making headlines today the u.s. continues its strong and tirant right now accusing terror attack in saudi oil facilities despite the rival saying they to that iran slams the accusations as a law i. mean while washington stance on iran has been softened even after bookish u.s. national security advisor john bolton was fought this week by donald trump. also in the stories that shaped the week in american t.v. network 3 of the top presenter over not the channel but describing them as paid to process propaganda we look at the track record of the m.s.m. to see hosting question when it comes to making claims about the problem.

a warm welcome to the weekly on our team where we can feel round up of the biggest stories of the week and of course the latest news. and fust us secretary of state mike compare house accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the walls energy supply saying that terror on is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production terror on denies any involvement in the attack calling the u.s. accusations ally let's take a listen to exactly what the u.s. said we call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and the run is held accountable 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 illusion that weapon superiority

will lead to military victory blaming iran won't end disaster except april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may or refining in saudi arabia has now been hard as a result of those fires 2 major state run facilities as experts expected or oil prices have jumped significantly more than 13 percent following the incident u.s. president trump has authorized the release of oil from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve highlighting the importance of keeping markets well supplied the 2 saudi facilities damaged by fire were attacked on saturday eyewitnesses shared a video on social media of a huge blaze were 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 iraq but baghdad says there is no possibility its territory was used. earlier yemen's who see rebels claimed responsibility for deploying drones to attack that saudi oil processing

facility and also a major oil field they say the strikes were in response to the saudi led war in yemen backed by the u.s. washington has also previously charged iran with lending support to the who sees. a professor of political science at the university of tehran believes these latest accusations from the u.s. are most likely baseless. how long might compel 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 who tees have launched drone attacks deep inside saudi arabia for months now so i think there is no surprise there 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 let alone 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 very moment auntie iran rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after one of trance most outspoken critics national security adviser john bolton was fired by president trump on tuesday that was one of the big stories of the week mr trump claimed he disagreed with bolton on several key foreign policy issues there's yet no word on who will be replacing him john bolton is renowned for his aggressive whole case approach to foreign policy he supported the u.s. intervention in syria and was staunchly against easing pressure on north korea he also adopted a tough stance on iran and backed scrapping the can a deal done a whole concern has been taking a closer look at his record. scandals 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 russia or 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 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 go like sanctions be. in his country i think they want to

make peace 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 non productive meeting we have very much in mind the libyan model from 20032004 while bolton boiled that north korea had violated u.n. sanctions offer 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. have 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 speculation has been rife on possible talks between trump and the iranian president rouhani it 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 at camp 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. i'm will focus on that lata aspect of dan's piece later on in the program even though the u.s. shut down the hard brokered peace talks the afghan taliban still wants donald trump

to get back to the table as our 2 found out in an exclusive interview with their negotiating team that's ahead of us this half hour. senior u.s. 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. as the 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 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 hitting back 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 bit 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 apis owed 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. f.b.i. is under attack from the president from the president's republican supporters and congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. around. what happened after russia killed the power in fargo today and what would happen to all the natural gas lines that surface and 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 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 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.

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what the group did each day through 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 added to that you can put yourself into the shoes of one of the team members as they walk along the route and then vote on your suspected version of what happened to weighing up the evidence you're presented with. in an exclusive interview with r.t. the taliban has don't trump to return to the negotiating table over the war in afghanistan they were in moscow for talks with russian officials this week off to the u.s. president shot down a year long peace process with the militant group despite hopes that negotiations

might and we see 2 decades of conflict the taliban commander was supposed to go to the united states before signing an agreement but deal was to include washington withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from militants not to shelter terrorists donald trump justified and in the negotiations by citing an islamist attack in the afghan capital that resulted in the death of an american soldier that suicide car bombing killed 10 people in total and injured dozens more it was one of 3 assaults claimed by the taleban in a 2 week period in addition to attacks which have taken place over the 12 months that the peace talks going on the group how they expect trying to negotiate with them while they're pulling his troops. the next day when mr. so this is a. negotiation mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he.

doesn't want to go so if to give those of us what we cannot give one of the other what is most. american soldiers there you know it's not only the soldiers. there was a lot of us but still we. propose. to be set up with something but unfortunately i need to which we've reached some sort of proof i don't even. it was considered by the american side a sense if the american side is not really a negotiation and did not want peace on the day it will. be compared to defend our civil liberties to do this 500 years. i don't know that there is a behind that we can still work hard but we are still committed to the league mission is receiving the i would stand our policy from this time we're going to talk about this notice that there's no solution for one conflict except

negotiations and accept the peace on the table so we have all revitalize we hope the mr duncan. smith in here come back to where we were and we just stand there. after the fact to give the american. american democratic politicians are increasingly speaking out on the issue of fracking with many calling for the process to be complete and fracking involves trading teams into the ground to recover well a natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad for the environment and top us democrats shadows fans too scared of more reports. the usa is now the world's top oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency booming 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 3 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 5 ban on public and private lands. on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore 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 we're 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. r.t. new york. and now some pop culture before it's even been released hollywood's latest comic but is facing backlash after its accused of glorifying violence.

in phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the batman franchise and shows him as a loner who descends into madness it's not yet on public release but a screening out the venice film festival school people arguing online with many saying it encourages who is to sympathize with problematic themes 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 the stuff of jokes when who how would seek responsibility for promoting you culture of crime we spoke to a filmmaker who police 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 and 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 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 too much 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 that 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. and finally the u.s. the budget deficit is expected to hit one trillion dollars next year and questions are being raised over how american taxpayer money is being used a new report by a kentucky senator has highlighted some of the more this saw examples of government spending.

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hello and welcome to cross now where all things considered i'm peter lavelle 80 years ago this month the 2nd world war in europe began 60 years later the scourge of german fascism was defeated however the meaning of the start of the war remains hotly contested this history is intensely political. crossing revisionism i'm joined by my guest geoffrey robertson he is america's professor of history at university college cork as well as member of the royal irish academy and his latest book is churchill and stalin we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst and editor interest me internet media project and in london we cross our going to be curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jeffrey let me go to you 1st here cynthia visiting moscow and you are in the steam historian of the 2nd world war and of the soviet union why is

it contested the beginnings of the 2nd world war because all the most the time it's about the outcome of the 2nd world war but we had this. debate is in warsaw the russians were not invited the germans were why is that still controversial well the idea front of us for the. boys of course a massive amount of us right you know 2nd world war 5060000000 people died. reshaped completely the 20th century well we're still living with the consequences of shadow so you know it is one of the most important of all historical but it's political still it's always been it's always be political it's always been a matter of just historical contestation about watch you happened who was responsible political blind bend light now he's particularly controversial at the present moment the actually. of course because what's going on in in relations between the russian federation and the west because of the unique ukrainian crisis

because the propaganda war that's going on between the russian federation west and the anniversary of the war in particular events associate with become part of that political struggle ok alex let me go to you in london you know we have as i pointed out a few seconds ago russia wasn't invited to these festivities in poland certainly a snub to the russians but the germans were invited it reminds me of the you know the the soviet not seen non-aggression pact ok i mean if one can draw conclusions about the morality of that but the cold political calculation you can't deny but the poles want to seem to have it just one way go ahead alex well the poles have their own interpretation of the. control the russians there is there's also well people like jeffrey well but still when she's.