ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. donald trump's executive order allowing the u.s. to impose sanctions on any individual or government that meddles in its elections also covers anyone spreading what washington deems to be dissin from ation culture coming up on the program. and reveals that russia has identified the suspects that britain say. poisonings. there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians. the russian defense ministry claims terrorists in syria is. filming the staged chemical attack on

selected videos to be sent to the un and circulated online. live from our international news center here in moscow this is r t hello and welcome i mean o'neill our top story the u.s. president has signed on executive order or through rising sun chin's against any foreign governments or individuals following to have meddled in u.s. sanctions let's get straight into it and cross live to see your account who's in washington d.c. has been following developments to tell us about the new executive order what's the implications. well the order will authorize sanctions against the entities charged

with election meddling this applies to a companies organizations and even invent individuals now if they impose these sanctions will block assets limit access to the u.s. financial system and ban people from entering the country now in the order trump admitted that no foreign power has ever successfully influence a us election but he signed the order anyway wants check let's check out what he said. although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome of a vote to be lation in any united states election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system. now it's also important to note that the order did not specify any country in particular because the director of national intelligence thanks russia china iran and the d.p. r. k. are all trying to influence the midterms but it's also important to point out that these sanctions will also be imposed on anyone accused of spreading propaganda and

this information and the authority to determine who's been meddling has been granted to the director of national intelligence the state department the treasury department homeland security and the justice department with forty five days to do so the government also has the power to block the property of anyone that's been complicit in foreign interference assisted those complicit in foreign interference or acted on behalf of anyone complicit in foreign interference so with all of these factors considered it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen. breaking all the done for us from washington d.c. this our senior account. or i will let's say delve a little bit deeper into this because investigative journalist from this can't be happening dave lindorff joins us live on the program dave good to see you again let me put this i suppose sanctions can be imposed on anyone involved directly or indirectly in sponsoring or assisting election interference is this executive order

a necessary step or a dangerous development do you think. it is pretty dangerous i mean let's take my case you know r t has had to register as a foreign agent i'm. talking now do you get paid for mark t. so i am assisting r t and if trump or any of those agencies he listed homeland security the justice department the state department anybody decided that r t one is drawing. to influence the election with propaganda. you know conceivably as a commentator on our t.v. and an american citizen i could be said to be assisting so that's pretty dangerous you know that you know you're not even talking about foreign citizens in his executive order you're seeing that american citizens who you know there's

a lot of foreign news organizations not just our teeth that used merican journalists so for american news and american politics so this very easily could turn into a. real can of worms or threat to american journalism that leads to my second question and the sanctions will be applied to any person or group spreading propaganda descend from ation what do you think are the implications for freedom of speech on the order be misapplied here. absolutely could be and probably will be misapplied that the nature of these kinds of orders is that they are almost always going to supply their expanded they're used in ways that they don't sound like they're going to be used and it's a broad threat to freedom in the united states for sure the american public this is

another quote an interesting aspect of this they the american public won't find any sanctions until they're actually imposed is there a fear that there's a lack of transparency there that that may be a cause for concern to you. sure and that's another problem with these things is that they they typically. don't get covered for a long time what the what particular abuses are and by the time they're discovered a lot of damage can be done you know ultimately this stuff one step in the courts and you know hopefully they get thrown out but like i said you know a lot of damage can be done in the meantime and also that you start to get a lot of self-censorship you know some people will say well you know i could get in trouble for this so i won't do it is there anything to be said about the timing of this you know the why do you think donald trump

a sign the order not the midterm elections are what coming up and a couple of months time closer than not the driving factor is all of this your thoughts on the. well there's two things that work one is that there are members of congress i think congressman rubio the republican side and trying to return or some senator i'm senator rubio senator warren. on the democratic side have a bill in congress that would be morse you know stronger and worse even then trump's executive order and that would more specifically target i think the supposed to do russian interference in u.s. elections which trumps executive order doesn't even mention that i think he doesn't want to have that in discussion. be during the run up to the november

elections because you know it's used against him. to say you know he's very pointed in saying that there's never been a election that's been effective the where the outcomes been affected by. external interference and he's. pointedly seeing that because the charges that russian interference helped to elect him over hillary clinton i mean there's no way to prove that and the evidence that's been cited has been you know pretty pretty. shaky but it's being made and the last thing he wants with his popularity now down in the thirty's is to have. legitimacy as an elected president in question during the campaign dave thanks for putting some meat on the poll is all of the story we could discuss this a lot further am i supposed to have you on the show investigative journalist dave

lindorff thanks for having me. love him or put revealed on wednesday that russia has identified the two men suspected by the u.k. of poisoning the script palls with a nerve agent in march but moscow say no action will be taken until it receives an official request from britain the russian leader speaking in love of a stock other dump the suspects are civilians are not criminals and the a patrol report this is an absolutely groundbreaking follow up for a lot of our pows into last week's statement by british authorities on the suspects in the script case the russian leader says that moscow now knows for sure who the two men are here's what exactly mr putin said to me from washington we've seen the pictures we know who they are we found them. hopefully they will turn themselves in

and tell everyone about themselves there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians last week exactly six months after the attempted murder in british prosecutors named two suspects as russian nationals alexander head and. they also pointed out that these days could have been fake another claim was that the two men were active members of russian intelligence now here's the evidence that london put forward it was basically a summary of the men's movements around the u.k. .

so these comments by the russian president are no less groundbreaking compared to what we heard from london last week and now i guess once again it is their turn to say something but we also spoke to alexander russia's representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons he believes this was a provocation aimed at the presidential election back in march. because brethen for the member states of the chemical convention in the quarter so the office of w. and georgian by the very through three actually coming from some to be gay sions it

least. they did a geisha capable of. feeling can not so blinded by russian propaganda the statement was a very put positively and. evaluated. back to march this year russia was hidden for the presidential elections. we have been preparing and we had been preparing for the world cup. did the russian needle something like these absolutely not the question is who. did the need to these kind of toronto events and the answer use of the. opponents. of the russian federation and those who try by all means a to do you agree to its leadership and actually slap new sanctions on the russian

for the origin it was an attempt to influence. the it was all the russian presidential elections all the more so war against it there are grown all the claims sold the russian meddling and the american election i'm back with more news in ninety seconds stay with us.

the senate was taken up with obama's became the. course it was like oh yeah you know medicare for all be great but we're just. going to progress to something. progressing. hello again rushes at reconciliation center for syria militants and. staged unfilmed nine false flag chemical attacks the center of it but the terror group's leaders have approved two of the videos to be sent to the u.n. the chemical watchdog the o.p.c. w. while the rest will allegedly be distributed on social media i discussed the claims

earlier with daniel hawkins. so dan the russian defense ministry on tuesday they were confident they say that preparations were being made by terrorists and now there appears to be an update on that as well yeah that's right i mean information's been coming in in dribs and drabs over the last twenty four hours the russian reconciliation center for syria part of the russian id have claimed this is a false flag operation by former ells for front recognizes terrorists by washington and moscow according to undeniable information from the russian reconciliation center for syria on the eleventh of september filming groups of various middle eastern t.v. channels and a regional branch of an american news channel filmed nine staged scenes of alleged chemical weapon used by the syrian army against civilians on all videos the alleged victims are helped by activists of the civil defense the white helmets following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmet and terrorists from

higher sham out of the nine videos on the two were approved to be sent to the us and the or b c w. the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality the incident according to them will take place in quite close to college so cool remember the incident there led the first strike on syria by donald trump. is the village the residential area where the storage point allegedly is for these chemicals and this is where the filming took place just slightly to the south east of that dulles moscow's claims are finally give us a sense of the type of consequences we could be looking at here well the consequences will be serious all the way of course moscow has a very potent position to that of the united states moscow has said damascus does not possess chemical weapons they say that even if that was the case they would be no logic in our side using chemical weapons and drawing the wrath of the u.s. and its allies in a military strike ability intervention this is of course led to clashes between

envoys at the u.n. security council yacob but it is also it is claimed the president bashar al assad gave the order to use chlorine to syria north or if he's not going to do that they do not have chemical weapons i ask you again to listen to us it would not make sense for damascus to use chemical weapons because it does not have any political or military reasons to do that let's not waste time with the december mation distractions and outright lie what is clear though is the u.s. position they've been two minds about this if there is an allegation of chemical weapons use suspicion of chemical weapons use number one it will be attributed to the damascus government and number two the repercussions will be clear and strong just so there's no confusion here if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly we have all seen what the syrian regime backed by the

russian government has done in the past that should not be a surprise to anyone that that would be a concern of ours once again done. if a chemical attack does happen is the west unified in terms of an immediate response against the assad government give us a sense of what we're looking at here or i think the wall is unified in condemning any chemical use on either side here what we're talking about is how to respond as you just mentioned to allegations of a chemical weapon attack position is clearly that it should be thoroughly investigated independently verified and blame attributed before there's any sort of military strikes or military intervention the u.s. with some of its allies views that action should be taken much quicker although that opinion isn't necessarily something unified. western powers that they can listen to what the minister of state will give to insurance is today first that if there are any reports of chemical weapons attack particularly in the areas of it live controlled by h.t.s.

that the government will not take part in any military action in response until the you have visited their sites under the protection of the turkish government independently verifying those reports and distributed responsibility for any chemical weapons used relying on so-called open source intelligence why did my prescribe terrorist groups is not an acceptable alternative whatever happens with this story with these allegations it's very clear one thing here that any allegations any threats or any suspicion of chemical weapons use could be the spark that causes these military tensions and it's clear that situation is very tense right now that does cause why the action here that is the concern here certainly by the russian minister of defense. danielle hawk in speaking to me earlier well the pentagon has responded to moscow saying there is no evidence to support russia's claims or by the white helmets it double down in its support for the group saying washington sees the first responders as quote heroes the coeditor of b s news told

us that the west will tribute blame for any chemical attack in it lead to the syrian government regardless of the circumstances but don't need to wait for evidence they don't need it we need to wait for an investigation they surely don't need to wait for o.p.c. w or any other agency to apportion blame they're already blaming the syrian government they're already saying that president assad has authorized the chemical weapons strike so that you know the strike at the electronic hasn't even happened but blame has already been apportioned so you know what can we say apart from there it looks like very likely there's going to be a big strike and this could lead to obviously this could lead to a conflict with russia and what will three or the final world wars we should be called in there not addressing the syrian arab army they're not even addressing the syrian government of president assad they're addressing the al-qaeda proxy armies al qaeda affiliates in italy and effectively what they're saying is the hotline is open you can call it your own air strike or you need to do is provide a pretext however lame that pretext may be give us something we can sell to our

publics back home and we'll have the cruise missiles in the air so that's the message is the message is directly to al qaeda and its affiliates in italy and. the european union is hitting one of its own members with a disciplinary action the european parliament has voted in favor of triggering article seven which could see hungry sanctioned if european leaders all agree to the measures it follows the hungary and prime minister viktor orban being criticized within the block for breaching european values over the migrant crisis this is certainly one of the strongest weapons in the arsenal for the e.u. to deal with an errant member of its own group what it. well like it's really like opening one big box and finding a series of other boxes inside essentially where we are right now with article seven point one for this to move any further well it would require either one third of e.u. member states all the e.u.

commission to say they want to push ahead with further measures against hungry. hungry would be given a chance to defend themselves to put forward their own case and then this would go back to another vote in the european parliament that would require a two so majority vote then that would go to the european council where it would have a unanimous vote you still with me right this is still seven point two for it to actually go through and we to see sanctions in the. suspension of voting rights put in place upon hungry it would have to go to seven point three that requires another vote by the european council and that has to go through by a vote of over fifty five percent essentially what's happened on wednesday in strasburg is this is the the official written warning to hungry from its a you colleague saying that in their eyes and it's the book of it's ideas they've tried talking to hungary in the past and they haven't as far as they're concerned

received adequate and says to serious questions that were posed in parliament on tuesday sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report in particular as regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judiciary individuals into government f. and rich themselves their family members staff rents from public funding from utopian taxpayers' money is this then you would not close our eyes to the problems in handling the elections this year were held in an atmosphere of aggression and intimidation and that the reason i went through the complicated methods of where we were heading next is because a lot of. where we had next depends on hungary and specifically on a victor or now he was in parliament in strasburg on tuesday heard all of the allegations against him and against his government he was bullish in his response in fact he said he didn't recognize the charges and he thought that the fact that

they were being in bring brought against hungary in the first place was an insult to hungary in history and the hungarian people on what you know you have already made up your mind you think you know better than durance them selves i stand here to defend my country and this is a matter of honor this insults the owner of hungary this uses double standards and violates the treaty it says a halt thing differently by the absence and purpose of the family and we do indoors ready clee different views in migration these differences cannot be a reason to brand any other countries and freed to be excluded for joint decisions we would never go with for a silencing those who do not agree with us you want to make a moral decision based on numbers the nation be damned well reaction to the photos being coming in from the l d a group in the european parliament they said they were glad to see that this had been passed the greens also saying that they

were glad that it gone through those on the side with mr obama well you could always rely on nigel fairish the leader of the european freedom and direct democracy greenpeace long been a supporter of mr obama he said that this vote showed the. herion grip of the european union was getting tighter but ultimately what this means is hungry officially joins poland on the naughty list of nations expect to be talking about them for a little while yet. peter over with the report government has already reacted to the photo did. a fraud to the revenge of prove my current politicians independent journalists lucrative they told us certain political forces believe this is their last chance to stop the advance of populism in europe. if it's furious it's radio crisis to an incredible point as well as the liberals the globalists because they know it is dad lost chance to attain that with

a populist sop punished somehow the list grows longer you have the austrians who have the italians it didn't work it won't work and all day do is fit to mind old bon bon will be reelected certainly one time comes with a big majority because he's a victim of europe the worst that europe can produce we heard yesterday and today today it was less important vote happened and that was it but the report produced by mrs sargent t.t.u. was a green party activists from holland is israeli a piece of work and it's really incredibly aggressive in its content and she didn't even go to hungary to make this report this bullying will go nowhere you know article seven will never be applied italy austria poland will refuse of course that this be applied at council level if not at the parliament level so they are afraid of the next thought a month after the may elections that's the thing just coming up to one twenty seven

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