the power of dialogue washington declassified hours of conversation between former u.s. and russian president bill clinton and boris yeltsin. a lucky escape for all on board that passenger jet you're seeing there it overshot the runway last line caught fire in southern russia leaving eighteen injured also this hour. pre-election polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and far right parties rattle the social democrats there. seven here moscow time kevin with you hear it out international thanks for watching

as our rolling news continues first this. the u.s. is declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin it took place way back between one thousand nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office everything from election collusion to nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin remember many topics to discuss but then our senior correspondent takes a closer look at this snapshot of history. 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 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 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 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 warning russia will pull out of the agreement and consider it now and void i know what a terrible problem this is for you but i can't make the specific commitment you're asking for not even complaints could get through you are conducting naval maneuvers near crimea it is as if we are training people in cuba how would you feel it's unacceptable to us the spite of all that they remained friends even joke together

three months of the pre-election races taken its toll i feel somewhat tired i saw the picture of you dancing with the girls in the band and you looked wonderful i'm disappointed that no one sets up events like that for me 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 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 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. but tough confrontations expected during sweden's general election with a country split right now of resurgent migrant numbers that could see the governing left wing social democrats lose the upper hand in parliament at the same time the nationalist opponents are being widely criticized with claims of racism riff

national record. was nationalist sentiment is producer on the project change better homes here the directing 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 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 say the a 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 the extreme in general however when i enter 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 assault a female so unfortunately that happens in every party but because the swedish left wing media hates the sweden democrats they tried to bring that up more than for the others critics of the sweden democrats are still convinced their defining feature is racism a central point for them the centrum goal is to keep. sweet and white that stadia 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 was there's a steve they don't like but say that the sweden democrats are quite good but they are getting more and more liberal more and more politically correct and they are not the ones to save sweden today so we have to create a new party a tougher party which is not politically correct a party which dares to speak out about repatriation because it's the only solution to sweden problems we gave the immigrants everything in this country we have tested everything and sweden is today a country in a real mess alternative for sweden's chances of claiming a seat in the parliament are slim but not as slim as the nordic resistance movement basically present themselves as heat low soldiers. i. was the one to your life when they call you like me now and the people yelling you sound like no not in our studio you're right

there yeah well written reports the right brain washed out the wrong and very wrong it was your opinion on. what they were great not just. the greatest hurt in the really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct nothing you said 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 country's communist party thinks the threat posed by swedish nazis is fieri 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 there are not so many people they can be

a real threat the we individuals but on a societal level they are just. they are nothing if former swedish police officer with afghan 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 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 once liberal nordic state but these parties are showing they will confront current migrant policies head on lead for better or

worse great no shouty reporting from sweden. we'll take you straight to germany now is developing story live pictures here germany's racial tension spilling onto the streets to playschool determinately pulling the news around the world and with us last couple of days there's a rally there at the moment got small purchases this city's into its second week of far right religious insecurity which have mostly been coming to protest so they started after a local man was stabbed to death by people the police describe as being of various nationalities there's been a lot worse in turn since then it's been quiet the noise will be in various rallies or you will cause problems reported over the last week or so. this rally tonight was. being quiet was no just following the police here got a bit of a bit of a move on we saw. the tally the if you like of people walking forward peaceful

enough but just interesting to follow this picture for a while. we could be with this for a bit let's we'll keep an eye on it when we take you into the report next here's how all this unfolded let's take you through the chronology of it. i.

passed my last line caught fire in southern russia left eighteen injured including three children down there in sochi reporting next igor stand off from the scene. 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 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 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 tragic 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 airports here

in sorties operating but so far of course the most important thing is that nobody on board of that plane died there could have been so much worse from the american consumers might be facing a tricky time ahead the new chief of the u.s. consumer protection bureau. he was till recently actually only other side of the tracks using his legal expertise to defend big business he represented facebook and consumer credit rating agencies equifax before taking up the position now as kind of open reports next and there. may be a possible conflict of interest its 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 it 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 the miss 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 tabletop and r.t. new york. and he sort of moving into moscow thanks be with us if you could save the next ten minutes is so i'll tell you about it in the firing line over working conditions for its america. stuff and go to plan partly to balance things up just one of the stories after the break. her clear.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us as over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten times stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be rich eight point six percent markets thirty percent cure some with one hundred to five hundred per circuit. and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a year but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only.

to be taxed to make up for low wages and pull working conditions for stuff in the united states stomach products senator bernie sanders says some employees at that nine hundred billion dollars family paid so little they qualify for food stamps samir khan reports. 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 pay wages so low that they are having a real hard time getting bar they are forced to pay and upon pacs play upon the programs and you know who pays for those programs. this isn't just empty rhetoric either sanders announced that he'd be introducing legislation that would require these big corporations to cover all federal benefits their employees receive from

the government like food stamps and public housing if they can't pay them a living wage he's also encouraging amazon employees to speak out one former employee claims she was forced to work with an injured foot it was like a something there was a loud crack i really feel it was an injury and they really really don't see anything wrong here so it's not stolen or anything it's just goes to it just so the students about you through fish 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 with our. really wages and benefits amazon says its median salary in the us is just over thirty four thousand dollars around what jeff bezos makes every ten seconds now imagine how much money he's made in the time i've taken to report the story. so mark on our team washington d.c. . in syria the russian defense ministry says it received reports that a terrorist attack on the nation city of poll mir is being thwarted it comes right off the back of the u.s. secretary of state accusing russian president assad of escalating the syrian conflict he described plans to liberate libya from extremists as an assault might pompei also said civilians they would bear the brunt of the offensive against

terror groups spoke to the syrian foreign minister about the fight against this in his country. first of all the international community should recognize that it leapfrogged is syrian territory and this syrian government must regain full control of it secondly as president assad said our priorities to liberate it live by that peacefully which we prefer or use in the military thirdly it is clear that . is listed as a terrorist organization by the united nations to protect civilians in we have opened a humanitarian corridor it has been open for two weeks and we have already received hundreds of families on these bases and i can say that if military action is considered necessary it will be only. those groups who are in favor

of a settlement deal should voice their position their commitments in terms of for reconciliation . it was paid a haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas retaken by the government most three million people currently live in that province called into the u.n. there are also thousands of jihadist militants there to. italy has another fact and we have to reconnect in the next three high concentration of foreign fighters as the good mates all the other unmoved by what they've been maimed and want to call themselves is it more or less our own ten calton of them investigative journalist rick sterling told us western nations don't want to see these highly trained foreign terrorists right now in syria returning to their home 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 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 and that's a snapshot of some of the big world news stories from moscow this hour is kevin owen saying thanks so much for watching.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay financed the bush campaigns of 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 whole at the expense of the democracy slash economy of the united states which is disintegrating. forman are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the hand.

all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a former. member of their student company and. americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. yes we're here again no matter what last week the d.n.c. the democratic national committee voted to take a big step towards actually having a legitimate primary election this was huge just was tremendous this was not as big

as everyone thinks it is. good do you have fish voted to strip some power from the super delegates as you'll recall from the twenty sixteen primary abortion super delegate. are the internal party elite such as representatives and donors and the guy who arranged all the hookers. usually gets a couple of votes well gotta give him gotta keep them happy because as we all know the most democratic thing for the democratic party is to have a leads with voting power that far outweighs any normal people. so i watched a massive can have a quibble empowered to say. well we all know democracy is a dish best served like tea at a little girl's tea party. and. the power of the superdelegates basically handed to hillary clinton the primary election before it

even started doing big news the d.n.c. has voted to not allow superdelegates to vote in the first round of ballots at the convention this means the candidate who wins the primaries will almost definitely get the nomination so that. when up tony said you're kind of candidate could win next time around but then i started thinking. i was dead now. and i was just thanked. and it occurred to me the d.n.c. later said is a corrupt elitist group of what still may colorfully call heads. i would never i would never but someone somewhere. to if you were the ruling elite and you knew that your super delegate power was going to vanish quicker than.