democrats in washington demands fox news register as a foreign agents quoting the channel a russian stooge. joke. the parents of a man killed in a traffic accident piled pressure on the u.k. demanding justice as the wife of a u.s. diplomat and main suspect escapes punishment. we fear was the family. more concerned with how the american citizen is accused of pulling off shore and helping us british citizens that were to the country. and the chemical plants in eastern texas bursts into flames after an explosion 3 workers are injured.

a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mean if you are and it's great to have you with us now our top story at democrats have labeled fox news nexus an existential threat to the u.s. describing it as a russian stooge with some on the blue half of washington calling for the cello to register as a foreign agent. voices in the mainstream of the democratic party have escalated their calls for the suppression of alternative views specifically about foreign policy the target now seems to be the fox news network one of the most watched cable news networks in the united states prominent democratic voices have called for fox news to be forced to register as a foreign agent and specifically a foreign agent of russia fox news should register with far as an agent of the russian federation if it's going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda well heard. u.s. national security interests then it should be treated the same as our t.

and these allegations and this call for suppression of fox news and forcing it to register as an agent of russia seem to be in response to this comment from tucker carlson i don't live like they are about to go on a conflict between ukraine and russia but i'm curious like i don't like to know why and why should i run for russia when i am tucker carlson is a prominent host on fox news he has a nightly program and apparently it was in response to not only these comments but also comments he's made in coverage she's had of the o.p.c. w. reports questioning allegations about syria and the chemical attack and duma in 2718 here is some of the response that fox news has endured for its foreign policy coverage folks news host says he roots for russia against the west he said the quiet out loud this clip is just one more exhibit supporting the case that. most is right but democracy versus authoritarianism i think many still underestimate the

threat to the republic at this point fox's open the fascist day and g.o.p. are existential threats to do us say we've reached out to fox news for comment on this issue in this allegation we hope to hear back from them this is not the 1st time that allegations like this have been leveled against conservative media outlets in the united states there's currently a case in court in which one american news is suing m s n b c and rachel maddow over their allegation that rachel maddow referred to america one american news as quote paid russian propaganda one american news network is a conservative media outlet they say this is slanderous they are simply not a paid russian propaganda outlet and that this is an attack this is an unfair slander from m s n b c and from rachel maddow they're hoping to win a settlement in court of up to $10000000.00 it seems that the allegation that one is a. russian agent or a russian asset or a foreign agent agent of

a foreign power seems to be a common theme among those calling for the suppression of alternative views it's just not the smear it's then that's all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a foreign agent which is absolutely ludicrous but they make is going on with no evidence and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as foreign agents that's absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion and which they've been doing all along they've been doing this with the russian gates a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year and now at the beach when hearings which is also blown up in their face democratic party in the left used to be the party of free speech the priest speech movement was started in the 1960 s. by left wing activists and 'd and they're also the anti-war movement and they used to be the party of anti-war we've seen this dramatic shift the entire paradigm has

been flipped on its head free speech and war and foreign foreign relations it's just 2 of those biggest issues the democrat party the left is fundamentally anti free speech. the spanish will be taken off and bolivia at the start of december according to the country's leading t.v. operators have any joins me to discuss the story. well no specific reasons were provided and the bolivian t.v. operator which pretty much excluded r t from their list of channels starting from december the 2nd explained it through some kind of order from what they called the company's administration this is a decision taken by the company's administration which talks to us with shutting down the channels broadcast says a private t.v. provider and the leader and believe he is cable t.v. market we do have to remember that a similar move has been made by ecuador's public t.v.

operator almost 2 weeks ago they cut of spanish as well and also demanded explanation for that and still hasn't got it from quito now in this particular case it's unclear whether the decision came so lean from the company's top management or whether this has got anything to do with the political situation in the country we remember that earlier this month bolivia pretty much suffered a coup and yet take us through exactly what happened that just remind us well how the former president. was all but ousted on november the 10th 1st he won reelection in a vote however the opponents claimed that the poll was rigged and as a result of that even though he actually promised a new election the military and the police turned their backs on mr morales and he had to flee from x. to mexico where he got political asylum now what's very important here is that the

interim leader janine yes was never elected in any kind of vote she basically proclaimed herself the interim president of the country when had to step down when the vice president resigned and when the head of senate resigned now she says. that at the moment her goal is to make sure that new elections are held in the country. that this is the law we believe in we have arrived at this day with the satisfaction of fulfilling that duty because this is the main objective of my government new elections will happen in the shortest time possible but it seems that so far her focus was absolutely different 1st of all she was accused of turning a blind eye on a violent crackdown on the indigenous protesters who are mostly in support of the former leader. but also it seems that all 'd she's been up to is trying

to make as many u. turns as possible in the country's foreign policy she appointed a new ambassador to the u.s. for the 1st time in more than a decade and also severed diplomatic ties with traditional allies especially under . that is with cuba and venezuela other diplomatic personnel representing major divinest while an embassy in bolivia will be allowed to leave the country for having interfered in internal state affairs well surely perhaps the biggest political crisis in latin america over the last year or so has been the crisis in that as well the fight between the nicolas maduro government and also the opposition leader who's self-proclaimed president there and venezuela well what is also did was she recognized mr glyde bill as the head of an as well as well i

hope it will end that you with the venezuelan people. because i believe that they have been many years of suffering mr president i do have to say though that eventually interim president is pushed through a legislation which allowed a new general election in bolivia although this is something that's going to be boycotted by almost a half of the population diesel. borders of. say that they are not going to take part in this vote so what kind of general election is that gonna be with almost 50 percent of bolivians deciding not to take part was part of the national coordinator from the think tank alliance for global justice who says the self-proclaimed government is attempting to prevent the bolivian people from any alternative coverage kook government in bolivia is struggling to establish itself against. resistance and they can't they

can't afford for people to hear alternative voices to the. news that they want the message that they want to get get out there because they have to have control of the message. people can you know if people have free access to information they're going to say that other people or country are are suffering in the way that they're suffering they're going to know the reason for the suffering is this. the sole legitimate government that that is composed of the resistance will continue on and grow. foreign secretary has been branded a coward after apparently refusing to talk to the family of a young man killed in a car accident the deadly incident happened in. an american military base in england and reportedly involved the wife of a u.s.

diplomat we spoke to the victim's father following his confrontation with the foreign secretary. this is done although you know what mary have you any sort of a go in there that they really have to want to you know the to the right but that's how one of the will to feel very. deeply very happy to see you and to robert go down and try to speak to him because he had been in contact. troubles with how rich carrick's sorry i went down to speak to him but he didn't want to talk to me because there was some press that would be trying to speak to mr arar for a long time on or yes jews call me he goes on a bridge knows where. orders to do is get in touch with us and we can arrange a marriage so you have all the art since there is we've been asking since the start but we haven't had any support from the u.k. government really i had one meeting with mr brough which wasn't very such

structuring for us as a family and a lover now there has been no contact with the right we feel as a family that. they're more concerned with helping the american citizen is accused of killing our son then our finance british citizens that been in the country teenager harry dunn died 3 months ago as a result of a traffic accident between his motorcycle and the car the suspects in question and sar colas admitted that she was driving on the wrong side of the road she left the u.k. afterwards and invokes diplomatic immunity so her lawyers are clueless that she had no time to react and apologize to the dunn family. the case foreign office this is providing all the necessary help to seek a resolution to this case but harridans father told r.t. more must be done for justice to happen. probably rick we want and secure this to come back so you can be charged through our courts for the crimes she has committed

and i except your punishment for us that is what we are. 100 percent but also we're going to try and help the government only countries look at this diplomatic community and all because you just say rather than the case that the spouse of an american worker can kill a knowledge in your all out and out to meet the culture on beauty i think the laws need to be updated to be more concurrent with the why the songs we live in we feel we cannot let this injustice go forward was a young lad just starting out 19 years old started to enjoy his life and it will take you know i've loved him and we would fail we would not be the parents we should be for me we do not try and say this through and get the justice he deserves . to. be a chemical plant in southeast texas is ablaze following an explosion early on

wednesday morning in which 3 workers were injured. ai is the act would. i. believe we spoke to one local resident who told us about the shock and the extent of damage to locals homes. yeah so our house was actually really damaged but all the garage doors pretty much all of the doors down the little are all the windows blew out some of the roof you know. so we had

a lot of the image you hear about the explosions but it's half in there around the area before but not to this extent it's never affected our boners around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know something like this to happen but i guess it just living in the area of the refinery owned by the t.p.c. clear produces thousands of tons of chemical and petroleum based products the situation important nature as is still ongoing is imagine sea surface and seek to bring the fire under control as quickly as possible journalist and campaign on health and environmental issues all of a to kell believes that a substantial investigation will be needed to determine any background toxicity and really quite toxic compounds are used on this site and the manufacturers on this site i think that really quite a lot of investigation will be needed just to determine the background toxicity in the local area following this instant local community will have

a lot of hatred relationship with this plant these plants are responsible for quite a lot of wealth in this area they provide a huge amount of employment they are the economic lifeblood of this golden triangle area but at the same time there are these pollution incidents i think that this incident may actually bring quite a lot of additional political pressure on to the trumpet ministration not to cut the resources of the e.p.a. as it's intending to do. washington has announced it will look into allegations that its own weapons of fallen into the wrong hands in conflict. the department of state takes these allegations very seriously and is working closely with pardon in the nations to determine whether there were any such unauthorized transfers well that statement came in response to queries made back in october by senator elizabeth warren those concerns triggered a c.n.n. investigation which claimed mine resistant ambush vehicles that to the saudi bank

forces and yeven apparently ended up being used against them amnesty international names the u.s. as the world's biggest exporter of arms to date at the same time it says that saudi arabia is the main recipient of american armaments between 20142018 riyadh accounted for 22 percent of washington's weapon exports here's a quick reminder of what's been taking place in yemen says the saudi led campaign began in 2050. thanks.

to. the above. former pentagon analyst michael maloof told us the u.s. is unable to keep track of all the weapons it sells. if there is no real strict accountability of these arms particularly in the hands of the saudis and and the immoralities the of the u.a.e. so. that's what the investigation is going to be about is try to get some idea. of how some of that those arms may have gone wayward based on those reports and i don't rule it out because if local troops there can make some money and sell some arms they will now it's it's a little. fantastical i guessed to have a whole. go wayward like that because a those are fairly well accounted for and you know we're involved in so many wars so many actions so many fronts and that's why the defense department frankly cannot

pass an accounting because. because there's no way to account for where any of these items go alternately certainly aircraft will be watched bigger items big ticket items ships but not not small arms not that's almost impossible to control. the director of human rights watch for israel and palestine has vowed to continue his work after being expelled on monday from as well tel aviv accuses them of supporting a banned boycott me put on the country which it seems at the strategic threat. israeli government has been trying for 3 years to expel human rights watch their rationales have different differed most recently the israeli government claim that we call for boycotts of israel and their focus has been our work on the illegal settlements we do not take a position boycotts of israel what we do across the world is document abuses by all

actors including businesses in call for actors to refrain from contributing to rights abuse in order to comply with their obligations under international law and when we applied that universal call to the illegal settlements in the west bank israel said it was a call for a boycott and under a new law called revoke my work permit and then deported me on november 25th. well human rights watch has long been critical of the israeli government's rights record on the construction of settlements in the west bank is the 1st time a human rights watch staff member has been expelled from israel and the organization 30 years of operating in the country moshe care believes the ruling is part of a targeted campaign aides rights advocates clearly they're trying to do by throwing out a representative of one of the world's largest human rights organizations is to say to others that you know your work documenting rights abuses could result in you

facing a punitive sanction this move shows the degree to which israel has lost even the pretense of respect for basic international norms if israel despite criticism from much of the world for its me as it did earlier this week for my rights advocacy how would ever stop abusing rights are the reality here is the israeli government feels emboldened and the world spoke out against this and they still did or did me so i think the message is quite clear here that the government intends not only to continue a systematic assault on human rights organizations but intends to continue its abuse of policies that we've been exposing and bringing to light. sculptures of whistleblower julian assange chelsea manning and edward snowden have made in their parents. more than 4 years after they were 1st unveiled and titled anything to say the collection of sculptors now returns to its former place near the brandenburg

gate after world tour the artist behind it divides domain osaze it represents those who dare to say no to global surveillance or make a stand against lies that lead to war r.t. spoke to star of aga next from the german left party she told us the art piece is bringing to life hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of speach. this sculpture attracts attention to this incredible scandal that is to journalists and whistleblowers who uncover crimes are sitting in jail today while those who committed these crimes are not held accountable this has nothing to do with the rule of law and therefore it is very good though we are now so close to direct dialogue because here is the federal government which could have started to act on this issue a long time ago and for example who provided. asylum in germany and returned it returns to germany as there are serious concerns over wiki leaks that are to julian assange in the u.k.

prison earlier this week more than 60 doctors wrote an open letter to the british home secretary saying i could die in prison based their assessments on eyewitness accounts following an october court appearance it was reported that a staunch couldn't record his date of birth at the hearing and when asked whether he could understand what was happening the australian replied that he could not think straight the wiki leaks co-founder has also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions to recap currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he's serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bell conditions in 2012 separately he's also fighting a us extradition request the wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings un rapporteur on torture and kneels meltzer strongly claims that it's not just about the songs but about the integrity of governments and safeguarding future generations. 6 months ago already i went into medical doctors and i sent

a clear in the examination and conclusion to the government and asking for immediate measures to be taken for his protection and delineation of the pressure on him the government sent me a tweet the next day and waited for 5 months to send any response whatsoever and when they did respond to sent me a 2 paragraph response is rejecting all old all my conclusions they're not at all indicating their readiness to engage in a dialogue and do what they need to do both doctor said if pressure is not alleviated rapidly that situation will deteriorate to a dangerous level we have seen this happening within 10 days of our visit and since then i'm seriously concerned for his life this is not really about our sons or snowden or manning this is about us it's about our governments their integrity the rule of law and the future of our self our human dignity and our children well thanks very door to get here on r.t.

international we're going to look what will be here at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. one of the names we talked about on the show oh if you read the financial press about the latest scandal it's just a new name for a recurring sound like there's only 3 or 4 ways you can rip people off changes is the name they call to rip people off. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right to be close this is

what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters in the house . hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle it's an understatement to say america is a very divided country many have even spoken openly about the possibility of civil war what is scaring the country apart what is keeping it together it cannot only be about donald trump what will it take to start a sustained social and political dialogue before it's too late.

talking the political divide i'm joined by my guest jen kearns in new york she is a g.o.p. strategist contributor to the daily caller as well as the founder of women for a great america also in new york we have britchka style though he is a political strategist and tech c.e.o. and in washington cross to arvind bora he is a libertarian party presidential candidate as well as author of the book pull out men modern life and mutiny all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in in the time you want and i always appreciate armin let me go to you 1st i love the title of your book by the way i think it's fascinating it makes me want to read it you're kind of the odd person out on this panel so i'm going to go to you 1st here and reflect upon what i said in my introduction if you could quite in a short way i asked the questions what is tearing the country apart but what's keeping it together and that's the tension here what is keeping it together and what is dividing the country go ahead in washington what's dividing the country

right now is a deep level of in my opinion partisan intrenchments and what we have is you have some people who are going to side with no matter what even when he acts against basic conservative principles you know when trump does a gun restriction a gun bad a silencer bad a bomb stop and that's something that enraged conservatives but having dug in on bad side they're just sticking to it no matter what on the other side you have progressives that no matter what somebody on the other side says or does they are reacting in just crazy and exaggerated ways so on one side i think we have a high level over level of loyalty on the other side you have people who will not tolerate any view that disagrees with their view with their core value system that they're not open to discussing it well i think that's what's keeping what you are then what the ok let me go to jenna. then this is an age of irrationality because you're against your. ear against your opponent and you going to take

a position irrespective but irrespective of your own values it's not about values then it's about something else jan what is it go ahead. well i do believe we are already in the midst of a civil war and i think is the 1st shot in the civil war was actually yeah it was actually fired by the obama administration the day they filed that 1st pfizer request to eavesdrop on their political opponent donald trump in trump tower in the 2016 elections and ever since that time we have been in a civil war and the democrats can't believe that the american people actually elected a reality t.v. star donald trump and they just haven't gotten over it and so there you see the their rhetoric being ratcheted up and what aravind just said it is amazing you look at the poll numbers 1015 years ago as a political strategist you had about 10 to 15 percent of enda pendants to work with

now that number is down to around 5 or 6 percent if you look at the impeachment proceedings and the independent views on those 47 percent of republicans feel they should you know he shouldn't be impeached and 47 percent of democrats say no yes he should and then there's only really 6 percent in the middle that are open minded and those people according to a poll out this week aren't even paying attention so you have the right versus the left and not very many people in between rich same question to you in new york go ahead well i happen to agree i think we're in a cold civil war i believe what's happening is we're seeing the democrats and the far left they're just not going to accept the results of the 2016 election and they're going to use any method they can to try to take president trump down and the problem that you get into here is that you know when 2 people stop you know people become so radical on that side that you know it doesn't just end with are so .