[000:00:00;00] the, the united states respects and champions, freedom expression, but we will not stand by as archie and other actors carry out corporate activities in support of russia's various activities. freedom but not forever. one of us swaps archie with new functions claiming the china alonda mines as well as the benefits, including global united must support for you. great. you've asked question for matt, for months and months about the global south and why there's not more support for ukraine is because of the broad scope and reach of r t. now russia red flags, the u. k saying,

british intelligence has been sick for the working for me to put my technicians to destabilize the well the decisions and lift the restrictions these indeed taken a will be taken. it will mean that from this moment tone, they take countries begin directly with brush up. now ross has invested into the u . n. ones. the war in ukraine could end up in a whole different scale if a bad on long range weapons use against russia if lifted. and that's, that's some less than politicians also question the west or the wisdom optimism can go home as soon as possible. last year's was we don't want to hear the welcome to our team to national, reaching you from the russian capital. i a michael course here with the latest. now the breaking noodle, following these, our being champions of free speech,

but not when they come. let's do odds fine o r t a. that's the new us approach. as washington impose the fresh round of functions on our tea caving uh, worldwide board cost influence mines everywhere. here some of the secretary of state's arguments russian represent this information to subvert and polarized screen up in society extends to every part of the world and response. today, the united states, united kingdom and canada, are launching a launching a joints diplomatic campaign to rally allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing the threat posed by r, t, and other machinery of russian. this information and corporate influence party also secretly runs the online platform african stream across a wide range social media platforms. now, according to the outlets website, african stream is and i quote, a pan african digital media organization based exclusively on social media

platforms. focusing on giving a voice to all africans, both at home and abroad. in reality, the only voice it gives is the kremlin propagandist. the united states respects and champions freedom expression even when it comes to media outlets. the whitting we spread government propaganda and will continue to lead the world in defending and promoting media freedom. but we will not stand by as r, t and other actors carry out corporate activities in support of russia's nefarious activities. well, you had the best, i could just state that. lemme cross now live to our teeth. corresponding to my, my h i who has been following the developmental ma. can you bring us up to speed with what he said is now an unprecedented move. the u. s. has decided to bind the organization as a whole, but while our to was blocked in the west for a while now, it's not in other parts of the world. and now it seems that the was trying to urge

other countries to join in this campaign against the channel. why? well, because it seems that they're putting the blame on the channel as to why there is a lack of support towards ukraine. here's what they said. question for matt, for months and months about you know, the global south and why there's not more support for ukraine in this part of the middle east or that part of latin america or this part of africa. well, one of the reasons not the only reason, but one of the reasons why so much of the world has not been as fully supportive of ukraine as you would think. they would be given that russia has invaded ukraine and violated real number one of the international system is because of the broad scope and reach of r t. we're proud again to just information and allies are spread to millions, if not billions of people around the world. now that is james rubin, a man who started his career in the government,

moved to the media and back to the government. so it's quite interesting how he's now put in a blame in our to you for being quote, too close to the government. but here's our t's reaction to the whole situation. we've been broadcasting straight out of the k g b headquarters all this time. no, but seriously, we're running out of popcorn to sit and watch. well, the us government will come up with next of all to us. now unlike last week, when they've introduced sanctions against employees of the channel, now they've decided to sanction the organization as a whole, which is very interesting when the us seems to really pride itself when it comes to freedom of speech, right, hearty or my, my each are bringing us up to speed their take care. i alright, let's discuss the issues here on our studio with the audience. contribute to tile. read tides,

good to have you join me live right here in the studio. now you watch this, i get your state that talking about r t n or fest. let me ask you about your reaction to that. it was ludicrous. i think one of the most ludicrous claims where is that hard t employees are crowd funding for weapons. i don't know what you do with your spare time, but i don't have that go find me for like tanks that a k 47. sorry, anthony blink and tony. um no, but it was, it was ludicrous the whole thing. it's a distraction because i think they know that their candidate harris is losing the other really ludicrous thing is calling in an intelligence operation when you know match. evie and michael schellenberg are to the end of the report of cnn, m. s n, b, c, 70 percent of the employees. there are former intelligence or intelligence. so again, you know, it's, it's just hip hop receive tony blinking mentioned to he was talking about how um, you know,

russia had been doing choose or election interference. but it's all the things that the us is doing, the human rights violations, the tools, the interfering with other countries elections. so yeah, it was, it was really something to watch. and it would be almost funny if it wasn't so frightening. and the people so evil that are behind it in dc. now a washington on field, a package of sanctions against russia and media individuals are these network. but really using what they called a special designation list. i wonder if you've seen this kind of persistent attack against channels from other countries that we've seen any of these. i think this is unprecedented. what's happening to our, to international? well, it shows how successful r t has been. i mean, remember the us used to give awards, international awards. archie and documentaries. larry king used to have a show on our t. we can't very, i mean, it's

a very esteem channel and of course it does a good job. and so i think it's really unprecedented the way they're trying to shut it down, which means that it's a threat. it's a threat to the narrative of the military industrial complex and the intelligence complex myself, it shows that this slogan, question more is having impact some way. all right, now after these, what do you think this occupations are aimed on? particularly if they're trying to criminalize, basically german, what journalism. so you're going at the heart of the constitution in the united states. it's challenging for you, the freedom of the press, freedom of speech. you know, if it's really frightening and i hope every journalist pays attention because it may be archie this week, but it could be any other news outlet that simply doesn't tell the line the next time. i mean, they're basically trying to say, you send the message to one message from, you know, their point of view and not allowing for any international voices to be heard. which is wrong. and, you know, and in america,

we were supposed to have the constitution. and it's flouting the constitution right on his face. i mean, the sanctions, the criminal lives. so what i mean by that is, mary garland made a series of executive orders, which means their loss. so now is illegal, took for an american to work for r t. if you do, you could be sanctioned, he needed an enforcement arm of that, right? because you can have a law, but then you need to enforce that. so he's using the office of treasury and what the office of treasury can do is act like the police and say, hey, you violated sanctions. it's up to a $1000000.00 fine, 20 years in prison. so they're basically trying to scare off any talented journalist americans that might want to work for t, they're trying to, you know, make r t kind of persona non grata to the world stage. you know, so what's next, or what are they going to do? try to sation india if they have r t on, you know, because we have r t india, this very popular, we have it as south african african,

all different places around the world and china. so the, what rates of the us have to tell the world what news channels they watch? it's really amazing, really, really amazing. i'm gonna say i'm the more that do that. the more popular r t becomes around the world. now let's talk about that. washington has been repeatedly cracking down the media if there's not censorship or there's some justification, let's just assume all be treat it kind of scenario. all the justifications but best i don't really see the justification other than they're trying to control and consolidate their power. and they're losing their power to me. it seems like desperation. but by silencing censoring jailing, your opponents trying to criminalize thought basically like people to think differently, you have to put them in jail. i'll give you the example, who are 3. they were the black national group that we're now twos of far of, and the exec got

a not guilty except for conspiracy. and this is the interesting thing. you don't have to be guilty of a crime and the united states anymore to be guilty of conspiracy. that's how they rig the system against people that might to set. so what i see this as is the real example, the gees january 6 example of people going to present. that's all an example of trying to control the message and the thoughts. so it's basically criminalizing ideas. all right, what i just have to add on to the blinking statement. we've heard from james ruby into who we staff with the responsibility of countering this information as the case may be. now, he has blamed r, t for the will not supporting ukraine. i wonder what to make of back as well. it's interesting because what it does is it gives our chief credit for being

a really good journalistic media corporation in the fact that it's reaching its audience. but the whole thing is that it's presenting the truth. and the truth is that this is a proxy word that us anita or fighting against russia via ukraine. and it's all about the territory. it's all about stripping you creative as resources and you can't change facts. i mean one of those faxes is the black rock. now owns 20 to 30 percent of ukraine, of the land. and that's us, it's all in the us interest. so, you know, basically i know who jamie reuben is. i actually worked at it with providing at the same time he was around, i know exactly who he is and he's not an intellectual giant. and he's just trying to spin this to distract away from the way the bite. and harris submitted state administration has basically taken the country into the ground economically hard. yeah. the james reuben is working tirelessly for the state department in engagement

deciding who is right or wrong. now that but the point days isn't this what is called soft power. all the, all or the crusade against the media. i would say, you know, we're having like, 2 wars happening right now. there's ones on the ground with the weapons and then there's the information more. and what you're seeing is the us trying to take hold and try to dominate and do what it does. but we, everybody into their thinking and, and that is in line with the military and industrial complex. i'm intelligence and it's really run a mock. i think the example of the f b, i rate that happened this last week with some of the, our 2 employees. you traumatizing people and scaring them and frightening them. it's ridiculous, you know, and i have as, as a matter of fact, i've had the doj and f b i webber nice that me personally simply because i speak out against the bye didn't museum. so let me ask, you know, is it democracy if you're getting rid of your political opponents, is it a democracy? if you're not allowing the press to do its job and bring truth an end,

shine light on some issues. you know me. now r t is a popular news source world wide and is gaming influence. by the day i city is right now, washington is doing everything to cub roxanne influence around the world. don't you think? isn't this a big challenge for washington? the 5, if i have to put it that way, i think it is going to be a big challenge because you have united right now. um, particularly uh, you know, you have the brick stomach coming up with a lot of different countries, more and more joining breaks. people want cooperation, diplomacy and economic prosperity and rushes looking into the future and innovation . and i think other countries are seeing that. so this has more to do with turning away from these endless wars and his blood showed that the united states keeps pushing on other countries. and um, you know, more towards looking towards the future. so i think that they're desperate. now to shut down what you're referring to the media voices they need because the media

voice is going to lift. the truth is going to list what the people want and what the people want as no more wars. or i wonder what you may call that the, the charge is imposed by washington on, on the number of individuals working with the media, especially the russian media, as it is right now. how is working with the media? how has it become illegal? but that is what he has turned into right now, working with some need a they don't, you know, i agree with right on the legal what they did was a truck r t out of it's, you know, status of, of registering with far the, for an agent registration act and they've moved it over to a designation called before emission which so what that means and lay persons term of only lee is, is it just simply means, but now r t is like the government equal to the government or intelligence. so if someone like an american is working for r t, then they're working directly for the russian government or intelligence that's and

so then they can take laws and they can weaponized them and act archie and after employees. it's ridiculous, it's flimsy, and it's in my legal opinion and this is, you know, i have a lot of great, but i'm not practicing law, but in my legal opinion, this is an overreach, and i think it could be easily challenged and shut down. i think journalists really need to pay attention to this because if they get away with it, it can set a precedent that will not stop. it will, it will simply go to the point where they silence everyone. how do you think this impacts on the sacred principal of the freedom of speech when it comes to the media and the media space? well, it flies directly in the face of the constitution. so it's a constitutional violation. that's an issue. if you can't defend it in court, and that way you know, then it's gonna be, it's gonna fall apart. it's an executive order. it can be overturned, it will be interesting to see whoever checks office if they would overturn it.

obviously harris has a prosecutor, she's not gonna overturn it. trump might, he says he will. let's see if he does. and he also said he would lift sanctions, but because it's an executive order that meant that there was no discussion. there was no debate. it literally just came directly from the bible regime, and they impose this law criminalizing archie criminalizing a media organization, which is stunning. and i think it, it's um, everyone should be talking about it and paying attention to it and fighting it. what do you make of this allegations coming out? usually when there's on the election cycle, we've not forgotten the 2016. that's the one that here we are getting into build up to the election this year. the belt us presidential election here. all the functions against the all t, it's so interesting the rest of the playbook, right? the democrats have little imagination. they keep relying on the same old script over and over again, and it didn't work then, and it's not going to work now. and in fact, you know,

if you looked at the press corps that was watching, you can see that they were bored in the press conference. like, why did you call this press conference to try to convince this. but there's, there's arts here here to try to convince us that employees are like crowd funding for weapons for refrain. i be a lot of like see, that's laughable and it's like it. and, but if it really is, i think it's a desperate attempt to try to just hang onto that power every way they can, if they're going to and you know, garland is, is, and you know, this has been sad of him by other people smarter than me. he is a criminal himself and he's a, he's kind of gangster and that's that what he's doing with the f b i n d o j. he's using it to, to its end. and um, it is gonna fly back in their faces. and these are really laughable. i'm telling you not look upon dave, how are you sitting right here in our t? mm hm. when you sit down and you're listening and watching all of these things coming out of washington, do you feel affected?

well, personally, i've been effective. yeah, i mean it will be a long time before i go back to the united states. if ever, and i think that many people are affected, americans that want to work with r t that want to work directly for r t, you know, yeah it's, it's, it's frightening, but with this is where we have to stand out. we have to take, you know, take it, we have to fight it, and i think it's important because it's for the people behind us. it's for the generation behind us. because if we left this ride, if we he let them get away with criminalizing a media corporation criminalizing on an award winning archie international, which is a very well, you know, various steamed organization, then it's not gonna stop. it's a slippery slope and we've lost our freedom of trust. we've lost our freedom speech . we've lost, you know, democracy is americans. and worldwide. i mean, it, it, it, it's important to that every country has the right to have their own idea of what they want for media. and america has no right to impose on that. that's that

american exceptionalism. again, if i right now, we just tell us that's uh the what we do here is getting more, having more impact around the well tar reed are to contribute to thank you so much for your insight. thank you. thank you. great. now it's not just r t b and the keys of the faring in the us elections, even their own citizens are being branded with those accusations as well. that's after us court found full black rights activists guilty of conspiracy to act as russian agents. now the us justice department says that there were conspiring to add, as i'm registered agents on behalf of moscow sentencing next to each of them now face up to 5 years behind boss. now one of them is a 2 year old. well molly, you should taylor know and has found the robin who, who removed meant with fights for the rights of african people. busy wide, however, according to american persecutors, this was just a cover to promote the rocks, his views on politics. but you create in conflict in the allegedly,

the facts in local elections in florida. and as america continued, it's blaine game and locking up individuals for supposedly meddling us elections. washington is wrapping up its own propaganda efforts at this time targeting, bathing. not more than the 1600000000 dollars have been located in the attempt to count the quote sign as my light influence its old details. and the recently passed the bill, the american loan because applied and investing in the media and civil societies around the world. but the bill doesn't require disclosing to read recipe and where the money is coming from. and let's not forget georgia. previously a keys washington of meddling and its internal affairs in africa, zimbabwe expelled us, a id or special for all the staffing. the role of the red cross has said 8 intended for venezuela comes with political strings from the agency. we spoke with

a canadian john listing china about all those who believe that it's all part of washington's desire to habits, footprint globally. you see the reach of the n g o z and deals their strategy playbook is to go into smaller countries that have maybe a week or on here a week, or got me. the stabilize that use the american playbook. i'm paying the, you know, the red, white and blue is coming year to save you at the american breed. and so wanted to report what's happening to america though, is there running out of countries to invade or running out of fractions to bully, bankrupt, or ball. and that's what we're, you know, see right now they tried this a long, long years ago when they tried to stabilize the home con, uh and uh, you know, china and said, wait a moment. uh your ouch. and uh, they basically, you know, kicked a lot of these and you got a phone call and, uh, you know, beat up their security laws, smart countries that are doing that. unfortunately there's other countries that are

prepared for it. this last thing that we dash, what happens when you don't follow the end, you know, book from america, your government gets replaced. well, one can wonder why the american establishment is so fixated on our t. maybe it's for these kinds of reports where we expose how, for instance, 6 british diplomats were involved in intelligence gathering and sub buses, activities aimed at sylvan discords and establishing the wealth not london has dismissed the claims as baseless with all the details. here is archie's more, i guess, the f, a political department. so sections of the embassies are traditionally havens for spies as these departing busy diplomats kind of test or identify those are the employees who agents of british intelligence. the

more in ukraine has turned upside down. many rules of diplomacy, a robust simpler, some of those changes began before these conflicts. and among those 2 ones that this rule that moves no, was competing for an officer venue structure before an office is nothing above the coordination center for this truck through the civilization of the wall. it's, it's ation by drug and all these are will, it's countries into a global conflict res intelligence agents posing as diplomats dates what they quote then the current conditions, the medicine mingled and robert didn't die with frankie russians invited them to private even secret tools spied the embassies, tool and impenetrable rules. now, tons of tough. last, many russians want anything to do with british intelligence. the times with different vend london's priorities. a well illustrated by semi informal events

abroad were british diplomats build purchase with a local flock. one such event in russia took place in may. we're talking about at reception on the occasion of the birth date of the british and besser to russia. nigel casey, those among the seasoned ones in the orbit of the british embassy and the colors. think of expert at the moscow carnegie saw her consent to him, took off editor in chief and ceo of news. i've you some, i guess you have that, and then you'd see must see all the german, all the world union of old delivers. the graduates of georgetown university in washington are still rotating the least of new commerce. we showed up at case his birthday party is interesting among those invited work. i think something about board managing partner of the law firm of popcorn and partners. alexander does the chairman of the board executive director of the yelton center, the meet a good, a jeweler, entrepreneur, in the world mister case, either continues to look for alternative ways to implement the interest of great britain in russia, or avoids public meetings with real actors of this work is quite difficult to

believe that the new color of soft power is the children of russian actors, jewelers journalists for an agents and old delivers. jessica could davenport, for example, to rated so called activists now and he's hi, this is payroll. she met regularly with i p, poof and media representatives such as newburgh, cuz we have a paid for by the west depots in the activities, leaving on british rods as the government and use paid full by the foreign office. jessica's passion, the was reported the pushing migration on russia. she often met with the lawyers and activist. they'll be migrant rights and freedoms, even at the expense of russian citizens. as the deadline, a sponsor noon. it is with them that you will denies the 5, the meetings,

russian intelligences or shall shed with the press. a number of foreign office falls that it had been deceptive not to be perused by the public. they are bad, but the eastern european men, central asian directors of the birth, each followed all facies of had to be made for them. i 6 wing dedicated to everything and the russian, the e e. c, a, d is integrated with d, v i s department 5, the close we are the part of the f, c d o that focuses on defense and act as the interface between the f c d o for an office and the ministry of defense. we provide political, military expertise to parts of the government, dealing with military operations ago, literally spies, spread across departments dedicated to disseminating breeding's propaganda. world

was with a focus on ukrainian propaganda. how does but add more be add ons, ring to oh, and basses, deputy director of government information campaigns, a plethora of departments dedicated to you. creative negotiations and coordination and initiatives that's almost like ukraine. the eas poetry run by the foreign office or even kids has a negotiations department. and the p is the brits doing that for them. that's even an escalation department headed by simon fed wherever and don certain to austin nature presumably intended to analyze how far let that could push that you create in conflicts before new payable head start reading down on london. that's we see this particular group overlook that. we can watch, do really spies expelled from russia. have to do with these people. mothers go with

the people of much and codes that we have now is trip towards the accreditation. will probably get positions in the directorate as well. many of the departments that the new case, new ministry of propaganda has it, but really spies expelled from russia. d. c, a d was reformed into that's covered state by most of the harris who did a scene in moscow is due to the mass james b who heads the media manipulation department spent suited of in russia and likes it to me such that even got married. it most school mach diamond to on so, so i the russian sanctions analysis and much more he's and the average bike love to keep fits during his time in moscow. christopher joyce last didn't get much time to enjoy the russian capital. he was booted 1000 me a 2 months off to his arrival. your legend, he likes it in russia,

su much even shed some tears as he was off to leave the country after which he became that he had a russian policy department. these files reveal just how vested as involved with me is in the ukrainian conflicts, kansas department costing o 4 to working round the clock to keep the role that they helped start doing. i knew that that's at ease at home and graduates of the most prestigious penitents academy. and it was the breezy shabba sea in moscow. more, i guess the archie or the archie has also repeatedly said like an american war crimes, for instance, a database. all the atrocities committed to any rock and of gather stands, which was released to the public and the details to review. and there are rarely a, the consequences with a route to side. so be allegations, dismissed by investigate. does the,