the power of dialogue in washington declassified hours of conversation between former u.s. and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin. for all on board a passenger jet which overshot the runway. leaving eighteen people injured also this hour. what. israel uses live ammunition and tear gas as palestinians continue to protest israeli occupation of the goals of. pre-election polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties rattle the ruling social democrat.

this saturday the first of september i'm calling. the world news of this saturday first for you the united states has declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian president bill clinton and boris yeltsin they took place between one thousand nine hundred three and one 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 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 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 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 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 shake 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 yeltsin 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 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 encroachment european security trade and no one's what's changed is that russia's grown up turns out it's much harder being friends when you're more equal. passenger jet has overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia leaving eighteen people injured including three children he quoted on our reports from. 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 airports of sorts of the first one was apparently hampered by the strong winds as you see it is all nice and sunny right now but if 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 on the second attempt 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 the short of it plunged into a river caught fire on one of the engines or 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 of the plane eleven people have been injured three of them children there was one death of 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 a cell what is happening now forced the investigators are looking into what caused the would cause the tragedy with the tragedy was at the whether 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 airports here in salt use operating but so. of course the most important thing is that nobody on board of that plane died. 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 at the same time their nationalist opponents

are being widely criticized her claims of racism written national reports. nationalist sentiment is put in sweden on the bridge of change that's what the polls here are predicting for the upcoming general election the un team 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 says but it is a racist party with nazi roots that's what i've always said. 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 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 is an extreme in the european sense 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 nazi group the national socialist front so we had some in our party just today it was revealed that even the center party or the liberal party they have people who have killed people who have sexual assault 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 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 and they are now the second largest party in yet there are way more radical forces in sweden this far right camp alternative for sweden formed by those expelled from the sweden democrats for being too extreme. there's a fever you let's 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 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 ministers to this movement basically present themselves as he'd lost soldiers.

i. was the one to your mind when they call you like men and even people yelling you sound like you know it is in our studio your brain yeah yeah man remarks that right brainwashed yeah really wrong and very wrong what is your opinion on nancy grace while they were great hitler was definitely a very very good person for the german people definitely. the free germany of significantly more people i counter protesting flittering from the countries communist party thinks the threat posed by swedish notaries 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. the media will write about this but i mean there are 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 stuff and sherry quit his job to help migrants like himself integrate he's known as a voice of reason in sweden and believes is getting too much attention it offered a different explanation for that maybe sometimes that it's 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 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 the territory for months demonstrators have faced live ammunition and tear gas at the gaza border local journalist in her diary has more from the scene of the 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 front does the running away from that your god that's being. fired. this lady never happened everyone says is about

a student protesters are on suffocating for the just 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 a 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 breath i was affected my cameraman was affected and all of the journalists paramedics improved testers were affected by the tear gas the protests continue to gas canisters continue to be fired on the policy of protestors 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 put out a report. now the israeli army says soldiers opened fire to disperse palestinians who have thrown a grenade and also rolled burning tires at the fence israel in the united states blame hamas for the bloodshed in gaza. this is r.t. international amazon is in the firing line over working conditions for its american staff and one former senator's got a plan to balance things up i'll tell you all about that when we come back. john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay who financed the bush campaigns in the bush presidency and

when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as the savings along crisis the machinery was already in place thanks to john mccain as a bag man for wall street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them all at the expense of the democracy slash economy of the united states which is to celebrate. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only move really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again more about these world news for you this saturday there is

a call for the web retail giant amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and working conditions for its staff in the united states democratic senator bernie sanders says some employees of the nine hundred billion dollars paid so little that the qualify for food stamps so american has the details. to serve 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 how it's the answer is that all over this country amazon employees are paid wages so low that they are having a real getting bar they are forced to pay and upon packs. 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 it was like a something there was a loud crack i really feel it was an injury she really we don't see anything here such school or any she says just goes to it just so the students apply you through fish your fish kids either finish your shoes or 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 and 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 amazon has issued a 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 i've taken to report the story. samir khan r t washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state is accusing russia and president assad of escalating the syrian conflict calling. plans to rid of islamic terrorists and assault my pump a.o. says the civilian population will end up bearing the brunt russia's foreign minister laid out moscow's position. group this year this is the last place for the terrorists say 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 recognize it and extremely high concentration of foreign fighters the mates of the unmoved by what they've been maimed they want to call themselves is it more or less i don't think of them investigative journalist rick sterling says western nations don't want to see the highly trained foreign terrorists in syria returning to their home countries 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 prompt a 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 that 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 chief 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 he represented facebook and the consumer credit rating agency equifax before taking up the position and it's kind of open now reports there are 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 is 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. puts equifax is 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'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 director of 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 cable company r.t. new york ok that's how it looks i fall this saturday i'm calling brian moscow back with your next news optimax and stacy assessed the legacy of the late u.s. senator john mccain.

and outlets are going to learn how to act on our better than our good luck though the up but not out of the mouth of the money little when i get out of germany. this was a good time to. try to move. the mom . not that i want to get my little money not for nor against our son or ex chanting of the old people we believe just a little bit here. bottom of my kids i live on the bubble side johnny boy are you

the moment of motherhood you are all accuser is it a little on the bottom of the work in my building looking at the pimp i don't want to put out a look to my work party or the older mother brother to. you . guys are this is the kaiser report the show that goes further and. hey you know it's now like a week later after senator john mccain has passed away and i think it's time now to review some of the stories that were set in motion some of the major macro economic events that started. from his time when he first came to power back

and you know after he was a release from prisoner of war camp in one nine hundred seventy three from vietnam up till today when he was first in office early in the eighty's we had the keating five so i want to remind people about that and how that still has impact today because the keating five were five u.s. senators accused of corruption in one nine hundred eighty nine igniting a major political scandals part of the larger savings and loan crisis of the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. now senator john mccain was one of the five senators he was the only republican the others were all democrats. senator john mccain was ultimately cleared but the fact is that he apparently well he did meet with a federal home loan bank board the f.h.a. l b b in the night in one thousand nine hundred seven to intervene on behalf of charles keating who at that time was the largest of the savings and loans banks and

was clearly very corrupt and in fact had basically encouraged a lot of his pensioner and older people depositors they had convinced them to buy all these bonds of put those bonds into the parent company of lincoln savings and they lost hundreds of millions alternately but he went to his very good friend senator john mccain went to. and he also by the way paid for him to go on many vacations john mccain and his wife and this guy charles keating basically convince them to go talk to the regulators and get them off their back so it was only until he successfully got them off their back for two years and the bank then collapsed two years later and almost took down the u.s. economy in the global economy but this is the sort of pattern that we see around the world and i know keating five of the savings and loan crisis very well of course i was working on wall street at the time and here's the most amazing thing about the estonia crisis of that period is that in response to that crisis and this

was when people were gaming the system of federal deposit insurance to steal money essentially the response by law makers was to make that particular type of crime that was illegal and over fifteen hundred people went to jail bankers went to jail as a result of the inquiry that after the savings and loan crisis they changed the laws so that that type of lawbreaking was made legal and it set the stage for the two thousand and eight subprime crisis subprime crisis of two thousand and eight was a repeat of the savings and loan crisis people ask how come nobody want to jail because after the savings and loan crisis from the one nine hundred eighty nine period the laws were changed to make that particular type of fraud legal essentially yes the lincoln savings and loans crisis was one of seven hundred forty seven s n l's that collapsed it cost that in total it cost one hundred sixty point one billion dollars of that one hundred.