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the swedish parliamentary candidate has claimed that he was attacked by a migrant. party rally in a town in the west of the country. painting for a general election. euro skeptic right wing parties and next. country a spike in crime levels. we've gotten nice to pictures of shootings and car burnings from sweden so-called vulnerable neighborhoods but the upcoming swedish elections has brought violence to an every day street one of my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant you who attended a meeting am with dreaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked two of

them i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting both of us in the face both of the few eggs at our vehicle when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop going to the red lights they kicked the car . swedish police never confirmed the attackers ethnicity but the party member with phone to him as an immigrant but that is not all they blame immigrants for an overall high criminality rate and low security across the country although only connection was never established officially the alternative the party offers to sweden is sealed borders and immigrants send back to where they came from their past creation instead of immigration they say and also a toff a police and a stronger army the meeting gathered some supporters but the majority came to voice their discontent because he was saying that we need to clean sweden we need to get

every foreigner of fair and we need to be you know i like to back in the old days right without not really because if you look back in time three notes always take aim for injuries so if you didn't think in new people if when of course we are racist on our streets where race is still no streets 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 may become they become a swedish says me because i am also an immigrant from. i'm as the as long as they become swedish and they work and they do normal swedish things it's absolutely no problem as long as they they can keep their religion they can keep their culture but they should speak swedish and they should work miniger immigrants here feel like they're not included in the society police told us they are always invited to

meet him it's like this one many parties. have a lot of meetings so some porters. at the facility or. a lot of people would lie don't like. opinions that's why we call the police it's always like this when it's time to to elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days tensions are high ahead of the national veil that could be historic the ruling left tween social democrats the oldest and largest party in sweden could see its worst result in the last one hundred years as right wing ideas are gaining more and more popularity. from sweden. the nobel committee's defended his decision not to retract the peace prize from a prime minister is despite a damning report from the united nations that accuses the country's army of committing mass killing and atrocities against the rangar minority claims the

government denies these artes don't quarter. the treatment of the roe hinge a minority in myanmar equates to genocide that's the conclusion made by the un the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top to mentor generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes with ethnic cleansing happening on the watch of nobel peace prize laureate aung sun suu kyi and despite public demand to rescind cheese award the nobel committee insists she should keep it.

in. the un report demands me and marse top generals be investigated for crimes against humanity and also accuses misty of turning a blind eye to it all but that's all right because the nobel committee says it's only concerned with what happened in the past. it's important to remember that's a noble prize whether in physics literature or peace is awarded for some prize worth the effort or achievement of the past i'm certain. won the nobel prize for peace for who fight for democracy and freedom up until ninety ninety one the year she was awarded the prize well if we're to believe the committee only cares about recipients past they're going to have some explaining to do here.

just. received the peace prize for brokering a middle east accord securing palestinian rule in gaza and the west bank at the same time he was the chair of the palestinian liberation organization responsible for violence against israeli civilians who they consider to be part of an illegal occupation arafat did renounce the violence before receiving the award but how about another nobel peace prize laureate henry kissinger. kissinger received the prize for negotiating a cease fire in the vietnam war he was set to share the nomination with north vietnamese diplomat late dr except the vietnamese responded with a big no thank you and to no one's amazement that's because kissinger had been secretly bombing cambodia throughout the nineteen seventies as disclosed in a pentagon report he approved almost four thousand bombing raids in just the first

two years of the campaign. and last but not least as barack obama many were left puzzled as to what obama had exactly done to receive his peace prize but just like the others the nobel committee said it had something to do with his past only very rarely has a person to the same extent as obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future we are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year we hope this will enhance what he is trying to do what exactly obama did in that previous year is a mystery to most people. fresh revelations of surface which could potentially shed light on the mysterious murder of three russian journalists in the central african republic at the end of july with signs

that the perilous trip was badly managed the generally. we're looking into the alleged presence of russian mercenaries in the country russian tycoon and vocal critic of president putin mikhail khodorkovsky sponsored their investigation the reporters were found dead in a bullet ridden car in a remote location now there was speculation in the mainstream media the killings were politically motivated maybe with claims that the russian government was somehow connected with the alleged private contractors operations there could of course key to insisted the journalist were killed because of the investigation they were carrying out do you have any reason to believe that these men were killed because of the work they were doing. in the perk yes i think exactly that. however screenshots of text messages between the team organizing the trip and the slaying journalists which has recently surfaced indicate possible serious managerial lapses must prompted khodorkovsky now to hold his support for the investigative journalism group there working for jacqueline discussed the

revelations of a correspondent in. the group chat featured the three members of the current also their boss back at the h.q. plus a couple of producers at this point the screenshots can not 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 eight people kept using that very same group chat as their means of communication when the trip began and just how is elements of the preparations we've got to presentiments 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 or 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 shot guys when the bit of logistical disaster we just can't seem to get through to the locals took knowledge is 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 going the group was losing money on bribes they were never even able to get and touch with their all the english speaking guide however when everything seemingly went out of control messages from age you kept urging them to stay on track to go there by yourself you paid a lot of money to get to this country you shouldn't give a 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 . the u.s. says it shifting its focus from fighting terrorism to entering an arms race with the major world powers but question is is it playing catch up or simply going into overdrive to boost its arms industry. great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u.s. national security this strategy is fit for our time.

as. you mentioned the navy for example but we have fewer ships that we did in one nine hundred sixty governor we also have a few horses and bayonets the nature of our military has changed. the world changed right russia and china appear competitors and we have to think about our defense different ways and we have in the past when you look at the three major superpowers china russia and the united states all three of directly china and russia really upgraded their forces in the last five years so now the united

states is playing catch up a little bit on some of those people who are the problem isn't we spend more money than the rest of the world on military equipment and manpower this is about big business these country companies make billions off the united states plus the illegal arms shipment state they send around the world the united states is in a constant buildup of weaponry and in a constant arms race the celts international live from moscow not coming out you might think britain's outspoken form of forum. mr would be pretty hard to forget but it seems kenya's president seemed to struggle to play symbol of love comment on that coming up a much more after this break. britain's

prime minister teresa mayes wrapped up a tour of africa now it's been memorable not only on account of the impressive trade investment promises but also because of the kenyan leaders spoke out about one former u.k. official let's go live to. london see what this is all about hey there what was it caught everyone's attention in the. well kevin we all know that former u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson is no stranger to causing offense except this time around he got a taste of his own medicine from the kenyan president who standing side by side with british prime minister to resign made this to say last year you call the foreign secretary than boris. morris borders johnson. the bicycle guy or. well known not only did this bicycle guy comments make

headlines but also cause the u.k. delegation to chuckle as well as brought a smile to to reset may's face now one of the reasons potentially that the kenyan president would have a bone to pick with boris johnson could be the comments he had made in the past among them saying things such as barack obama being described as according to johnson as part kenyan with an ancestral dislike of the british empire as well as some other offensive comments such as watermelons but when it comes to theresa may of course the reason she would rejoice in a moment like this potentially is some of the issues she has herself with boris johnson not only did he quite recently resign as foreign secretary because of disagreements over her stance on bracks it but also because of the political rivalry going on between johnson and me of course we have to remember that boris

johnson potentially becoming the next conservative party leader has been the talk of the town here in westminster him having quite strong support among the party and meanwhile of course we know that recent may's popularity and approval ratings have really been dwindling and she knows it despite having been caught dancing a couple of times on that trip there and keeping up appearances. learns even though he's not foreign ministry will do it on a little walk. next. yellow ribbons used as a symbol of support for jailed opposition politicians in the spanish region of catalonia who've been removed overnight by the independence of this in the city of jerome eighty people wearing white suits and mosques gathered ribbons into rubbish the group call themselves brigades to clean yellow ribbons and to freak out slowly a spokesperson told us they simply want to show the public spaces should stay a new. true. the white suit is our way of putting forward our demands

we put on the suits to draw attention we also consider it to be a form of protest first of all we went there to get rid of those yellow ribbons and to deliver the message that public places are neutral that they should be neutral our opponents should respect public places everything depends on the camp you belong to we believe that their freedom of speech ends where ours begins it's that simple that one members of the right wing pro u.s. citizens part in catalonia joined in two with the president but revere of removing ribbons tied the roadside fences enough public places belong to all catalonians who will defend them every day me today in their lone removed yellow ribbons from public spaces were continued to defend the streets beaches and squares of catalonia meantime pro independence activists have been busy putting the ribbons back they say they represent democracy and those who remove them restricting the freedom of

secession supporters cattle and politicians were arrested for their role in independence referendum last october which was so will the legal by the leaders of the movement recuse of rebellion insufficient referendum spark mass protests and clashes between demonstrators and police. international implement the president has admitted that the war on doping in sport might never be won but thomas park has come under fire for his comment especially from america's anti-doping agency which claims back is simply given up. takes a look at what this could mean for a russian athlete. while the world of sports continues its fight against doping the president of the international olympic committee has made a very honest and a very sad admission but. who will always happen these who's. one of the walls you can order those words did not sit well with the chief of the

u.s. anti-doping agency traver tygart obviously a top client but the leader of iran i don't can't simply throwing it out he probably has a point especially since doping scandals have hit tiger's own turf just this week alone two u.s. athletes received lengthy bans for substance abuse that's while pundits blame anti-doping officials for turning a blind eye when it comes to domestic sport or rather multibillion businesses like the n.f.l. but thomas back strong words weren't the trigger for your side as criticism tiger assumed that the i.o.c. president's quote was essentially a precursor to water reinstating the russian anti-doping agency at that meeting scheduled for september twentieth but he did say that he hoped russia had learned its lesson the hard way and would be welcomed back into the world of sports and that was something tiger stressed must not happen would be

a devastating blow to russia's meter waters credibility as well as the hopes and dreams of millions around the world who believe in clean and fair competition russia and its anti-doping agency have been imprisoned for several years now after the publication of the so-called mclaren report which detailed accusations of a state sponsored doping program the result many russian athletes banned the country's anti-doping agency effectively shut down and water handing over a lengthy criteria list for reciter to be reinstated last year the agency acknowledged that nineteen of thirty one points had been met and just this month the president of water said there were only two conditions remaining. two off thirty one but they still had to be purified i think relationships to the point that we have yet to purify the two conditions that are still outstanding sure more needs to be done with new accusations and new anti-doping investigations russia still has three weeks to put things right so has tiger jumped the gun in demanding

russia to be kept out the final two criteria we're talking about. russia is supposed to say hands up the mclaren report was right we did engage in state sponsored doping russia has absolutely rejected the mclaren reports finding not because they don't believe it russia's quite rightly said we want the evidence thomas bach himself as requested the evidence and so far nobody has seen it apart we presume from mclaren it is only a guess at this stage but i think the first steps to a reinstatement will be taking place towards the end of september when there is a big meeting of water and i think the outcome will be that russia will be readmitted i think it will be an unconditional reinstatement but eventually on i think people would just have to say well ok russia are not admitting that been

state sponsored doping but we need them anyway they are a world power in sports and sport needs russia keeping sports clean is something that both the i.o.c. president and ahead of us anti-doping agency are striving to achieve but can you really demand one thing from another country when similar dopping scandals break out in your own backyard one thing's for sure the next water meeting in the seychelles is looking like politics and doping will go down the finish line. this news just coming in before i go police in amsterdam saying that two people have been injured in a stabbing at the city's central railway station apparently the area known train service is temporarily stopped the police are saying the shot and wounded the suspect no no motive at the moment investigating keep on cross that r.t. dot com we'll take you live in thirty five minutes.

you can. thank. god. i am sorry thank you for. you. to name something else in this type. of you for. i. feel. if you feel. president drum tweeted that white house legal counsel dong the game is out this fall what does that mean for the white house strategy against the mode probe we'll

take a look at that on this edition of. the politicking on larry king white house counsel dong again the man who single handedly stopped donald trump from firing robert muller in the summer of two thousand and seventeen is leaving his post the announcement which the president made via twitter wednesday morning comes of era levon days after the full extent of against cooperation with special counsel robert moses investigation was made public so what do we make of this departure and what does it mean for the president's strategy now in dealing with the russian probe will start there with elliot williams he spent nearly eight years as a senior political appointee. he served as deputy assistant attorney general full legislative affairs at them apartment of justice and is assistant director for

legislative affairs at u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement he's also served as judiciary committee counsel to senator chuck schumer he's in our nation's capitol all right what's your read on them again departure of the way it was announced eliot. the way it was announced is probably the most striking thing about it because once again as we've learned it was through a tweet done again they had been talking about it apparently prior to prior to the release of this tweet you know there were maybe discussions that mcgann would have alternately helped would have stayed until the confirmation of brett kavanaugh if that were to happen later this fall and then would leave afterward i think don again was a surprised as any of the rest of us when he saw the tweet this afternoon that he's apparently now definitely leaving in the fall and it's. it's a continuation of the way the president has handled terminations and personal disputes or matters over the years this is not the first time he's fired

a staffer or at least announced the departure of a staffer by tweet and it's to some extent horrible management of an office another point here though larry is what led to it and to some extent we can only speculate that the president is handling began in this way because of his cooperation with the independent counsel and because of the fact that you know perhaps mcgann a scene is not sufficiently loyal to the president despite of course having helped get such an important portion of the president's agenda put into place he's not delaying his deployment you until and report was your reaction to that. well who knows what what the important thing is there again his departure is now certain and it may have been up in the air until the president made clear with that tweet a little bit earlier as to when we can't number one is we don't know when the reports going to come you know the president and his attorneys as you see.