the power of dialogue washington hours of conversation between former u.s. and russian president. boris yeltsin also. israel uses live ammunition and tear gas as palestinians continue to protest israeli occupation. pre-election polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties social democrats. it's the first of september it's eight am here in moscow i'm calling news from

international first for you this saturday the united states has declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin it took place between one thousand nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed but i guess he has been taking a look. 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 were back when presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for russia alone 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 rule or end of every deal it remains a mistake for nato to move eastward nuclear in 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 bulgaria is still with latvia lithuania romania 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 now and 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 and my campaign they were frank so frank in fact that there generals would get a little nervous the they discussed ditching their nuclear briefcases what if we were to agree giving up having to have our finger next to the box and 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 that responsibility over 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 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 growing up turns out it's much harder being friends when your more equal. tough confrontations expected during sweden's general election with the country split over a surge in migrant numbers you could see the governing left wing social democrats lose their upper hand in parliament the same time the nationalist opponents are being widely criticized the claims of racism refer not in a report. nationalist sentiment as put in sweden on the bridge of change that's

what the polls here are predicting for the upcoming general election the n.t. migron sweden democrats party looks set to make big gains they define themselves as social conservative with a nationalist foundation but the swedish media is warning of something more and rival politicians i mean mom my mom came to sweden fleeing nancy as it was last year she passed away but now i'm even grateful she died before she could see all these nazis marching along stockholm streets we must protect freedom and democracy that's he says but it is a racist party with nazi roots that's what i've always said that they must we need to fight extremists feed islam it fundamentalists or not we're not doing enough and this we've been democrats deny i could say sions they're racist and sadia focus is on smart immigration policy this is like an old or way of trying to scare people

off from voting for us and i don't really care about those accusations because there's enough. nothing to be founded on i mean our policies are not extreme in that sense i mean sweden is an extreme in a european sense our part of our policies are not extreme our politicians are not extreme in general however when and your racism group has been doing some digging and found candidates to the parliament from the sweden democrats had links to the new nutty group the national socialist front so yeah we had some bad eggs in our party. just today it was revealed that even you know the center party or the liberal party they have people who have killed people who have sexual assault a young female so unfortunately that happens in every party but because the swedish left wing media hates the sweden democrats they tried to bring that up more than for the others critics of the sweden democrats are still convinced their defining

feature is racism a central point for them the central goal is to keep sweet and white. these people that came from. skinheads now two white power organizations during the night they are now the second largest party yet there are way more radical forces in the sweetest far right camp and turn into for sweden formed by those expelled from the sweden democrats for being too extreme but say that the sweden democrats are quite good but they are getting more and more liberal more and more politically correct and they are not the ones to save sweden today so we have to create a new party a tougher party which is not politically correct a party which dares to speak out about repatriation because it's the only solution to sweden problems we gave the immigrants everything in this country we gave them housing we gave them benefits we gave them social welfare we have tested everything

and sweden is today a country in a real mess alternative for sweden's chances of claiming a seat in the parliament are slim but not as slim as the nordic resistance movement basically present themselves as heat low soldier is what you live when they call you like they are not even people yelling you sound like no not is not the reality of right here yes i am around more to the right brainwashed to the wrong and very wrong what is your opinion on our. great while they were great not just a nigerian law is the greatest. one really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct i'm only nineteen you said no no national socialism in fact the number of these supporters barely reaches two hundred and significantly more people accountable testing new flittering from the country's communist party thinks the threat posed by swedish notices is very much exaggerated but that they have

a really good media strategy when politicians gather they would go there and threaten people and make a lot of noise and being really tough and dangerous and look really scary. and the media will write about this but i mean they're not so many people they can be a real threat the two individuals but on a societal level they are just. they are nothing if former swedish police officer with african or reaching stuff and sherry quit his job to help the migrants make himself integrate he's known as a voice of reason. and believes is getting too much attention that it offered a different explanation for that sometimes you know this nazi group they get a bit. too much attention because once again if you look at them they're like two hundred three hundred members maybe sometimes it is easier to focus on them because

look nazis we know who they are we have the knowledge and when it comes to moderate islam a more extreme subject we don't know so much so we don't want to say the wrong things or we don't want people to think that we say the wrong things despite being shamed as narcissus by the media and politicians far right movements are still winning people over in this once liberal nordic state but these parties are showing they will confront the current migrant policies had on the need for better or worse. reporting from sweden. thousands of palestinians are continuing to protest against what they say is the israeli occupation of their territory for months demonstrators have faced live ammunition and tear gas at the gaza border local journalist has more from the scene of a protest. thousands of palestinian protesters continue to participate in the quick march of return for the twenty third week demanding to break the siege and

demanding to return to their home that is that they were driven out and flat out back in nineteen forty eight. that israeli forces are intensively shooting your gas canisters on the palestinian protesters on the palestinian side doesn't running away from the tear gas that's being. fired. this lady never happened everyone says it but a student protesters are on the suffocating for the two guys from the israeli forces killed hundreds of palestinian protesters and ensured thousands with live ammunition and tear gas canisters since the beginning of the great march of return on the thirtieth of march the palestinian protesters continue to march to the friends demanding the right to return and demanding breaking the siege for more than twenty three weeks now and they will not stop until their to their demands

everyone was suffocating this was the first time i see thousands of people on the ground not being able to even take a press i was in fact with my cameraman was abducted and was a journalist the crime of the gym protesters were affected by the tear gas the protests continue to gas canisters continue to be hard on the policy protesters and still we can also hear more live ammunition targeted on the palestinian protesters where the israeli forces continue to target the palestinian protesters. or the israeli army says soldiers opened fire to disperse palestinians who are throwing a grenade and rolled burning tires at the french israel on the united states blame hamas for the bloodshed. there's a call for the web retail giant amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and poor working conditions in the united states former democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders says some employees are paid so little that they qualify for food

stamps smear a can as the details. the story of the american leftist movement bernie sanders is at war with amazon the world's largest online retailer accusing the company of not treating its workers fairly it is important to take a look at the power and influence that the answer is that all over this country amazon employees are paid wages so low that they are having a real hard time getting bar to go forced the upon pacs play upon the programs and you know who pays for those programs. this isn't just empty rhetoric either sanders announced that he'd be introducing legislation that would require these big corporations to cover all federal benefits their employees receive from the government like food stamps and public housing if they can't pay them a living wage he's also encouraging amazon employees to speak out one former employee claims she was forced to work with an injured foot was like a something there was a loud crack i really feel it was an injury. we don't see anything here so it's not

stolen or anything just goes to it just so the students about you through fish your shift could see their finish your shift. cliff face time at one time however amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos presented himself as an employer who truly cared about his employees and the environment they were working at i'm very proud of the culture that we have with him so if you're giving great customer experience. there's the only way to do that is with happy people and now it was on his issued a response to sanders criticism something that doesn't happen very often urging employees to write to the senator and prove him wrong senator sanders continues to make inaccurate and misleading accusations against amazon we are encouraging all employees to take senator sanders up on his request and respond with their actual experience some did respond positively to the senator's tweets but that didn't change his mind he called on amazon to publish info on the number of employees it

hires along with our. really wages and benefits amazon says its median salary in the us is just over thirty four thousand dollars around what jeff bezos makes every ten seconds now imagine how much money he's made in the time i've taken to report this story. samir khan r t washington d.c. america's top diplomat says his how to russia and president assad claiming that trying to escalate the conflict in syria will have the latest developments in just a couple of minutes. you know world big partisan movies a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time

for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured to send to the public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. welcome back the u.s.

secretary of state is accusing russia of president assad of escalating the syrian conflict calling plans to rid adlib province of islamic terrorists and assault my pump aoe says the civilian population will end up bearing the brunt russia's foreign minister earlier emphasized that it was the last terrorist stronghold in syria and should be liberated the bus really shook group made sure this is the last place for the terrorists so from all points of view this abscess should be removed it lives being a haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas retaken by the government almost three million people currently live in the province though according to the un there are also thousands of jihadist militants there to. it lip has another fact and we have to reconnect to the next dream the high concentration of foreign fighters as the mates of the new for whatever name do want to call themselves is it more or less to tell thing to investigative journalist rick sterling thinks the united states and its allies won the conflict to keep dragging

on elements within the united states and nato for that matter want to prolong the conflict they basically want the syrian government to let the terrorists stay in the province we can just imagine what might pompei 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 the situation is complicated right now it's difficult because 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 and none of the countries that have supported the terrorists want them to come back to their own their own countries of course and it's kind of hypocritical for my pump pale to criticize syria for trying to expel terrorists from its own its own territory.

american consumers might be facing a tricky time ahead the new head of the u.s. consumer protection bureau was until recently on the other side of the tracks using his legal expertise to defend big business and his kind of open reports there are now accusations of a possible conflict of interest. it's job is pretty simple protect americans from the might of big business the job of the consumer protection bureau of the united states is to make sure that the products americans purchase are safe and to make sure they don't buy into false advertising the f.t.c. was given the power to investigate and stop unfair methods of competition and deceptive practices so meet the man whose job it is to protect american consumers from dangerous products he was just appointed by the trumpet ministration his name andrew smith now anderson with knows quite a bit about corporations who get dragged into court for harming the public why does he know all about it well he's been representing those corporations for most of his life as a corporate lawyer in fact the two most high profile cases facebook and equifax are

both his former clients now that little fact did not go unnoticed instead of demanding accountability the f.t.c. the fox hired gun in charge of the bureau that's supposed to protect consumers this is corruption plain and simple he's on the wrong side of these issues i can imagine worse choices but not many so an activist group calling itself public citizen filed a request under the freedom of information act to find out if there were any potential conflicts of interest in relation to andrew smith consumers deserve a consumer protection advocate in this position not a hired gun for corporate sharks they were provided with documents over four hundred ninety five pages on the new consumer protection sheet and potential conflicts and cronyism associated with them however almost all of it was blacked out nearly every page was redacted so no information was exposed there so no new

evidence about alleged conflicts of interest that certainly doesn't ease the doubts this is andrew smith in twenty eighteen my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at federal the. trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association which is a trade association of companies we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable poppen r.t. me york. efforts and deescalating tensions on the korean peninsula of hit another

snag of plans for a historic railway meant to link north and south korea have been blocked by the us led united nations command the u.n. units control movement across the demilitarized zone separating north and south since the end of the korean war a joint field study for the projects was planned last week but was counseled by the u.s. military the into korean rail project was supposed to improve trade and tourism between the two koreas it was also intended to set the stage for future investment in the north if sanctions on pyongyang and lifted human rights attorney and thinks the united states should stop meddling in the korean peace process these are all great through steps you know the united states would frankly get out of the way which is unfortunate you can see the incredible efforts and the incredible craving for peace and reunification that we saw in the eyes of the family exchanges recently we've seen the hopes for peace on so many levels with president and chairman

kim jong il who so consequently those are being thwarted. as a quite a reminder that the u.s. still holds. quite a military grip in the region the are there people within the administration who frankly benefit from instability gives a certain kind of the edge it allows a certain level of military spending so allows us to have our bases paid for by south korea in south korea it allows us to export billions of dollars of weapons there so consequently there are always people who are going to fight against peace but in this period at this essential time when we're about to have another summit between north and south in september it seems to me that this is a reminder to both north and south that the u.s.

has never given up its wartime authority in south korea of its latest move comes after us defense secretary james mattis announced that the united states has no plans to suspend future joint military exercises with south korea drills which the north of strongly protested. as you know we took the step to suspend several of the largest exercises as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore summit we have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises and last week president from canceled his chief diplomats visit to north korea blaming and sufficient progress over denuclearize ation looking back from some something of a love hate relationship with leader kim jong un developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any more than the rest of the united states. they will be met with

five year period and have a mad man out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man he is a sick puppy frightened dog barks louder i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged at us doctored with fire with both but both very honored to sign the document thank you we're very proud of what took place today it worked out for both of us far better than anybody even predicted it's an honor to be with you. d.c. in the last year or two has been a best mixed messages unfortunately you can't on one hand say i am going to trust you i'm going to respect your sovereignty as a nation and then when two countries start to take steps in that direction stop and

try to block it. a passenger jet as overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia leaving eighteen people injured including three children the boeing seven three seven operated by the siberian airline was traveling from moscow to salty when it got into trouble during landing or one. hundred sixty four passengers and six crew survived but one airport worker died during the evacuation after apparently suffering a heart attack the aircraft was making its second attempt to land in bad weather but skidded off the runway and into a river one of the engines also burst into flames. and now your up to date if you're out about this weekend take us with you by grabbing the r.t. app for your mobile device i'll be back here though in just over half an hour with your next world news see that for now though thanks for watching.

john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break owes you it can lie to finance the bush campaigns of the bush presidency and when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as a savior long crisis they machinery was already in place thanks to john mckay as a bag man for wall street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them whole at the expense of the a democracy slash economy of the united states which is disintegrating.

this is the coaxes bizarre neighborhood in bangladesh just recently this land was a rain forest but no there are refugee camps. elephants are a problem then tank refugees either out of range or feel. they can find the ancient my great tree roots among the sea of tents. in the last twelve months twelve men have been trampled to death by elephants however the elephants will have to retreat they're outnumbered by about nine hundred thousand refugees in the coaxes bazaar camps around six hundred thirty people have migrated here from my own mom in the last two years alone.