merica calling caleb maupin infamously austin obama administration official about israeli w m d so an e-mail has recently come to light an exchange between jeffrey leads and former secretary of state colin powell in which he had knowledge is that israel has as he says two hundred nuclear weapons and the nuclear nonproliferation treaty has not been signed by israel. under u.s. law and the united states should cut off support to israel because it's a nuclear power that has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty according to colin powell direct u.s. colin powell well joining me now are encrypted link from falls church virginia is someone who is colin powell's chief of staff and sam adams who would win a lottery wilkinson retired colonel thanks for coming on the show i just going to watch because we played a sound bite there would you recognize that israel has nuclear weapons because obviously there is a continued denial of that fact from the u.s. government now of course they do at least part of the technology that stole from us

with the acquiescence i think a limited base johnson then present the united states in the sixty's they have nuclear weapons let's just quickly go to the situation in kashmir because while the most of the media are interested in the talks in hanoi and and the loire giving evidence in your country what is your take on the kashmir situation and why it suddenly flared up given your background as the chief of staff. this is an extremely dangerous situation even in two thousand and two when we took great interest in the situation between pakistan and india and dispatched some high level diplomats there to deal with it they didn't actually fly aircrafts attack aircraft against each other and of course now we have a pakistani air defense battery having shot down an indian fighter and we have any impala apparently being held by pakistan so this is more dangerous even the two

thousand and two although he had been released larry and i mean you can see that there might be enough to some people's interest for there to be. unfriendly relations between delhi and islam about. of course there is always in someone's interest for states like that to be fighting one another obviously when you achieve a stuff the political wing of hezbollah was recognized as a political wing of the sea they have members of parliament in the parliament in beirut in lebanon britain has now said that the has been a politicians in lebanon designated terrorists or these that what they want paloma to agree to what to what do you make of the well the british were the only ones who along with the nefarious and catastrophic invasion of iraq in two thousand and three also so i would expect no less from the british had the term administration made that decision a few months ago has been a just gave going underground

a statement saying the free british people news support and continue to cover crimes of terrorism in syria or yemen by taking this decision the u.k. government is insulted the emotions and will of the lebanese people who consider as will are political in popular power that has been widely represented in the parliament and the current government so a kind of a kind of victory fez will of being gamed by this kind of censorship in banning and designation as terrorist i think so i think the rest of the world at least half of it or better understands that when you're up against a state that has the latest and modern military equipment and behind it the greatest military power on the face of the earth the united states you have a couple of choices you can not launder and beat a slave or you can take means to oppose that modern military power and that is what as a law has done that is what hamas has done it's understandable i'm going back to my military professional roots i learned when i was being briefed on al qaida at the joint special operations command of fort bragg in our country back in two thousand

and one right after nine eleven and i remember the colonel's words very vividly i said what's that second briefing you have over there against the wall because he just finished a brick. you know now he said all that's has will and i said yes and he said yes you don't want to mess with them they're the number one terrorist organization of the world in terms of capability they make al-qaeda look like i care is but and here come the sttng or but they are not opposed to the united states unless we are in their face in their area on their land and territory so let's not mess with did you offer them about the apparent mismatch that the united states was against al qaeda and at the same time against a group fighting al-qaeda and so i mean reason recent actions in syria show as buller in the vanguard against isis day as an al-qaeda even more strange right now and so i asked between riyadh and israel that even extends to arm it didn't manuel

the most evil man on the face of the earth in my view and bibi netanyahu and others in the israeli government well obviously we invited saudi ambassador london on the program he never does come on the program i'm sure he would deny any charge of being evil but certainly as regards israel the united nations in the past few days claimed that israel fired and wounded more than six thousand palestinians a protest in that crimes that amount ma'am out to be crimes against humanity i should say four israeli soldiers were injured in the protests last year and much publicized there about the united nations a. verdict on what israel did to civilians to the disable to journalists and to help what has not a lot in our corporately influence to not only media and media that is influenced from the new york times to national public radio orginally by the israeli lobby you're not going to hear too much that might smack of secrecy i'm really worried about the long term security of israel which i am concerned very much concerned

because. all the actions that are taking place right now both domestically here in this country and as you just said numerated some in israel in the west bank in gaza . so forth are undermining israel's long term security not security there's begun an increasingly dramatic erosion of support even amongst you ish americans as i pointed out ok young jewish americans for this position doing nothing and hearing no evil see no evil and speaking of evil i'm really worried about israel's future sisk security krystle be because its leadership right now doesn't seem to understand that it is itself undermining israel's long term security now here in britain i should say people criticizing the israel lobby tend to be attacked as anti c. might so do you think it will israel's the policies will continue to affect the us presidential elections i think it will but not so dramatically as in the past as i

said i think that influence is all in all the control and so shank operating in the united states under the rules the seas of the u.a.e. and israel even he said the other day that old a canard about anti semitism a orcon anymore because a lot of people are seeing her it has nothing to do with anti semitism and with bernie sanders it has nothing to do with a decent semitism for a par excellence it has to do with what i was just talking about it's a very complex security arrangement the united states is involved in we just built our first base in israel for example ok i'm sure you're not going to say that one glide over this previously unknown venezuelan politician has a bigger low be than a pack but when you are at the state department was venezuela on your radar as it is now as obviously an enemy of the united states you mecha roger noriega otto reich who couldn't get himself confirmed in mccomas of sectors of western hemisphere affairs because roger could elliott abrams and others we were hacked

practicing what i would call not in one nine hundred fifty three long at most a day to day ta we were practicing a more sophisticated more modern up to date today taht we were pushing chavez we were. pushing the opposition we were trying to overthrow go shoppin as dick cheney ran us national security and arm palsy from two thousand and want to two thousand and five and for example when your ministry of foreign affairs approached the state department along with france and germany and was bringing a message for from being a job in tehran that said let's talk land let's even talk about nuclear weapons ballistic missiles terrorism and so forth and we started them at the state department secretary powell didn't even see them he sent rich armitage down to turn them over to him and bolton essentially listen to him and told to go away do you think then that. israel has anything to the venice wit to do with venezuela because why is one white oh so keen on talking about israel venezuela ties i think israel

probably has a hand in almost any place first of all generally speaking where arms are being so . it bats way above its weight in terms of population and so forth with regard to selling arms to almost anyone in the world who buy them and it also has a long record of giving us a port in areas where we might want to conduct a world operations and we might not want to expose ourselves so blatantly as we would otherwise so before anyone gets too pessimistic listening to this conversation. they have foreign minister venezuela said the other day that he has had long meetings with elliott abrams obviously previously convicted of war crimes in the western hemisphere and abrams the trams on early two misdemeanors for which he was pardoned by president bush quite well the point is that area that's a scent that elliott abrams the current one to venezuela is going to buy the whole

trump. they've had conversations and they've had a long meeting something hopeful there and the fact that something in private made not be something that can be shed in public i certainly hope so i know that leopoldo lopez is the real cause. our behind white oak white oak probably has what nine members of the national assembly i mean what a strange beast to select to be our representative as he quote represents of those oil people unquote he certainly doesn't leopoldo lopez as our about him that said i would rather see mexico ergo why the pope if this is to be a little north a the united states is going to be a mediator in this god forbid it should be through a clue or civil war or both afghanistan iraq syria my god haven't we learned our lesson hasn't the world learned a lesson from our learning our less ally i hope this is not something that is a made a bolt a military power the venezuelans need to take care of this on their own part and if

there is any military power to be use it needs to be venezuela. doesn't have either because civil war there would be quite bloody but outside intervention does nothing but exacerbate the situation whether seana russia or the united sates talking about just about just one final question that it's one year ago since the british government says the russians use w m d against someone in this country and that to be a putin raise the specter of the cuban missile crisis with respect to the withdrawal of the trump administration from the i n f nuclear treaty how dangerous to think well that is the atomic that atomic bolton the doomsday clock that they run i think it's at two minutes to midnight now which it was in one thousand nine hundred two october sixty tutor nuclear missile crisis i think they're right and for a whole panoply of reasons i think we're closer to an exchange of nuclear weapons kashmir for example today then we've been since nine hundred sixty two and the withdrawal from the ion after eighty without sitting down we should have sat down

with putin we should have sat down was using let's have a multilateral discussion at least the three parts the three parties russia china the united states and let's expand that we need new nuclear arms control more effective nuclear. arms control not less which i thank you very much after the break how could a mature investigative journalist manage to id three russian spies one year on since all three we speak to a former russian intelligence officer. going over bob jewett going underground. go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of.

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and that as an outlier is the united states is the way over here and it's all crashing down from the drugs from having junk food having junk culture having it's junk politics and fake news it's all fake and. it doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers in clear.

welcome back well if nuclear tensions between washington and moscow are rising because of the i.n.f. treaty one year ago it looked like britain was going to war with russia its meaning here since turned m i six spy script and his daughter were allegedly poisoned in seoul's raid in the west of england u.k. authorities claim the direct chemical weapon was used and that it inadvertently also killed british national and mother of three dawn sturgis potter and the policemen were also allegedly poisoned charlie rowley told us i don't recognise the two suspects but i want to see them brought to justice it is progress to see the suspects identified in the screen case but we need to make sure that these people are also held accountable for dorms mudda but no one has been held truly accountable drazen may said she'd seen evidence that it was the russians who julie did i do it but u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson was unequivocal this is. true.

we. should he was widely ridiculed but except for b.b.c. and reuters journalists no one knows what actually happened to sergei screwball and his daughter. yulia screwball was interviewed still without consular access by the reuters news agency it was not to notice the school bus or stores up it was no. give us some. evening when you those are anymore. except that no one has access to her or her father those suspected of committing the crime because of c.c.t.v. footage showing them strolling around the city of seoul as we did turn up on our t.v. interviewed bayati boss margarita simonyan though she asked whether they really just went to souls really because it was a wonderful city and we crossed the border. but i try to see each other through or . any of the. summit is because he was.

on his i mean you're going to go up to europe on this new need. to meet. you know about steve you know we could go on because i mean you've. seen me just send me some repaired i mean part of the deal to clued me to the interview on r.t. was greeted with astonishment around the world with apologies to schools because the drill who flies from moscow just to see it then came a torrent of revelations that had internet conspiracy theorists be repeating lines from the dallas book depository why do timelines of all match how was it that the first to find and treat this cripples on a bench just happened to be the chief nursing officer of the british army we on this program last legendary pulitzer prize winner who has uncovered conspiracies from my lai to abu ghraib he has not investigated the story but said this guy i've

written a part of so yes my something i have written the story i always had about it from my friends in america is. those two were helping your the british intelligence services with information about the russian mafia. that's what they were doing here in other words the people that would high on the list that would want to hurt them would be the russian mafia russians but not the russian got to read the script. i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same actual same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee model activities i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it well joining me now is espionage story and and former k.g.b. operative alexander vassilyev alexander thanks for coming on you joined the k.g.b. is letting me have putin graduated so maybe europe in stooge what would putin have got out of trying to kill people in britain using chemical weapons that could be traced to russia well not in action i think that's their official narrative over

the years so it's been a case is total rubbish now there are several points playing importance in their fishbowl narrative which defy. common sense and elementary logic there's a goal from the from the top as i said putin would never authorize it on that do you for the world cup in russia russian risk of huge amount of money in the world cup and to kill and create to create such a scandal international scandal that would be totally stupid now let's go to the level where these two guys. are from the throat let me ask you let's suppose you want to poison sort of your script ball and so it's very. how would you do that would you go in broad daylight. what's what if anything is i don't know what and second guessing so you're basically second guessing the british

government and what the prime minister dres may said said very clearly that it was it was russia that's why all those diplomats were expelled and why countless acts but certainly the media here especially using this betting cat personality guinn's his research as show knew they were. i mean just to interrupt you these two were interviewed on our t.v. saying that they were there to see souls breathe cathedral. i mean and not on a intelligence mission by the russian government does anyone really believe that no i don't i think that our there that interview was a brilliant job. but it is old for one of the original how well it is it's because a good journalist it it it's sold them they were first told it gave them

a chance to speak and. to me that into or is one of the reasons why i don't believe their group offices why because you feel they are grue or facilis if they're hearing from russian hard to create a soldier's post letter by portion they would never have to do that. kill from russia or spoke to people in russia that in theory were stupid accumulating for them they would never have to do that that's why there i believe that there are no grew officers and there are another other reasons. all experts say that. that corporation poison and i perish and wars are conducted on the very on the harder on professional level but experts in this country say that well it's just because they're idiots or excuse me. over russian special services veterans from russia people who started at military academies carted to korea to soldiers that it

is really yeah no i understand that but of course the view here presumably the view of the intelligence services here which then feed information to theresa may and ministers is but actually since the fullness of the union when you were being trained it is it that incompetent in putin's russia i don't think so if you talk if you look at the let's say and separation of in crimea in two thousand and fourteen it was mostly done by well russian special services well we're my way out of your bones an egalitarian that but from the military point of view that was a brilliant operation home when you people who actually killed khomeini put in says no one was what was killed no one and the russian media there are well the reason a case may be but we're talking about maybe about one person. or not and let's compare this operation the whole was taken back from ukraine

no one was killed i think it was a brilliant operation was done by our by the russian special services guy but on the other hand you know the russian you know all the russians call those guys would you get the polite people ok but surely there's been a degree of incompetence on in the putin administration in foreign policy losing ukraine allowing i don't know a major attack in libya i mean that that have been a goal cases of that kind and also i have to ask you is russia. is it prepared for the networks like the integrity initiative which has been exposed to my five and six. with journalist to think tanks including some links to the bed and get organization. in this country the levels of. disparate russia and anger at russia. are new all time high based on the on the certainty

that russia was behind the script well i wouldn't i think that the british public and the british media are different things i talked to or british people ordinary british people are both the case many times these are the official narrative doesn't play very well at the even for a normal for an ordinary civilian with common sense right now about billing cats and all this stuff which i don't call evidence i call it stuff. from britain that i think bill and get my have a serious problem with their russian partner the insider. i think. is their website and educator over the upped over that website its name is on the brow hold of doesn't impress me as a as an independent and impartial journalist or among the brotherhood of is a leading member over this sort of director movement she is not a journalist she's

a political. figure there are two movement was created created in two thousand and eight by a liberal politicians like buddies nympho for sport of and yes they are open iterations this is liberal opposition positions we shouldn't take it seriously that in the past few days the insider that website says that the third demand the betting cat is about and the identified was in catalonia before the referendum there in britain before the brics it referendum that this is all part of putin's grand plan do you. use these grue g.r.u. offices to disrupt and destroy western european democracy i think that people should come that would be interesting to compare the inside of the website what they say brother third man and the billions that website. they seem different things bill and good sense to both the third man that they don't know which role

what role he played if any in their souls or a case in the poisoning of the script both they and they don't know where the hue was in soul spirit at that time. the insider website says. that she is definitely a criminal that she definitely was in wolf in the poisoning of this great post and he definitely wasn't there it looks like of inside he's. more of a cold and maybe political maturity to know this story and bring it i don't know much about it but i don't know who is financing it we've invited the. head of bell and get on this program i think members of his stuff are trying to get this program banned but we will try to get him on alexander thank you so much that's it for the show will be back on wednesday thirty five years to the day of the miners' strike described by jeremy cauldrons top advisor seamus milne as having no real parallel in size duration or impact see that.

what i see images and hear things what they're doing. i see people who are afraid not see these young men and some women in these white supremacist groups and i see those i see really scared. losing. all they have no longer is the color of their skin that's all they have going for themselves their white skin. my son doing drugs my nephew still in drugs my sister just been doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united

states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the ones. there are numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for. your offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. failure in one knowing what are the lessons to be learned also the stalemate in venezuela and the breaks it out today and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

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the british prime minister visits the city of solsbury on the first anniversary of the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter. just one and is withholding the full truth of what happened twelve months ago. also this hour an offshoot of the own kind of terror group stages a deadly surprise attack in syria because the u.s. offers a million dollar reward for information on the lawn and sun. i'd like to see as broad a coalition as we can put together to read.