it's a tough reality that you are. capable of producing chemical weapons syria's u.n. envoy gives a warning about extremists in the country but russia's fear of a false flag attack is brushed aside and washington. another. is being prepared to try and hinder the energy terror operation going to be this is enough for for you to try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into. france's president outrage among the country's opposition figures after a man who calls his own citizens french. for resisting economic reforms. but. with ten days and counting to the general election in sweden anger flares out a rally where

a swedish parliamentary candidate claims it was a. broadcast live from a studio as a moscow this is our national and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. crucial battle is looming in the last rebel stronghold in the syrian province of idlib the u.n. special envoy for syria says there are around ten thousand on news for terrorists there that the group is capable of producing chemical weapons meanwhile russia's foreign minister has warned that a terrorist false flag attack is being prepared to sabotage the liberation of. they should in the middle of another false flag attack is being prepared to try and hinder the n.t. terror operation in aid with the facts on the table through the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of defense we gave a clear and tough warning to our west and not to play with fire but russian foreign

minister sergei lavrov says the preparations for a staged chemical attack are aimed at keeping al nasra a force in the region to be used as a counterbalance against the assad government but the u.s. is ignoring these warnings the state department says they just don't buy into it the russians are claiming and this one other group stockpiling chemical weapons and planning an attack so you know i think that's more false flag reporting any time going to be as is enough for when they try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into that but still that comes as a surprise because the u.n. special envoy to syria says that the estimated ten thousand al nusra fighters in the area are indeed capable of utilizing chemical weapons the issue of avoiding the potential use of chemical weapons if indeed crucial and would be

totally unacceptable we all are aware that both the government and have the capability to produce weaponized chlorine. and with regard to the syrian government's chemical weapon capabilities level of question how they could even exist at all citing the fact that the u.s. u.k. and france had overseen their destruction just last year and the syrian foreign minister also said that the west's aggression comes from dissatisfaction with the direction in which political tides are flowing in the country. and you see in the u.s. the u.k. and france are not satisfied with developments on the ground therefore they make every possible attempt to impede progress in the political process in particular they are trying to protect on this are insurgents and they want the crisis in our country to continue all sides of the conflict are aware that this is a critical point in syria it's the last pocket of terrorist resistance and russia

is warning that they will try to stage a chemical attack in a final attempt to gain support from the west and perhaps gain a foothold once more in the country damascus and moscow they've already put forward efforts towards peace but the islamic groups have made it abundantly clear they will not surrender and with a zero sum game mindset it's hard to see why the most hard line terrorists in syria won't use every tool at their disposal to change the tide of war russia has officially shared its concerns about a possible provocation in syria with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons former pentagon official michael maloof says it false flag attack in syria should not be ruled out. the united states doesn't believe that the rebels have that capability whereas there is tremendous documentation to show that they do have the capability they've probably been storing it for months if not years in the

province and they have used it in the past they have that capability and it is a last ditch hold for them so it cannot be ruled out and it's not it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the u.s. is trying to get assad out they're going to continue trying and and even though donald trump wants to. get the u.s. out of syria there are elements within the u.s. government that don't want that to happen meanwhile syria's foreign minister claims that the controversial group the white helmets has kidnapped forty four children in damascus has suggested the youngsters might be used as part of a possible false flag attack they need to leave the mosque also believed the white helmets are sitting with a large supply of chemicals being moved into the area the white helmets which calls itself a rescue group has been accused of having links to extremists something they deny political activist an outspoken british rock musician roger waters from pink floyd

who has long been a vocal critic of the white house and shared his thoughts with r.t. he is currently in russia on tour and spoke at length to sophie shevardnadze. if there is a gross roots. cool the way of. proof for the people who actually. didn't go to an english soldier. to vote but if that body exists. and they and they can help people. if the russians or somebody else has struck bob's of them then i support them whole heartedly with every fiber of my being but all the evidence points to the fact that that is not the reality i don't know

if you did you could you see the the documentary that won the oscar. i mean have you ever seen anything so obviously scripted carefully shot. that for interview with roger waters will be shown on sophie and co on september seventh only right here on our two international. the president of france has described some of his own citizens as being stuck in the past and backwards. so-called french goals that were preventing positive change while praising the danish economic model on a visit to copenhagen to support. these looser and people who have lived through the transformations of recent years are not exactly ghouls who are resistant to change while those comments by president mike on have not gone down well here in france with opposition politicians from across the political spectrum telling him

exactly what they thought saying that he was showing contempt for the french people and they took to twitter to show their angry reaction as usual he despises the french from abroad the girls will be happy to respond to his arrogance and contempt . the contempt for mccraw for the french is unbearable and reveals his disconnect with the people of france we are in twenty eighteen a d. there are many on yielding goals who are attached to social progress who still fight against regression it is inadmissible to hear the president of the republican caricature and despise the french from abroad while many french everyday citizens also felt the hum from those comments from president michel unhappy that yet again while he's abroad he's chosen a venue outside forces to criticize what he sees as being the french resistance to his reforms but what many people thought as being a jibe of contempt for the french people let's not how president might console it

in a press conference on thursday he defended his comments saying that he told the truth and he said that while people in france don't like permanent adjustments we are a country when in serious moments of our history we can be transformed or present maicon had been praising in denmark the danish system which means it is easier to fire people from a job and it also means people that quit their jobs can have the social security as a bit of a buoyancy eight and those are things that he says that he wants to emulate hey in france with his reforms were forms which over the last year and a half have seen roof resistance over and over with many protests of people coming out to the streets to say they don't want my calls for foreigners to proceed.

was. yet again president my corner has provoked fierce street. action with his comments at home while he's made them abroad and many people just can't simply believe the call of the president. is swedish parliamentary candidate has claimed he was attacked by a migrant during an alternative for sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country. you. know. what. a violent incident in the city all developed here in

sweden at the meeting of the leadership of rightwing oton interface sweden party with its vote turns or for sweden is famous for ideas that so many can see there is to ready to maybe exchange for example they call on closing all the borders and on sending a significant number of immigrants from sweden back to the countries they came from although the connection was never established that confirmed by the authorities or police. immigrations for high criminality rate in the country since there were many people with foreign backgrounds in the crowd gathered there things started boiling quite fast people started first shouting and then throwing eggs to the party members and at one moment a youngster from the crowd attacked one of their leaders of alternative was one of my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant q who attend the did meeting him was screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was

attacked i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting false in the face but also the few eggs are cool when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop you know the red lights and they kicked the car although as you just heard the party member referred to the attacker as an immigrant police has never confirmed that information and when police arrived they took the attacker to a police car and they detained him but let the. party members go and that's part discontent of the people gathered we have been able to speak to those who have gathered there on why they were not happy with the ideas spread by as they sell turn into force we've been part of this what they told us we really see still no streets still no street party saying they want to take down all the immigrants and

the people is unhappy they don't like to as long as we can integrate them into swedish society and they become they become a swedish says me because i'm also an immigrant from belgium. as long as they become swedish and they work and they do normal swedish things it's absolutely no problem as long as they can keep their religion they can keep their culture but the should speak swedish and they should work. immigrants here feel like. they're not included in the society sweden is going to have general elections here in just ten days tensions are quite high ahead of the national that is described by many as a historic event because a ruling social democratic party the largest and the oldest party here in sweden according to polls could get a worse through in the last one hundred years with right wing ideas and far right ideas getting more and more popularity for days of protests in germany have seen

intense clashes between anti migrant activists and on to far more news of short break this is international. seems wrong. just don't. get to shape out these days to educate and indeed equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and trump you know it's all about a taco getting along with the greatest ally friend russia there is no place to get to the kids and you know if you open up there's other things in there so while we proceed here in the first half i'll just see what let's go. international now the german city of chemnitz has seen a four day demonstration against of the country's migration policy up to twenty people were injured in the course of the week during clashes with counter protesters are all over has more from the side. well thursday evening saw

a small demonstration taking place just behind me here in the city of cam that the group calling themselves pro came that who've come out and said that they aren't happy with the current system now they were saying from the stage that was set up just behind me that there was a an anger certainly towards what they described as western media patrolling the emmy's right wing neo nazis they said that they definitely weren't. to fit from the the right wing or neo nazis what they wanted to say that they were was angry with the state officials here in saxony particularly the prime minister who they said there was a disgrace. when we see what asylum seekers are getting compared with old people poor young people's germans these are facts i don't need to say anymore it's not surprising that people explode when it's just what happened on sunday was only the beginning of something that has been simmering for

a long time here in saxony we are known to be by a news now this was a very heavily policed small scale demonstration i don't think there was many more than two hundred fifty people there but there were certainly many more than that uniform now horse as a whole for the german interior minister had pledged that he would be sending extra police to came it's to make sure that there wasn't a repeat of the violence that we saw on monday evening we've seen police vehicles with registrations from far and wide across germany here is reinforcements have been drafted in but this all came about following the tragic killing of a thirty five year old man in the early hours of sunday morning in the city of came and it's now two men are in custody in connection with that killing a twenty two year old and a twenty three year old one from syria one from iraq now that prompted sparked a. violent rampage by. right football hooligans as well as other members of the

fight on sunday we said we're looking for foreigners then we saw clashes on monday evening in cannes that's between the between those people who described as the far right and also from on t.v. fascist demonstrators from the far left that was older than twenty people being injured two of those police officers thursday evening you know clearly people here are upset with the way they think their politicians in particular paying attention to them when it comes to refugees and migrants and who has the rights to be here and that's the way it looks and can that's right now. stunning revelations have surfaced regarding the mysterious murder of three russian journalists in the central african republic at the end of july reporters were investigating possible links between the kremlin and private military companies operating in the country they were found dead in a bullet ridden cart i mean resignation was sponsored by a russian tycoon and known critic of president putin mihail because of coffee this

has led to some speculation in the mainstream media that the murder could have been politically motivated and holocaust himself never shied away from doubling down on those claims do you have any reason to believe that these men were killed because of the work they were doing. yes i think exactly that. however screenshots of text messages between the team organizing the trip have surfaced in the russian media shedding new light on what could have led to the tragedy and it has prompted a total cost to halt his support for the outlet that killed the killed journalist working for earlier my colleague jacqueline. discussed of the messages with our teasingly. featured the three members of the curve and also their boss back at the q plus a couple of producers at this point the screen

shots cannot shed light on what exactly happened on that tragic day and the probe is of course far from being over but the screen shots allow us to trace the preparations that were actually being undertaken for working in one of the most dangerous countries in africa and also the crew and their h.q. people kept using that very same group chat as their means of communication when the trip began and just have a look at some of these elements of the preparations we've got a pretty small press cards in english and also a u.n. sign for the car. make sure you film how you get rid of the press cards do it in a creative way and with commentry so apparently according to these messages from their h.q. faking u.n. credentials was part of their plan yes and by the way the group later claimed that they were working in the central african republic in coordination with the united

nations however eventually the un said that they knew nothing of it so again the plan suggested that the group could use their freshly printed press cards at one stage of the travel and then burn them out another we don't know the purpose of that well they knew that they were about to break the law by entering the country on tourist visas but as a journalist on active duty without any accreditation you might argue that most of the central african republic is lawless land so your logical assumption would be that they must have had a go to person on the ground then definitely a proper translator and for sure a carefully thought through plan and reality though when they arrived in the country they didn't even have the phone number of their fixer he didn't show up at

the airport and they were never able to get in touch with them and at the end of the day they didn't have a proper i'd temporary and so issues started piling up one after another upon arrival and here's some of the other parts of the messages that the crew sent in the group chat guys were in a bit of a logistical disaster the locals are just in adequate gadgets are absolutely alien to them there's a feeling of total helplessness when it comes to language basically no one speaks english the journalists mission and the ca are obviously meant that they were supposed to sneak through some heavy security and have a look at what the cameraman texted and the group chat after one of their failed attempts to do just that we couldn't get in they said it's only possible with a permit from the defense ministry plus two cops met us with all our equipment by the hotel we had to bribe them. then we were stopped at a checkpoint and other bribe but a smaller one the locals the cameras as

a negative unfriendly thing and what kind of directions did their bosses give them at that point they were told to keep goal and the group was losing money on bribes they were never even able to get and touch with their all the angler speaking guide however when everything seemingly went out of control messages from h.q. kept urging them to stay on track to go that you paid a lot of money to get to this country you shouldn't give up about any permit we need a translator to find him when he's held from being with you it's impossible to storm into the security retore and i'm not sure we have to go to the ministry and be tough with the bribes next time what rules did you violate told them you're going to go to the embassy except this group chat clearly points at the fact that there were real security issues that the crew was facing before their tragic death.

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is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for being on board with us coming up today is there a new movement among some in the us to forget free markets and side with supporters or others to simply feather the nest of campaign supporters some in the energy sector asking that very question and there are policy proposals to do just that will discuss with tyson slocum the director of public citizen's energy problem and there are new housing numbers out we'll talk with debbie boyd the c.e.o. of deal b. financial services and trigger out what she thinks about them plus are the big four accounting firms too cozy for comfort with their toilets west a former big four firm leader to worry for which c.e.o. strong mark joins us again and there is more merger madness out there this time in

the hospital sector as more m. and a activity seems to be less for many americans particularly those with less populated rural areas of the nation lots on our plate so let's get to it with some headlines. urging second quarter profits are leading our business headlines today the latest official figures from the u.s. commerce department's bureau of economic analysis show a year over year game of sixteen percent on after tax corporate profits the largest game in that figure sense q one of twenty twelve the trump tax cut is an obvious and significant factor in the surge. commerce estimates that corporate tax payments have been reduced by the tax cut by thirty three percent in a statistical housekeeping note commerce also notes a revised overall growth in the u.s. for this year and the economy upward from four point one to four point two percent i'm not sure we're going to get there but i like positive people and i certainly hope we do. the european trade commissioner cecilia malmstrom has made

a bold move in the ongoing negotiations with the united states by offering to meet demands from president donald trump for an end to tariffs on u.s. cars and ring the european union earlier today ms meltzer i'm told members of the european parliament quote we said that we are ready to go to the was ready to go to zero on tariffs on all industrial goods of course if the u.s. does the same we are willing to bring down even our car tariffs down to zero tariffs on automobiles are ten percent while the u.s. imposes duties of two point five percent on compact cars and twenty five percent on light trucks new position is an improvement from the u.s. perspective at least but whether the new flexibility will advance negotiations is unclear at this time there was a fleeting boost for european auto stocks on valves from statement but the rally was followed by a quick fall back. not

long ago it may have been a june we noted the coal plant of the trop of ministration was proposing and that what they were talking about raise some questions and so today we thought we'd do a day deeper dive or perhaps a deeper dig at what the u.s. department of energy is doing we do so with a wider lens about other energy related matters that seem at least to us to question why some of those who have openly fought for free markets are now seemingly siding with the interest of their supporters political supporters this is particularly the case in the energy area here discussed as a director of public citizen's energy program tyson. so i said thank you for being with us again always a pleasure so then tell me if we are overstating it here but when you were here earlier and we talked about this coal program that they were proposing and it was that they were going to mandate regardless of price they're going to mandate that you buy coal and nuclear on the grid and forget about the free market forget about what's most efficient for your shareholders or your customers your.