america's upcoming midterm election sees the media go all. even long running sitcom the big bang theory weighs in by sneaking an empty message and its credits. also coming up on the program this hour games territory in

syria killing more than forty american fighters close to the border with iraq we look into the reasons behind the group's resurgence. and large scale war games played out across scandinavia iceland's capital runs dry and essential to. run the clock across the world this is our team international from the team and myself you know neal welcome to the program. 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 and message in its credits. and reports much

of the rhetoric 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 trumped 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 of

divine wisdom believe a fascist hate filled fan mongering demagogic truth shuttering will socratic govt cheeta is what we need right now then you know they will be done but if there was inclined to more freedom more love more compassion i submissively 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 is 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. 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 a row has not and will not grant you permission to publicly perform the worries broadcast or disseminate any of his music paid 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 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 over the first statement was excessive so

the media now are consuming our new you see we talk about living in the bubble we are in the 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 changed my mind come on it's vanity license plate. let's keep things stateside because it looks like the republican party has lost perhaps its most high profile celebrity supporter in a twitter rant the rapper kanye west said he's being used for being linked to a campaign to convince our freakin americans to ditch support for the rival democratic party conservative countess owens who's behind the campaign in your

praise the collaboration with west. i am blessed to say that this logo. these colors were created by my dear friend and fellow super hero kanye west. in one tweet west said his eyes were no wide open and 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 preys on the president but now he claims he's being used to spread messages he says he does not believe in. him moving on terrorists have gained territory in syria close to the border with iraq killing quite a considerable amount of people forty u.s. box fighters we believe at this stage that was during an offensive there washington had previously claimed of course was almost completely decimated has been looking

into this story. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that ms alarming state in syria is 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 those 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 yard as sounds 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 that we have started active

intervention operations against the terror organization in 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 he has own 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 contour a new mission here we have a defeat 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 those 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 eisel means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. well just staying in the country tensions are up to drew's are a protest of a local election in the golan heights disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals than once the vote is a legal and also call that through israeli. the i.d.f. soldiers used tear gas to break up demonstrations when cried trying to block the entrances to polling stations and several villages many people living in these

really occupied areas have refused to take up is really so this in ship consider themselves it's the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the israeli government approved the poll last year after an appeal from peru is really the truth. it's another story we're closely following this hour after more than three years of a devastating war the united states was called on sunday arabia to stop its strikes on populated areas of yemen washington is urging all sides in the civil war to reach a cease fire agreement in the coming weeks according to a just released study the war in yemen has claimed fifty six thousand lives not in the past twenty four months alone or riyadh say it is working hard to reduce civilian casualties.

however neither concern for yemeni citizens or the murder of a sunday journalist working for the washington post are enough to stop the united states from bailing on its lucrative weapons contracts with saudi arabia political science professor calling campbell 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 in to do is to. mohamed. other was the u.s. they have to. 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. it's one of you. an independent movement on the arabian peninsula i think what they're trying to do this by just lauds bombing. and then they will restart the war in a different way. with u.s. . guidance well linked to this there is another aspect being talked about more and more the british government is under scrutiny for its role in arming the saudis now it is the second largest supplier of arms to riyadh the u.k.'s middle east minister

was grilled a stormy parliamentary committee hearing on tuesday let's take a look. do you have a problem with condemning murder and international violations of into international law incomplete mistakes and made the only thing that we don't do is she press the button to drop the bomb i'm surprised that all those who need to defend themselves the amount of raids targeting civilians is going to know if these are where are they seem to be able to and i do not agree that if united kingdom was simply to. deny support for a policy which is under threat and so gauged in support of illegitimate government i mean if we do that. the issue to me but it is your.

nato 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 in fact military forces from thirty one countries and all are involved in a fortnight long maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty aircraft and sixty five ships taking part the alliance has even made its own video guide to norway where a large part of the exercises are being held this is some things you need to know about norway puddleglum one that means a lovely morning in the symbol of all you need peace through reindeer and we have loads of reindeer. is a region where some say the returns are bordered ski on the beads and it's everything well while the drills focus on restoring the region solver and attacked by a quote fictitious aggressor vs london capital has how to replenish one of its more core supply.

yeah what's a pub with no beer. cars up in flames on devastating floods it has been a tough twenty four hours for italy we reports on the latest after this.

you know world of big movies. 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 smart 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. just approaching eighteen minutes into the program here welcome back a fracking company in britain is calling for rules on gas exploration to be relaxed this by the string of tremors resulting from its drilling activity operations resumed earlier this month after a seven year over safety concerns pauline boyko has her take. 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 quote driller after 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. a 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 earth which occur 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 i've a 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 two on the richter scale. environmentalist aren't so sure where could you lose for

a king at the moment it's a worrying situation and it seems to be going. very slowly and cautiously as they should. if you if you then over ground or terrain that's already been historically weakened significantly by historic cold. conses consequences could be very devastating and that effectively covers the entire. half of the for a king my sense is in this country knows 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 puts where 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. realistic and exaggerated is how an independent watchdog describes claims by the british government aid bourses they were caught boasting about a scheme for women in developing countries allegedly knowing that the number of people who actually benefited from it had been mis represented.

maternal health programs have had a limited focus on strengthening national health infrastructure and institutions to ensure sustainable improvements in maternal health. care want to turn our attention to were hundreds of luxury sports cars the pictures quite incredible have been destroyed by fire in the northern port city of cellphone

the. yeah the scenes coming around off the cars were awaiting export when seawater flooded the storage area and on cause their batteries to explode leading into to those fires there indeed northern italy has been engulfed by heavy storms more incredible pictures coming up eleven people dead after all this water run paged through the area this is right below here janno about to hit after it's a reinforced walls collapsed dozens of yachts left battered on seafront roads others sank aerial pictures showing look at this the scale of destruction and. well as a trade disputes over a u.s.

metal taurus reaches the world trade organization several countries are pushing the global body to review the charges this collective resort's a dispute stance woman reflects the serious concern of the membership of the united states actions norway's worried that the united states would offer a purported justification that is so evidently divorced from real world security concerns. donald trump slumped an import of ten percent on all the minium twenty five percent on steel back in march america's biggest trade partners didn't stand for it retaliating with taxes on a long list of u.s. goods by king strategist peter russo and strike thing strong 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 and of 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 as the primary axis of power. a one on one next us peter lavelle discusses a rapidly evolving middle east with british diplomats and a long time expert on the region. stay with.

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to shape out these days it comes to educate and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. i have the honor to once again interview alister croaky is a former e.u. diplomat and founder and director of conflicts forums and of course we're going to discuss the middle east. it's great to have you back in moscow and i think continued the conversation we had about seven months ago because everything we talked about a month ago and still going on there i want to i want to mention istanbul for politicians and one country in that country obviously in syria we had this meeting with oracle want putin krohn in istanbul the u.s.

wasn't there would you take away from the i think it's very symbolic first of all i mean it says very clearly that the whole political process has moved away from geneva from new united states to sochi to. to rush or in the leave a no the very important symbolic event of two european leaders being pressed and patted participating i don't think much substance came out of this meeting but the importance was that the europeans took part and they're starting to engage with a sad and with president putin and that is very much the key thing and it's really part of what we see happening to i think also.