i. i i i. subscribe to get. twelve euros fifty per month. the u.s. justice department name is fifty six year old says. the man in custody suspected of sending out mail bombs targeting a range of top u.s. political figures. with donald trump's trade was showing no signs of abating old japan and china are making the best of a bad situation signing a new economic deal. also the revelations that britain's energy

minister held private talks with controversial fracking for sparks outrage. refuses to back down over its budget plans to spite them being rejected by brussels . even used his shoes you can see that to demonstrate just what he thinks of the e.u.'s response. team to national live with me daniel hawkins thanks for joining us today on the program. the justice department has confirmed that fifty six year old says york is the man being held in custody in connection with the recent wave of mail bombs targeting a range of top u.s. political figures officials say they're identified the fingerprints from one of the envelopes he allegedly sent. he has been charged today with. including interstate transportation. and an explosive due legal mailing of

explosives threats against former presidents and certain other persons threatening interstate communications and assaulting current and former federal officers for these charges the defendant faces up to fifty eight years in prison this point we're getting kind of a picture of the individual the suspect who has been arrested and charged apparently for these bombings now the individual was a trump supporter he lived in a van and on that van he had pro trump bumper stickers now furthermore he did have a criminal record a previous criminal record he apparently been arrested for grand theft auto done time in prison and on top of that if he is convicted for actually sending these bombs through the mail he would then face fifty eight years in prison prior to the justice department we also heard from the u.s. president he was very can graduate tory toward the law enforcement agencies

congratulating them on very quickly apprehending the individual they believe is responsible for sending these packages containing explosives this is donald trump congratulating the f.b.i. and the police forces we will prosecute them him her whoever it may be to the fullest extent of the law. we must never allow political violence to take root in america cannot let it happen and i'm committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it now all across the political spectrum we've heard widespread denunciation of this act people are saying that political violence is simply unacceptable and that they sending of explosives and mail bombs to politicians to top democratic party leaders to c.n.n. has no place in american politics now other people are linking it to the fact that there seems to be an increased divide among. americans poll results are showing

that americans are more divided and polarized than they have been in many years there's intense divisions between americans how they view the current administration how they views various issues eight out of ten americans actually says that this point the united states is quote greatly divided however the president united states many democratic leaders were very adamant that this kind of violence has no place in american politics and there have been widespread calls for unity. on a. new poll has found that almost forty percent of americans believe divisions in the country will worsen among the most contentious political issues on donald trump's presidency economic inequality as well as race relations well let's get some perspective on this now speak to ted rall american political cartoonist columnist and author ted thanks for joining us on the program today the suspect initially faced criticism for his store support for trump but now the department of justice has revealed he's got

a criminal record do you think that's going to change things any way you are going to see a different reaction now to this well what's been called as an act of terrorism. well it does seem to be an act of political terrorism and so any kind of any time trend of political crime like this is necessarily going to have people searching around to cast blame after school shootings there's always accusations that the gun lobby and the national rifle association are to blame when the unabomber was. sending which is that he got just two members of executives in the timber industry people say that it was the environmental movement that was to blame but the fact is probably mental illness has more to do with this particular story than anything else. and speaking of social media it's an interesting point as well as in that from what appears to be his twitter account and this man's been making threats putting out a piece of tweets for quite some time against various figures twitter appears not

to have done anything aside and not taken his account down do you think that's a bit odd given you know the recent crackdown on ineffective behavior fake news but some trolls abuse could more have been done that perhaps. well i mean more could certainly be done i mean all of the big social media companies in silicon valley are woefully understaffed and have no way to be contacted by telephone by normal people when they spot a problem we're talking about we're going to companies with hundreds of millions in the case of facebook over a billion users worldwide that have staff of under twenty thousand are in the case of twitter under ten thousand people most of those people are doing code they're not they're not really watching things and they think they can do this all with automation and obviously this is just another example of how that effort falls short. i mean just given the scale of this incident i believe is the latest figure at the amount of i.d.s.

that was sent to intercept by security services are you surprised that one of the suspects at least for now that we know was able to conduct such why it's. operation . well as long as there's a postal service anybody can just go to a mailbox and drop packages to as many people as they want as long as they have the correct postage so now it's kind of thread will always be with us the post office and hundreds of millions of pieces of mail every day. i mean it's actually kind of surprising that this sort of thing doesn't happen more frequently there's unity probably amongst the american public but this is been an unacceptable act of violence and that's what we've heard from political figures on both sides republicans and democrats but the wider political spectrum now in the us i mean people are quite divided are they and that has spilled over into violence you know the. support a few months ago shot at seville now this is donald trump. what's at the root of this political division in the u.k. in the u.s. and why is it spilling over into these acts of violence which is you know really

put on heart of before. well i think it's less about division it's more about a culture of violence that goes back in the united states since the since it's a origination we're talking you know this is not really all that new i mean there have been political assassinations four american presidents out of forty been killed and assassinated. there on the floor of the u.s. senate one senator nearly beat each beat another one to death right before the civil war right on the floor of the u.s. senate so there's been political attacks many many times in our history and i think the real issue is that this is a country that was based on violence it was founded by people who started the land that belonged to the people who lived here originally and. brought in slave people here by great violence and has forced imperialistic and neo colonialist policies all over the world is currently invading and occupying all sorts of countries

around the world when you hear american politicians say that there's no place for violence in american politics is incredibly ironic and delirious considering that these are the same political figures who are financing and funding violence all over the world ok ted rule american political cartoonist columnist and author thanks for your take today on that today's top news story. to other news now relations between japan and china are at a historic turning point that's according at least to japan's prime minister who was speaking at a summit with china's president is the first visit to the country by japanese leader full by lateral talks for nearly seven years the current seoul follows a long period of territorial disputes the trunk takes a closer look at what exactly has led to the change. the japanese prime minister is in china and he's smiling. that was him with the chinese premier who was smiling too. so what of course these

kind of guys put up a. happy face for the cameras during the protocol handshake well sometimes things between countries get so bad that even handshakes can save the day. but both leaders surely would have preferred not to stand there together like that just a few years ago the gloves were off between beijing and tokyo because of these tiny islands in the east china sea just to realize how much i hate that land dispute generated have a look at this. i really wouldn't want to be a japanese car owner in china back in the days the two thousand and twelve conflict was spiraling out in all shapes and forms mr mr she didn't even talk on

the phone up until may this year today though we're pretty much back to seeing the new un friendship with the chinese state run media telling us this kind of stuff so what happened what kind of magical friendship did the in the dragon get prescribed maybe it was the donald trump pill the world knew mr trump was on a mission to give beijing a real business beating the united states has just announced tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars in chinese made goods china's market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated but who knew the president will then take aim at his biggest asia ally japan and his economic bowling well last month the media got a trade war to pay off and anyway the steel and aliment tariffs had already kicked

in you know how. it works now america first but we understand that president trump wants to reduce the trade deficit but i think it's very important for president trump and his administration to find out the root cause of why there is a trade deficit in america i think there is a possibility that they do not yet understand why and so the world silver and bronze medalists and g.d.p. are shaking hands smiling and are possibly even ready to team up what will the golden boy have to say. asia pacific analysts told us that trump has only got himself to blame for china and japan becoming closer. u.s. did not expect that the other that other countries would be able to set aside their differences and get to get to the table with each other as relatively easily as they have been able to do so but at the end of the beer it is the u.s.

which has to believe and have a chance to which has to carry the blame for this both the countries are frankly fear seeing uni lateral and hostile treated enforcement action from the trumpet ministration china primarily but i would also suggest that part of the reason for the coming together is because both countries realize that they are important players in the issue here and that without speaking to each other the relationship their relationship with each other as well as the larger geo political environment in which they operate becomes a little more negative. it's been revealed that britain's energy minister held a private amounts to meeting with major fracking firms notes from the talks in may reveal that the u.k. has global ambitions to spread its fracking approach the news only released now under freedom of information rules has sparked an outcry. there is no model of

fossil fuel extraction that we should be pursuing much less trying to sell globally not content with undermining ukase own climate change targets the government seem intent on wrecking me efforts of other countries by exporting the u.k. model of fracking around wild news of the meeting has compounded the current woes of the fracking industry in the u.k. last week or driller one of the firms who met the minister was forced to suspend operations in lancashire in the north of the country after earthquakes were detected not far from its fracking site artie's party has this report. well energy company calls it a might crew seismic event others might call it a tremor or even a tiny earthquake it took place on friday morning around quadrillions fracking site and as a result of the exploratory drilling taking place the company's released a statement explaining what took place the seismic incident so to say it happened

eleven thirty am it measured north point seven six on the richter scale and the company was alerted to it because it was immediately flagged up as a so-called red light tremor on the sort of dangerous scale of fracking anything over nor point five constitutes a red light event so this was quite far into red light territory and as a result has pools to operations bonds only for eighteen hours in order to monitor seismicity levels in the area the statement says they expect fracking to restart in the morning and then goes on to play down the incident take a listen. microsoft is big events such as these result in tiny movements. anything that would be filled surface much less cause any harm or damage without the sophisticated monitoring in place it could drill and they would not be detected so no big deal according to the company doing their fracking but that's not what environmental campaigners and local activists have to say about it the commencement

of drilling in the u.k. has been incredibly contentious and dogged by problems and legal challenges in fact three anti fracking protesters were jailed for public nuisance when they protested the start of drilling at that site in lancashire earlier this summer in fact the thought to be the first environmental protesters to be imprisoned since nineteen thirty two although they were released by the court of appeal earlier this month the seismic incident this morning is by no means the first time a tremor has been recorded as a result of fracking in the u.k. there have been twelve line incidents or twelve minor tremors this week alone at that site in lancashire and if you chart the history of fracking in the u.k. back in the spring of two thousand and eleven quadrillion was given permission to start exploratory drilling at another site in lancashire and there were fifty

tremors then and one was so strong that it was felt by locals in the area i covered that story then i went to man's house he showed me a crack in the wool that had occurred he said as a result of that mine quake caused by the drilling so operations were suspended then and not really the best start to the fracking operation up in lancashire for the u.k. government now this was supposed to be the beginning of the u.k.'s shale revolution and ministers are nevertheless determined to crack on with it so much so that it's been revealed in the guardian that the energy minister here in the u.k. can. perry she had a meeting with fracking earlier this month which she failed to record on the transparency register where she apparently told fracking firms that the government hopes to create a u.k. model for shale gas extraction which can be exported all around the world but

given this latest seismic incident it looks like that model could use a bit of improving. we spoke earlier to a different campaigner tina louise rothera she finds the government's corporation with the fracking industry deeply concerned what claire perry will have been discussing i would imagine with industry was how smooth she could make it for them if she eases planning restrictions and. have worked with the regulators to make it a lot simpler i mean she was talking about you know we were to kind of point with the size of this point by and she was talking about raising that level so that they could cause a lot more seismicity for having to shut down you know we are deeply concerned this is an industry that's got off to a very bad start seven years ago and has yet to redeem itself and when they talk about exporting our expertise what x. the t's it would take decades to get expertise we certainly don't have it now as has been proved to energy today is still not produced it's accounts which it was asked oil i think it just produced its accounts and he showed it in

a diabolical state you know these industry this industry is not what it sells itself as government has either been hoodwinked or is somehow in collusion. because well you troops have short words for palestinian protesters along the perimeter fence in gaza what are the details for you after this short break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand those business you just need as the right questions and demand the right

answer. the. question. welcome back to out international four palestinians have been killed at least fifty injured in clashes with israeli army forces on the gaza is world border around ten

thousand people had gathered there demonstrators are continuing their demand for the right to return to their home and israel justifies its use of force saying it's defending the borders from terrorists they claim today alone ten rocket launchers up in the tech said local journalist. records on the scene. here and. what goes on every friday continues to happen palestinian protesters come here to protest demanding the return to their lands they bring tires to blur the scenes in front of israeli forces ambulances field the site the best site is always filled by palestinian protesters from all ages even injured people who have been injured in the same protests the previous weeks almost to come down to protest this is the journalist that has been shot in his leg.

he has been shot in his time. that live bullets he has been taken by the paramedics to the ambulance. in order to perform. the first aid. shoes whether flung at speakers or buying on podiums to work occasional appearances in politics now after the e.u. rejected is elise proposed a new budget so it was a turn for the italian m.e.p. to put his foot or rather his shoe for many don't.

now it's the first time the european commission has rejected any member states budget proposal the block gave rome just three weeks to revise its spending plans. breaks down the dispute. brussels is sharpening its knife in preparation for a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member states budget demanding a resubmission to do for the first time as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget. but we seen no alternative to. to do so it is really into the whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that salvias government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro skeptics say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states with

bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. you tell me an economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy to stability it needs we won't change one comma in this document to . be you know to go into the we are not. that. on. the future. it spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the second largest european economy received a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts

. we thank you for sending the from twenty nine thousand draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the commission's preliminary assessment also indicates that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rate of ditch reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard. except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake up with fascism stay alert democracy is a fragile treasure or the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million

dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not a good way to be a shoo in with the new donald quarter r.t. . it's come out toss the leaven pm here in moscow thanks for staying to join us again at midnight for the latest global news updates. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. prosecution will need to become almost. a false dissolve in court where you question the threat of fines come or somebody no longer seemed to i mean yeah i mean i mean did our political pressure on the god you've only mean concluded an earthworm security jenison knows where to put your hand on that business models he was my american corporations doubt of was incomplete is sold on good mental disease as an m.p. use the controls on the scene and the solution. lies up in association. a little can he saw some of those it is just simply his or deleting. an investigative documentary. ghost war on r.t.

. explosive devices said two former presidents a former cia director members of congress a former attorney general and my old place c.n.n. is the president's campaign rhetoric to blame tough question we'll take a look at it on this edition of politic. politicking i'm larry king the one common aspect of what we know so far about the intended targets of what looks like an act of domesticity terrorism is that they have each been heavily criticized by the president. the obama's the clinton's

former attorney general eric holder former cia director john brennan democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz and maxine waters businessmen george soros and cnn's new york bureau all apparent targets of explosive devices and old targets of double drums anger campaign rhetoric and negative tweets has our unconventional president's words contributed in any way to these criminal acts tough question but in this time of hyper politicization of a wall is going on it's worth asking we start there with the group panel they are john wood back in lansdown ten. he's a republican strategist foreman tim of the republican party of virginia and in boston jake mccabe jake worked in the obama administration

a former officials the achieves these write a wrapper for attorney general eric holder will start with jake which is a take on all of this jake. i mean your first reaction is gratitude to the extraordinary men and women in law enforcement who put their lives in line every day and prevent and prevent these tragedies from becoming even bigger tragedies but you're absolutely right look this is a this is a tragic circumstance. but it's also infuriating this is not an act of god this doesn't come out of nowhere the reality is that you know the tone gets set at the top of the fish rots from the head down and when you've got a a president of the united states who talks about democrats as being the enemy instead of the opposition who calls them violent and evil who says that the the press are the enemy of the people.