was. the power of dialogue washington declassifies hours a conversation between former u.s. and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin. lucky escape for all on board that passenger jet you seeing there it overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia last night leaving eighteen injured also this hour. pre-election polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties rattle the ruling social democrats.

who run the world live from r.t. h.q. moscow where it's just ten five pm is kevin zero in with you this thing situating to us wherever you are around the world or at the let's start with this then the u.s. is declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin they took place back between ninety three and 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 our senior correspondent laura gadgety of takes a closer 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 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 is still 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 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 they're generals would get a little nervous yeah they discussed ditching their nuclear briefcases what if we were to agree giving up having to have our finger next to the button all the time perhaps we could agree that it's not necessary for us to carry the chima down chick well i'll have to think about this all we carry of course are the codes in the secure phone yes you and i are the only leaders you have to do this mr president given the responsibility of your office and president yeltsin's it makes more sense for the two of you to have these devices with you at all times it was simpler in

those days the world was younger and no one knew what the future held for example would the united states pull out the viewer up. the u.s. is not in europe europe should be the business of europeans russia is half european and half asian so you want asia to sure sure bill eventually will have to agree on all of this i don't think the europeans would like this very much not all but i'm a european moscow is in europe and i like it you can take all the other states and provide security to them i would take europe and provide them security well not i russia will bill i'm serious give your 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 quote 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. a person to rome when caught fire in southern russia is left eighteen injured including three children it goes down of reports from sochi a modification of a boeing seven three seven operated by you tear 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 of 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 that it 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 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 the 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 far of course the most important thing is that nobody on. board of that plane died. a tough confrontations expected during sweden's general election upcoming with the country split right now over a surge in migrant numbers that could see the governing left wing social democrats

lose their upper hand in parliament at the same time the nationalist opponents are being widely criticized with claims of racism roof a national report from the. nationalist sentiment is producer on the project change better homes here are protecting for the upcoming general election the empty 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 he says but it is a racist party with nazi roots that's what i've always said that this wouldn't democrats deny a sions they're racist and sadia 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 when end to 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 you know the center party or the liberal party they have people who have killed people who have sexual assaulted 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 centrum goal is to keep. swedes and white stadia these people that came from. skinheads white power organizations during the night and they are now the second largest party in yet

there are way more let it control says in sweden this far right camp alternative for sweden formed by those expelled from the sweden democrats for the two extreme was there's still a steve here 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 mr systems movement basically present themselves as heat low soldiers. i was was the one to go live when they call you like

me now and the people yelling you sound like no not in our studio you're right there yeah then remarks the right brainwashed to the wrong and very wrong what is your opinion on now is that. what they were great not just a noted law is the greatest learned in europe the really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct nothing is that no national socialism or the number of the supporters hardly more than two or three thousand significantly more people counter-protest needlessly to inform the countries communist party thinks the threat posed by swedish nazis is theory much exaggerated but that they have a really good media strategy when politicians gather they would go. 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 three individuals but on a societal level they are just. they are nothing if former swedish police officer with african or reaching staff and sherry quit his job to help migrants like himself integrate his name 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 . make 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 nazis by the media and politicians are right and far right movements are still winning people over in this one's liberal nordic state but

these parties are showing they will confront current migrant policies head on lead for better or worse. great in all shouty reporting from sweden. american consumers could be facing a tricky term ahead the new chief of the u.s. consumer protection bureau was till recently on the other side of the tracks using his legal expertise to defend big companies he represented facebook and consumer credit rating agencies equifax for taking up this new position next to this caleb maupin reports that 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 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 cook 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. me york. says. i was in to be touched to make up for low wages and poll 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 these days samir khan picks up 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 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 they are forced to apply pacs play upon the 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 i was like a something there was a loud crack i really feel it was an injury she really we don't see your footsteps anything just goes to it just so the students about you through fish your shift could see their finish your shift. 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'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 with our. early 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. america on r.t.e. washington d.c. . deescalating tensions on the korean peninsula hit another snag this time plans

for a storage railway meant to link north and south korea have been blocked by the u.s. led united nations command the u.n. unit is controlled movement across the demilitarized zone that separates north and south since the end of the korean war a joint field study for the project was planned last week but that snow been cancelled by the u.s. military into korean rail project was supposed to provide trade into arisen between the two koreas it was also intended to set the stage for future investment in the north of sanctions on piano lifted human rights attorney eric surat can thinks the u.s. should stop meddling in the korean peace process these are all great through steps . 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. chairman kim jong un 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 they are there are people within the administration who frankly benefit from instability gives a certain kind of idjit allows a certain level of military spending so lyle's us to have our bases pay for itself 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 has got no plans to suspend future joint military exercises with south korea those drills that the north has strongly protested against over these. you know we took the step to spare and 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 suspend eddie more exercisers last week president trump counseled his chief diplomats visit to north korea blaming insufficient progress over denuclearized should look. something of a love hate relationship then isn't a with leader kim jong un. developed a very special bond. north

korea best not to make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire of 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 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. today we had an historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind 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. and all your too has been bastiaan 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 where two countries start to take steps in that direction and try to block it. to syria now where the russian defense ministry says it's received reports of a terrorist attack being fought on the ancient city of palmira it comes off the back of the u.s. secretary of state accusing russian president assad of escalating the syrian conflict he described plans to liberate province from extremists as an assault might pompei also said civilians they would bear the brunt of the offensive against terror groups. laid out its position. most of the group this year this is the last place for the terrorists to say from all points of view this abscess should be removed it did spin a real haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas we taken by the

government almost three million people currently live in the province though according to the un there are also thousands of jihad this minute since that to italy has another fact and we have to be connected to an extremely high concentration of foreign fight to the mates all the unmoved by what they've been maimed and want to call themselves is it more or less than them investigative journalists are extending told us western nations don't want to see the highly trained foreign terrorist currently in syria or to anybody to their old countries again 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 turkey and none of the countries that have supported the terrorists want them to come back to their own their own countries that 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. a snapshot so the big will new stories from oscar this hour was so much more cost twenty four seven this weekend is kevin o. and here he said thanks for much what she did have a great to rest of the saturday that movie all around the world.

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this is the kaiser report the show that goes further so it's a 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 the 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 that he had convinced them to buy all these bonds and 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 him 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.