making headlines today in the u.s. continues its strong anti iran rhetoric now accusing turan of attacking the old facilities despite the rebels saying they did it wrong slams the accusations as a lie. while washington stance on iran doesn't soften even off the whole case u.s. national security adviser john bolton was fired this week by donald trump. also in the stories that shaped the week an american t.v. network sues the top presenter one of the channel for describing them as paid russian propaganda we look at the track record of the m s n b c host in question when it comes to making claims about the crime.

it's that we can hear a lot international with me in a day or 2 live from moscow this is all around of the top stories from the last 7 days on the latest up to date news welcome to the program. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world's energy supply saying that is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production or on denies any involvement in the attack calling the u.s. accusations ally has the exact wording from the u.s. we call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states without partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is how the council for its aggression. having failed at max pressure secretary of state pompei is turning to max to seat the u.s.

and its clients are stuck in yemen because i'm allusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory blaming iran won't end disaster excepting our april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may or refining in saudi arabia has now been hard to as a result of fires or 2 major state run facilities i would mrs shared a video on social media of a huge blaze where gunshots can apparently be heard in the background the u.s. claims it was a result of drone strikes with one of them being launched from iraqi territory while baghdad denies any possibility its territory was used. earlier yemen's a hooghly rebels claimed responsibility for deploying drones to attack that saadi or processing facility and also a major oil field they say the strikes were in response to society led or in yemen backed by the u.s. washington has also previously charged iran with lending support to the hoodies how it was savvy professor of political science at university of toronto believes these latest accusations from the u.s.

are most likely baseless. oh my god has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence butties i've already claimed responsibility for these attacks and although the scale of these attacks are on precedented we have to remember that the hutus have launched drone attacks deep inside saudi arabia for months now so i think there's no surprise there and the us has accused iran of sending weaponry to the hutus but we also have to remember that yemen has been under a very severe military blockade by the saudis with the help actually of the americans for over 4 years now making it very difficult to even send food lead to loan weaponry so i think he's just trying to come up with excuses to charge iran of crimes that iran is actually not committed so the they're meant anti iran rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after one of terrans most outspoken critics national security

advisor john bolton was fired by president trump on tuesday it was one of the big headlines of the week mr trump came to seclude with bolton on several key foreign policy issues there's no word yet on who will be the next national security advisor john bolton is renowned for his aggressive hawkish approach to foreign policy he supported the u.s. intervention in syria and was staunchly against these impressions north korea he also adopted a tough stance on iran and back scrapping the nuclear deal hawkins has been taking a closer look at his record. resignations and dismissals are part and parcel of trump's presidency a few policy disagreements a swift tweet from the presidents and another administration official bites the dust it was clear from the outset that trump and his national security advisor would have their disagreements i'm the one that tempers him but that's ok i have different sides i mean i have john bolton and i have other people that are

a little more dovish than him and ultimately i make that decision we can speculate on which exact what will lead to bolton's exit the failed talks on afghanistan the question of rush hour or perhaps iran but it seems the animosity lasted until his final day in office i offered to resign last night and president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration the trump views himself as a skilled dealmaker who talked tough when needed for bolton but wasn't enough he needed to walk the walk and actively consistently show strength on all fronts the middle east russia north korea latin america you name it he held out on compromising stance on sanctions military action and regime change.

bolton was one of the key advocates of toppling the moderate government using any means necessary all options on the table ready to go this troika of tyranny this triangle of care stretching from havana to caracas to managua is the cause of immense human suffering this is a time for action. trump showed he was willing to meet to negotiate with even the greatest perceived u.s. adversities even if it meant just a symbolic photo op the right intentions seems to be their bet it will make it clear that they won't i don't like sanctions being on his guard. i think they want to make these i think it's time for bolton though this was unacceptable so it could be a long and unproductive meeting or it could be a short one productive meeting we have very much in mind the libyan model from 20032004 while bolton boiled that north korea had violated u.n. sanctions after a missile test and may trump downplayed the incident saying he wasn't spooked north

korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. taking on iran was perhaps bolton's priority number one within a month of his appointment in april 28th seen the u.s. had pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and advocate of preemptive strikes he pushed for military action against iran after a u.s. drone was brought down and as ever his thinly veiled threats centered around regime change we hope that these new measures directed at the iranian dictatorship will compel the government to re-evaluate its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he is on the verge of making a mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction ironically just as bolton prepared to depart speculations been rife on possible talks between trump and the iranian president rouhani would have thought that possible after so

much hostile rhetoric perhaps the final straw was trump's plans of wind down the longest war in u.s. history including hosting talks with taliban leaders accountant david it's speculated that bolton this was in comprehensible it seems that with or without bolton's presence u.s. foreign policy may have more surprises in store during trump's 1st. lap i think of dan's piece is what we're focusing on later on in the program even though the u.s. shut down on the part of. the afghan taliban still wants to get back into the next . well as i found out in an exclusive interview with the negotiate it's a heart. senior u.s. journalist that once again trying to have a russia with one t.v. network saving the house of another and describing them as paid to russian propaganda that it has a story. 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 miss 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 ad 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 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. 1 about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia . f.b.i. is under attack from the president from the president's republican supporters in congress from the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still around. what happened if russia killed

the power in fargo today and what would happen if all of the natural gas lines that that surface in falls just goofed 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 molar 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 mystery that has puzzled minds for the past 60 years in 159 a group of soviet hikers in the ural mountains disappeared 9 bodies were eventually found. the past deaths and now via a special project launched by. we chronicle the fight for incident.

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vladimir putin as again the name being drawn into the crossfire of the u.s. presidential race but this time it's a blue on blue assault as democrats go off to each other as we explore shortly. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for until you shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back in an exclusive interview with r.t. the taliban has to return to the negotiating table over the war in afghanistan they were in moscow told with russian officials this week after the us president shut

down a year long peace process with the militant group despite hopes of the negotiations and almost 2 decades of conflict the taliban commander was supposed to go to the united states before signing an agreement the deal was to include washington withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from the militants not to shy. tyrus. justified ending in the negotiations and islamic attack on the afghan capital of resulted in the death of an american soldier that suicide car bombing killed time people in total and injured dozens it was one of 3 assaults kind of the taliban to me in addition to attacks which have taken place over the 12 months the peace talks on coming up they also great how they expect trying to negotiate with them while they're killing history. the next day when mr parker canceled this. negotiation here mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had

a good $1000.00 well so if big killed thousands of us why we cannot kill one of them or 2 of them know what is imposed on us. american soldiers there and i want to it's not our immediate soldiers are going to be in washington they are there there was a lot of us but still we. proposed and we are very keen to bring peace and i want some political solution but unfortunately i need to which we've reached some sort of finality when it was cancelled by the american side sides if the if the american side is not really negotiation and did not want based on the doable so all that we would be compared to defend ourselves i would never do this 500 years. i do know that there. is a behind that we can ask them what happened but we are still committed to the english edition was recently that i would stand our policy from this time we committed to understand this that they did this new solution for of one conflict

except negotiations and accept the peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize we hope that mr duncan. smith in here come back to where we were. just. a topic it seems that most u.s. politicians are agreeing on fracking with increasing numbers calling for the process to be complete and fracking involves drilling deep into the ground to recover all of natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad for the environment and top us democrats share those fears to ask reports the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency. shale production has allowed the u.s. to close in on and briefly overtake saudi arabia as the world's top oil exporter

president trump says that this is a huge achievement he's ready to celebrate success becoming more and more energy dominant i don't want to be energy free we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares donald trump's energy market enthusiasm in fact most of the people who want to run against him in the 2020 alexion want to outlaw the practice of hydraulic fracking that's the reason the usa has so much oil and gas any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands. on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moreau tarm on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling off shore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist come all the harris there's no question i'm in favor of

banning fracking so at this point roughly 59 percent of america's oil is extracted from the shale so if you outlawed the practice of hydraulic fracking you would knock down the oil sector of the u.s. economy pretty hard the same for natural gas now check out this headline. kremlin kemal or harris and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's preferred u.s. energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter many in fracking and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make lead to more prudent heavier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you're being pro russia and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senator isn't the only 2020 democrat calling for this from russia with love ban on fracking the most reliable of k.g.b. useful idiots bernie sanders is even clearer that this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking is all a big plot from moscow is nothing new in fact we've even heard it from the halls of

the u.s. congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting culture and energy as 2 to. industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we've seen anti fracking narratives so it seems like nowadays the only way to really play it safe in american politics is to find out what the why do we are putting once and do the exact opposite so let's hope that the russian president doesn't talk about say fixing up america's crumbling roads and bridges or addressing the opioid epidemic. archie new york. is or is even being released hollywood's latest comic book review is facing a backlash it's been accused of glorifying violence. the

joker starring a joaquin phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the man franchise and shows him as a loner descent into madness is not yet on public release but a screening at the venice film festivals got people are going online with many saying it encourages us to sympathize with problematic scenes. i don't want to have sympathy for a man best known for his robbery murder and arguably rape shoved down my throat for 2 hours it was not that long ago when a socially isolated described chilled white man who felt wronged by society quite literally dressed up as a joker and shot up a movie theater in colorado joke of a film where you're supposed to sympathize with a mediocre white man radicalising to do range violence will no doubt be appealing to the wrong audience for the worst reasons millions of children will see the upcoming film joker to laugh at a clown millions of children will be taught that crime violence and mayhem of the

stuff of jokes one will howl with take responsibility for promoting a culture of crime. we spoke to a filmmaker who believes that censorship should be a last resort. the problem with criticizing a film before it comes out for what it's supposed to say is that we're starting to as a lot of people like to do in this country self censor art and creative expressions of art and i have a big issue with pure is simply because it's really difficult to comment on something that you've not seen and if you're already saying that something is going to be the way you think it's going to be and you don't want to see it then we have a problem we have a problem that we have in this country with the polarization at a political level at a cultural level we don't want to see what we think is going to be different from what we think about what we support i don't think that video games or movies will

encourage people to to commit acts of violence i think the issue is at the source of education of many things that are going on in this country when it comes to mass shootings and role violence i think entertainment if something is an expression of something that is happening in this society that we need to deal with and it's a reminder as there is a lot of issues that are not dealt with and i feel that a lot of people like to put those issues under the carpet instead of dealing with them head on. yes budget deficit is expected to hit one trillion dollars next year questions are being raised about how american taxpayer money is being used and you the port by a cash talking senator has highlighted some of the more bizarre examples of government spending.

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a rare form of peace and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner. to leave me with one of my goals i can do this candle after politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the gotye you know that is too much. on may 3rd of 2003 the ambassador of switzerland to tehran delivers

a letter from iran to the united states. in that letter the iranians essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency. the proposal came in i happened to see it's because it was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called rove. called rove called back he said that he found that proposal intriguing he wanted to know if it was genuine were a promise to put it in front of the president i would call karl rove a dear friend. i've seen made a far sighted courage put america on a war footing. and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century no formal response was given to the iranians at all i'm grateful to have been witness to history. and the

argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the iranians. even more could be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. in a way to sum up the argument however a principle in the bush administration said that we simply do not talk to evil. and as tony zinni said former central command commander if you like the rock you'll love iraq that is a 10 to 14 year 3 to $4.00 trillion dollar invasion at the end of which the world western asia will look not much different than it does right now it will still be in turmoil and still be in chaos and 70 plus 1000000 iranians will hate our living. in the pentagon and i want to see your inner circle turn to france 90 years and move forward it's shared with me in church.