power of dialogue washington declassified hours of conversation between former u.s. president bill clinton and. a lucky escape for all on board a passenger jet that overshot the runway and coal fire in southern russia eighteen . let's go to. israel uses live ammunition and tear gas as palestinians continue to protest. the gars of border. showed growing split. euro skeptic and right wing parties rattle the social democrats.

good afternoon welcome sister past two pm here in moscow you're watching r t international and first in this saturday afternoons thirty minute update we start with this the u.s. has declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin that took place between one thousand nine hundred three in one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future of russian president vladimir putin remember many topics they discussed a senior correspondent lord 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 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 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 as stony 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 were made and friends even joke together three months of the pre-election race is 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 box and 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 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 putin 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 loans what's changed is that russia's grown up turns out it's much harder being friends when your more equal. a passenger jet overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia leaving eighteen injured including three children he goes down off reports from

sochi. 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 you 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 of these should have 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 that it was one death though and that is one of the airport's 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 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 and 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 of that plane died. exactly next tough confrontations expected during sweden's general election with a country split right now over

a surge in migrant numbers you could see the governing left wing social democrats lose the upper hand in parliament at the same time the nationalist opponents have been widely criticized with claims of racism has got the latest as we. nationalist sentiment is pretty on the bridge of change better pose here are predicting for the upcoming general election the anti 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 but it is a racist party with nazi roots that's what i've always said that the sweden democrats deny i could say sions they are racist and say their focus is on smart immigration policy this is like the old all way of trying to scare people off from voting for us sweden is an extreme in a european sense 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 we had some bad eggs 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. this people that came from. skinheads now two white power organizations during the

night they are now the second largest party and 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. there's still a t.v. but so that the sweden democrats were 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 resistance movement basically present themselves as he'd lost soldiers. i. was the one to your life when they call you like

me now and the people getting you sound like no not in our studio you're right there yeah well written reports the right brain washed out the wrong very wrong what is your opinion on now is. what they were great not is. the greatest the really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct in the uniting is it now national socialism or the number of their supporters hardly more than two or three thousand significantly more people account of protesting needlessly to inform the country's communist party thinks the threat posed by swedish nazis is fairly much exaggerated but that they have a really good media strategy when politicians gather they would go there. 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 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 it is easier to focus on them because look nazis we know who they are we have the knowledge and when it comes to . 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 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 most of the stray sions have taken place they face like them initially into gas at the gaza border but local journalists who could daria's 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 homelands that they were driven out and flat out back in one nine hundred forty eight that israeli forces are intensively shooting your gas canisters on the palestinian protesters on the palestinian side as just running away from that their god that's being. fired.

this literally never happened everyone says is a palestinian protesters are all suffocate in such a gas the israeli forces killed hundreds of palestinian protesters and injured thousands with live ammunition and cheer gas canisters since the beginning of the great march of return on the thirtieth of march the policy in 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 being 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 your gas canisters continued to be fired on the palestinian protesters and still we can also hear more live in munition targeted on the palestinian protesters where

the israeli forces continue to target the palestinian protesters. for their side of it the israeli army says soldiers opened. the dispersed palestinians who'd thrown a grenade and rolled burning tires at the fence israel in the united states blames the bloodshed on the militant group hamas which controls gaza sixty minutes past two moscow time ahead amazon's in the firing line over working conditions for its american staff with one senator now getting a plan to balance things up we'll tell you all about that and the rest of the stories after this break.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one to one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but.

there's been a cold for web retail amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and pull working conditions for stuff in the united states democratic senator bernie sanders says some employees at the nine hundred billion dollars paid so little they qualify for food stamps so americans got the story. 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 the answer is that all over this country amazon employees pay wages so low that they are having a real hard choice getting bar they are forced to apply 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 really don't see anything wrong here so it's not stolen or anything just goes to just the disturbance of like you threw fish on your shift it's either 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 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 without. 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. . the u.s. secretary states accusing russian president assad of escalating the syrian conflict calling plans to root in a province of islamic terrorists and assault my pompeo says the civilian population will end up bearing the brunt russia's foreign minister earlier laid out moscow's

position on the. group this year 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 although 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 old north or whatever name they want to call themselves is that more or less around ten of them investigative journalist rick sterling told us western nations don't want to see the highly trained foreign terrorists in syria returning to their own 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 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 turk 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 us consumer protection bureau was until recently on the other side of the tracks using his legal expertise to defend big businesses he represented facebook and consumer credit rating agency had quit facts

before taking up the position and nexus caleb maupin reports and 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. 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 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 tabletop and r.t. me york also this weekend the escalating tensions on the korean peninsula have hit another snag plans for historic railway meant to link north and south korea. been

blocked now by the u.s. led united nations command the u.n. unit is controlled movement across the demilitarized zone that separates the north and south since the end of the korean war a joint field study for the project was planned last week but now it's been cancelled 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 were lifted technically north and south korea are still at war no peace treaty was signed after three years of fighting which ended in one nine hundred fifty three human rights attorney erickson wrote can told us he thinks the u.s. 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 movement and chairman kim jong un who so consequently those are being thwarted now. as a quite a reminder that the u.s. still holds quite a military grip in the region they are there are 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 this latest move comes then after u.s. defense secretary james mattis announced that the united states had no plans to suspend fija joint military exercises with south korea drills which the north and strongly protested. did you know we took the step to suspend several of the largest extra charges as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore summit we have no plans at this time to spend any more exercisers just last week president trump cancelled his chief diplomats visit to north korea blaming insufficient progress over denuclearized they should looking back trump said something of a love hate relationship with needed kim jong il and. develop to be

a very special bond. north korea best not to make any more than threats to the united states. they will be met with fire as a fury and have mad men 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 a frightened dog barks louder i will surely and definitely time the mentally ill deranged us dotard with fire with both are 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 gloat try to block it. and that's a snapshot of just some of the big world news stories from moscow this hour and this weekend almost so much more from us at r.t. dot com right now is kevin i would say thanks for watching this half hour and have a great saturday review that you do and. when else will seem wrong. just don't.