thank you. the power of dialogue and washington declassified hours of conversation between former u.s. and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin also this hour. that is israel uses live ammunition and tear gas as palestinians continue to protest israeli occupation of the gaza border. reelection polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties rattle the ruling social democrat. by their it's over the first it's ten am here in moscow money thanks for checking in with r.t.

this hour for world news first off this saturday morning the united states has declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin they took place between one thousand nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future of russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent more i guess d. 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 for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for 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 a 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 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 bulgaria is still in latvia lithuania romania slovakia slovenia

so yeltsin tried everything he even begged them to let us have a verbal gentleman's agreement we would not write it down in the statement but 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 worse still organized against russia but there is 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 race has 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 they're generals would get a little nervous 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 that 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 your up to europe itself europe never felt as close to russia as it does now good days good friends and then hilton just upped and 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 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 and quote european security trade and no ones what's changed is that russia has grown up turns out it's much harder being friends when you're more equal. a tough confrontation is 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 at the same time their nationalist opponents are being widely criticized with claims of racism as more if a national report nationalist sentiment is put in sweden on the verge 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 my mom came to sweden fleeing nazis and 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 the more we need to fight extremists the dislodgement fundamentalists or nazis were not doing enough this we've been democrats deny i could say sions they are racist and say they are focus is on smart immigration policy this is like the old all way of trying to scare people off from voting for us and i don't really care about those accusations

because there's enough there's nothing to be found on i mean our policies are not extreme in that sense i mean sweden. are part of our policies are not extreme our politicians are not extreme in general however 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 in our party but just today it was revealed. even you know the center party or the liberal party they have people who have killed people who have sexual assaulted young females 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 race is

a central point for them the centrum 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 in yet there are way more radical voices in sweden's far right camp alternative for sweden formed by those expelled from the sweden democrats for being too extreme but the sweden democrats they were quite good but they're 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 or party which terrorists 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

the 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 lower soldier is going to be alive when they call you like me now and the people gather you sound like you know it is now its three year old your brain is yet more still brainwashed to the wrong very wrong what is your opinion on our is. what they were great not just a nigerian law is the greatest. don't really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct in all your nothing is it no national socialism in fact the number of the supporters barely reaches two hundred and significantly more people account of protesting 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. media will write about this but i mean they're not so many these people they can be a real threat the three 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 migrants like himself integrate he's known as a voice of reason in sweden and believes north is getting too much attention and 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 subjects 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 current migrant policies had on the need for better or worse. reporting from sweden. next a passenger jet has overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia leaving eighteen people injured including three children let's go live to the crash site near by is our he goes down of hi there he go undoubtedly terrifying for everyone on board what happened. so well call in what happened is a modification of a boeing seven three seven operated by you it's a major russian airline mostly focusing on domestic flights will it make to

a landing attempt here in the airport's salty the first one was apparently hampered by the strong winds as you see it is all nice and sunny right now but it night there was a vicious thunderstorm here downpour of rain and lightning bolts were going off literally every few seconds so the landing conditions were nowhere near good or perfect in that sense so after the one the second attempt when the when the aircraft finally when the aircraft finally did touch the landing strip that was when things didn't go where they should have to basically the aircraft rolled past the end of the runway the pilots couldn't bring it to a stop one of the short of it plunged into a river caught fire on one of the engines apparently one of the one of the wings of the left wing is reported to have been completely burnt down now it is somewhat of a miracle i should say that there were no casualties when it comes to the people on

board the plane eleven people have been injured three of them children there was one death though and that is one of the airports workers apparently the man was one of the first responders on the scene of the crash and he was trying to help people get out of the burning plane and the word is his heart just couldn't really take it apparently he died of a heart attack on site so what is happening now of course the investigators are looking into what caused the would cause the tragedy with the tragedy. was it the weather or was there a human factor involved too also with the russian transportation authority will be investigating looking into how the airline is operating and how the airport here in sochi is operating but so far of course the most important thing is that nobody on board about plane died. and date ok goes on of in salty and southern russia thanks for that update. next thousands of palestinians are continuing to protest

against what they say is the israeli occupation of their territory for months demonstrated to face live ammunition and tear gas at the gaza border local journalists can how do i bury has more from the scene of the protests. thousands of palestinian protesters continue to participate in the group march of return for the twenty third week demanding to break the siege and demanding to be returned to their hold that is that they were driven out and flat out back in one nine hundred forty eight when. that israeli forces are intensively shooting at your gas canisters on the palestinian protesters one of the palestinians just does the i was going this way to let your guard that's being. fired. or. this lady never happened everyone does it but it didn't really just serious fire on us

suffocating for the jury against the israeli forces killed hundreds of palestinian protesters and injured 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 fence demanding the right of 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 be. able to even take a breath i was affected my cameraman was affected and all of the journalists paramedics and protesters were affected by the tear gas the protests continue to you guys got misters continued to be fired 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. and who are reporting

from the goals a bold and of the israeli army says soldiers opened fire to disperse palestinians who throwing a grenade and rolled burning tires on the fence it's right of the united states for the bloodshed has just come up to seventeen minutes past ten in the morning here in moscow this is muslims in the far england have a working conditions for american stuff one former senator is going to plan to balance things up i'll tell you all about that when we come back. but i hope to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to. get you going to be this is what before three of the people. i'm interested

always in the water. welcome back there's a call for the web retail giant amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and

poor working conditions for stuff in the united states former democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders says some employees at the nine hundred billion dollars paid so little that they qualify for food stamps so i made a comment that he tells. 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 sparely it is important to take a look at the power and influence that amazon has the answer is that all over this country amazon employees pay wages so low that they are having a real getting bar they are forced to upon taxpayer funded programs and you know who pays for those programs you do 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. something. really it was an injury. a little we don't see anything here let's just roll with anything this just goes to just the students apply to you through your shift it's either finish on your shoes. cliff face 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 am 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 sister to response to sandra's 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 hourly wages and benefits amazon says it's 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 of taken to report the story. samir khan r t washington d.c. . the u.s. secretary of state is accusing russia and president assad of escalating the syrian conflict calling plans to rid the province of islamic terrorists an assault by pump says the civilian population will end up bearing the brunt russia's foreign minister earlier emphasized that it was the last terrorist stronghold in the country and should be liberated. group which are 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 now almost three million people currently live in the province though according to the un there are also thousands of jihadist militants that. it lip has another fact and we have to reconnect with an extremely high concentration of foreign fighters the estimates of the north or whatever name they want to call themselves is that more or less our own intel think of them investigative journalist rick sterling thinks the u.s. and its allies want to 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 aoe 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 chief of the u.s. consumer protection bureau was until recently on the other side of the tracks using his needle expertise to defend big business he represented facebook and the consumer credit rating agencies equifax before taking up a position on 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 that go debility the f.t.c. puts equifax is hired gun in charge of the beauty to that's supposed to protect consumers this is corruption plain and simple he's on the wrong side of these

issues i can't imagine worse choices but not money 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 direct . the bureau of consumer protection at the federal 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 tabletop and r.t. me york. ok that's your news for now thanks for checking in with us he this hour a stand by for commission of children he's going over the numbers in your latest boom bust and it's.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you. that i would rather an act on their mind and not out of the budget that i'm not out of the mouth of the money that they are planning to make. this was a good time to. try to move their own. son out loud and definitely not why not act and then again why exxon and the old people who believe that those again. a lot of

my kids i don't want them up with johnny who they are at the moment i've got a mother how do it on a case that i get a little out of them on i'm a little white kid might be old enough to go out to the people i don't want to put out a of the most hardy would i don't know them of the blow that it. is . this is a school bus forecasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for being on board with us coming up today we update the trading situation related to the north american free trade agreement and get some details about the importance of the trading relationship especially with regard to canada scott but dard from i.h.s. market helps us look at the data details plus we get an update and new news on that glide poisoning in foods that story we've been covering are two sarah monsters the

oka is here and we talk about global markets and u.s. markets and more with the founder and president of investors advantage corporation john grace will join us from los angeles plus from los angeles to dubai and other places. around the globe the wealthiest people among us the proverbial one percent are using luxury airports archies millet chan gives us the details but first we had a few headlines. all eyes were on washington this afternoon as talks on the inclusion of canada in their rewrite of the north american free trade agreement are still in progress as we go to air ahead of today's trip self-imposed deadline for completion u.s. and canadian negotiators are trying to reach an agreement in time to give congress they required ninety days notice to deal and sign it before the new mexican president a nafta critic takes office in december earlier today canada's lead negotiator negotiator rather foreign minister chrystia freeland said quote we're looking for

a good deal not just any deal and we will only agree to a deal that is good for canada we're not there yet she said canadian officials seem to strain to project optimism after the toronto star reported explosive remarks from president trump that the u.s. negotiating position is quote going to be so insulting that they're not going to be able to make a deal could even prime minister justin trudeau stuck a particularly canadian core tone rather and a polite resolution saying quote we're going to remain constructive positive serious and creative about what we do around the negotiating table and what we do in relation to the united states he said but we are also going to going to be unequivocal about always standing up for canadians rights and canadians interest. the troubles of the argentinian and the turkish turkish currencies are roiling markets worldwide this week the argentine peso plunged.