top stories here on our team international donald trump is. in the media. off of the c.n.n. headquarters as well as a number of prominent democratic politicians. containing crude explosive devices he just sent to c.n.n. and the president doesn't say a word about them and then tells us we are. accusations of aggressive lobbying after reportedly using fake groups.

on the program we talked to one very real. in a syrian opposition delegation will meet with the russian foreign minister on friday to discuss the situation in the last remaining militant stronghold. and we discussed them also with the international committee of the red cross. it was complete. destruction of these not absolutely. sure that. welcome to the program headlines here live on. the u.s. president donald trump is facing a backlash after a number of prominent u.s.

politicians received packages containing crude explosive devices c.n.n.'s headquarters were also talking to a critic say trump's divisive rhetoric and attacks on the media are in part to blame the president in turn says it's the media that's polarizing americans on fueling hostility. as part of a larger national effort to bridge the divides and bring people together the media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories have to do. they just send a bomb to c.n.n. and the president doesn't say a word about that and then tells us we are to blame did you learn nothing from today. not a word for anybody not a word about himself. well apart from the c.n.n.

headquarters hillary clinton barack obama and other democrats are among those who have been targeted with eight could use an old intercept with a none of the policies detonated a new york man has described most fear as full of hate. this is a very painful time. in our nation. it's a time when people are feeling a lot of hatred in the air in addition to new york city mayor bill de blasio we have heard from the n.y.p.d. as counterterrorism chief and he has confirmed that four of the explosive devices that arrived in suspicious packages seem to have the same source the devices that were sent to barack obama and to the home of hillary and bill clinton the device that was detonated on monday at the home of billionaire george soros and the device that was found at c.n.n. headquarters all seem to have the exact same source they seem to have come from the same person the device was capable of going off these are pipe bomb like explosives

now we're also hearing at that at this point in addition to the package containing the explosive there's also been a package containing suspicious white powder discovered at the c.n.n. headquarters explosive devices had to have projectiles and that's or. excuse me that sounds like a fire alarm here we'll keep you posted on that even out of the young me and back you laid it the lights were turned out and as we got out in the end he might still evacuated in addition to that we're hearing that at this point andrew cuomo new york city governor his office has had a package discovered at the office of maxine waters prominent democrat in california has been evacuated the office of debbie wasserman schultz former chair of the democratic national committee in florida has also been evacuated now hillary clinton has spoken up in response to today's events talking about divisiveness in u.s. politics this is hillary clinton but it is a troubling time isn't it. and it's a time. deep. divisions.

and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together hillary clinton others talk about you know rancorous you know the tenor of just what it's all over the place. it's everywhere there is also on another wave if you will rhetoric and that is various democratic leaders maxine waters in eric holder who are saying you know go out there and what you say you had strong supporter in our restaurant there right out and have at a gas station or or somewhere you get in their face and when they go low we fight this rhetoric graduate not on the level of pipe bombs and white outer but this is what we've been talking about all over the place. meanwhile tensions are also heating up at the us mexico border as

a large migrant caravan approaches the front and with midterm elections looming politicians are certainly seeing an opportunity to school points. i've been watching for weeks as the caravan came up not letting them in and not coming in and they're not coming and. everyone in this room is an immigrant you know who in the white house it's a little bit of a different picture he was talking about this caravan the caravan the caravan the caravan. there has been assured legal immigration recently caravan of immigrants was stopped by a group of flag waving protestors ministration official say they're working as efficiently and as effectively as possible the u.s. government doesn't give them any necessity when they dropped off the bus station. shows you the challenges the trouble ministration had in dealing with the crisis they inherited from the. bob ministration who got

a free pass from the media on causing this crisis what happened to the democratic party as one said bill clinton president obama understood that border security helps define a country you. better security and prevent people from entering believe this is a moral and humanitarian crisis we simply cannot allow people to for into the united states undetected undocumented this is what we just got from president obama he writes immigration can be a controversial topic my administration acted to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people and we are a better country then one that cares families apart we turn it into a great political football and people are still all kinds of political friends. did president obama really poured more people than any other president in total president obama had deportee more than two point five million undocumented people

by twenty fifteen. immigration becomes a political issue when there is obviously a policy on the table or some shifts going on on this particular matter that is being made on both sides and i think when we get you know a dozen days away it's. such a vital election huge surprise. and i think the question is what do you manage in the kind of rhetoric from both the right you know last half hour we're not just those people going through the next time the. chemical giant monsanto is facing accusations of paid tens of thousands of euros to enlist the support of farmers across europe to lobby against a ban on one of its pesticides greenpeace also says monsanto set up fake farmers groups to promote the. and if it's of the pesticide. explains that some of their

members are in fact very real. an investigation carried out by greenpeace says it's uncovered some startling truths about how monsanto a company taurus for its controversial range of weed killers has been lurking will being its interests in the investigation alleges that hundreds of thousands of euros were spent in creating fake pharmacy groups to promote the main chemical found in monsanto's products so fake farmers fake groups at least that's according to greenpeace but when. a little bit closer something didn't quite smell right greenpeace say that this lobby group in france isn't real but when searched for the people behind the names we have real farmers use it. it's

freaking news it's not good it's not true i'm real and i know other members that are real farmers who work every day i'm not fake i'm not a ghost i'm a real farmer i'm passionate about my work we asked greenpeace to detail why they believe the farmers were fake despite giving the organization five days to respond greenpeace said it didn't have the capacity to get back to us as stuff was swamped so the pharmacy definitely flash but he's behind this organization supporting the chemical is it the new tourist monsanto to me it's not sure why but you tube is really good if i can list the companies as i don't know them by heart but i understand why the industry and its farmers defend themselves everybody criticizes monsanto i don't want to defend them monsanto produces very little of the glyphosate in the world it's other countries and companies that produce the most. denise's. he cares about the land this land his product so why does he use

a product that's been labeled as toxic to aquatic life and is described as a probable human carcinogen by the international agency for research on cancer. cells and all the other and now assists in tests we're talking about eight hundred studies in the world confirm that this product is not dangerous why do we use glide for safe because it's practical because we use very diluted amounts you want to punish us by removing it all it's not considered dangerous. in a landmark ruling a judge in the u.s. awarded a former groundskeeper thirty nine million dollars after he developed cancer following exposure to the company's weed killer saying monsanto had failed to warn him of the risks monsanto denies the product causes cancer some countries aren't sold on the

safety of the chemical and have already restricted its use but the pharma we talked to is worried that a ban on the weed killer will do more harm than good if. we shouldn't forget it's there to see if we're the only country just stop using it we will be disadvantaged the primary task of carbon emissions will increase will need to work the soil more and over use the equipment the work hours instead of a little dose of driver seat which allows us to make the work easier and we shouldn't forget about that pharmaceutical group which now owns monsanto has dismissed claims that the chemical in question is carcinogenic despite repeated warnings made by the world health organization on this very issue and one cultural expert we spoke to says the chemicals impact may only become evident over time. you know you don't see. animals and plants keeling over and dying. in an immediate manner the problems are related to much more subtle effects

on ecosystems and on human health that are linked to the sheer amount of blind society that is being used and i believe it is essential that more research is done the science is not clear but to turn around and say that they used to go on to say contending how besides save does not sit with the overall science. up and coming in the program here on our t.v. today we now see on starting this thursday the start of nato's largest war game since the end of the cold war right along russia's borders that story and much more customer.

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right now it's. a delegation of syrian opposition forces is set to meet with the russian foreign minister right here in moscow on friday the situation in syria is a. top of the agenda the talks the two sides will also discuss the launch of a so-called constitution committee for syria and this is seen as a key step towards finding a political solution to the crisis in the country now after seven years of war. is now the only remaining militant stronghold in the country there are an estimated thirty thousand including ten thousand al nusra terrorists according to numbers from the united nations a deadline for militants to. a lot of a buffer zone around the province imposed on the rate toki russia brokered

deescalation deal was recently extended and roughly three million civilians live in even labor and many of them continue to flee on a daily basis. figured we were living in a camp life was difficult there was no aid no bread no water everything was scarce the situation was terribly bad well look to the second there is barely any shelter in winter and in summer you would suffer from the heat that was our life. and dominick still hot our director of operations of the international committee of the red cross has just returned from eastern guta a militant stronghold recently regained by the syrian government. just returned from eastern court yesterday. i have to say i was

completely overwhelmed by the scope of destruction in eastern i think i have never seen anything like this in my twenty seven years of career based international committee of the red cross the scale of the needs starts to emerge it's starting to emerge and definitely there will be a need for huge support for all the people who are living there in these areas affected by conflict as well as for those who are returning east. approximately three even more than three million people used to live there and now it's only three hundred fifty thousand and in the place where i was nearly ninety percent of the infrastructure is completely destroyed you see entire neighborhoods that are at the steroid houses that are become have become completely unbelievable

. is what i was talking about the people who are back there and people who are leaving dad they can fend for themselves some of the basic needs we are distributing food on a daily basis together with the syrian arab red crescent what is now absolutely critical is to ensure that these people can regain access to some basic services such as water sanitation hales and here there is still a lot to do and again together with the syrian arab red crescent see he's making a very serious contribution. well. particularly concerned about the possibility of escalation. of violence in that there are up to three million people living in this province.

there would seem to leave result in a humanitarian disaster so very grateful for all the efforts that have taken place in the past few months and hopefully we'll continue to avoid escalation in the lead because. as i said this would result in a very very serious humanitarian disaster. the whole war and has been watching the syria conflict for a force for seventy years and we have all known for a very long time that this is and continues to be the war conflict that we see very very long and yet there doesn't appear to be sufficient political convergence to bring this conflict to an end so i truly hope that we now see the end of that we will now see the end of this conflict so that humanitarian aid

can finally reach all the people of syria who are sold desperately longing for peace and need to be supported for a long time to come be definitely do all we can to convince. all those who are supporting the humanitarian effort been syria to continue supporting the people of syria as i said if anything needs are just going to grow in the coming months and years and really. the i.c.r.c. use consarned to continue our effort at the same level as in the past few years because now people are also are all all also getting more accessible and therefore we can do more and we absolutely need to make sure that we can maintain the

humanitarian effort at the levels of the previous years. sees the start of nato's largest war games since the end of the cold war tens of thousands of troops as well as warships and planes arrive for the drills in norway which of course shares a border with russia this is an important day because drone sure sure is biggest exercises. since the end of all the cold war.

but the lessons we learn will be real. the russian defense minister meantime has expressed his concern about nato has increased the military activity along russia's borders he said that has now reached a level not seen for a nearly three decades well the thing is that the need to use military activity at the borders of russia has reached an unprecedented post cold war level the scope of operational military training at our borders is expanding and becoming more intense bloc countries are engaged in offensive drills the aim of all this is increased capacity to swiftly deploy troops across europe. has been aggressive towards many countries as in wars with a number of countries right now has military in about one hundred seventy two countries has about twenty times the number of foreign military bases as all other countries combined and i see these new war games close to russia as

a further and severe that aggression in this case towards russia the united states made a promise after the fall of the soviet union that it would not go into knots in nato into the warsaw pact countries or the former soviet countries and today it's in thirteen of those countries so it never abided by that pact and this is clearly an aggressive move on the part of the united states and nato in my opinion and i thank you for sharing some of your thoughts they with us here at r.t. international live from moscow where the program returns with more of your top stories in about half an hour. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the

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i'd. love to. these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. you know world of big partisan movies a lot of fears and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. alone and welcome to worlds apart in seventeen years into the war in afghanistan

the country seems for rappers stopped in the repetitive cycle of violence and elections assassinations and three conciliation talks the changing world around afghanistan finally and nor could all of these bitten and extremely bloody track we'll discuss that i'm now joined by i must salute a former afghan diplomat and president of the mustard foundation mr masood it's good to talk to you this evening thank you very much for your time. thank you thank you now whenever i look at the afghan politics i'm always overcome by the feeling of deja vu you have this same scenario playing out all over and over again the with some whole promise of peace on the eve of the elections crushed by the absolute hopelessness and despair after wards is that your perception as well and if so what explains this compulsive dysfunction well as you said rightly that for the past seventeen years the people of afghanistan have been looking for peace but still for

after seventy years disk. for soft international community despite the aim to bring peace despite their promise to the afghan people to bring peace unfortunately i have not been a boat bring peace under the contrary you can see that in afghanistan that terrorism and it tied up on they have come out and i believe that their reason for their failure to throw in the beginning we did not have a comprehensive road map for peace and i want a son and yet despite all this insecurity over a four million afghans who went to the polls over the weekend to lag their parliament tyrants which if accurate is if very high turnout for a country where voting is associated with such a high life risk given the scale of this year's election violence almost eighty people killed around five hundred wounded do you think it was worthwhile well as you sit right into this by i mean after seventeen years we still do not have proper

election we do not maintain security for the people but of course we do appreciate it massive coming off the people to the fullest to show that is being appreciated despite all the threats people came out to determine their own future their own decision but it to save time do what they find to talk about that yes we want to come to go to democracy but unfortunately under part of the election commission that was catastrophic on the part of the governor governor faubus on that was catastrophic but unfortunately as i mentioned before that so far for the past seventeen years we have not followed the national agenda and i saw a road map for afghanistan that is why you can see that i was actually up to seventy i was ripped up all by your bias now speaking about the elections i'm going to stuns the international partners still insist on holding them almost religiously despite new.