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a joint operation against. a global doping network. and one of the most anticipated some of the u.s. and north korean leaders made headway. and ending the decades long korean war. while i am here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. there's been a dramatic escalation in tensions between india and pakistan india is demanding the return of a fighter pilot arrested by pakistan accusing it of violating the geneva convention by harming him pakistan earlier released video of the pilot with blood and bruises to his face the pilot was captured after pakistan shot down an engine warplane this

video which we cannot independently verify is said to show a. twenty one fighter jet. claims it shot down to a crawl space over kashmir and that it arrested two pilots india says. it's one plane and a single pilot pakistan later closes the airspace lines the discrepancy between the two sides claims of. what we're absolutely sure we're seeing now is the culmination of tensions that have been building with more regularity in recent years and essentially things have now come to a head to the importance and consequence of how things play out from here is very significant not just because these are two very powerful countries but because they are nuclear armed enemies so if this does continue to spiral downwards this doesn't just impact the region this could have an effect on the whole world pakistan is claiming claiming to have shot down two indian air force jets and captured two pilots and says that its jets have launched air strikes in the indian territory a move that they claimed was in self-defense pakistan is

a responsible country and we don't want to endanger lives of masses we have you know retaliated to india all being done is just what irresponsible country does for its defense our message is peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back. because it was to do. and force this border isn't. you know one of the. ways in order to do. in this is. going to go. is missing in action. because. he is in their custody this comes just one day after india claims it hit a militant training camp and killed a very large number of fighters from the militant group jayashri mohammed which took responsibility for that suicide bombing earlier this month which killed forty

indian troops now in a bizarre twist pakistan rejected india's claim saying that indian fighters were confronted before they conducted those strikes on the training camp and. actually just dropped four or five bombs in an empty field and then fled back across the border so what's making this situation all the more hard to follow is how the two sides have these conflicting media campaigns both sides are pushing their own narrative and so was single source of contradictory information online and in the news but at the core of it what is very clear is what we're seeing is the first of the first aerial attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war and nine hundred seventy one now speaking in the past hour the pakistani prime minister imran khan has called for a responsible approach he said noting how both of them are nuclear powers they really couldn't afford a miscalculation and are so are you understand who would say i want to ask

a question to the indian government that considering the nature of the weapons that both of us have this can we afford any miscalculation should we not think this moment that if the situation escalates then where will it go it will not be in my control or no run remote control i will again tell you a better sense prevail now and we should resolve our issues by sitting together through talks. with the moghuls cheesecake loves spikes in tensions over kashmir they have been up and down over the years a fresh wave of violence really took hold in the summer of twenty sixteen but kashmir has always been contested territory even before india and pakistan won their independence from britain and nine hundred forty seven.

as a multinational appeal for both sides to show restraint and to conduct talks we've been getting reaction from experts on both sides here's some of what they told us. i'm from the pakistan air force but i would like to see peace in the region because both india and pakistan are nuclear very friendly script and we do not one of those two escalate to have mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it would like to remain a forthright action if one of the definitely escalate into a full scale involved it would be norms barred but you see india took an action yesterday and pakistan going to action today and retaliation and shutdown of the aircraft i'm hoping that we let it go are that you sit down and talk to each other

and if india has actionable intelligence our prime minister has a cure he will dig different action i don't know where there will be no response from india because there was a response and this is like a counter response which is always part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their tertiary do it will have to respond and seem to want to a nuclear powers country and the leaders know to stick so very high they just can't afford a full fledged consciously so the hope is that things will not spin out of control and both sides will sort of current loss of sort of state and decide. let's destructor and look forward to some other means maybe we are going to end a war by other means maybe to reduce the amount you could create economic going on because there are no winners and the military don't know who are as we have seen so

far. as disgraceful malloy has been testifying before congress about his ex boss and he isn't holding back on top of calling the u.s. president and racist cheat and con man michael cohen cames trying new breaking leaks plan to reveal damaging democratic party e-mails to in the twenty sixteen election code alleges that the he overheard transformer advisor roger stone saying he communicated with a bikini founder julian assange which. to trump new from roger stone in advance about the wiki leaks drop of e-mails mr trump mr stone on the speakerphone and stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julius songe and that mr stanch told mr stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign mr trump responded by stating to the effect when that the great at the time cohen

claims he overheard that we kill leaks had already publicly announced its pending publications and has always denied speaking to rochester we have e-mails of late hillary hillary clinton which. pending publication is correct republican congressman thomas said that this part of cohen's testimony is quote old news for say should that some of the clintons e-mails would be leaked is that correct correct ok was that in you said late july do you know the exact day. i believe it was either the eighteenth of the nineteenth and i would guess that it would be on the nineteenth but it was definitely july i believe so yes you know that was public knowledge and you this was mr assad's like to submit this you know it's consistent this through the record without objection so mr science reported to the media and

june twelfth that those e-mails would be leaked so i'm not saying you have fake news i'm saying you have all the news moments in the spotlight and will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax fraud as well as for lying to congress he claims he lied out of loyalty to trent but admits the president never directly asked him to do said that also came up in the republican criticism of current who was a child confident for more than a decade it. to lying about his actions he lies to banks all of those lies with lying then why should we believe him now ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in search of the truth i don't believe that michael cohen is capable of telling the truth and i would hope that as this committee moves forward anyone who is convicted of why has

that perjury thing hanging over him for the rest of his life they become incredible witnesses because they've demonstrated that the oath the oath that they take with a promise that someone to testify in a way that they've taken an oath and therefore because of their belief system because of how they work they're compelled to tell the truth if they've dismissed that if they have violated that already they've proven that the oath means nothing which means that they could be lying at any moment which means their testimony is absolutely worthless and that the person said to have contacted mechanics found a massage as poll manifolds his chum's former campaign chairman has been convicted of by ok and tax code. back in november the guardian newspaper broke the corroborated story. with one of fourteen we submitted a freedom of information act the details. sources say anonymous sources say well placed sources say one source multiple sources and on and on and on goes the merry

go round game of he said she said a staple of journalism and politics alike these days when so often so much is at stake across the atlantic action in congress is stealing the show there trumps former attorney michael cohen claims the us president was aware that we q leaks would be dumping the infamous clinton e-mails that hillary claimed played a part in her not being elected among a bunch of other allegations one of the pieces of this puzzle is weak you leave and its role in trying presidency founder julian the function when you are none. essential you job at their core durham the street who did or didn't visit him in the time leading up to the major meet and what the guardian reported in november that trump's then campaign manager paul man of ford had been at the embassy in twenty sixteen months before the emails were released something both man of fort and wiki leaks deny the paper reported that man of ford's visit was not logged as

would usually been watchful eye on the embassy twenty four seven from twenty twelve until twenty fifteen when nonstop surveillance ended but a so-called covert plan was bolstered it is no longer proportionate to commit officers to a permanent presence the m.p.'s will not discuss what form of continuing operation will take all the resulting implications surrounding it are to filed a freedom of information request with the metropolitan police service to find out more since the confirmation of any controversial visits from the police would provide at least some certainty something that washington too had requested details or. it's no secret that you have been conducting surveillance of the equador an embassy in london since july in the sanch entreated back in june two thousand and twelve can you please provide any documents relating to poor men affords entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy says twenty twelve until the present and

this is what we heard back to confirm or deny whether the m.p.'s holds any documents in relation to pull manifold entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy would cause operational harm to the m.p.'s and affect our ability to fulfil our call function of law enforcement or yes or no from the police on what did or didn't happen to be embassy would have potentially turned out to geishas into certainty but until all the evidence is on the table all that's left is to pick and choose whose claims can be trusted more respected churkin our party. people have been arrested in a joint austrian german operation against a dope network at the nordic world championships has all your work correspondent peter. on wednesday police carried out raids on sixteen addresses across germany and austria resulting in nine arrests linked to a blood doping scandal in the sport of nordic in cross-country skiing and what we

understand is that five elite athletes are among those that have been arrested we know that two of those austrians two of those are a stone ians and one is from kazakstan we also understand that two others been named as cadets in the austrian police force who were also members of australia's national nordic nordic skiing team well the arrests may well be in connection to revelations about blood doping in the sport that were made by this dirt the thirty one year old made his claims in a documentary aired here in germany back in january of this year he admitted to using e.p.o. in carrying out blood doping in fact when he was talking about the sport of nordic skiing he said it does not work without doping that's a direct quote from him but the austrian police say that these arrests are part of a long time and wide ranging investigation. based criminal group is strongly

suspected of having carried out blood doping on elite athletes for years to increase their performance in national and international competitions and thereby to gain illegal income one of the athletes arrested in austria was well pretty much caught red handed according to the authorities euro news record an athlete in action who was undergone a blood transfusion in his arm when the police arrived of the arrests that were made in germany one was a forty year old man described as a sports doctor by the austrian authorities have been far more forthcoming with information than their german counterparts the austrian saying that it's well this doping scandal that they believe they've own covered it could well extend beyond. nordic in cross country skiing and may well extend to other sports as well the world anti-doping agency wada say they're paying keen attention to the news coming out of austria and germany and say that they're cooperating with the police now the

reaction that we've heard from this well as you can imagine it's been coming in loud and clear how do you think the federal broadcasters are reacting now it was russia that iridium city air force continuously discredited by in terms of doping well or for as the linchpin of doping both already in the studio have they finally learned adopting is not only part of cycling still i would like to see equal limits our rules him on all sports doping is rampant in sports but our biased media is still obsessed with a cold war see that it's only russian athletes as they've been forced to never start in the program if you will about doping in cycling i mean here in sports consultant alice cashmore believes this case should be considered a wake up call. most of the standards well cost sports are supported by dope of one kind or another i think it would be playing that game for the past two or three years

a blame game that has been pointing the finger at russia and say that this is the source of all evils when it comes to doping in sport it all starts in russia and ends in russia no else in the world is really involved on the kind of scale the russians been involved and now we have new urgency that hey i'm on it it's not just in russia this is happening elsewhere in europe and probably beyond europe the truth is that it's going on everywhere and i don't think anybody's going to start accusations that austria or germany are involved in state sponsored doping but we could say that the something rather more sinister force here because if there are these so-called international global criminal gangs who are at work then they could be supplying potentially anybody in the world illegally knowing some contras the kind of dope that's use habitually by athletes is not illegal what is illegal is to

deal in and maybe that's what they're going to pin on this particular gang. land meeting has been taking place in the train the u.s. presence in the north korean leader in the capital they took part in a photo call and yet with the bottled language coming in for some scrutiny. donald trump does is put his other hand on top of that is dominance so he is

asserting his dominance we see it when he's sitting down and he puts his hand in a downward steeple position that again is dominance it's that confidence but he's trying to pull it back and from what i'm seeing here is all though he is feeling dominant and naturally trying to dominate. he is also trying not to do it he's trying to make him comfortable and i suspect it's a head of the main set of talks that are going to take place tomorrow the first round of talks have now concluded. sepsis has more on what's to come. this is president trump's second attempt at making peace with north korea the two leaders met briefly for the cameras and are now having close discussions behind closed doors the talks are made up of two rounds one formal dinner and one on one talks but before coming to vietnam prison trip was under severe pressure to make a deal at the summit that came after criticism from opposition back home that said

not enough was made through the last summit between the two leaders in singapore but the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first and we made a lot of progress and i think the biggest progress was our relationship is really a good one i think that your country has tremendous economic potential unbelievable unlimited and i think that you will have a familiar future your country a great leader and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen and we will help with that trumper to read it in a tweet that a potential for a deal is quote awesome both countries to sign a piece the collaboration to symbolically end the korean war the conflict ended in the arms this not actually a peace treaty back in one nine hundred fifty three which means the war is technically still ongoing north korea would agree to return more the remains of troops who died in the korean war also the u.s. is considering to opening up diplomatic office in north korea. that could show the

relations between washington are actually getting warmer north korea will agree to stop producing nuclear materials one facility and perhaps at the other ones as well in exchange the u.s. will push to lift some of the sanctions on pyongyang and will pursue a joint economic project with south korea but again it's not clear what the deal exactly we can expect from this meeting but the summit does that actually only concern washington in pyongyang so let's actually have a little look and see what are the other regional neighbors feeling about it. despite the fact japan's also over a north korean test missiles flying over it the concern over. the outcome of the talks after all if a deal is struck it's unclear whether japan's concerns will be addressed what made the situation worse with the allegations that japanese prime minister abby officially requested for trump to be nominated for the nobel peace price in fact i think i can say this prime minister robbie of japan gave me the most beautiful

copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called a nobel price he said i have nominated you or respect me in behalf of japan. i am asking them to give you the nobel peace price that did not go over well for the opposition especially after prime minister's office refused to comment on the allegations abduction nuclear insult to mid range missile issues not to resolved at all i'm concerned that it would give the wrong message to north korea and the international community if we accept that the current situation deserves the nobel peace prize. south korean president name just like as our line washington has also said that he is expecting great things coming out of the summit. i expect it to be a turning point that advances completed denuclearization of the korean peninsula new u.s. north korean relations and a peace regime on the korean peninsula president moon might come out as the biggest

winner of these talks and in a way it seems that he's risking more than anyone else if these talks lead to a dead end after all it's this country that will be among the prime targets for the nuclear capable north korean missiles south korean foreign minister said his country is looking forward to a quote tangible and substantial results with all the hopes skepticism and fears involved coming to a specific results might turn out to be a very tough challenge for everyone involved in this situation but considering that the idea of i.q. west north korean summit started absolutely impossible just two years ago maybe there is still a chance for a happy conclusion. yes but it has carried out its first offensive operation against russia so it has told the washington post that you are blocked internet access overseas to what they called fact in china twenty. but if an option is across the story for us. what we basically have is a washington post article claiming that the u.s.

military managed to block internet access to one russian group known as a internet research agency on the day of the country's meat turns november last year some in america believe that this group might be informed in the alleged aim to fear reigns in the country's presidential elections back in two thousand and sixteen washington post a site in a number of officials all of whom spoke to the paper on the condition of anonymity has also added in the article that that attack in two thousand and eighteen was just the beginning of what is supposed to be a massive cyber campaign against russia the operation merged the first muscle flexing by u.s. cyber command with intelligence from the national security agency under new authorities it was granted by president trump and congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities if it was true it simply shows how in secure cyber wise russia can be interesting and off they snooze came at the time when this topic is

highly debated here in russia on all levels earlier in february russia's state duma adopted the first trading of a draft law requiring all russia's i p's to ensure it can operate in the situation when russia is unplugged by foreign companies by foreign forces from the global network many refer to this document as internet isolation and there are critics of course saying that this is just the government's attempt to put some control on online life but the russian authorities keep saying that this is a measure to protect the country's security. and i think this will bring huge damage to the u.s. so the economic but also political damage but it is also but for the special services sitting there gathering all the information about you but don't be afraid i suppose they will think a hundred top. before doing something theoretically anything is possible so we should create such segments that won't be dependent on anybody on wednesday

following the washington post article claiming that russia's darkest fears and concerns over internet security may already be a reality we asked russia's president spokesperson to meet trip to scoff to comment further on which management of the world's internet is defacto carried out by several companies that potential threat led is to consider a sovereign internet it's not linked to the isolation or closure of a country it's connected to protection against illegal actions of our news this hour make sure you stay with us for cross talk which is up next here on our to international. another. thing.

you want to do your. job. openings are going to shoot me with a look at. warren buffett you know these doing the stock buybacks which is you know used to be

illegal so recently that's completely fraudulent and yes no governance or oversight whatsoever you know he's a more than one of the biggest are the biggest shareholder of wells fargo for example during that period when they were engaged in serial criminality when they were engaged in absolute fraud and he's a party to that so here's a guy who given unlimited credit at zero percent and is exempt from the rule of law still can't seem to make money for his shareholders which is you know.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle trumpeting ministrations attempts to impose regime change on venezuela appear to be faltering the self-proclaimed interim president though how to gain much traction this may this may explain the administration.