban government and it's this social penetration and fake media social media and penetrating the internet that's the same thing that the united states is doing all around the world in russia in eastern europe in latin america africa the middle

east. and asia the usa has been working to topple governments opposed to tractors and supported allies for well over a century meddling is nothing new for washington d.c. . r.t. new york. and we asked the your broadcasting board of governors for comment on their budget plans we'll let you know when we hear a response. oh u.s. military drills with south korea which donald trump cancelled following the north korea summit in singapore back on the table as you know we took the step to spare the largest extra charges as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore summit we have no plans at this time to spend thirty more characters. the last large scale drills in the region happened in august last year they were ten days of exercises with about fifty thousand south korean troops and seventeen and

a half thousand u.s. troops there this year south korea joined the room packed navy drills along with twenty five other countries in the world's largest maritime warfare exercise the north korea has repeatedly said the games were a provocation targeting the country trumps decision no caused concern in south korea while the president seemed to imply all drills were halted that may not have been the case. we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should we suspended several of the largest exercises but we did not suspend the rest so there are ongoing extras all the time on the peninsula the region you've not heard much about the mid north korea could not in any way misinterpret those as somehow breaking faith with the negotiations

a lot of us told us how delicate the situation on the korean peninsula has once again become. he's sort of saying is you better show me some steps which i can then say we're moving in the right direction he's putting pressure on north korea he's also sense putting pressure on south korea because of course south korean president is due to meet kim jung un in september south korea wants to open a liaison office on the border at once in a way probably to regenerate new economic contacts and so the warm a relationship in south korea and north korea has been a sense of positive aspect of trumps diplomacy but now of course it begins to raise the question of a split possibly trump a want to go back to a more aggressive posture to pressure north korea and the south korean government may say we have perceived benefits from a calming of the atmosphere and improve the atmosphere the pentagon was always on happy with any suggestion that it would scale back its maneuvers it wanted to

maintain the military pressure the military readiness of the u.s. forces in and around korea. and so that says trump has been moved to the pentagon position rather than the pentagon never really been happy with transportation do trade war between china and the u.s. has started to bite other east and southeast asian countries such as the expression i would say south korea just a few julian has made it pretty clear eve the publication of the drew will continue to reactivate the miso a nuclear test and i don't think peace is good direction at least from the point of view of south korea and i think the best interests of seoul south korea to step in eve this situation continue to escalate and if there's a conflict. so for myself and the team for this hour join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news update.

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle is the corporate 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 is donald trump or journalist infected with trump arrangement syndrome. 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 cross to patrick and he is a journalist and writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wire dot com all right gentlemen cross in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want to

let me go to you you're also referred to on this program as fela my first question is here does the the do. corporate mainstream you remember that program i did that do they do the corporate mainstream media. do they contribute to the cultural wars as it is 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 that corporate first of all correction my dear friend it is not the mainstream media used to be that mainstream media 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 that particular parameters of their working environment yes they mix it up and people are scraping does the

rest of that country mainstream heartland mainstream america care oh there you go so ok but ok but rob i mean i get we all can't 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 never land 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 the zone never beaten the harlem globetrotters you know. 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 about 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 retreated 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 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 is going through it's not just an end 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 talk 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 delia alerts every day and michael cohen said this

michael cohen said that steve bannon is gardner 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 all. says they have to get the clicks of the very thing they accuse of the independent media with 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 we need a crisis of it's not political to be the way we have been going to go to lionel but i get what you're saying but what about a real crisis because. for my 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 but it 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 di fox news as we knew it guy absolutely die next with a d.c. fox merger does the right thing 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 what you like has nothing to do with what these people are interested in this is a twenty four seven runaway 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're just there to click and just feed ok i'll sit but now you know there's no room for correction you know but if i did that 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. it is dividing the country i mean jim acosta i mean what a disgrace 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 comms team the comms

team then interacted with various people in the press pool and disseminate that information to them so they could write about it i don't think that's ever been done under trump so you have presently 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 that he read because the evidence going on that i need it comes to me has twitter page i just wanted to add here let me go to patrick because you know we've got to. i think hang on hang on line hand 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 line oh ok this is where it creates an opening for them is well ok so you know these different strategies they have their pluses and minuses patrick go ahead implement. it.