american t.v. network sues one of the top posts for describing them as quote paid to russian propaganda look at the track record of the presenter in question when it comes to making claims about the current. meantime 2 u.s. journalists are being criticised for visiting parts of syria controlled by the country's government. any time anybody visits a government the syrian government's side and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked what we've been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative that's been conveyed by western corporate media. solve a decades old mystery artie's video launches a special project surrounding the strange deaths of

a group of bikers in the ural mountains 60 years ago countless theories as to what happened. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. senior us journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda . has the details. here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear words like russia or russian the most obsequiously approach trump right wing news outlet in america really it literally is page correction propaganda for those who still didn't recognize that that was really literally rachel maddow speaking about the one american news network on her and this n.b.c.

show i'll get to the point of reminding you how she keeps seeing russia everywhere in a moment but don't you think there must be someone out there who won't just swallow what the m s n b c star anchor says without having a bag with a decent jab well oh a ed is filing a defamation lawsuit they want 10000000 bucks one america is wholly 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 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. or about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia wants. is under attack from the president in the presidents republican supporters in congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. around. what would happen if russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all the natural gas lines that that service in falls just on the coldest day 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. now you know what it takes to become the most watched hosts 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 went down and then the actual conclusions of the 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 journalists to syria has sparked outrage from parts of the media after they traveled to government held areas to assess the country's recovery i spoke to both to journalists. i'm staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate bob sharkey and i walked across the street across the 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 our life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people mike's a blumenthal and running a car that travels to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to the locals and observing syria's recovery from terrorism they say they received no funding from the country's government among those angered by the visit though with journalists from c.n.n. and the intercept the accused them of white washing and receiving government

support here is some of the reactions. this is sam goebbels prancing erode syrian government luxury tour posting tourist photos near torture centers and maki syrian refugees who can never return to their country with their frisking being 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 a cosmic sin volved it is such a disgrace. l m a o iranian 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 if it's very quantitative 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 and 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 and run car in an exclusive interview given to r.t. is some of what he said. well had we not participated in the american war you know after 911 we would not have been the world stage risk and 3 by participating in the war and i repeat i was against it because you see a cheese we were trading these mujahedeen people to do a job against the soviet when they occupied of understand so these people were trained by pakistan funded by the american cia and now. a

decade later when the americans come into of understand these same groups all in pakistan are 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 turn against us so we you know we lost 70000 people we lost you know as i said over one $100000000000.00 to the economy and in the end we were blamed for the for the the americans don't see succeed in afghanistan i felt it was very unfair on pakistan the full interview touches on a wide variety of topics from potential nuclear war between injured pakistan through to the prime minister's past as a successful cricketer and what aspects of this helped him in politics you can watch that on friday on our channel as well as on a website called. the

mystery of what happened to a group of surveyed hikers in the ural mountains in 1959 is still puzzling minds today now you too can explore the various theories surrounding the death of pass incident thanks to a special project launched by outies video agency ruptly. well the project allows you to follow the 10 day trek for each day you can explore what the crew did via photos and maps and also what they wrote you also discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies and the various theories as to what

exactly happened but it's all about the 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 you've weighed up the evidence. so u.s. lawmakers a passed a key vote to define the boundaries of a potential in pietschmann different situation of donald trump and he's the committee can designate certain hearings as impeachment hearings and empower staff to question witnesses republican members of the house furiously denounce the me. not even the impeachment inquiry some of the media 6 is saying it's hard to know what we're doing here and that's exactly what i want to know so hearing about whether or not we have people come give testimony afterwards the president can

write us a letter in response this is more about defining our pen pal strategy for all of us covering this this is not anything special investigation that's already been completed moment of hearing a song that was a flop if the majority wants to exercise the house's power of impeachment all you got to do is ask house to do so impeachment resolution could not pass the full house so this committee is trying to have its cake and eat it too you want to give the illusion of impeachment the reality of i want to go a long time to be able to say this welcome to fantasy. supporters of the probe hope it will strengthen the chances of gathering evidence against the president on allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice but democrats have been sending mixed signals since the special counsel robert melissa didn't find trump guilty liberal but explains democrats seem to be rolling ahead

with their efforts to remove donald trump from office the house judiciary committee 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 the impeachment inquiry into president trump democrats taking formal steps towards impeachment this is it had been in korea in search of something to impeach president trump over so we've got 134 democrats voting to begin an impeachment inquiry what 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 they 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 now 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 we're going to 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 ready 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 that 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 and 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 very defined so they could divide the country whatever decision we made and 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. are to see new york. those come the israeli prime minister meets with illegitimate putin the head of elections back in the israel details of but after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you that.

welcome back these early prime minister binyamin netanyahu has met with. snap elections back in israel on tuesday corresponding we're not sure who's in sochi maria what do they have to discuss. with well hi neal hey yes a long awaited meeting between libeler putin and benjamin netanyahu has just now started here in. russia's presidential dacha and lexi's some residents i have to say that this is they are. these 2 year alone and they're 13th in the last 4 years we were allowed to film the beginning of the season meeting both politicians were smiling while entering the room. and board ludmer putin he's welcomed the speech talked

a lot about how profound and deep and good in fact the relations between russia and ease world recently are especially in the field of countering international terrorists and he emphasized it dispassionately vladimir putin came in years straight from the precious caucuses region in russia arguably most affected by international terrorism by terrorists and threats and dangers so both countries in the practice was from terrorism was talked about that and the size and this is very important to remember that and to continue afterwards in in a counter and also mentioned the upcoming israeli elections and i mean it's on yahoo's it's russia while why do you feel as reelection campaign a good omen many say. may help him attract russian speaking and for all russian voters and some a position figure is even more blame benjamin netanyahu. all that saying he does it

on purpose and he does it told the time and in fact he saw for the 1st time that we see benjamin in visiting russia had all of. the election in his country whole so talked about russian speaking people saying that they raise a 1000000 more than a 1000000 of them living in these rural this is why it's very important for russia to have a very good relation and. he said that he. the relations have never been so strong and so fruitful as the right now and he emphasized that they're wrong among other things 2 major factors for the well measured and balanced policies respect conducted by both politicians whose 1st and 2nd personal relation between 40 and benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister said that.

the 2 leaders avoid accidental clashes between their notaries in syria and. actually as a result of the whole region from. the nation back in 2015 and. specifically accidental clashes between russian and israeli military in syria and by the way. i mean and then you. have very big delegation we including national security advisor and the chief of military intelligence and before me dean wideman report and he had extensive talks behind closed doors we do not know the details with russia's defense minister. and also talking about syria benjamin netanyahu mentioned iran's activity there.

recently saying that israel has to react and we also heard ron wyden altering that this is no definitely not the last meeting between the 2 politicians he accepted israel's invitation to visit that country next year in january when israel celebrates its 75th anniversary of its legal ration we'll keep you updated on how the meeting back to you thanks to refer to the list from such. onto other matters now russia's requested through interpol from washington to provide information about missing russian national alike smelling cough he disappeared after the u.s. media reports claim this week that he was a high level spy extracted from russia to the u.s. back in 2017 to explain all is it is done. interpol request comes from the foreign ministry and according to maria's the heart of the spokeswoman of the foreign

ministry a russian citizen the missing abroad this is something that any foreign ministry you should do to try to find out what happened to their national now also there have been reports that allegedly the house where the family of small and resided is abandoned now reportedly the landlord of the family had abandoned the house on their both cars now the whole this whole thing started with reports in the u.s. media suggesting that small and was a high level informant with the cia aim he worked at the russian presidential administration and the reports went as far as to suggest that he had sent photographs of documents on vladimir putin's table to the cia quite something very outrageous if true now according to the spokesman of the russian president dmitry peskov he did confirm. that small and did indeed work at the presidential

administration but as for the report suggesting that he was well and a cia informant for more on that he referred journalists to the russian security services the denial king from across the atlantic from the united states for instance the secretary of state might from peo did rubbish the claims calling the reports factually inaccurate and i ding fuel to the flames here is the fact that the whereabouts of small and cove and his family still unknown. ok thanks staying with our team to national you are right up to date i'll be back with more hope to see you in half an hour. is the best twenty's you know there were no laws really on wall street and the abuses were huge and the market one way and people began to look at the stock

market as the proxy for the economy people are getting wealthy because their stocks are going up and they do if they quit their jobs they just become speculators and so this is what happened now people are saying look the economy the real economy is terrible no jobs they've been shipped overseas and i'm nothing left of the day trading and the market goes up therefore i'm being productive but it's obvious. you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is what the 3 of them can't be good. interested in the waters of. the ship. i

would normally manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round this doesn't mean that one percent. we can all middle of the room say. welcome to the alex salmon show where we continue our series on the economic

conditions against which the brics a political drama is being played out last week alex interviewed one of the world's leading keynesian economists professor david blanchflower on his prediction of another international recession i don't think you could have picked a worse talling to pick out and do breaks it it's unclear exactly what the short and the in the end long term consequence of breaks it all and separate them from the fact that there's a global trade war going on it's the end of a 10 year long recovery and all of those things happening together breaks it itself for the global economy says the i.m.f. is a downside risk entirely to the world and this week show we're asking commentators north and south of the border about the political economy of brics it from scotland economist and former m.p. george kevan spells i took alternative economic agenda to the prevailing wisdom across the liberal democracies what we need to do is to fundamentally. change the

economy scotland is creating a steet investment bank and rather than rely on the ups and downs of of the free market finance we are going to use that state investment bank to invest against the cycle so if there is a downturn then it's true that bank will be to pump investment cash into the economy my prescription to rely on the on the on the us and those are of the free market invest long term view that you need a state investment bank from england leading taxation expert professor richard murphy detail some of the unintended fiscal consequences of brics it cash flow is actually the biggest potential implication of brics it but i can see no one including the government in its yellow have a document to talk about who is going to pay the cost of lorries sitting for $2.00 and a half days waiting to get through dover the point is that's going to impose substantial cost if it's the truck company that's paying they can't afford if it's the customer that's paying the price is going up but it means that not just their own trucks in

operation trucks are being paid to do nothing now that could drive literally every hoarded company who goes across the channel out of business in weeks because they won't be able to afford a new prime minister boris johnson's for 6 weeks in power have been nothing if not event for his controversial decision to parole parliament has set off a chain reaction which has turned a bare majority of just one into what is in effect a minority of 40 the united kingdom or so heading for its 3rd general election in the last 4 years i boris johnson runs the risk of being the shortest term prime minister in british history however in addition to understanding the political twists and turns of westminster begs it should also be seen as a reaction to underlying economic conditions in today's show we asked 2 of the country's leading political economists an extent to which the economics a dictator in the politics of the brics it.