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i'm going. to bring you live pictures from the subject the eastern german city of ken nits opposing rallies take the city by storm triggered by a local man's death and they lead to the arrest warrant for the suspects. pre-election polls in sweden show a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties rattle the ruling social democrats. and the power of dialogue washington declassifies hours of conversations between former u.s. and russian president bill clinton and boris yeltsin.
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a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour the german city of commits continues to be hit with far right rallies which have been mostly met with counter protest as well they started after a local man was stabbed to death by people at the police described as being of various nationalities here's how it all unfolded.
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several anti migrant groups arranged a so-called silent march this saturday in protest against chancellor merkel's policies live pictures from the city. was there for us. at the demonstration it was organized by alternative for germany now they explained to me that the. demonstrations in the beginning of the week that they had. said that they were going to join in with the demonstration. the right wing opposition party here in germany spoke to. me and they told me what they thought about the on going situation here the demonstrations and what they expected why do you think this particular
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incident. which motion on both sides of the it's always you have this movement something is developing developing developing some were some waves in the background and then you have the final spark and this was only the final spark. also in common goal. some months ago could have happened in our the tallent but the demonstrations that we've seen following not now we've heard people describe them as far right i think they would be fair to say some of the symbols they were being thrown out with all right we saw straight home salute so. how do you ally yourself with what we don't ally also with this it's an open immigration it's a right to somebody freely we can control who comes to our events. if someone does something unlawful we're trying to isolate them turn them over to the police because they're not part of our party and we have between six and eight thousand
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normal citizens normal demonstrators are among them between home and ten people showing them off to greeting it's not till ten many many too many but that is what i want to tell you. that you cannot blame. six to eight thousand normal citizens for having meddled among them you can blame them for we saw the prison warden he illegally leaked that these were two people of from iraq and from syria he had been arrested. there is an undertone that this was done in order to promote that follow right now most of it was done because even people in the administration even the officials i mean absolutely fed up with the policy which is going on in germany that's the way it looks here in came it's right now we'll be keeping an eye on this saturday how this develops and bring you all up to date on as it happens. a tough confrontation as expected during sweden's general election
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where the country split over a surge in migrant numbers it could see the governing left wing social democrats lose their upper hand in parliament at the same time their nationalist opponents are being widely criticized with claims of racism riff national reports nationalist sentiment is on the floor to change that. cell phones here are conducting 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 this we dish 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 this wouldn't democrats deny a sions they're racist and say their focus is on smart immigration policy this is like an old all way of trying to scare people off from voting for us. extreme in
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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 sexually assaulted young females so unfortunately that happens in every party but because the swedish left wing media hates the sweden democrats they tried to bring that up more than for the others critics of the sweden democrats are still convinced their defining feature is 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
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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 was there's still a t.v. 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 ministers to this movement basically present themselves as he'd lost soldiers.
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i was the one to your life when they call you like me now and the people gathering sound like no not in our studio you are right there yes i am around more to the right brainwashed so the wrong and very wrong it was you are in on now is. what they were great not is a nigerian law is the greatest church you know the really have huge and i know it's not here i mean is that correct nothing is said now national socialism or the number of the supporters hardly more than two or three thousand significantly more people account of protesting needlessly to inform the countries 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. threaten people
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and make a lot of noise and being really tough and dangerous and look really scary in the media will write about this but i mean there are so many people they can be a real threat to the 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 my greens like himself integrate as it always of reason in sweden and believes is getting too much attention for 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
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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 notion our t. is reporting from sweden. the u.s. has declassified six hundred pages of private conversations between former american and russian presidents bill clinton and boris yeltsin they took place between one thousand nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion of nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent mark gusty 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 work backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections
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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
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about a massive all out accelerated expansion two years later nearly a dozen european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry poland bulgaria is still in latvia lithuania romania slovakia slovenia so yeltsin tried everything he even begged. 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
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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 and my campaign they were frank so frank in fact that their general of that 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
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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
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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 loans what's changed is that russia's grown up turns out it's much harder being friends when you're more equal. american consumers might be facing
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a tricky time ahead as the new chief of the us consumer protection bureau was until recently on the other side using his legal expertise to defend big business he represented facebook and the consumer credit rating agency akhil fact before taking up the position and ask him up and reports there are now accusations of 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
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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
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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. members include the three national credit bureaus equifax experian and trans union we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that
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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. there's a call for web retail giant amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and poor working conditions for stuff in the u.s. democratic senator bernie sanders says some employees at the nine hundred billion dollars firm are paid so little that they qualify for food stamps so american 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 are paid wages so low that they are having a real choice getting bar they are forced to pay and upon pacs funded programs and you know who pays for those programs. this isn't just empty rhetoric either sanders
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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. we don't see anything here so it's not stolen or anything just goes to it just so the students like you true fish your fish could see their finish on your shoes. cliff face at one time however amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos presented himself as an employer who truly cared about his employees and the environment they were working at i'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
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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 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 russian defense ministry says it has received reports that a terrorist attack on the ancient syrian city of palmira has been thwarted it comes on the back of the u.s. secretary of state accusing russia and president assad of escalating this year in
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conflict he described plans to liberate italy province from extremists as an assault my compare also said civilians there would be bear the brunt of the offensive against terror groups spoke to the syrian foreign minister about the fight against the hottest in this country who are. first of all the international community should recognize that liberal vince 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. have opened and 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
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is considered necessary it will be only. new so that those groups who are in favor of a settlement deal should voice their position and me their commitments in terms of for reconciliation. it led has been a haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas retaken by the government almost three million people currently live there according to the u.n. there are also thousands of jihad just militants as well it lip has and all that fact and we have to recognize it an extremely high concentration of foreign fighters the good mates all the north or whatever named they want to call themselves that more or less. 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
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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 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. efforts to deescalating tensions on the korean peninsula have hit another snag
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plans for a historic railway meant to link north and south korea have been blocked by the u.s. led united nations command the u.n. has controlled movement across the demilitarized zone separating the north and south since the end of the korean war last week p.n. yang and seoul were due to start planning to put the project but that was halted by the un body the inter korean rail project was supposed to improve trade and tourism in the region. human rights attorney eric throughout can thinks the u.s. should stop meddling and 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 moves and chairman kim jong il and so consequently those are being thwarted novel. as
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a quite a reminder that the u.s. still holds quite a military grip in the region that's a recap of the world's top news for now and thanks for tuning in. moon. we're going to do not me not a witch it's real. it was a live alls from some of the ones. i came back to the community of. people we obvious found in on the road lookouts me all you got is all bible going towards him. the guy who i was like oh no.
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not to do not not even to cut a bit of it let it lie i. this is going bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart children thank you for being on board with us. coming up today we update the trading situation related to the north american free trade agreement and get some details about the importance of the trading relationship especially with regard to canada scott but dard from i.h.s. market helps us look at the data details plus we get an update and new news on that glaive poisoning in foods that story we've been covering are two sarah monsters the oka is here and we talk about global markets and u.s. markets and more with the founder and president of investors advantage corp john
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grace will join us from los angeles plus from los angeles to defy other places around the globe the wealthiest people among us the proverbial one percent are using luxury airports artie's militaire and gives us the details but first we had a few headlines. all eyes were on washington this afternoon as talks on the inclusion of canada in their rewrite of the north american free trade agreement are still in progress as we go to air ahead of today's trip self-imposed deadline for completion u.s. and canadian negotiators are trying to reach an agreement in time to give congress they required ninety days notice to deal and sign it before the new mexican president a nafta critic takes office in december earlier today canada's lead negotiator the go sheet or rather foreign minister chrystia freeland said quote we're looking for a good deal not just any deal and we will only agree to a deal that is good for canada we're not there yet she said canadian officials seem
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to strain to project optimism after the toronto star reported explosive remarks from president trump that the u.s. negotiating position is quote going to be so insulting that they're not going to be able to make a deal could even prime minister justin trudeau stuck a particularly canadian core tone rather and a polite resolution saying quote we're going to remain constructive positive serious and creative about what we do around the negotiating table and what we do in relation to. to the united states he said but we're also going to going to be unequivocal about always standing up for canadians rights and canadians interest. the troubles of the argentinian and the turkish turkish currencies are roiling markets worldwide this week the argentine peso plunged twelve percent to a record low on thursday also on thursday the argentine central bank raised interest rates to sixty percent sixty percent oh my gosh even that failed to stop the slide of the paste.
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