to turn this around and make this about herself when my family is grieving parents the children will never have been father around is antithetical to the oath that she took as a police officer police in oklahoma wrote attracted negative headlines before statistics show that african-americans could be up to five times more likely to be subjected to forcible policing than any other ethnic minority mark lewis who's the founder of the activist platform we the people i play home says officers racially profile african-americans claims that the police deny this is a smack in the face of the african-american community here in tulsa why is it that they are parading a person around the state and saying that she is their hero this is what they're doing wow we have to deal with the aftermath of her killing an unarmed african-american male there is a huge outcry because she had no regard for human life and not only did she

do shoot to kill him she also did not and that is to light the minister care but also she looked the part here and someone within the helicopter had also had implicit bias and said he looks like a bad dude they had already had implicit buy it's already towards terence crutcher terence correct it did not stand a chance against also police department that. so called russia gate scandal rumbles on in the united states lawyers for a former advisor to donald trump claim that when he was running for president he nodded with approval at the suggestion of meeting president putin has done a quarter. just when it might have scenes that robert muller's hunts for collusion was running out of steam out of the woodwork comes a juicy new clue a nod of approval from donald trump to a potential meeting with russian president vladimir putin back in two thousand and sixteen that's according to the lawyers

a former campaign aide george papadopoulos one of mahler's main targets. while some in the room rebuffed george's offer mr trump nodded with approval the document came as a hopeful defense for papadopoulos who admitted to lying to the f.b.i. during that meddling investigation the picture papadopoulos as lawyers are painting though describes anything but a criminal with them saying that his motives were not sinister as the government suggests they say he was just trying to show loyalty to his master the lengthy document aside though trump's nod might help to revive the investigation which some say has become frustrating as hell i'm sure there will be people at the end of this who feel that we came to conclusion that they vehemently disagree with i know that commits integrity standpoint we've got to prove what would find and if you can't prove that then we can't make the claim oh that might be frustrating especially

when just days ago other hopes for reviving the investigation were to rail as the probe into trump's lawyer michael cohen rages on cohen's attorney promised a bombshell of information baiting the mainstream media he told c.n.n. that cohen had information about d.n.c. hacking and don junior's infamous meeting with the russians and sources with knowledge told myself and call that michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june twenty sixth meeting in trump tower crucially these sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel wabbit mohler the reporting of this story got mixed up so michael cohen does not have information that president trump knew about the from terror meeting with the russians beforehand or you know this but suddenly he backtracked on the in sydney or he claim expressing regret and saying he should have been more clear i

should have been more clear including with you that i could not independently confirm what happened i regret my ira and sure the investigation was able to get cohen to admit to some crimes of tax and bank fraud but then again that doesn't have much to do with russia does it here's a nod. american political cartoonist and columnist ted roll thinks it's an example of this make. this is what we call in u.s. politics a smear it's guilt by association you you say it was used a lot during the mccarthy era hey you attended a communist meeting so you know what's with that i mean you know attending a communist meeting doesn't make you a communist talking to vladimir putin doesn't mean that you're the servant of lot of your putin and want to warm relations with russia doesn't make you a traitor but the implication is that perhaps it does obviously the effort here as

it is here and as it has been from the very beginning to try to imply that president trump received or was interested in receiving help from president putin and russian intelligence to hack the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign and so on in order to provide campaign intelligence to to the trump campaign and that's been the effort. seventy years of savage fighting of left swathes of syria in ruins but slowly there are signs of recovery the ancient city of paris on the going painstaking repat after its roman remains sustained extensive damage by islamic state aleppo is also seeing major reconstruction enough even to tempt some foreign visitors to return. summer nights girls going out to meet their friends in the center of the christian town of mad about. almost twenty.

since two thousand and sixteen i've been to syria every year two thousand and sixteen i was able to go to a public area of the first of the ration. in two thousand and seventeen i was able to get three months after the duration of this year i i returned and i went with it all over the company actually this time on the two hour train ride from tarsus to mottaki and this lovely syrian woman asked me where i was from and then wanted to photograph. soon i hope to still no longer be such a rarity to this wonderful country i prefer peace in this land. people who would just stop in the streets. come up to me. shake my hand and embrace me and offer me coffee and they would say to me thank you for coming

because you know they haven't seen any strangers for you know seven eight years and they really missed it and they were really happy to see a foreigner even a far enough from a supposedly hostile power it really doesn't make any difference just to see someone who's interested in. the situation in the country i'm interested in their. wow the welcome that i had was just incredible incredible . as long as you cool unsuspecting you know five star hotels willing to really get to know the people in the last i'd say

very very soon i think tourism could start to give but i mean of course there are ruins everywhere you know it's so. it's difficult you know it is suffering from the aftermath of war. this is r t two hundred years of historical research are thought to have been lost as brazil's most renowned museum is destroyed by fire it's among the stories still ahead after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow is the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. well again u.s. senator john mccain who died of cancer at the age of eighty one was laid to rest on sunday the veteran republican senator and former presidential candidate's death has

seen a massive outpouring of praise across the mainstream media being suggested that some may have overdone the coverage. senator mccain was foremost an independent thinker a round peg in the world capital of square holes his final words john mccain's choice was honorable it was about service to others it was about reconciliation i think it is based upon initially respect of the uniform a respect for military some people become blinded they don't analyze once there is military involved once somebody is called a veteran so they feel that it's almost blasphemous for you to even second guess a patriot a hero who served his country i say that's balderdash what we're talking about is a record and you would think right now that this country would say enough with the

useless wars any not with anybody who advocates that whether you're a veteran whether you're president ex-president ex-military it doesn't matter we have a canonisation. elevation in a puffy osis is beatification of people sometimes we even had a donna brazil ask who was the the the head of the democratic party said out there president from refused that one town they didn't even know that he either was safe from his grave but but prior to this. excluded people from from celebrating are honoring him i mean this this was in many respects and there's no way to avoid it i'm sorry i don't want to be disrespectful but this was also a statement against president. this is why so many people all of a sudden found this new comic to very many people were his fans or fans of. senator mccain and that's fine but others found

a newfound connection with him by rick you of his. typically is in is his rank or against the president. brazil's historic national museum has been gutted by a massive fire the two hundred year old scientific institution contained priceless artifacts including archaeological finds and historical connection to the museum and closed on sunday when the fire broke out on the road no reports of any injuries but the flames spread rapidly and it's feared that all of the museum's extensive archives have been destroyed because of the fire is not yet. american efforts to try and rein in china with economic measures appear to be falling flat beijing's investments abroad have grown fourteen percent since the beginning of the year plus friction over trade and import tariffs the same chinese investors divert their money from the u.s. to europe instead of course washington imposed a twenty five percent tariff on chinese goods china was quick to retaliate with its

own punitive measures while complaining to the world trade organization about the united states move washington then threaten two hundred billion dollars more in additional terrorists claims that the w.t. has been unfair towards the us being here is. w t o it's created the united states very badly and i hope they change their ways they have been treating us very badly for many many years and that's why we were at a big disadvantage with the w t o and. we're not planning anything now but if they don't treat us properly we will be doing something. now threatening to pull the us out of the world trade organization jeffrey albert tucker who's from the foundation for economic education thinks that the current trade war will inspire china to expand its reach and the united states will be the one to suffer. this situation would be far more damaging to the us than i could ever be to china because china is is really pursuing a global strategy of economic growth very much of an invitation to the world world producers to comment maker goods here employ our workers let's export let's

cooperate this is china's policy china has a policy of. looking for global markets the effect of donald trump's threats and his his trade policies are going to be in the end once you look three four years down the road is that he's inspiring all all countries in the world to learn to do without the u.s. and he's driving out u.s. companies to find other ways to do business abroad and that's how it looks from moscow this hour i'm calling bright thanks very much for watching your next update in just over half an hour of singing that.

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cranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year grow truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the slowdown so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. for man or sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the hand. all

four have 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 us did not shoot around a corner. i'm after a time when you're watching going underground while we're away we're screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up on this show will strike action again old british justice we speak to one of the world's greatest human rights lawyers geoffrey robertson about speaking out against legal aid cuts as well as censorship general pinochet and defending the likes of wiki leaks brazil's lula and the ira hundred new figures showing that one homeless person dies every two weeks

on the austerity hit streets of london just to live yes one sings i care about one of the thousands of lives or risk being homeless impose crash all the some more coming up in today's going underground but first after tomorrow's match against belgium english eyes will be even more eagerly trained on russia as the three lions reach the last sixteen but what is england's relationship with russia many of us looked at a post soviet russia with help we wanted a better relationship and it is tragic that president putin has chosen to act in this way. but we will not tolerate the threat to life of british people and others on british soil from the russian government nor will we tolerate such a flagrant breach of russia's international obligations unlike other world cup countries britain is not sending dignitaries and minority leader theresa may has all the declared war on russia but things change just look at this clip of the now

us national security advisor john bolton today wrapping up talks in moscow glad to hear putin looked directly in the eye and wide to bolton there saying that putin lied about his role in putting his boss trump in the white house but bolton has now alarmed nato ahead of its july meeting because in moscow he may have been arranging a trump putin summit if bolton can change his mind about putin he can surely change his mind about our next guest reviewing the book cry. arms against humanity trump advisor said that he suffers from a common failing of the international left wing being either unable or unwilling to address the arguments of opponents and skeptics of his position when arguably no one could agree with that statement it comes to his latest book rather his own man one of the world's greatest international human rights lawyers geoffrey robertson q.c. joins me now jeffrey thanks for being on going underground again before we start about the book proper the end of the book if we can just stop because in the past forty eight hours or so the bee in bricks the former leader of brazil lula has been

denied freedom by the brazilian supreme court you've been defending i have indeed or is a great figure one of the greatest even he's anime's except that he pulled twenty million people out of poverty by his policies he grew up by i mean he was selling peanuts on the street to keep his family and never passed an exam other than to run away and then because of his trade union leadership he was finally made president and he was brilliant president of brazil he made it a brick one of the. countries and it was great under his leadership of the poor were really pulled out of their poverty by. the american chorus ones that he turned to be just as corrupt as the politicians who came before and i think that puts it because i've sat through his appeal

through part of the case against him i think it's a complete fraud i can't go into details it concerns a beach apartment with his wife actually. which was declared and then. he was off it after he had left the presidency he was offered a better apartment which he refused but the offer was described as corrupt a judge the judge was out to get him i mean in brazil they have an awfully primitive legal system goes back to the catholic inquisition where the. the judge who does your wrist is the judge who convicts you it's like a policeman taking off his helmet putting on a we there's no jury but we have we have a judge morrow and to defend himself against and the brazilian yeah baster course now led by the government and when i went to the appeal there's meant to be three

judges i would believe that there were four except the fourth was the prosecutor sitting up with the judges dining with them that is the kind of biased odeon cruises in cruise tory up system that brazil has and is a victim of i'm convinced that he's innocent and of this charge that he's been convicted in jail for twelve years for being offered a better apartment and turning it down you see i was surprised even for villas in rio let alone among the middle classes of brazil that were middle class maybe here in london of their conviction that oh yeah he's just as as corrupt i want to sumption is because he led the country he was aware of some of the and the two corruption that was going on among politicians in oil company executives but a man who leads a country of two hundred million people who's flying around the world advocating

policies to help the poor or does it happen and oversight of what's happening in some national oil company which is where the directors are taking bribes all the scholarship that you show in this or the other books. you literally began your voyage of her life as it were as a lawyer literally would see a sponsorship. well that's an odd story isn't it i grew up in australia and a stranger in the sixty's was an absurd place not a black face did you see because anyone who. wasn't what was back from entering the country they had a white australia can you imagine a country of the with no black people knew brown people there were some aborigines of course the indigenous people they were shunted off to reserves out of sight and

out of mind they weren't even allowed to but that was and then of course we went to be at the wally behind america if you were conscripted your name was your birth date was picked out of a barrel there was total censorship lady chatterley's lover was bad so that was the absurd country in which i grew up but i became a student leader in order to fight against racism and censorship in vietnam and. the cia in the sixty's had a wonderful scheme where they would fund liberal democrats in fighting these battles a funded encounter magazine with stephen spade and an open lasky became fred. radio free europe which there are a lot of good and they funded these student scholarships from scratch. hey they figured out that i was

a potential prime minister so probably it offered me probably not a good idea for a one sporting year is a future. where they made lots and stakes in the sixty's no because later on the cia backed pinochet you ended up or it yes i think to see justice rights was trying to bring pinochet to justice and bringing him to a sort of justice but this scholarship which we now know was part of the cia's large yes to liberals in the sixty's brought me to america and i i met gerald ford i met timothy leary i met. i meant all sorts it was an amazing three month trip and it ended up in the place that the cia record because there were ten other student leaders from asia and the cia record that this place called sarasota in florida would stay for

a month would persuade us that the american way of life is the best is a very nice place and i was billeted with the proprietors of the local light truck milton judy reuben felt and i stayed slept for a month in their son's bedroom paul reuben felt who grew up he was a couple of years younger and he became an actor paul reubens did cheech and chong movies and then created his own a mortal character pee-wee herman. i am almost tempted to tighten the book how the cia made me sleep with people you herman. us connections to the republican movement in northern ireland during this period but that's completely irrelevant when it comes to your defense of wrongly convicted republicans what interested you so much and i don't know i when you were considered it wasn't a good career move a lawyer for terrorists judges would one top judge on his way to the house of lords

took a liking to me and he called me into his room and said. you must be careful of the cases you take you'll end up doing bomb cases and this was the attitude of britain's senior judges that that only. larry can lawyers took bomb cases and yet these were the cases that destroyed the image of british justice when so many were found to be wrongful convictions so it was strange to me coming idealistically from a sprayer believing that one of the finest goals for a lawyer was to defend who were demonized and possibly wrongfully charged as the many irish people were to find that this was the wrong attitude you don't find it now it says this is we're talking about the seventy's early eighty's but that was the mindset that produced so many wrongful convictions

you go on to start the first u.k. chambers outside the ins of quarter before them the national council for civil liberties when you're working that you believe every five you say they did. one of the tap is who was listening to us was. listening to c.n.n. the that was another. target but she became so convince the right of the co stopping nuclear weapons that she defected. and she told him. that the national council for civil liberties with. the council at the time was controlled by patricia hewitt the general secretary went on to become a cabinet minister and harriet harman who went on to become the solicitor general under blair and brown you have. all of this dirty tricks i mean you say in the book

private i was regularly. going to the left it was a no. xin to be russia in two thousand. nine hundred twenty four which in effect produced a crushing letter. through a produced. through the first labor government yes it's being it was practice i think it has stopped i hope that it has now stopped but it was very regular in the seventy's and eighty's for the security services to demonize lefties and you can see that when i did i was involved in spycatcher. peter right he was the deputy director. and then of which he speaks of lefties these attempts to turn what should be

a political civil service group into an anti left wing spying operation really outrageous you write extensively about the spy catcher for . the story because historically it's never been told it was a kind to spike conspirators this is a book this is talk of by a former in my five man who which mrs thatcher took. an absurd. decision to drop it to ban it all around the world in america and australia because you couldn't bad it in america it was vitally published but it was a strange book was written by a right wing fanatic who should never be modified but he was he was a deputy director he believed that the director of five was a soviet spy. he believed the deputy director of he believed it when m i five operations were.