america is upcoming midterm election sees the media go although. even long running sitcom the big bang theory weighs in by sneaking out the trunk message and its credits. coming up on the program. territory

in syria killing more than forty m. . close to the border with iraq we look into the reasons behind the group's resurgence. while nato has large scale war games played out across scandinavia iceland's capital. and that's. just two am in houston two pm and ten in the morning here in moscow this october the thirty first welcome to our two international i mean o'neill with just a week to go until the midterm elections in the u.s. it seems everyone who's anyone has an opinion even the popular t.v. comedy series the big bang theory has an message in its credits kill up and reports much of the rest. rick is feeding public discord and social division but the

mid-term elections approaching things are getting intense across the united states bombs are being sent through the mail shootings are happening and talk of division is everywhere now in this context you would expect that american media would try to calm people down bring them together well not this time just turn on c.n.n. this president has radicalized so many more people than isis ever did the commentator has sense apologized but trump wouldn't be trump if he didn't fire back there was a woman who was just on c.n.n. a short while ago saying that you have radicalized more people than isis that was c.n.n. tonight well let this be some kind of a sick woman that's media and politicians but entertainment is where americans go to relax maybe have a few good laughs but now a lot of comedians have found a new soapbox to stand on even a show that's about nerds with poor social skills is starting to put up anti trust messages. goes if you knew

a divine wisdom belief or fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering will socratic govt cheeta is what we need right now then you know that they will be done but if there was inclined to more freedom more love more compassion i submissively os that though encouraged to turn out in that general direction h.b.o. comedian john oliver did a piece about state attorney generals there on the ballot in thirty different states come november for some reason he decided to criticize exclusively republican candidates across the country if you live in wisconsin just google brad she will tend thousand dollar coins and you'll learn about how your money's to spend ten grand of taxpayer money on coins reading. which stands for his actual personal motto kicking ass everytime. and music is now all about politics r. and b. star farrah williams. is threatening to sue donald trump because trump supporters

were listening to his hit song happy while they were waiting for the president to come on stage it seems that some musicians would like to band the make america great again crowd from listening to their music if only they could for oh has not and will not grant you permission to publicly perform the worries broadcaster disseminate any of his music hate campaign advertising in the united states is very closely regulated by law however it seems that a lot of american t.v. not just news but also comedy shows celebrity gossip is taking sides and throwing punches no matter where you go in the united states you can't escape the great american divide up and r.t. new york blood say or it was a report of one particular story that donald trump had actually recruited more terrorists than isis ok that was then met with an apology and the apology was then covered and then we covered the coverage of the apology and then whether the

coverage of the coverage of the apology of the first statement was excessive so the media now are consuming our new you see we talk about living in the bubble we lead to media we believe that everyone sees things the way we do or that they care about things that we do it's for them sounds you think america cares do you think somebody is going to say you know what i was going to vote for whatever but doggone it i watched the big bang theory and i watched this one flash and i change my mind come on it's vanity license plate. well staying stateside it looks like the republican party has lost its most high profile celebrity supporter and the twitter rant of the rapper kanye west say he's being used now after previously being linked to a campaign to convince african-americans to ditch support for the rival democratic

party conservative candace owens who's behind the campaign earlier praise the collaboration with west i'm blessed to say that this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero kanye west i want the word when one tweet west said his eyes were no wind open he's distancing himself from politics it comes just a few weeks after west had a much publicized meeting with donald trump in the oval office in which he heaped praise on the president but now he claims he's being used to spread messages he say's he doesn't believe in. hillary clinton is also facing a backlash after joking that african americans all like many suggest that if it had been donald trump uttering the same line would have been she was correcting an

interviewer who mixed up two democrat politicians do you think of cory booker's and you can comment to him in your kill file i don't know anything about him saying kick them in the shins essentially start to get to that kind of well i was eric holder eric holder sorry i know they all look alike no they don't i. made the joke. i was trying to. president i want to go to david duke and probably say david duke hillary clinton made the joke so some people think all the chinese looks the same i mean that is pretty offensive yet one has a mustache one doesn't can't be that. six it's pretty insensitive. especially when they don't look like the old. all these old terrorists again territory in syria close to the border with iraq killing over forty us fighters during an offensive washington had previously claimed that isaiah was almost

completely decimated. explain. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that ms alarming state in series so two thousand and sixteen the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we've done a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis but the latest carnage is a clear signal that the terrorists are not ready to buckle just yet they've squeezed every drop of profit from the victory they've been craving for so long from obvious territorial gains to a massive p.r. push they filmed their operation and spoils of war from all thinkable angles it seems even with reinforcements america's proxy ground force the kurds couldn't hold off the surprise onslaught hard for its incursion tuesday both sides but we will continue to go after them in the weeks ahead i saw the latest propaganda video even

includes a not so subtle threat a skyline view of the government controlled town but hold on just how much of a surprise was this latest isola tag really short they moved in under the cover of a sandstorm but it's not like the kurds which are in charge of eastern syria didn't know i still was on their porch they have been fighting terrorists in the area for a whole year but despite their best efforts to little success and that could be due to the fact that their effort has been dwindling gradually apart from i saw the kurdish fighters have been focusing on skirmishes with the syrian army and repelling the turkish operation against them in the north this plays into the geodes hands perfectly since assad's forces are not going anywhere and neither is turkey as president erdogan te's the next phase of what he calls an anti terror operation in syria but don't use them as you know we have started active

intervention operations against the terror organization and the last couple of days we will. soon come down hard on the terror organization with more extensive and effective operations the united states also has been convincing the world it's hell bent on cleansing syria of terrorists yet years on it's their area of responsibility where i still strikes well with its bloodiest attack in months and i wonder could it be because american troops are in fact miles away from all the action we don't have a counter mission here we have the feed isis mission that competition between all these forces allows for isis to play back and forth every surrounding the neighbor of syria including the syrian government have had other enemies to fight in other concerns isis is opposed tom number two it's a difficult problem it's also a divided syria because you have

a border region where you rocks on one side the syrian the democratic forces on the other backed by the united states and a syrian army backed by russia and iran are on the other there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for geopolitical bounty in syria and writing off early means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. well swear in syria tensions are wrapped in druze are absurd protested a local election in the golan heights a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced the vote as a legal pro is really a. soldier's used to brick demonstrations when crowds try to block the entrances to police stations and several villages many people living in these really occupied areas of

refused to take up israeli citizenship consider themselves syrian it's the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights in one nine hundred sixty seven the israeli government approved the poll last year after an appeal from this really. is holding its largest military exercise since the end of the cold war the drills kicked off last week and stretched from the baltic sea to iceland military forces from thirty one countries in all are involved in the fortnight long maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty or sixty five ships taking part in the alliance has even made it so to norway where a large parts of the exercises are being held. this is some things you need to know where both norway. and love mourning. the symbol of

peace through and we have. seen is something we didn't write something for the seat on the beads and it's everything well while the drills focus on restoring the region's sovereignty after an attack by a quote fictitious aggressor the i phone the capital has had to replenish one of its core supplies. we're fighting in overwhelming force.

to know the story we're closely following today the united states has called on saudi arabia to stop its bombing campaign in yemen for over three years of a devastating war there washington sais both sides must stop the strikes on saudi arabia should cease its fire on populated areas the u.s. defense secretary expects peace talks to start next month according to a just released study the saudi intervention in yemen has claimed fifty six thousand lives in the past two years while say it is working hard to reduce civilian casualties.

however. neither concern for yemeni citizens or the murder of a saudi journalist working for the washington post are enough to stop the united states from bailing on its lucrative weapons contract with saudi arabian political science professor colin campbell says the u.s. has no interest in sanctioning the saudis or ending yemen's war something has triggered this and the only thing possible is that it has to do with. this is more of a message to saudi arabia that what the u.s. is to do is to. mohammad the other was the u.s.

they have. i would doubt that they're going in this conflict because if they really want to be in this they can just kind of sending weaponry to saudi arabia well as. i mean it's one of you in. an independent movement on the arabian peninsula i think what they're trying to do by this law. and then they will. the war in a different way. with u.s. . guidance. well the british government is also on their scrutiny for its role in arming the saudis it's the second largest supplier of arms to riyadh the middle east minister who was grilled on a stormy parliamentary committee hearing on tuesday. do you have a problem with condemning led an international violations of into international

law incomplete mistakes and make the only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised that for those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going up. if these are aware they seem to be able to flaunt it and i do not agree with you know i think that was simply to. deny support for a policy which is under threat and so gauged in support of allegiance from its government and if we did see that. the way to be but it is your hundred cars open flame devastating floods it's been a tough twenty four hours for it's like us are two reports after the break.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close it's like the full story of them all can't be good. i'm interested in the why is it.

just coming up to ten nineteen am here in moscow welcome a fracking company in britain is calling for rules on gas exploration to be relaxed the spike a string of tremors resulting from its drilling activities operations resumed earlier this month after a seven year bond over safety concerns picking up the story for us there's probably boyo. what happens when a company's just been given the right to start shale gas extraction but tiny earthquakes keep getting in the way that's the situation in lancashire in the north of england where energy company quadrille are off to months of legal wrangling and

protests. started commercial exploratory fracking two weeks ago since then there have already been two so-called microseismic events microseismic enough to hold drilling twice. the boss of course driller has the government should just relax the rules and allow the company doing the fracking to frack on even after larger tremors because all

the reports of seismic activity are scaring people it may well be that we have reached that time not only for the u.k. show gas industry but also to address the concerns of local people who are becoming increasingly worried by reporting of tiny movements in the us which is thousands of times across the u.k. every day as if they were harmful so here's how the traffic light monitoring system works right now think of it as the government's danger scale for shale gas extraction anything over nor point five on the richter scale is classed as a red light event and means an immediate suspension to drilling so drill now once the red light event to be anything starting from two. point zero on the richter scale environmentalists aren't so sure where fracking at the moment it's a worrying situation and it seems to be that they're going very

slowly and cautiously as they should. if you if you then put that over. ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by a historic coal extract conses consequences could be very devastating. and that effectively covers the entire bottle and a half of the fracking licenses in this country and that's where the real problem is. the fracking fam has reasons to be hopeful though over the summer the u.k.'s energy minister said that the current monitoring system is cautious and could be adjusted up with when the government came to prove that its policy of supporting shale gas extraction is bearing fruit a change in the safety threshold could mean christmas coming early for the fracking frustrated by delays. hundredths of a look sheree sports cars have been destroyed in the northern italian port city of

support they were awaiting export when seawater flooded a storage area causing the cars batteries to explode. with italy has been engulfed by heavy storms that have left eleven people dead the harbor tunnel for apollo near general was badly hit for its reinforced walls collapse dozens of yachts were left bought her don't see front row while other side pictures show the scale of the destruction in the country. as a trade disputes over u.s. metal taurus reaches the world trade organization several countries are pushing the global body to review the charges this collective resorts to dispute stance woman reflects the serious concern of the membership of the united states actions norway is worried that the united states would offer a proposal to justification that is so evidently divorced from real world security

concerns. yeah you may recall doc in march donald trump slapped an import charge of ten percent on all the many m twenty five percent on steel america's biggest trade partners retaliated with taxes on a long list of us kids biking strategist peter rosen strike thinks trump is not motivated by economic gain to become a highly political highly charged environment you know there's additional political threats that you know if if the rulings don't go in the u.s. is way. that that the u.s. would withdraw from the deputy oh it's important to realize that everybody recognizes that the tariff moved in the name of fair trade in the name of security is more from a change of america's strategic position then it is about trade this idea of a read examining a bilateral relationships and redetermine in these sort of historical relationships

and trump is basically blowing them apart and the world is creating a new order where the u.s. is not the central figure and i think you know these so small but powerful moves by the. and other international communities is a clear sign that it's moving shifting away from the u.s. as the primary axis of power. the u.s. is making its biggest arms shipment to europe since the you kosloff war and watching the hawks is studying the move carefully we join the gang immediately after this live from moscow you are watching r.t. international.

i have the honor to once again the interview alister croaky is a former e.u. diplomat and founder and director of conflicts forum and of course we're going to discuss the middle east. next geysers financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not sure i get. the fight well street spot thank you for. the story that's true. slavery. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you that.

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greetings and sally you tasia us it's starting to feel like there's a new tragedy of rhetoric of violence and loss every week here in the country of sea to shining sea from schools to nightclubs to places of worship mass shootings have become the latest tool of the lonely and fracture and now we have a really want to be bomb makers mailing their wares to everyone who represents an enemy to his delicate political ideology from c.n.n. to robert de niro and then the news coverage aftermath of every tragedy or headline making grab for attention the one term that gets bandied about like a hand grenade at a horseshoe tournaments is radicalized. the suspect was radicalized he was a radicalized muslim a radicalized christian a radicalized atheist he was radicalized by online hate speech which was radicalized by donald trump who was radicalized by fox news which was a response to a radicalized left wing media which would self was

a radicalized response to rush limbaugh and radicalized right wing talk radio which was radicalized by right wing christian radicals in response to the radical liberal movements of equal rights and free love of the radical sixty's and seventy's. there's a lot of radicalization out there hawk watchers that's the name of the blame game these days in the wake of the pennsylvania synagogue shooting in the moghul bomber pundits and talking heads across the land an air waves have been pointing fingers over fingers in an effort to justify massive paychecks and provide reasoning for what is owed to mislead the unreasonable take g q columnist julie i offer you rather than look at the true causes of the radicalization of the synagogue shooter takes the easy television rating grabbing his way out and blames donald trump telling c.n.n.'s jake tapper that quote this president has radicalized so many more people than isis ever did because apparently in julie his view dangerous radicalized people and groups didn't exist until after november eighth two thousand

and sixteen. so today let's cut through the radicalisation blame game and start watching the honks. you. want to. treat the thing like a real little trick this would. analyze it to the bottom if you like but the play like you know i got. was that we. would. be. welcome everybody to watching dark side. and time tap a flawless so we've talked over the last week or so about cults and radicalization and obviously as events in the world are happening it's.