it looks like it's once again going 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 we spoke to writer and political commentator john brockman who feels anti immigrant sentiments becoming more and more popular within the european union with michael should be worried about genius far more popular in italy and my colleagues in france and of course all banning hunger you see the mo i mean old opposed to that in the elections are that well expect a large block of. the british to get elected you seem france. i mean not the fact that the very the republicans are already taking the opportunity of having a very. discourse which is a bit ridiculous because the family friends is not really my dad he did it with the family but he's not he's a senator that's a different question but that he's

a guns are not that many just you hundred year feel that there but the right is going to jump on that and i expect them to make in their minds finally with the x. national fund which is now the international 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 they expect. in other headlines the last stronghold of rebel terror groups in syria the northern province of idlib is surrounded by government forces with a decisive battle looming the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned that the us seems to prefer a regime change to ridding the area of terrorists. especially in your story we have the impression that u.s. threats against damascus aimed at preventing terrorist from being expelled there is not the first time the u.s. no matter which administration has prioritised the task of changing dissident regimes above the common goals of eradicating terrorism and extremism we believe

these egotistical unilateral political games are counterproductive we believe all the conflicts should be solved multilaterally with open contacts between countries including regional countries. tensions mount in the russian center for syrian reconciliation says it's received intelligent solid delivery of toxic substances to the province it claims the material has been brought in with the help of the white helmets rescue group for use in a false flag operation russia has previously warned militants are preparing to stage a chemical attack. of has more on the potential escalation of the situation in the province. the stage is set for a final and it looks like a bloody battle the battle for adlib 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 are 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 goot a chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will try to stage as similar incident in egypt 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 that 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 us and says we never said that france did the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra they're counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or dive 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 damascus 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

the. 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 government and russian. and i asked him on the edge of the game in a tense one holding us as hostages that he was cold in our counting minutes here in

tasmania crossing some of this humanitarian courage to is our salvation. there 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 he vowed to take action you also warn that facebook and twitter are taking advantage of our people. google search results for trump news shows only the viewing reporting of fake news media in other words they have it rigged for me and others so that almost all stories and news is banned fake c.n.n. is prominent republican conservative and fair media is shut out illegal ninety six

percent of results on trump used for national left wing 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 we have asked the white house for comment they haven't yet given us a response that's the spike trumps tweets attracting plenty of media attention it's also not the first time the tech giant search system has come under fire much research and many studies have shown google can alter the results for its users also google itself admitted automatic algorithms can sometimes have issues since they're created by inherently biased humans and google has addressed trumps accusations claiming there's no political agenda to its search engine and its results are not biased towards any political ideology legal and media analyst lynell believe 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 it deal ranking shelving shadow banding 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 oh it's 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 law always lags behind technology nobody drafters of our constitution a bill of rights never imagine that we would have this but we're 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 and in their colossal size that that trade agreements or trade considerations can be implemented it's going to be fascinating to see. the palestine

solidarity activist from norway claims israeli soldiers shot twice with rubber bullets in just one week she caught one of those incidents on camera. thank you. if you're pointing actually. we 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's nothing happening at the moment so we decided to go with them and leave or approaching the i.d.f. mian and with our hands in the air and the postilion man he walked a little bit faster than or 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 in near killed me and

there's no one around me then they shot me. solution or they shot me on purpose 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 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 bullets and tear gas which they had before but always stayed to the side or at the back of the demonstrations and 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. now kristen force claims she was first hit on a stock market even though she had her hands up at this point and later and i'm call that was in the same week while rubber coated steel bullets are seen as more

lethal the injuries they inflict can be severe particularly on a fight at close range of forty three year old activist has been supporting palestinian protesters over their claims the land which they argue is occupied by israel. well the i.d.f. told r.t. fossa been standing among rioters who at the time had been violent towards its soldiers it says it will investigate the incident force herself says palestinians are being subjected to continual violence things 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. get some attention and. now the 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 it has access to markets in one hundred countries and reaches at least two hundred twenty six million people worldwide clearly baldwin takes a closer look now at how the u.s. is doing exactly what it accuses others of participating in. imagine a government utilizing social media to sow discontent and on rast 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 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 a stab wishing on oil and 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 us government doing it openly without even much secrecy we can say that the us has always had double standards its in its foreign policy the us has intervened in other people's elections in at least 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 one 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 iranian accounts have been shut down we've removed six hundred fifty two pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior that originated in iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the middle east late in america. 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. mart see an outlet owned by the broadcasting board of governors. expert calls out

failing or a galatians 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 cuban stay here 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 an issue 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 and overthrow the cuban government and it's this social going to try and fake media so social media and penetrating cuba's internet that's the same thing that the united states is doing all around the world in russia. in eastern europe and latin america africa the middle east. and asia 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. hey look my heart see new york. now it was clearly warp and now we are the broadcasting board of governors for comments on their budget plans we'll let you know when we get a response. u.s. military drills with south korea which donald trump surprisingly canceled followed

of course the north korea summit in singapore are back on the table as you know we took this step to spend several of 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 exercisers and the last large scale drills in the region happened in august twenty seventh team they involve ten days of exercises with about fifty thousand south korean troops and seventeen and a half thousand u.s. troops involved plus this year south korea also joined the room packed navy drills along with twenty five other states in the world's largest maritime warfare exercise north korea has repeatedly said the military games were a provocation targeting the country trumps a decision no cause 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 negotiation and we spoke to analysts about how difficult the situation could once again become. but 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 to meet. in september south korea wants to open a liaison office on the border once in a way probably to regenerate new economic contacts and so the warming of relations

with 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 trungpa 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 of the military readiness of the u.s. forces in and around korea. 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 the east and southeast asian countries such as exposure i would say south korea missed a few julian has made it pretty clear. the publication of the drew will continue to

reactivate t.v. so 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 it's the best interest of seoul south korea to step in eve this situation continue to escalate and if there's a conflict for myself and a team at seoul for the south join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates.

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arrangement syndrome. cross talking trumped arrangement syndrome i'm joined by my guest rob talbot 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 crosstalk rose 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 divided and is everything is contentious as it really is or are they just magnified 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 used to be mainstream they're not this is the mainstream media social media different platforms that's mainstream they are in 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 main theme 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 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 that never beaten the harlem globetrotters you know i was going in the know that in 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 written 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 there's. i 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 towel his stadium appearances i mean he goes out there ok and his base likes it ok but he does give the mainstream that the liberal mainstream media or this c.n.n. and some d.c.

the people like that he gives them a lot of cannon fodder to walk to work with patrick you know i think earlier your point it's essential crisis that the mainstream media is going through it's not just an existential crisis it's a financial crisis so what you have now is they've been forced to basically run click bait 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 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 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 know crisis if it's not political

will be the way out 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 i 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. those die fox news as we knew it died absolutely die next with a d.c. fox merger disney rather excuse 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. but now you know there's no room for correction in a bit 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 does screech 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. go

ahead rob lionel consider this ok i'm going to start at the top with our screen 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 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 information to her columns team the columns team then interacted with various people in the press pool. and disseminated information to them so they could write about it i don't think that's ever been done under trump so you have press 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'll say that trump is a jerk and that he's disorganized and he doesn't do anything he read because the evidence going on that he needed comes to me has twenty.