germany expelled 2 russian embassy staffers in berlin saying there's quote sufficient evidence to link russia. to the murder of a georgian national moscow denies any state in both. the celebrations come to an end for its 70th birthday in the u.k. nato member states in the line struggle to find common ground. and donald trump labels the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to pin the president. in moscow welcome to the program 1st off germany has announced that it's expelling

2 russian embassy employees in connection with the murder of a georgia national in august but attorney general says there's evidence the moscow may have been behind the killing a claim that russia vehemently denies reporting there from berlin his of angelo sepsis. 2 employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and over to cleared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin a last august with seem to be an asylum seeker in the country germany has taken this action against the russian employees and or to russia because they believe that russia has not done enough to help the authorities in germany looking into this investigation and they also say that berlin is taking this stance because they say that there is some sort of russian state level and for women in this word or

the federal foreign office today declared to employees of the russian embassy in berlin to be persona non-grata with this step with the federal government reacts to the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high ranking and in fact it requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k.k. in berlin zoo there are sufficient real indications that the killing is either on commission or done by state agencies of the russian federation or such of the autonomy's chechen republic as part of the russian federation germany's prosecutor say or they have enough evidence linking the murder to moscow in article recently posted by the investigative group at the pointing finger is on last call that there was a link between the kremlin and the murder of the chechen ethnic last august here in berlin but let's talk about a little bit of what this group the billing code what we know about them so far is that they are of course ties to western secret services and they have played

a major role in major cases that involve the moscow case and the delany of h. 17 in ukraine russia has a come out with their own statement of both the reaction from berlin saying that this is groundless this is absolutely groundless speculation this topic is being somehow whipped up by german media but it does not mean it this is how things are. the us also been a reaction by e. german politician from the free democratic party alexandre graff alam store who spoke to the news agency a.f.p. he's asking for more information to be clearer shown to people why it is doing this we all i would like to point out here that next week in france the president of russia vladimir putin and the german chancellor angela merkel will be meeting in the normandy summit earlier from london today the chancellor angela merkel said that this would not effect in any way the talks between the countries since this

has to do with ukraine but she did leave open that it's possible that the valar bilateral relations between the 2 countries might get effected somehow they could have a joint union or nearly a to discuss the victims background. 40 year on phil in congress village he was killed in what was described as an execution style killing he was shot twice in the head and this is a murder case that quickly became highly politicized in the media with headlines pointing the finger at russia drawing comparisons to describe things in the u.k. calling it the script pal 2.0 in fact the media were less interested however in delving into the history of the victim which makes quite an interesting read his c.v. is quite it shows a quite a checkered history let's say he's an ethnic chechen georgian citizen he was an islamist a former soldier he fought against russia in the 2nd chechen war he has connections

to some very high profile terrorists many of the 5 to see force alongside went on to move to syria and join islamist groups there and he sought asylum in germany in 2050 and that was after a failed assassination attempt was that the 1st time someone tried to kill him. he was actually on a terror watch list a quite some time here. he was described as the person who detention posed a threat to the public safety he was taken off that terror list only last year in this right in 28 he was removed from that list now needless to say is passed however interesting have a check it may be does not justify his killing and the perpetrator must be brought to justice but perhaps to give a fuller picture it's worth highlighting that this guy was not joe bloggs you know he was not your average everyday guy who was a man with connections to some very questionable individuals with some very extreme ideological tendencies whereas for the wider repercussions i talk to german economist dr he believes that while the case will cause political fallout it's

unlikely to affect economic cooperation between russia and germany. we cannot trust any of those explanations from german governments at all it was already with this creep out it was with iraq all these so-called big evidences turned out to be just nothing if you look at what is happening in the world you will see that everybody tries to get better relationships to russia at the minute because this is the biggest and most important market of the future on the or asian continent and there are some powers who might not want this russian government knows pretty well that german government and german industry are 2 totally different things and i think this might harm their relationships to the german government but not to the german industry because i think by now everybody knows that these are 2 totally different

things. leaders of nato member states have been meeting for a 2nd day in london to mark the 70th anniversary of the world's most powerful military alliance and despite attempts to put on a show of unity divisions within the crisis stricken coalition have been laid bare of the past 48 hours he's arlys been following the gathering in london. this summit is going to be defined not by the unity shown on the surface at least by all the leaders but by all of them very very big and the power cracks between many of those coming into this summit one thing world leaders regularly here seem to be agreed on is that russia is always the bad guy however the nato generally general secretary himself saying that what was needed was a more confrontation but dialogue with the major eastern neighbor nato essentially rodolfo to shop because russia is our. closest neighbor our biggest neighbor

we need to strive for a better relationship with russia. even if we are head not able to. get a better relationship with russia in the near term we need to manage a difficult relationship and elsewhere as well we've also been hearing from manuel macron who's been saying that russia too does need to be dialogue on that fronts now while they advocate more dialogue with russia the reality is of course that war games continue to take place on russia's borders with those eastern member states and of course that expansion of nato to the east continues to be a cause of national security concern for russia while any of the nato members such as turkey for example who do wish to engage with russia even buy weapons from them will find themselves soon be out cos by other members russian air defense system s. 400 would never be integrated into nato it will never be part of the nato

integrated air missile defense system it was already tetchy in contentious going into this summit and it would appear that things got even worse last night many of the leaders of the leaders were invited to buckingham palace for a reception with the queen and some of them were caught on the microphone on the hot mike. please. let's. give you the. more he's a great politician with over the years is that at. least so at least to face today i find him to be

a very nice guy you know the truth as. i told him out of the fact that he's now saying 2 percent. and i guess he's not really after donald trump not happy he had canceled a scheduled a press conference it was due to be held at the end of this and will be leaving the summit in fact he's been meeting with other leaders so-called 8 plus one who he says 8 countries other than the u.s. who have met the 2 percent spending targets for the military targets and so mr trump making it very clear that certain countries canada and particular are not welcome not impressed with what he had so overall a very very divisive conference here in london. while among some of these summits a reaction we've been getting political commentator professor bricmont says the alliance is a good night in russia i'm risking regional stability in the process. only problem really stones i'm. not an enemy in dark clothes i want to go there with

a little bit of illusion we turn over then we invent all kinds of problems like maybe this isn't the reason being in germany going to be about syria where in fact russia is on that side because they're fighting the terrorists whom we have said weapons to. you know i mean it will be very easy to get into a peaceful asian retraction per se it's gaining because it uses the mighty queens and loved. the asians and war which is what nato is doing nothing. and they are spending an enormous amount of money and call now to lower the be a big savings friends close it spirit we send for the mystic police and he doesn't leave. these little brains spending even more money on the defense which is and this is a. leading british universities being branded shameful and appalling over its advisory guidelines for people based at its new campus in dubai is some of

the advice that's come under fire from academics students and the l.t.p. t.q. community. do not do anything that may be perceived as a public display of affection by the same sex or opposite sex even if it's intended to be innocent try to avoid dressing in a way which is not traditionally associated with your perceived gender if you are in public do not wear any clothes or accessories which could be considered to be a form of the l g q advocacy university of birmingham opened its campus in the united arab emirates last year now offering a range of course is set to u.k. standards it's currently expanding into buy with plans to accommodate more than $4000.00 students however there are concerns over think you ease human rights record and its treatment of the l g b t q community and that's prompted a number of lecturers to refuse taking up any positions in the kingdom which forbids same sex relationships the university though says the guidelines are there to protect its students and staff denies violating human rights earlier on our

table we discussed whether an educational institution should be offering such advice at all. there are thousands of. people who work in the united arab emirates and do saw for many many years i have friends there who work there so i don't think it is that much of an issue from the point of the. university it's about protecting students and it's about having the right guidance and support in place to protect students as they study in the country of the university of birmingham has a very clear and very good equal opportunities policy a very strong policy around human rights diversity and inclusion and by going to dubai it is violating its very own rules and principles may i think quite clearly this is simply a money making exercise the university of birmingham has put profit before human rights i can't is to be with anything peter said about the regime in the u.a.e.

or saudi arabia or some of the other desperate regimes in the middle east where there is no human rights and there is no freedom but i think it's important for individuals to know the expectation of you know now that the universities there how they should behave in terms of protecting themselves sorry let me rephrase that how they should conduct themselves how they should protect themselves their own safety and the safety of their peoples and i think that's what the university was trying to do for to get a balance in terms of security and in terms of safety account have one law for people in britain and then a different law for people in dubai that smacks of arrogance it's next of western privilege it smacks of disrespecting the human rights of the people of dubai and i want to say that this is not just about the human rights of the lecturers and staff of university it's also about the human rights of the people in dubai itself who live under a very very oppressive regime reality is the university is there and they've got. a

moral duty to make sure that the safeguard and protection of their stuff and their peoples is good and they've done it in that way which i think is most responsible giving advice to people. statement proceedings in the united states a gathering steam after the house intelligence committee released what democrats are calling a damning report the document claims that president trump abused his office for personal gain by soliciting interference from ukraine and the 2020 alexion donald trump branded the allegations a joke with the details his double quarter. president donald trump is on the impeachment block again hearings are under way again and another impeachment reports been released accusing him of more than just a few misty perhaps that's why trump thinks it's a joke i saw it and it's a joke everybody is saying it for the democrats though this is no laughing matter

president trump and his senior officials may see nothing wrong with using the power of the office of the president to pressure a foreign country to help the president's reelection campaign however the founding fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his personal interests above those of the country impeachment remember the flunk that was russia gate robert muller's investigation into trump's alleged ties to russia 2 years in the making and yet to deliver the grand revelations it promised but that's yesterday's headline the democrats have no time to lose with the 2020 presidential election looming closer they've put their hopes in the new ukraine gate report which this time took only 2 months to put together the dems say impeachment wasn't an easy conclusion to come to but come on guys we've been hearing this stuff since trump took office our rise today mr speaker. to call for the impeachment of the president of

the united states of america your son 6 years as home alone if you want but only don't play and maybe things won't because we're going to go in there we're going to be some other we shouldn't be impeached for a political reason and we should avoid punishment for political reasons it may be that we undertake an appeasement nonetheless the document is basically a summary of the impeachment hearing thus far it claims the testimonies were overwhelming evidence of trump's misconduct but some witnesses weren't as convincing as others there was no mention of withholding 8 on the call correct that's correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery no there was not any reference to quid pro quo no there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all. now ukraine gate was handed to the dems by an anonymous whistleblower someone to put the final nail into the coffin of trump's

political career someone protected from prosecution just what the anti trump brigade needed but you have to blow the right whistle to find protection under the law to take julian assad which he spent 7 years hiding from the law in london's ecuadorian embassy without any sympathy from washington i think a son should be assassinated actually father should. object and maybe use a draw or something but this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a i think the man as a terrorist could act tough and say if we catch you we're going to hang you one has to wonder how the founding fathers would have treated someone claiming to stand up against tyranny if they were with us today. well former florida democratic party chairman mitch seas and media analyst lionel how weighty they think the report says . i do believe that the democratic report was factual and obviously the republican

response was perhaps a fairy tale but people do want to read perhaps to put some went to bed specifically you have very different responses be on the lookout for this one we have to look at is different order was given that are going to come out that will be pretty straightforward there's going to be an abuse of power because as you say in the quote he took his interests above the national interest there's also going to be obstruction some is obstruction of congress not letting people cooperate what we have here is unprecedented and no one knows what it means because it means nothing why do we call it an impeachment inquiry be cause if it was an impeachment hearing or an impeachment proceeding the president would have been allowed to invite to subpoena witnesses but since they didn't do that and didn't want him to do that they called it an impeachment inquiry and they have not changed

one i ota from what they said when they began the inquiry that and i will paraphrase it the president used to his position his authority under article 2 of the constitution for personal and or political benefits. and the last time i checked every president since george washington has done this this is not impeachable. russia's envoy to the world chemical weapons watchdog says a new investigation is needed into last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and comes after a number of o p c w employees raised concerns about the official findings the organizations report was compiled following the april 28th attack which was blamed on the syrian government the alleged atrocity prompted retaliatory airstrikes by britain france and the united states on

a number of targets in damascus and homes here later whistleblowers began to cast doubt over the findings claiming the report was heavily redacted and scientifically flawed to suit its conclusions most of the duty in ferguson reports on the in the interim report in the final report was scientifically impoverished procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent well in addition to the o.p.c. w.'s impartiality having been called into question a number of academics have claimed that the media's failed to provide balanced coverage of the syrian conflict one of them max abrams explained to me what he sees as some of the shortcomings. they're the mainstream nehru going to keep to the conflict in a very simplistic way sexually by making it seem like i said the sun was even more extreme than you actually did it was captured firstly this pro regime change crowd made it seem as if the rebels fighting assad were more moderate than they

actually were all the more time goes on the more evidence for merchants the more it becomes difficult to claim that you know assad is all evil and the rebels who are all good at least 3 different scientists who were brought to this the who are officially part of this group. got the one which is broadcast in the video accurately reflects the song we should hear from those scientists exactly what the scientists was all about. members of a ukrainian ultranationalist battalion have apparently turned up in hong kong taking part in the continuing protests there photos of their visit were posted on social media by a former head of one of the as well fatality and he had it they show a number of masked men walking through the city and posing in front of a university damaged during clashes between protesters and police one of them was

identified online as an asshole veteran and some demonstrators from hong kong unhappy about the unexpected guests. huge warning about some protests to risk we have just turned up and who were at the rally yesterday if they are as battalion then we're talking full on neo nazi fascists connected with war crimes and torture the worst of the worst. and is an armed volunteer unit which is now part of the ukrainian interior ministry the group's been accused of human rights violations and war crimes during the conflict in the country's eastern donbass region the battalion is also notorious for its use of nazi symbols and october 40 members of the u.s. congress demanded asshole be recognized as a terrorist organization journalist martin summers says that such appearances at the hong kong protests are detrimental to the movement that. i could imagine if i was a home call princess that i wouldn't particularly like these these rather unpleasant forces for ukraine's to enjoy the more protests but you can't really stop people

from turning your city yes even if you wanted to. give it if you approach us through the phone call you need to be demonstrating some cause of loyalty so the. nice community and not to be seen as a foreign influence for a few years therefore you don't particularly need to employ people who make it look as if you are in section of the foreign influence but with what we've seen protests is in hong kong waving american flags for example it's back in the days of the chinaman square protests a little late eighty's would have been unthinkable because it redemonstrate like the patriotism and so on. a college campus fire has left one person dead and 29 injured in the ukrainian port city of adesa the fire began on wednesday morning at about 10 am in one of the colleges historic buildings about 400 people were believed to have been inside at the time as of now 13 remain unaccounted for the

authorities have launched an investigation into the course of the blaze. ok that's it for me thanks for watching sean thomas has your next r.t. update in 35 minutes after cross the. i love. i.

call the yen the euro the dollar they all refer to each other and they're all going deeper and deeper into debt so there's no basic there or there there's no so there's no way to measure the dead against something that is could be considered money remember j.p. morgan said only gold is money everything else is credit or debt ok so without that there is no way to measure that debt and there's no at the moment you know my my view is that this is leading to a neo feudalism poor you have just a few private equity firms owing 98 percent of all the assets and everyone else is living as serfs on that we're getting back to the dark ages. my feeling with this world is what now is who folkenflik and fearful and the certain generation that's controlling all the politics around the world when that generation buys all. children that are brought on this new. reality are less

materialistic don't really care about these things even more automobiles want to write this like job want to ride a bicycle this movement it's global and it's going the world is my house to go in this direction and it's going to change. ok in the special something we can benefit says is one of the many of the. yeah but isn't it also in the gulf where. you thought the whole doping in russia things was over forget it initial part of your book come about through a couple of pressure we have the last deal some of the muzzle sensitive. russian outlets eligibility for the international competition says that stake in this includes events like the tokyo olympics and the fee for world cup and qatar if i am in the early as last year we will just not hear where you're coming out though just as it was 4 years ago in moscow anti-doping plavix at the center of the scandal so

who tampered with the doping samples database and one does greegor you want she could have to do with it and you know she's stupid but it will start to pull mean you could talk a little spokesmen that he's a push on the richest but he will ship might expose me in the ocean to actually don't so the pollution you're doing isn't it. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson lation for community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or i'm a bit loose shallows. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them that is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of politics.

cross-linking political intolerance i'm joined by my guest kevin chavez in washington he's the managing partner of the chavez group as well as former president of d.c. young democrats also in washington we have christopher and i we he's a political analyst and iraq war veteran also in raleigh we cross to ryan he is the national co-chair and founder of students for trump all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok kevin i'm going to go to you 1st because you're of the odd man out i want to make that clear i'm going to make sure that you get equal time on this program because i always welcome different opinions have any and in my introduction here i said that you know the last bias that is politically that is acceptable is this crimean again.