the power of a dialogue washington declassify hours of conversation between former u.s. and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin r.t. takes a look at what the two leaders said behind closed doors. the revelations on a controversial murder case that sparked chaos in the german city of chemists as a prison guard admits he leaked the arrest warrant on migrant suspects. five. and ten days ahead of sweden's general election anger players at a rally where a parliamentary candidate claims he was attacked by a minor. broadcasting

large retro studios in moscow this is r t international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right the u.s. has the classified six hundred pages of private conversations between the former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin dialogues took place between one thousand nine hundred three in one thousand nine hundred nine when boris yeltsin left office election. collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics discussed between the two hardest but i got to comment. now that we are at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they work backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck

even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for a rush or a loan of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the wrong end of every deal it remains a mistake for nato to move eastward nuclear and conventional arms cannot move eastward into new members to the borders of russia i've told you no one is talking

about a massive all out accelerated expansion two years later nearly a dozen european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry poland and bulgaria as stony latvia lithuania rumania slovakia slovenia so yeltsin tried everything he even begged. let us have a verbal gentleman's agreement we would not write it down in the statement that no former soviet republics would enter nato i cannot sign any agreement without such language especially ukraine consider what a terrible message it would be were still organized against russia but there's a line across which we won't go pleading didn't work so we'll turn tried warnings russia will pull out of the agreement and consider it nolen void i know what a terrible problem this is for you but i can't make the specific commitment you're

asking for not even complaints could get through you are conducting naval maneuvers near crimea it is as if we are training people in cuba how would you feel it's unacceptable to us the spite of all that they remained friends even joke together three months of the pre-election races taken its toll i feel somewhat tired i saw the picture of you dancing with the girls in the band and you looked wonderful i'm disappointed that no one sets up events like that for me in my campaign they were frank so frank in fact that there generals would get a little nervous yeah they discussed ditching their nuclear briefcases what if we were to agree giving up having to have our finger next to the button all the time perhaps we could agree that it's not necessary for us to carry the chima down chick well i'll have to think about this all we carry of course are the codes in the

secure phone yes you and i are the only leaders you have to do this mr president given the responsibility of your office and president yeltsin's it makes more sense for the two of you to have these devices with you at all times it was simpler in those days the world was younger and no one knew what the future held for example would the united states pull out the viewer up. the u.s. is not in europe europe should be the business of europeans russia is half european and half asian so you want asia to sure sure bill eventually will have to agree on all of this i don't think the europeans would like this very much not all but i'm a european moscow is in europe and i like it you can take all the other states and provide security to them i would take europe and provide them security well not i russia will bill i'm serious give year up to europe itself europe never felt as close to russia as it does now good days good friends and then hilton just up

then left leaving behind a successor that clinton was sure he'd get along with shortly you will have a meeting with mr putin i would like to tell you about him so you will know what kind of man he is he is a solid man who is kept well abreast of various subjects under his purview he is through and strong very sociable and he can easily have good relations and contact with people who are his partners. who will win the election boots and of course he's a democrat and he knows the west he's very smart he's tough he has an internal ramrods and he will when you do business together strange to think that most of the issues problems they discussed in those days are still the main themes of today nato expansion encroachments european security trade and loans what's changed is that russia's grown up turns out it's much harder being friends when you're more equal.

he german prison guard has turned himself in after admitting he leaked an arrest warrant for a migrant who was a key suspect in a murder the case has turned the city of kennett into chaos as opposing rallies come out in force over the refugee crisis in germany the officer says he wanted to end all speculation concerning sunday's stabbing it was clear to me that i was violating my fish would u.t.s. and i also knew that i would probably lose my job as a result i want the public to know what has happened i want the speculation about a possible crime to come to an end. following the stabbing incident police arrested a twenty two year old iraqi man and a twenty three year old syrian both were charged with manslaughter archie's europe correspondent peter oliver brings us the latest on the case. to the prison guard is he's been suspended from his job after admitting that it was him that leaked the

photograph of those arrest warrants he's a thirty nine year old man who was working at the corrections facility in dresden he says he didn't know that it was a legal for him to share these documents to leak these documents. but he may well face criminal charges for doing so we heard a little bit of the statement that's being put out this is through his lawyers this is the only way he says he's going to be communicating from here on out said he didn't he did it because he didn't want the media to speculate on details as to who the arrested were he went on to accuse the press of having manipulated the facts in the past the put across a narrative that they wanted to see every day as a prison officer i am the focus of what has happened in our country from a few years ago and this intensity and manner nevertheless every day i see that most people are lied to about the changes in our country or do not want to accept the truth however at least regarding the manslaughter or murder in chemnitz i did

not want to be a part of the silent crowd anymore but in response to that statement that was put out we've also heard from the justice minister of saxony who said that in doing this it was irresponsible it was serious and it could well have impacted upon the investigation itself we cannot tolerate a public servant who does such a thing in any way and we will take strict action we've also been getting some more information or certainly information has been doing the rounds in the press here in germany about one of those suspects the twenty two year old iraqi he's in custody he came here from iraq through bulgaria in twenty fifteen knots right at the height of the. my current influx of refugees influx into germany he actually should have been deported back to bulgaria however that deportation notice wasn't carried out but what we hearing in the press is that he was very well known to police and fire reports saying that he had several drug charges against him also reporting saying that from those who lived with him in refugee home saying he always carried

a knife with him but it was the stopping today of thirty five year old man that those two men were arrested for you stopped dead from the early hours of sunday morning here in cannes that resulted in. a rewarding right wing crowd on sunday. i. i was what we are getting ready for is a big demonstrations expected well will take place on saturday afternoon here in cabinets i'll be here in amongst those crowds are expecting a large crowd from the right also a large town demo from the left and a very large presence from the police they're being drafted in from all across the local area even further afield as well as they try to make sure that there isn't a repeat of the scenes that we saw on monday night and those clashes between left and right. a swedish parliamentary candidate has claimed he was attacked by

a migrant and an alternative for sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country. tension has flared during campaigning for the general election that's seen a surge in support for euro skeptic right wing parties parties my financial reports the country is also seeing a spike in crime levels. we've gotten used 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 and with screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked too it was a i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting before 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 the connection was never established officially the alternative the party offers to sweden is sealed borders and immigrants send back to where they came from we pass relation 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 affair with a need to be united to be back in the old days you write with that 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 we are racist or no street party is saying they want to take down all the immigrants and the people is unhappy they don't like it 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 bell. jim as the as long as they become swedish and they work and they do a 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 if miniger immigrants here feel like they're they're not included in a society police told us they are always invited to meet him it's like this one many parties. have a lot of meetings so. i thought if.

a lot of people would lie don't like the openness that's why they call the police it's always like this one it's on two two elections sweden will hold the general election in just ten days tensions are high ahead of the national vein to that could be historic the ruling left wing 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 u.s. is accusing russia and syria of endangering civilians by targeting terrorists in the illegal province story much more coming up watch for two international.

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welcome back this is r t international the british prime minister theresa may has wrapped up her tour of africa it has been memorable not only on account of the impressive trade and investment promises but also for the kenyan leaders description of one former u.k. official don't associate your kind comments we all know that our 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 may. last year if you recall the foreign secretary. boris. or is boris johnson. the

bicycle good or well known not only did this bicycle guy calm and 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 resigned u.k. foreign secretary because of disagreements over her stance on iraq said 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 and 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. of the people's republic of done yet skin ukraine has been killed in an explosion at a restaurant with the incident now being investigated as a terror attack on tuesday mancow sort of as details. they have to know that the restaurant itself is located right in the center of the city of just a few hundred meters away from the residence of alexander was a hard call and this is a place where a lot of people go with their children there's a park there are many restaurants in fact i was there myself just a couple of days ago having lunch in one of those restaurants so it's a very highly populated area now an adviser to. the bomb was deliberately planted

in the restaurant now the city of donetsk and the so-called annexed peoples republic have declared a state of emergency and entire territory of the republic is now on lockdown people cannot leave and people cannot come into the next people's republic or the stories he's are looking for people who have executed this terrorist attacks and this is exactly how they're looking at it right now as a terrorist act so local authorities accuse the government in committing this act ends of the government in kiev says that they already issued a statement that they have not been involved in this incident incidents now. foreign ministry has also said that this was a terrorist act and should be investigated as such russian president vladimir putin called it a despicable murder and that those who chose a path of terror and violence are not looking for

a peaceful solution in the southeast of the country and instead they bank on the destabilizing the situation and he had that. he expects all the responsible parties in this case should be brought to justice and meanwhile the authorities in the next people's republic have announced a three day oh mourning period associated with the death of their head alexander the harsh and call. us secretary of state might pompei all has accused of the russian and syrian government's of escalating the syrian conflict by seeking to clear terror groups from italy but province he says the civilian population will end up as victims of the offensive however russia's foreign minister has warned that a terrorist false flag attack is being prepared to sabotage the liberation of italy . because she was near the capital of course another false flag attack is being prepared to try and hinder the anti terror operation in

a loop with the facts on the table through the ministry of foreign affairs and the ministry of defense which we gave a clear and tough warning to our western partners will not supply you with fire but beautiful and now it has been a haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas one backed by the government almost three million people live in italy and according to the u.n. there are also around ten thousand and al-qaeda jihad is to fighters there it lip has another fact and we have to recognize that an extremely high concentration of foreign fighters any particular highest number of. the fighters if the mates of the north or whatever name they want to quote them selves is that more or less our own. cross live to investigative journalist rick sterling reference for being with us here in our team enter national. now

according to the u.n. there are up to ten thousand terrorists in the u.s. says it's in syria to fight terrorism why would it pose an offensive here. because the u.s. there are elements within the united states and nato for that matter want to prolong the conflict and so we've seen a pattern from the past whether it was east aleppo or east ghouta or more recently into iraq the number of civilians is greatly is hugely exaggerated and and then at the end of the day it turns out there were far fewer and they immediately rushed into the safety of the government controlled zones and so the humanitarian corridors that are being set up by syria with russian assistance is a very positive sign and it's kind of kind of hypocritical for my pump aoe to criticize syria for trying to expel terrorists from its own its own

territory so you just mention my pompei oh he insists the campaign against in libya will escalate the conflict but what alternative does washington suggest. well they basically i suppose want to to the syrian government to to let the terrorists stay in the province we can just imagine what might come pay a would say if there were thousands of terrorists in oregon and washington states in the united states they wouldn't have any patience at all for that but the situation is complicated right now it's difficult because as your report indicated accurately there are thousands of foreign fighters there these are trained terrorists with a lot of battle experience and they've been supported by the west they've been supported by the gulf by including including turkey turkey and none of the countries that have supported the terrorists want them to come back to their own

their own countries of course so that is adding a new element to the conflict now which didn't exist before because previously the terrorists were taken from the zones they were in whether it was aleppo or or duran the south and taken to it live well now we've got the syrian government saying they're going to wreak take back all of syria which is there of course they're there right under international law and the united nations but where what's going to happen with the with the terrorists so we hear periodic talk about closer u.s. russian cooperation in syria is it possible that the u.s. and russia could come to an agreement of some kind on how to handle the situation there in italy. well that's definitely to be hoped for unfortunately there is a policy fight within the u.s. administration that's been going on for years really it goes back there was a fight within the under barack obama over what policy to carry out and how how

directly to intervene in the conflict and that continues of course just two weeks in at the end of march and early april president trump said the u.s. was going to be getting out of syria very soon and then very soon after that we had a chemical weapons incident and then the u.s. attack syria with without any proof or evidence that syria was responsible for it and that's the danger now of course just last week we had john bolton in israel hinting that if there's a chemical weapons incident in syria that the united states would attack would it attack again even though the most recent findings from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons found that there was no evidence that sarin gas was used in that in that april attack so the situation is is really

a dangerous it's a and complicated right now i i hope that the coming meeting on september seventh in between russia turkey and iran can bear some fruit and also that turkey or rather that russia and syria can really get the humanitarian corridors operating effectively all right rick stirling always good to hear you and your thoughts thanks for being with us here in our to international thank you. all right that does it for me i will be back with you in about one say thirty three and a half minutes with more news you watch our international. it

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a gold rush it was very very similar to. this beautiful story and with and of a station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and there's a slowdown so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality that your. hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things considered i'm teetotal of a parting of ways european leaders talk about future without the us what is in store for the transatlantic alliance and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking some global trends i'm joined by my guest here in moscow marc sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke nick international and in cyprus we cross to alex cross who for oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com aren't gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate alex let me go to you first then in cyprus interesting trend going on we have european leaders speaking out about a future without the united states in terms of the security arrangements specifically nato and with the impending sanctions visa v. the iran situation some europeans are thinking out of the box for james for example we have president mccrone of france talking about aggressive isolationism what's your take go ahead. no chance that they'll be able to do anything without.