britain's conservative unable parties accused each other of failing to prevent the london bridge attack and release from prison we put the issue of the debate. membership of any terrorist organization should a life imprisonment tolerate would resolve that what do you mean members should know even know the terms of power in the old bosses are all telling your friends russia and china strength them baptized by launching a strategic natural gas pipeline dubbed the power of siberia. an us investigative journalism struggles to survive in the era of big corporate media and possible political plans as a reporter claims hillary clinton cut him off when you start investigating

hollywood producer harvey weinstein's and. you're watching international stay with me for the next 25 minutes as we go around the world covering the biggest stories of the day. and let's start with probably the most controversial one in the u.k. dozens of people convicted of terror offense who were released early are set to have their cases reviewed that's according to prime minister boris johnson it comes off to it was revealed friday's london bridge a taka has himself been released. any other legal are in the same he will out and there was no in this has nothing to do with parole there was nothing to do with probation and eagerly same's legally there are 3 but this is really become a talking point over the weekend since that attack on friday on london bridge

towards the side where the city of london financial district is now of course the person involved. somebody who had already been found guilty of involvement in a plot to blow up the london stock exchange but then was released as part of a scheme and there were attempts to try to rehabilitate him and put him back into society if you will that it was actually one of those events which were organized for not just him as a convicted terrorist but other acts offenders to attend and it was that of reportedly that he decided to launch his attack an attack killing 2 people in injuring 3 others on a london bridge and as i said that has over the weekend sparked a number of political accusations back and forth about who's to blame for this terrorist being on the streets these people darron should never ever be let out of prison unless we're absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus people

don't want history lessons after this terrorist atrocity what people want is to put victims 1st and keeping community safe 1st and if he had been sentenced under our rules he would still be in jail today no terrorist should be released without it being properly assessed whether or not they still pose a risk to the public school and we have indeed automatic early release for prisoners sentenced to more than 4 years in prison so there's plenty of political fallout as the different parties point the finger at each other the conservatives try. say that this early release scheme is ultimately the responsibility of the labor party while the labor say well firstly it was a conservative government under which this terrorist was released but also that the conservative budget cuts impacted policing and meant that terrorists like this

it's much harder to find now boris johnson over the weekend has been advocating for a policy of locking terrorists up and throwing away the key if you will even his own foreign secretary dominic robb confirms that the conservative party have a policy of a minimum 14 years sentence for dangerous terrorists and there's no guarantee that even would have made a difference in this case because this man was sentenced to 16 years and one of the least early so there will be those who are calling for that to be changed while the leader of the labor party jeremy corbyn is arguing that each case should be taken on its merits and that you can't apply a blanket scheme all around so many different opinions as we head towards a poll in just 10 days now that will decide everything from meet the u.k.'s education and environment policy and also how to fight crime and terrorism here at

r.t. we put the issue up for debate. since september the 11th we've released 500 terrorists who have committed acts of terrorism in the u.k. that these 2 men a and clearly we need to toughen up our laws thoughts at the end you've got to remember that these people are quite quite unusual of whilst we need to control them we also need to be very clear that we cannot infringe on civil liberties. because they are so important because these post isis post liberal post in lighton if you like terror attacks happening on home soil they've often come home grown terrorists radicals criminals whatever you like to call them but they have been institutional failures the state security apparatus can do better should do better and isn't doing better and we have to ask questions why i remember the police the security services the courts are attempting to prevent these violent terrorists from attacking this country the question here is what are we doing about

those people who are involved in terrorist organizations but have not yet committed serious terrorist offenses i say membership of any terrorist organization should have a life imprisonment or if that would resolve the what do you mean member should know even know who carries a good. hard on terrorism friends that on drawdown going on there you know. i don't have a terrorist organization i've got no problem on terrorism the hard line thing to saying like throw away the key or terrorism should go to prison forever that's absolutely fine you know or even open up a dialogue on its capital punishment appropriate some people in some cases ok however what we have to do is ply apply fairly across the board if we are allowing entrapment cases where people are sent to syria and then they come back we reduce their citizenship we transduced their rights you talk about civil rights and human rights what about the bethnal green schoolgirls who are 14 or 15 were transported to syria if you join

a terror organization we have to find out why we have to tackle these issues properly we're talking about people going to syria. or go into training camps in pakistan people are engaging in acts of terror whether that be fund raising where that be terrorist training or whether it be actual acts of terrorism in terms of violence those sorts of people should know more pretreated reasonable than somebody who turns around and says i only murdered this woman because it was a crime of passion the law needs to change membership of terrorist organizations to hold a maximum penalty of life in prison and then judges can choose whether that much is appropriate on a case by case basis that to me seems sensible. and now from american politics a journalist claims his friend and former boss hillary clinton distanced herself from him over his investigation of the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey feinstein. it's remarkable how quickly even people with a long relationship with you will turn if you threaten the centers of power with

the sources of funding around them ultimately the results of people out there who operates in that way they're beholden to powerful interests and if you go up against those interests you become radioactive very quick 3 when in far what clinton special adviser is encouraging while she was secretary of state feinstein meanwhile donated tens of thousands of dollars to clinton's 2016 presidential campaign before the sexual assault scandal unfolded don't report to next looks at how investigative journalism in general is becoming hard to bake corporate media ali what often portrays investigative journalists as knights in shining armor risking it all to protect the truth is that legal what is it is that we do it for a living. we don't. leave the country. i wasn't doing my job you never want to. hear it because i think you're going to tell this story we're going to tell it right and reality though snooping around the

lives of influential people could have serious repercussions it could land you in trouble even if we're talking about hollywood royalty like ronan farrow he was essential to the new yorker's 2017 investigation into rape allegations against harvey weinstein the same one that received a pulitzer prize and through the me too movement into the mainstream before his journalism career farrow worked as a lawyer at one point serving under the then secretary of state hillary clinton as her advisor for global youth issues they made quite the team that is until farah began digging into weinstein's dirty laundry did you feel pressure from hillary clinton on and her staff raised concerns about the fact that i was working on this story about one of her most significant donors that they had bundler of hollywood money not to mention pharaoh's original collaborator and b.c. rich. used to publish the weinstein revelations all together but this isn't even the only major story that the mainstream media big wigs have tried to smother

a.b.c. anchor amy roebuck recently went public about her investigation into geoffrey epstein's pedophile operation which was killed by the network 3 years ago it was unbelievable what we had with everything. i had i tried for 3 years to get it on a veil and now it's coming out and i think well of revelations well we had a person on real there remember you know. get out years ago so is that it have the rich and powerful become so strong that investigative journalism has no place in the 21st century you probably can't reach. you know 1020000000 people with investigative stories that really attack it wealthy and powerful when you do investigative journalism which i do for a career in a living and you bump up against the rich and powerful especially if

if your publisher is friendly with those who are rich and powerful you. you know you pay a price you either are taken off the beat and given something else to do like write a bit you areas or you are you know in the worst case you're fired. or you're sort of let know that you know your career is not going anywhere there so you should look elsewhere and just a friendly reminder we also have plenty of stories on our website including here wayne and submarine fleet is getting a weapons upgrade with the new jasc cruise missile going into mass production you can get the lowdown on that piece of naval kit at dot com for that a bump in the italian full of children where the historic center was in fact the way to get off the discovery of the wild will to explosive you can find not story and of course. much more on our website. and now

an engineering feat moscow and beijing have launched a 3000 kilometer pipeline dubbed the power of siberia it's going to carry russian natural gas to china doing here today we're marking a significant truly historic moment not only for the global energy market but for us china and russia school. our relations center in the new era and i hope russia and china will do more projects of this current projects that will serve the interests of both countries and benefit told people.

the pipeline took 5 years to build and is the biggest of washing gas investment project yet. reports from beijing the 3000 kilometer long power siberia gas pipeline and has been commissioned by russia and china on a monday the ambitious project has united the northern hemisphere 2nd largest gas producer along with the world's 2nd largest gas consumer market economic unity and friendship between neighbors or russia and china.

and for china it couldn't be more time the the country has been using increasing amounts of gas and it's a trend that looks set to stick around after well you know this is a major issue she projects a bilateral energy cooperation it is of great significance to deepening corrupt aeration between the 2 countries and into. gracing our interests now russia is also quite pleased with this project when the. we are starting with the biggest restructuring projects in the world there will be nothing bigger in the sphere for years to come because this is not about breaking records this is an extremely important project for both russia and china but we all know that energy is as stake it's all fake and there is no pleasing everyone especially when someone's been cut out of the deal now the world's largest producer and consumer of natural gas the united states is now perhaps regretting driving to outcasts countries together

after waging an economic war with one and slapping sanctions on the other the us ongoing trade war with china has driven beijing's consumption of america's flagship liquefied natural gas right down to gas like no other apparently this one has a uniquely american flavor increasing export capacity from the freeport liquefied natural gas project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving america's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy china and russia as energy corp is a double whammy for the united states which is also seeing some of its other gas consumers surging their backs on it in a matter of months and all their energy pipeline north stream soon will start flooding europe with russian gas at a faster cheaper and greener rate that is american alternative washington that must be scratching his head at how some european leaders could shun its uniquely

flavored gas in favor off a closer ties with moscow despite its best efforts to convince them otherwise we're taking germany were rejecting the french would take a vote with a specially numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with right where this thing is in the dollars into the coffers of russia that's one of the. cern's the president has about north stream to why your would voluntarily itself even more to russian energy supplies and we make a tough case about ensuring that germany doesn't become dependent on russian energy we don't want europe's energy supplies to be depended on platter mere putin hong kong based political scientists have chiang told us why this is a win win project for both russia and china this is significant for both china and russia for china even some law in terms of energy security in terms of

diversification of use and as he so says from the video e's africa and so on to to the russian siberia it is also significant for russia because it means that it is less and under group in market it opens up the china market with tremendous potential and infrastructure built can also be used to supply oil and natural gas to south korea and japan so there is a lot of potential to develop the asia pacific market in support of the development of russian far east and eastern siberia in russia coming up in germany want them to fit their political top and if as the ruling coalition had just close to collapse i'll tell you more about it after the short break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back kotter let's head straight to john meanwhile a change in leadership and one of the ruling coalition parties has left a big question mark hanging over the alliance's future with new people at the helm the social democratic party is expected to tilt father to the left something that's likely to upset its conservative allies. sepsis looks at how the long standing status quo in job and politics could soon change and who might fill the vacuum. for decades now german voters have always favored parties in the center of the political spectrum radicals no think to give us a stable moderate government and the c.d.u. and s.p.d.

were always there had been had to meet that demand but some say that this is a little bit too dull well it's because it was but not anymore and might belong in the past if the s.p.d. is leadership is anything to go by meet walter and saskia as also known in germany as the anti merkel coalition. the real question is are we able to find dances together to the really important big questions and that's far from certain it is the english say with the grand coalition there is no way we can build a fan future there is no future in it so why is the s.p.d. leaving its old palls well it seems that the party is going through its own little crisis at the moment and they have been losing one election after the other and the grand coalition seems to be losing its popularity so in a desperate move to win more voters the social democrats are turning to socialism

one the one raise minimum wage increase infrastructure and well for spending something straight out of coral marxist book no doubt and the party is going even further left calling for the country's largest brants to be put under collective ownership and nothing less without great civilization overcoming capitalism is inconceivable the key factor is not the distribution of profits is controlled democratically as the s.p.d. is moving closer to the red corner the blue or right wing corner seems to be going through its own little struggle the main opposition party alternative for germany is even more popular now in the eastern states causing major headaches for the center right c.b. hugh as the i if they pushed merkel's party into 3rd place in the latest elections in 3rd. the shell shocked the c.d.u. was even forced to sit down and have a dialogue with the very anti immigration party that they wants labeled as nazis

and colleagues from the f.t. faction are just as good as those from any other factions i see the a 50 is a conservative party almost 25 percent of voters gave that ballots to the party and i don't agree with this tendency to betray the all is nazis and the if they're already smelled the blood. there will come a day when we see do you only one option. if you are expecting the alternative for germany party to embrace and into mainstream politics you'll be disappointed they even film time during the 2 day congress to slam these centrist c.d.u. and s.p.d. and the new leader that got elected doesn't seem that he wants the change the agenda and why what he this is what got the party votes in the 1st place as the popularity of the centrist party is all fades voters find comfort in the corners of the political spectrum blue or red some say that this is just a temporary reaction while others believe this is

a permanent change eventually for r.t. to put on an as trainer office told us that under the new electric need to ship the fish will democrats could yet turn the tide and recover from recent electoral setback. the new leadership made the beginning because it's the free themselves from the grand coalition embracement which has harmed them a lot in the past years because the christian democratic union has just followed the strategy. morally orals the topics social democrats slow the tendency of themselves from this grand coalition in addressing the needs and interests of the voters then i sing the good game. in the pub. and to round off the ballot in a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines start with how

a gunman has injured 10 people in new orleans he resign or 2 of them critically police have detained a male suspect witnesses say he opened fire after cation. riot police on the front foot here plus a have come in for heavy criticism up today not to down the aisle to a man at a demonstration one protest is trying to help and he's confronted them with batons the rally itself was actually held to commemorate 8 year old woman who died last year after police take aspirin it hit her in the face. and finally china has sanctioned several u.s. nongovernmental organizations among them human rights watch and freedom house beijing also suspended all american navy visits to hong kong it's in retaliation for washington's new legislation targeting whites appearances people in hong kong they celebrated waving the stars and stripes to show their support. that's how the news is shaping up at the moment i'll be back with the latest in 30 minutes in the

meantime sit back and enjoy going underground. the world is driven by shaped by those great. snow day or thinks. we dare to ask. trump on hong kong protecting democracy or more meddling in the internal affairs of

china also can nato's european members we imagine the alliance and more terror on the streets of london. and his community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids ask me and as a parent. i can come up with an argument there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the teams most of the conflicts i would say are over balls around money and most of them money is made. close one on the children's clothes he knows each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complex just to get some point to a life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about your so you don't care about anything.

john after a time they were going underground as leaders of the nato military organization launched 70 years ago to wage war with the u.s.s.r. meet in london after one of its key members described nato as current the experiencing brain death coming up in the show the man who once ran nato on the responsibility of the secretary general to galvanize nato nations against the cvs enemies and the silence of others we speak drove above the director of an award winning film about the brutal legacy of nato nations support for fascism you know not says i'm a dictatorship around the world told them all coming up in today's going underground the 1st as donald trump arrives in london ahead of tomorrow's nato summit let's go straight to rome to speak with nato its former deputy secretary

general us andro minute to reserve thanks so much for the deputy secretary general you were actually acting secretary general for a while about the conference the bulletin of atomic scientists when estimating the threat of earth's destruction due to nuclear war claims with 2 minutes to midnight you think something like that will be on the minds of nato and leaders this week while i don't think so why do why you ask me this question on the install timberg is saying that nato faces a bigger and bigger threats and that in fact nato has to be prepared for coverage ations theoretically with russia and with china well you know. don't train that are more and more frets and maybe the world is confused but rather stable i mean in terms of frights as far as i know and so you know russia i've tried out they are why don't ya lobbied i don't fit in they are actually menacing them. fred

today made all more than they did befall so i don't see this raising of threats let's put it that way so you don't agree with nato secretary general against dalton even saying that he wants to nato to make space an operational domain enjoying the success of nature missions while you know it depends what you mean by that you know it is not today that is agree with the secretary general is that i say that nato always always adapting you know it has been adopting since the end though to cold war you know and so it continues to adopt and of course it is true that the national set out is changing and china is rising and made to last what up so the secular now is right in his old times if you like what peace has nato actually kept in its 70 years i mean right at the beginning there was the killing of 20 percent of the population of north korea by nature nations there was a cause vietnam 4000000 dead tens of millions have been killed or wounded or

displaced because nato nations attacked iraq as nato ever helped peace well you know i don't think that you asked me the right question because. you're right in terms of the people who had that in those bloody walsall but i don't think that you can blame a toehold that you know as a matter of fact nato is never been in vietnam 100 plays if you mention major nationals as a different frame you know we are speaking about nato as an organization i made was what i got as actual as is mainly a piece if you will remember history you know even the cold war was called the cold war because there was peace of the old. no peace for a lot of the nations in the developing world arguably well then why do you think french president macro calls nato brain dead while i feel that he docile 1st of all because we leave you know a liquid world we're living in. less structured wall that befall and i think

that missy mccrone defines president.