and american t.v. network suze one of m.s.n. v c's top posts for describing them as paid russian propaganda they look at the a track record of the presenter going question when it comes to making claims about the kremlin meanwhile 2 u.s. journalists hit back after being criticize for a visit parts of syria controlled by think country's government any time visit anybody visits i government other the syrian government site and offer is a realistic perspective they can expect to be a tock what we've been able to see in report already has threat and the narrative that's been a conveyed by western corporate media and help solve a 60 year mystery artie's video agency ruptly it launches a special project it's

a running the strange deaths of a clip of hikers than the drone month i'm 60 years ago which spong countless theories as to just what happened you're watching our to international coming to you i from the russian capital were it's just turn 4 pm welcome to the program senior u.s. journalists are once again fighting of our russia with one t.v. network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda and it has story here comes a familiar voice would becomes even more familiar if we hear words like rush war russian for me most obsequiously a pro trump right wing news outlet in america really it literally it is page friction propaganda for those who still didn't recognize its that was freely literally rachel maddow was speaking about the one american news that work on her

amis and b.c. show i'll get to the point of reminding knew how she keep seeing russia everywhere in a moment but don't you think there must be some one out there who won to swallow what the m s n b c star anchor says without hitting the bag with a decent jab well oh a ed is filing a defamation lawsuit they want 10000000 bucks one america is wholly owned operated and financed by the herring family in san diego they are as american as apple pie they are not paid by russia and have nothing to do with the russian government this is a false and malicious libel and they're going to answer for it in a court of law to tell you about the reason for when rachel maddow said really literally which is supposed to mean definitely no doubt shares staff with the kremlin that's another thing she said it's just that a one america journalist did freelance work for

a russian based news agency sputnik she got him busted so bad but as i've said earlier the number of times rachel maddow turned her show into a grand russian paranoia episode is just difficult to carry out. about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia. is under president and the president republican supporters in congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still around. but never russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all the natural gas lines that that surface soon fall is just on the call to stay in recent memory and it wasn't in our power whether or not to turn them back on no wonder that when some folks decided to put the m s n b c hosts russia gate obsession into a mathematical perspective they found she spent more time talking about russia than

all other topics combined over a certain period of peace and now you know what it takes to become the most watched top. in all of cable news she got to that milestone last year but when step by step it gets revealed that a lot of what you were saying was just a flow of blah blah you make up to win views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually one down and then the actual conclusions of the more pro blood to wet is on air this is what the viewers saw when rachel maddow 1st realized the probe wasn't going the russia gaiters way and so we know the logistics of how we got the notification that it did and obviously right now we have mostly just a ton of questions as to what miller's report says how complete it is who gets to see it who gets to decide who gets to see it and when. now here comes the

lawsuit the one i mentioned nothing's decided yet but probably even more people will think twice next on the here really literally in that familiar voice. a visit by independent american journalist to syria has sparked outrage from parts of the media after they traveled to government held areas test test the country's recovery the 2 spoke with my colleague neil harvey. i'm staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate of bob sharkey and i walked across the street across a highway into a neighborhood about a few 100 meters away that had been controlled for 4 months by jaish al islam the wahhabi militia backed by saudi arabia and met residents who had actually lived under their theocratic rule who described kidnappings rape of women people being executed in the street for violating the theocratic rule and how happy they were to be finally freed from this gang what i was observing was

a city and outside of the city that is much much safer since i last was there last and i was in syria was 2 years ago there were still fighting it was still on save there were checkpoints everywhere now that the government has taken back many areas especially around accidents baskets outside of damascus you can travel to the suburbs and beyond the suburbs without going through a 1000000 checkpoints not being worried about being kidnapped or being sniped moreover life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people max blumenthal in running khalik travel to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to locals and observing syria's recovery from terrorists and they say they received no funding from the country's government among those angered by the visit were journalists from c.n.n. and the intercept who accuse them of white washing and government support here some of their reactions this is some goebbels prancing around syrian government

luxury tour posi tourist photos. and look the syrian refugees who can never return to their country with their fish can be tortured to death started to read a certain journalist's thread from inside damascus this am then found myself getting pell potations which progressed into spasms of rage how can anyone be so blindly credulous on the cossack's involved it is such a disgrace. l m a o ron and mocks are in damascus neither of them speak arabic yet they claim to be talking to many syrians there why aren't they disclosing who's translating for them and helping them out. this is to be expected and so they're trying to intimidate americans or europeans and people from the west from coming here they're trying to break off cultural exchange between us and average people who just happen to live in the area controlled by the syrian government where most

syrians live and what we've been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative that's been conveyed by western corporate media and a pack of kind of dime a dozen correspondents acting as state department i mean i think the people attacking us have an agenda they're either convinced that they're right or they're working on behalf of somebody else or both this isn't something we're we're that's new to us we're used to it i think it's why we can recognize an operation when we see one and this is very coordinated you know these people are talking in some d.m. group and coordinating against us and it's quite obvious and it's not surprising we expected it and i you know i think it's something that happens particularly any time does anybody visit a government or the syrian government side. of syria and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked but more importantly i think the reason there are so outraged by me and max is because me and max tend to be quite effective in offering a different perspective an offering

a reality on the ground kind of perspective. the war on terror launched in response to the 911 attacks 18 years ago changed not just america but the whole world that's according to pakistan's prime minister imran khan and an exclusive interview with r.t. here's some of what he had to say. well had we not participated in the american war you know after 911 we would not have been the words to the discussion tree by participating in the war and i repeat i was against it because you see. we were trading these people to do a job against the soviet when they occupied afghanistan so these people were trained by pakistan funded by the american cia and now a decade later when the americans are going to have honest on these same groups we're all in pakistan supposed to say that no not because the americans are there

it's no longer job it's terrorism you know it was a big contradiction and i strongly felt that you know pakistan should have been neutral because by joining in these groups turned against us so we you know we lost 70000 people we lost you know as i said over 100000000000 dollars to the economy and in the end we were blamed for the for the the americans don't see you succeed in afghanistan i felt it was very unfair on pakistan the full interview touches on a wide variety of topics from a potential nuclear war between india and pakistan to the prime minister's past as a successful cricketer and what aspects of the sport helped him in politics you can watch that on friday on our channel as well as at r.t. dot com. the mystery of what happened to a group of soviet hikers in the euro mountains back in 1959 is still puzzling minds today and now you too can explore the various theories surrounding the do you get

a lot of past incident at thanks to a special project launched by artie's video agency ruptly. the project allows you to follow their 10 day trek for each day you can explore what the group did via photos and maps and also what they wrote you'll also discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies and the various theories as to what exactly happened but it's all about interaction as well you can put yourself into the shoes of one of the team members as they walk along the route and

then vote on your preferred version of what happened after weighing up the evidence . really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is visiting russia to meet with lattimer putin at the head of snap elections back at home on tuesday there's speculation that one reason for his visit is to appeal to russian speaking voters and yahoo himself the side of the need to discuss cooperation with moscow and syria. this is a very important trip at this time when we are operating on several fronts $360.00 degrees this trip is designed to continue this cooperation which prevents collisions between us and the russian forces and to continue to advance the common goals that we agree on which is yet to be achieved and this function being achieved the withdrawal of iran from syria. and that reports now on what else could be on

the agenda when netanyahu. benjamin netanyahu visits russia's black sea resort of sochi while fighting a fear is real action complain at home many say meeting was more important here man tracked russian speaking and pro russian voters this will be their 3rd this year alone and their 13th meeting in the last 4 years making putin the leader benjamin netanyahu has met more than any other leader during this time syria will be high up on the agenda during talks between netanyahu and putin in particular iran's activity there and russian israel you coordination on the ground but has become possible and is successful due to mutual respect and openness in their relations as the israeli prime minister put it ahead of his visit here back in 2015. set up a special mechanism to avoid accidental clashes between the 2 motorist on the

ground in syria the prime minister is bringing his national security adviser and the head of military intelligence here to meet russia's defense minister said again before making wide mirthful and all this is happening just days before russia iran turkey very important summit on syria next week in and around but all those 7 strong and long the relations between israel and russia are far from ideal and some disagreements of course will be discussed here as well as yahoos these it comes just days after the israeli prime minister's controversial promise to annex occupied territories in the west bank if he's reelected next week it's already hall basically infuriated palestinians who say that would as good as kill off any chance of peace in that region but it has also brought criticism from the international community including from moscow that fears this move will lead to dramatic

escalation in the region so it is a sunny beautiful day here in sochi but the. titian's will unlikely have time to enjoy the weather all that town with series a very important meetings and extensive talks. a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and more energy from renewable sources that's what angle merkel once for the future and she's outlined germany's targets in front of the car bosses at a major motor show. listen yes we must reduce transport produce 2 emissions by 40 percent that's our twenty's go to target you can see them electro mobility though is just as worth a try for the future because cars will only be genuinely climate friendly once a look to cities comes from renewable sources but we want 65 percent of our electricity supply to come from renewables by 2030 the chancellor speech came a day after she used a key budget debate to call for more action on climate change but some experts warn

that stricter regulations could put europe's biggest economy in reverse r.t. it's all a quarter takes a look at the gloomy forecast. if there's any country that could be the poster child of a green political agenda it's most certainly germany it's a noble pursuit no doubt but the green vanguard is learning the hard way that everything has a price that's induced we is industrialized countries also need to be on the front line in terms of doing something to overcome our carbon footprint and stop changes in the climate reverse the rise in temperature if we push for climate protection it will cost money this money's well spent if we are going or if i think it will cost us more money that's the truth doing nothing is no alternative the fact is that we will dump a more of the captains of germany's car industry responded to merkel's request with a resounding yes they unveiled their latest most futuristic electric cars in frankfurt after billions of euros of investment of course perhaps they were trying to take a step towards the flying cars of science fiction at any rate many are saying that

paying for the future is only leading to the destruction of the present and i can include the green socialist ideology is running our country and taking away any chance we have for the future your so called climate protection is nothing else than a monstrous industrialization program combined with variable job destruction you waste billions to avert imaginary doomsdays in the distant future we're not just hearing this kind of talk from politicians though a new report says that renewables are threatening shortages in germany's energy supply and the country hasn't even come close to its energy transition goals germany is missing most of its self-imposed targets for the energy transition by 2020 at the same time energy supply security is being jeopardized in the medium term by the decision to phase out nuclear and coal emissions germany's over reliance on wind and solar energy has created a big deficit at times of little wind or sun the government has imported energy

from neighboring countries to avoid blackouts and just to balance 2900 and. budget germany had to foot a bill that skyrocketed to $38000.00 euros for a megawatt of power per hour as compared to just $64.00 euros in 2017 not to mention that every day germans pay the highest energy prices in all of europe we have to highest energy costs in the world the price for energy is the highest in the world because of this change of to supply system a situation is very ridiculous i mean they made a big fos last year for $2200.00 hectares of forest for a coal mine at the same time they're cutting thousands of hectares of forest for wind mails killing hundreds thousands of animals i mean this is no green policy i mean right now the situation what we have in germany is that the green party started as an environmental party but now they change. their climate he sed climate

paranoia party which sacrifice everything for the climate situation oh no it doesn't matter human beings nature animals no losses are all losses are justified this energy crisis may have germany teetering on the brink of recession and to stay afloat it's going to need that world renowned powerhouse of an auto industry it's built instead carmakers are being pressured to produce expensive electric cars that don't even sell that well volkswagen chief already warned that perhaps this is all going to for the current campaign against individual mobility and conventional cars is reaching and threatening level instead of using petrol or diesel will basically use coal even if we're literally powered and in the worst case we'll even use lead night that takes the idea of electric mobility to absurdity nevertheless environmental organizations are marching en masse on saturday joining them will be a brigade of cyclists calling for an end to the combustion engine hopefully it

won't translate to an end to the german economy germany was a very. say fun energy supply in the everything everybody's used to energy is always available but with getting more and more vin males into the into the system in the system gets more and more in stable and we have seen in the last month several time stead a collapse of to energy supply system we passed by only very slightly governmental policy in germany is destructing our debate but when off or industry which is to car industry of course from germany and for example of work smog and if they announced already beginning of this year that they want to going to get reduce $20000.00 people just because a fee mobility only in germany it's a big economic game or all competitors i mean clients are closing down here in germany because of their regulations and reopen in china where day can produce ewood to unlimited top u.s.

lawmakers are such a vote on a key element of the impeachment investigation surrounding donald trump he 41 see panel is not voting on impeachment itself but on the parameters of the investigation supporters of the probe hope it will strengthen their chances of gathering key evidence against the present on allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice a democrats have been sending mixed signals as kale martin explains democrats seem to be rolling ahead with their efforts to remove donald trump from office the house judiciary committee has just called for procedures related to its investigation of the president's wrong doing now for a lot of people that seems to put the smell of impeachment into the air their records on the house judiciary committee are expected to vote on expanding that impeachment inquiry into president trump democrats taking formal steps towards impeachment this is an impeachment inquiry in search of something to impeach president trump over so we've got 134 democrats voting to begin an impeachment

inquiry but do they really mean it at this point the democrats can't even seem to agree on what's going on with the house judiciary investigation who have been in the midst of an impeachment investigation no we're not in an impeachment investigation. the house is investigating to determine whether or not there should be an impeachment investigation so why might the democrats seem to be a little bit reluctant well in 2020 it's not just the presidential race but there's also some local elections and it seems like impeaching trump isn't the best vote getter polls show that 72 percent of democrats favor impeaching donald trump but for the country overall 59 percent oppose that seems like bad news for the new progressive socialist wing of the democrats that seem to have that their entire house on it remember this we're going to go in there really the mother would love it if the different democrats tried to impeach him it's the kind of battle he loves

the public is totally turned off it's not following this controversy at all so i think it would definitely play into trump's hands it will do the democrats very little good in the 2020 alexion and probably will actually wind up backfiring virtually impossible if he could be convicted in the senate and removed from office so it's just a it's a lot of hot air over nothing now the problem for the democrats in removing donald trump is that according to the u.s. constitution once the proceedings begin it would be the u.s. senate that would then vote to convict and remove the president the constitution requires a 2 thirds vote among the senators and the democrats don't come anywhere near that so what would the charges be and all the most common answer you'll get is obstruction of justice but there's a little bit of a problem with that we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime so obstructing an investigation into something that you did not do now you

could certainly lock up an average joe for that but it's a pretty weak case for driving a president from office some democrats even think that it would be bad for the country to impeach donald trump it's important for us to think about what is in the best interest of the country and the american people. and continuing to pursue impeachment is something that i think will only further tear our country apart speaker of the house nancy pelosi seems to be pouring cold water on the idea as well but she chooses her words very carefully take a listen when you go down a path like impeachment which is there is a fine so they could divide the country whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand the democrats have accused donald trump of being a criminal a traitor and a fascist they've got their supporters out for his blood but it looks like if they actually go for it this might backfire in the long term. ard see new york

that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now thanks for tuning in. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for indication let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development the only relief i'm going to resist are those 3 hours that strategy will be successful very critical current time to sit down and talk. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. of being there in the small boat sniffs it hard pulling ships and it still . comes down to. the little self to be

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cloned welcome to worlds apart travel has long fascinated to human imagination but until recently it's been the privilege of a selected few and the growth of the global middle class has turned into risen into a major economic currently responsible for roughly 10 percent of both global g.d.p. on total employment but with over a 1000000000 people. already turn versed in the world each year in search of sandbags and fridge magnets is such growth sustainable while to discuss that i'm now joined by political shrilly secretary-general of the world tourism organization secretary general it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank

you for your interest in the. first they were important even for all of us. especially its general assembly but expecting more than 100 different. presented this ministers was ministers from 157 countries and this is one of the most important event for all of us and this year we have it in russia you're a relatively new to this job i mean about a year and a half as far as i know and you came to the litter ship of this organization at a very interesting time on the one hand the global tourism industry is growing faster than ever before but on the other hand there are increasing concerns over and not only sustainability of that growth but also whether or not it's it may be damaging for the world as a whole is more still better as you mentioned that started last generation and that is my 2nd term 2nd year and. way more ahead a lot of challengers of course sustainable growth but we're working with each

member states because the states are different the challenges are different so for that. proposal we had several very interesting meetings one of them i remember we had been meeting for mayors from all over the world because our idea was to collect and to invite them in to discuss with people who are daily in the world in the in the problematic issues as you mention and there are some problematic issues regarding because we are growing very fast towards me flows. in europe especially in the idea was to talk with the people who knows and whom. had some kind of decisions on how to manage it and again the most important thing we mentioned many many times it's management but coming back to the question i ask is the more still better because i mean given last year's numbers. international tourism there i was grew 6 percent to 1400000000 that's almost 20 percent of the global population it's

clear that somebody travels a lot somebody doesn't travel at all but how far do you think it could go well expectation is that the growth will continue because of a. report regarding and according to the world economy growth of the month eclipse goes to tourism implosion too has its effect immediately directly and we're expecting the next year next year and next 23 years. it's better or not i think that it's good because there are lots of opportunity was a possibility to rest for employment is one of the. useful instrument let's say to create new jobs and our main objective is to create new jobs worldwide and there's still a little space isn't for that reason of their go between those. rural tourism here for next year to expand and to support new destination was part of the.