steadily at the end of the street. the anticapitalist screen you can see that punt spreads out right along the street they are being kept this far away as possible by the incredibly large police presence we come to say that the right is not welcome. anywhere. in germany people of all colors and races would love that germany is a place where people can come to feel safe to to flee the country so they're from pressures of that's why i'm a racist that's why was that you know this is the way it looks. we've got a left wing demonstration about half a kilometer that way i'm in the middle of the right wing demonstration they're starting to get well a little testy amongst themselves there was certainly some of those amongst the right wing demonstration that came here today intent on having a fight ok just. quite

a violent standoff between the right and demonstrators. journalists out there they really took up shield over this microphone and were beating it out behind. the right wing crowd they were. trying to attack the police and being escorted by the same police officers towards the train station just over my right shoulder as the demonstration is then demonstration us it was planned to wrap up. a tough confrontation is expected during sweden's general election but the country is split on research and migrant numbers that could to the governing left wing social democrats lose their upper hand in parliament and at the same time their nationals the planets are being widely criticized with claims of racism or if a national. nationalist sentiment is pretty on the project change

tones here for the general election the anti migrant 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 the sweden democrats deny i could say sions they are racist and say they are focus is on smart immigration policy this is like the old all way of trying to scare people off from voting for us. extreme in the 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 in our party

. just today it was revealed that even the center party or the liberal part of the people 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 same time 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 wasn't

really steve anyway 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 resistance movement basically present themselves as heat low soldiers. i was the one to your life when they call you like they're not even the people gathered here in town mike no not in our studio you're right there yeah well written reports that right brain washed out of the wrong very

wrong what is your opinion on now is that. what they were great not just a nigerian law is the greatest word in the really have huge and i know it's nothing i mean is that correct you said no no 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 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 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 has 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 once liberal lord 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.

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 and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent mark gasnier 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 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 very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it remains a mistake for nato to move eastward nuclear in conventional arms cannot move eastward into new members to the borders of russia i've told you no one is talking about a massive all out accelerated expansion two years later nearly a dozen european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry poland bulgaria is still 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 try warnings russia will pull out of the agreement and consider it nolen 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 joked together three months of the pre-election races taken it's 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 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 in 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 a tricky time ahead 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 aca facts before taking up the position and its killer martin reports 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't imagine words 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 c.d.i. its 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 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. more news coming your way after this short break.