only months later did a u.n. report come out placing the blame at the feet of the syrian government something they still deny the when the controversial white how much group released a video claiming to be proof of a chemical attack in april this year trope was able to pinpoint the culprit in hours many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area ritual cities in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for backing animal assad big price so the areas inaccessible and yet those responsible have been found out already no ifs ands or buts how does the guy do it the u.k. and france also join the ranks of the striking government sites in syria after an investigation you ask well three months later the o.p.c. w. did put out

a report saying chlorine may have been found but the built on nerve agents and the case is still open so all proof of the last attack hasn't been found the u.s. is again using its crystal ball to determine what no one else can and is ready to act at least according to wall street journal sources president bush are on the side of syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold u.s. officials said so if and when a chemical attack takes place during ellipse liberation the guilty party is already known if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them that russia is warning of stage attacks is irrelevant that it would lead to exactly what the terrorists want also irrelevant but why look at every scenario when you have everyone else and time on your side where we discuss the situation in syria with former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us washington is willing to use terror groups in syria as long as the tuck tick is beneficial. the evidence is out that we are playing too

many games with they are they because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and al qaeda is it's a haven there and we're on their side. the pragmatic reason for this is that. we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary it's not the right position it isn't what united states should be doing it's not part of our constitution and yet it drives us to align ourselves with a o'connor but this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. back to the top of the hour with more reaction to

our script suspects exclusive interview more going to sing and sitting down for it's on to do join me then this is our. join me every week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

a senior executive says happily in his private jet after just pulling off quite a coup. he has secretly initiated the sale of one of france's biggest companies. even so before landing into the bush he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions. even take it or he knows that a government member is waiting for him. to bow minister of the economy is demanding an explanation how dare he sell without consulting the state the deal must be cancelled the c.e.o.'s refusal threatens a social plan tensions rise and it's pointed out that the minister has already broken other bosses and their dreams and he will be next this is the last time he will stand in this office or inside the ministry this is the coffeecup of

a convicted man. two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances worthy of a spy novel and far from prying eyes and public opinion. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom

story begins in the city of bell ford this is where the company was born in eight hundred seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name alstom in nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then else dumb has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest liner and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world in general but for the people of bell fort else dome is so much more to feel that eighty could cost. as wonderful wolf will the vault usually two good teach the early. jazz this year and the key to flow to these into this one will nationals and the tonight have to be privy to the

universe we have well the police will do he. left it to you d.n. . bi do they you know and these are two hundred. in about it as well or is this a pharmacy that. in june one thousand and forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war else don contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to put the teach us the three me don't do . you pointed out you can yes it's not any good enough look if you don't it will if you want. to. get anything out laughter then you started immediately knew. that the thought of there be no allow them to be in the plan not outwardly. it pre-dawn to do men since high more. who approved as was it

a millage this genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. own words. on this from now on they live off the yeah. it's. still in six thousand now. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . of which is a nice for the. book evolve. beach in. this show and look past what he does if who. really. did a little piece should move about as one saved l. stone bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the

best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. as historic speed record worldwide by eight hundred million viewers why then in two thousand and fourteen did everything suddenly change on the morning of the twenty fourth of april bloomberg revealed that in a surprise move else dome was selling its energy branch which accounted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. your song and used for. just so if you're going to depend on you just. taking. on one book you see as if to. my just was a. year much as sequester voted late this year the volunteer basis to pay your america now the floor do not use the force as

a stone put it to party. accounting generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it badly nationals and they can deny it creaks and they need to do it are still at the clock in the throne don't understand for says our no more to brag about how ever been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall his reaction is a media and a particularly strong among who also comport. as you just which sean. in a quiver care but take orders from your home he keeps internet me that you own the best i says at above it to some to moment. of i ness you it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog to set up cookies did not own action our emotions by t. call i don't really at all she do most solon in ma i still use my my tools who did

do you have it all come out as good mean is totally going to me. as dolly i did think the most old also be all crazy dog art you know policies really mouth that there are no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena shows on the pleasure it new potential new naked on. don't succeed to conciseness buskin accept also as well as you look at local vacas means a lot of these you middle falls so long you had the coop us was on deserve all doing well by do food on them is wise to eat the problem such as each suppose it should sit x e t in a she see you know but i think he does she do it on i don't. got it all shows of course when i press you come one. this and you may not gain. this time mrs investor vandeven we used to put them on. the gift minor payment the

meat is. well known bookie fight all she need professor to others ok i met. my half ago they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. capital patrick when i see skip i felt unable to sway public opinion trick crown receives heavy support from his american partner general electric together they launch a media counter offensive upon us what if we don't use that at all to do not obey is that it is. that's done that because it means of course not demagogue the long walk six they made it easy on the exception as wallaby vision the early plagued if they e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying oh we're on the trolley out on the yellow dog out say israel are always where you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building where she had been i was like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to

this and he. says what he said are you that still me get my place means that are you that stone in will meet you said and that any are known to bug seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost on the poker have. now this unit was against us women's team but in a dramatic twist the minister pulls a new weapon from his pocket and invites himself to the negotiating table you know now to take home one bookie on the. key. then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could do city of it would let us to proceed you know their policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy denies united. this is all tal. our old place only only could see we don't see real sense in

a comp we don't know when we will not it. is too numb d. to as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to book had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric else dumb pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in the areas of renewable energy and nuclear power it appeared that french interest and sovereignty had been preserved so it was it that going to play morning was that they often are not discuss the music they play out on a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh a clean way yonder a fail safe that you know is where you go and it hasn't been at all it's equal to a priest you want to steal false he saw ruefully there exists a levee you don't you will know my roof a clean up not that i don't you care to conclusion do not have almost an hour early next you'll move lobbies don't sit you know use their own families of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general

electric and the french state the sale has become an alliance at this moment the battle file storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. of the fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seeing a familiar face. bend and by all still management ignored by patrick crone and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight. why is he. these men who question him so

insistently. want to confessions about his company do they want from him. in twenty years has a u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation into those don't they suspect of the. french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to will contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes allegedly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contracts to build a power station refuses to cooperate with the u.s. department of justice but the investigation continues regardless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and elaborately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe.

even then you. do not point out to answer. that. the victim or do you think. accounting and political if you. don't you know you can i can then assume what equips. and then. you will go although we already condemned a broad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the us prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced that the us department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the us territory. not of. dogs. even if it was it as you need

to be able when you take the a pleasurable us law is the foreign corrupt practices act home you have sepia this allows the d.o.j. or department of justice to prosecute a foreign company for corrupt practices not on u.s. soil provided that the company has an identifiable connection to the united states after them over. was it. he was. it was a welcome back to limo visit easy example system to communicate your door in. a battle did you know was it easy people it was actual. example a sat phone. if you. take it if. it is unique.

with tom's refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth teen while traveling to the united states. a one time dumb executive was arrested. you won't believe. just evaded you. do it security. i think. we. need to. it's not just for the routine who's under arrest three other former employees some of whom have been retired for years before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against becomes overwhelming.

you do i mean yeah i mean. you don't. want to do long division ip. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the lugs derrius bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric scene this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men chronos tense above all he wants to sell for the company he hopes to free both and himself from the clutches of the american justice system therefore places a condition on the sale general a big trick. settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. accept and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick pop the champagne. and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating

into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer the payment of the five patrick crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america's. that's what he did genetically it be a that he. said. so you could call it if you see deval in the late people forget it it's an atheist it's one thing to a hostage it's kind of

a new if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me and if you don't need to do if you get off and see who else on today's date on this you know solo up the army do don't see the book is already to india as i want it more for peaceful too gentle sickly delusional to appease already a problem another country under circuity zero it is you need to create died to me and please always he who sees her by the way in question because they were devoted to the place you. develop some of these it only to be on more. exceptional play nate the absolutely most. people who own hundred they look at all the folks that they have it is it delete them again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen onward patrick cronin his team went to the united states several times never arrested nor concerned they could proceed with the sale to general electric and peace it's hard

to imagine that at the same time very true she has been imprisoned for a year from executives are detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that else dom's director of legal affairs urges company managers not to travel to the united states strangely patrick cronin remains welcome tonight to news is false and use it for the week like tomorrow in france however patrick runs astonishing ability to enter and leave the united states on hindered is raising eyebrows he's questioned by m.p. jack ma at the french national assembly. on fifteen. economists fifty. sure saturn on earth just cements be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like his junk sure.

sure yes says. question thank you to the more those. who do something more that afic works as well as i can see it. but no prove i'm going for it by committee or said you surely can ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. enough you know money goes the place you're safe as a dish out of the commie socialist. and at this hour of the coral sea postulate a total man only meant he could be near merica. last many other that if i ask you do you see evil unity malice city or county and it's a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday called on it is that

. the commission is that i can to meet all of the loss of innocent on internet to bear up or develop possibly. middle class was it as you need intellect just couldn't feel it of course a guest of your fellow parliament us at a fair listening regional problem is going to the levels that we are numb to for some peers e.g. a p.c. . thank you. and this isn't general electric's first attempt over ten years the american company has bought five companies that were being prosecuted by the department of justice for corruption the pattern is always the same an investigation is conducted and an acquisition unfolds under the threat of conviction and a severe fine which is avoided have been american british and french companies

a twenty six million dollar fine was paid by the gray company in two thousand and seven after it was bought by general electric this was described as the biggest fine ever imposed under the foreign corrupt practices act eighty years later that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating a purchase by general electric for patrick cron admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of else dom is out of the question according to the c.e.o. the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't get. it does she explain more. don't please.

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join me every first day on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. the two men named by the u.k. as suspects in this script poll poisoning case deny any involvement in the incident they've been speaking exclusively to r.t. . you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. why you. we're those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i was under patent the russians are those your real names yes they are our real names on the british prime minister's office has responded to the interview calling it lies.