on this edition of crossfire we conduct a post-mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed in what bodes for the future issues the mainstream corporate media refuse to discuss. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a made in the shallows. come back this is our to international now which leads co-founder julian assange was in court in london on monday for a routine administrative hearing on his possible extradition to the us during the session of the lawyers were granted more time after they complained of not having the opportunity to go over case files with their client our video agency ruptly was there when a song was seen exiting the court and a crowd of his supporters had gathered to protest against his extradition assad is currently serving time in a british high security jail for skipping bail while waiting on his full extradition hearing set for ne

if it is true that this plane was effectively caught in the crossfire of tensions between the us andn, what does that outcome mean globally and internationally for support for the us, or support for iran?|j and internationally for support for the us, or support for iran? i don't think it has a huge effect because the americans are trying to say this was a mistake. most of the countries who have made a statement on this have stressed the fact that it's probably a mistake because there is this massive i might desire to de—escalate what was looking like something heading for a crisis. i would be surprised if any western government takes this even if it is a crossfire incident, as a reason to escalate again. if it is a mistake, clearly it is a tragic one but one of the problems is because of the current conflict that exists, we might not find out with the absolute certainty of the black box recording weather this is what has happened, although it seems from the signal intelligence, there's quite a lot of confidence from western governments that it is. we should say iran disputes that. le

into office, he was subjective to an investigation by the federal bureau ofn investigation called crossfire hurricane. the president within six months of his inauguration found a special counsel being appointed to investigate a russia collusion theory. in their opening statement several members of the house managers tried to relitigate the mueller case. here's the bottom t line. this is part one of the mueller report. this part alone is 199 pages. the house managers in the presentation a couple of times reference this for that. let me tell you something. this cost $32 million. this investigation took 2800 subpoenas. this investigation had 500 search warrants. this had 230 orders for communication records. this had 500 witness interviews. all to reach the following conclusion and i'm going to quote from the mueller report itself it can be found on page 173. as it relates to this whole matter of collusion and conspiracy, ultimately as the words of bob mueller in his report. this investigation did not establish that the campaign court needed or conspired with the russian government and the ele

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. cross talking fan mail i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's in our website writer we also have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us we're not going to be able to answer them all but i'll get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus 1st of this year ok we have a question from adrian holeman question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead when as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. personally i find it very difficult to believe it or that donald trump will be removed from office i think that repu

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle legal team strikes back after months of being on the receiving end of the democrats and media assaults the president now presents his case but as the public care. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's an r t website writer we also have michael bryant he is a former ronald reagan white house political appointee and a george w. bush political appointee at the department of defense and of course we're joined by dimitri he's a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project all right gentlemen in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok again another impeachment program robert. i've watched snippets of it ok i'll be honest with our audience that i cannot stomach watching so many hours of repetition in so tedious and adam schiff is not the person i want to staring at all day defeat on interview we have to say the republicans did a good job of presenting the president's case we expected that he is a reality former reality t

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. cross talking fan mail i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's in our web site writer we also have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us we're not going to be able to answer them all but i'll get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus 1st of this year ok we.

crossfire of that constant constant barrack barricades of that media war and here we see it in a way by we see both sides of we see it by getting very close to the human cost of that in someone like like like jane we see in the movie as well the particular the vince vaughn character as a kind of mechanic of a kind of fake news and a kind of writer of a kind of fake news making stories by jim but instead of fake news being just this appropriate a political term as a as it currently is by the current american regime you actually say no it's a weapon it's a conservative weapon being big being being used and and i think it's kind of just a reminder of if we're seeing it in a kind of infancy in the movie of just how how terrifying and powerful that is where the many characters laid at the office our job is to cheapen our image in the eyes of the public and in order to do the sort of deal we've made with the veil ability of information accessibility of information that and the drug of that it's very easy for us to get just how absolutely transparent and the kind of things that 1520 years a

how extraordinary and violent that overreach was and how much she was caught in the crossfire of this state effort to to crush and destroy black activists in this country is unwarranted some impression of black people in america the same disgusting racism so cointelpro pro was a counterintelligence program secret counterintelligence program. on the j. edgar hoover's f.b.i. that was turned against. american activists. the left feminist groups but particularly african-american civil rights groups and the black panther party they published lies about people. dr martin luther king and they infiltrated and ran surveillance operations on groups like the black panthers and spread misinformation and those same tactics applied to jeanne in the film and they destroy her her relationships with the with the with the activist community she's working with. we talked before about kind of how vital the movie feels now like whether with the kind of revelations from someone like edward snowden or like the way the film they're f.b.i. agents in the film is a kind of media outlets to punish somehow doing

on this edition of crossfire we conduct a post-mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed in what bodes for the future issues the mainstream corporate media refuse to discuss. as we ponder the future and look into 2021 fascinating stories our way there are often said on this show that you can't have capitalism without capital capital without positive interest rates encouraging people to say and this next story this next whole show this next entire segment is going to be dedicated to this very notion. of the news and money i'm not one. of a time about what members of us have any time that we're in a sentence of on was more about. the one with the more than the side of obama. seen the guy doing to him but i'm before. him but i. knew now by now i'm by the i'm not moved on. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. stacy her but dig into the burning questions of this elect

hello and welcome to crossfire or all things considered i'm peter lavelle over the past week we've heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate we've also heard the word war this is how the us ran conflict is describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the american military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. cross talking the u.s. around conflict i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi until around he's a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have chris for now when he is founder of american veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the united states iran and the entire region and we're going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now bec

anyone coming from the east would have gone between a very nice artillery crossfire. caught right in the middle. those are very well situated. you have fort johnston, which is about half there. it's on private property. people don't like you climbing around it. it's pretty much gone. you've got that. roads, about 15, 62 miles north of leesburg through gettysburg. it's the same road. all right. the third map, this is the one that really is the best map of the battlefield on the day of the battle. you will find all kinds of maps that purport to be of the battlefield of ball's bluff. some of them in newspapers not too long after the battle. those are second hand drawn by journalists. somebody said i was there. this is what it looked like. the shape of the field is all over the place. it is round, diamond, rectangular, all signs of shades. the size changes. acres to 20m two acres. this is the map of the battlefield on the day of the battle. this was drawn by captain william francis bartlett. he was on the field from before dawn until after dark. he was not under fire unti

only an idiot is going to march his men into a crossfire and the people were not idiots. they were inexperienced. they were not idiots. these union troops are in the open, these are hidden in the tree line so the confederates can't see them. baker gets here and says, i need to find out how many are out there. he tells colonel wister, send a couple of your companies beyond the federal left. go up toward where the parking lot is today and find out how many confederates are there. the eighth virginia is they are hunkered down. a couple of companies of the first california advance up the slope. the eighth virginia stands up and fires and they advance on each other. on that slope, basically the federal left, today the slope that goes down toward the cemetery, is first part of the continuous fighting that lasts all afternoon. 150 to 180 guys on each side, part of the eighth virginia, part of the first california. it is hand-to-hand, bayonets, small but nasty. both sides eventually fall back. having fallen back, there is another very brief lull and then everything opens up. from

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it seems like 2016 all over again bernie sanders is popular and doing well in the polls and the democratic establishment along with the donor class are nervous they're centrist politics now throw in identity politics the problem for bernie this time around apparently is that he's not inclusive enough is a democratic primary being rick began. talking bernie sanders i'm joined by my guest joe concha in new jersey he's a media reporter and a column this for the hill in los angeles we have jamie right she is an attorney and a political strategist also in los angeles we cross he is a comedian. quinn guest on the jimmy door show as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe let me go to you 1st you're a media critic what is the deal with bernie again i mean the disgrace at the democrat last democratic debate is obvious for everyone even the audience saw through it all here what is the d

they're demanding more so lots of tension there is the report of one person who's been injured in the crossfire between the military and intelligence services services we've seen the military deploying tanks and helicopters to try to contain the situation and we've heard from government officials from the prime minister and the minister of information was the government's book saying that they're calling on the people who are firing the at the army and the rapid support forces to put down their guns and find a peaceful way to come to negotiations and a settlement here but just. how many people are we talking about involved in this shootout what sort of potentially people who are in the crossfire you're as well. well 1st of all the operations unit from the general intelligence service employs more than 13000 people that's the number we're looking at we don't know how many of them have opted to take the severance package rather than join the raf it support for the military but what we do know is that the the gunfire between the military and the members of the operation operations units from the g

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military the decision. to. be instructed. to hold a shot on what they kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any scream didn't eat any meat. many graham my arm and he right mean. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting really is more likely to get the victim punished from the offender and almost 10 year career which shows very invested in and i gave the sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the road a story this is simply an issue of power and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon

in the crossfire -- >> i remember when jon stewart went on "crossfire." it was 2004.ntial nominee facing george w. bush. and i thought, you know, watching it, i said, this is going to be a funny show. >> can i say something very quickly? why do we have to fight? the two of you, can't we just say something nice about john kerry, right now. >> i like john. i care about john kerry. >> and something about president bush. >> he'll be unemployed soon. >> anyone who enjoyed paying attention to the news and watched "the daily show" will forever remember jon stewart going on "crossfire" and reading those guys the riot act. >> you're doing theater when you should be doing debate. it's not honest. what you do is partisan hackery. and i'll tell you why i know it. >> you had john kerry on your show and you kiss his throne and you accuse us of hackery? >> the show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. what is wrong you? >> comedians and satire when done right will take on hypocrisy no matter where it comes from. >> i think the vice president and is his wife love t

the industry was caught in a crossfire of libya's civil war. porters of the eastern exports command block under his control. the upper plunge forced the state national oil corporation to declare force majeure. the clause can allow opec nations to legally suspend delivery contracts. the country's oil production will be limited to 72,000 barrels, down from more than 1.2 million. nejra: another opec nation, iraq, temporally stopped work as political unrest escalate. local media reported protesters shut down border crossings with erin. with more, stephen potential key joint just -- stephen bacsinszky joins us from singapore. not huge moves we've seen. of course, the issues of libya have been ongoing for many years. what should we expect from oil prices the rest of the week? are going see gains fade quickly? pool of there is a thought along -- among analysts that these risk events cause a quick pop, similar to what you saw when iran-u.s. tension took off. quickly afterwards, you'll see it will pare their gains and prices will go back down to normal.

caught in the crossfire of the nation's civil war.raq temporarily halted work at an oilfield yesterday. and supply from a second is at risk as political unrest escalates. let's get into the markets with mark cudmore. he comes to us live from singapore. we've seen that these spikes can pretty easily be smoothed out in terms of oil prices, by hedging mechanisms and a number of other things. how long can we expect this to last? --mark: notg mark:. very long. i think we see a shift in the curve. we see greater backwardation. the backward and of oil prices, the longer-term features, it's really just a front and move. it will be smoothed out quickly. there's also the libya story and iraq story. the iraq story has more traction, in terms there have been more progress. the libya situation won't be as disruptive. we could go, we were excited about the cease-fire. the polity has been relatively stable. we increasedd out, production from other sources. these short-term supply descriptions are just that -- disruptions are just that, short-term. m

on this edition of crossfire questions center was for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up but they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my own arm and he raped me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military is a very very traumatizing have happened but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue our violence mal

he said it would call for foreign assistance in that, well, in the particular facts of crossfire hurricane, it has been well established now that in fact fusion gps utilized the services of a former foreign intelligence officer, christopher steele to put together a dossier and that christopher steele relied on his network of resources around the globe including russia and other places to put together this dossier, which then james comey said was unverified and salacious, but it was the basis upon which the department of justice and the fbi obtained fisa warrants, this was in 2016 against a rival campaign. so we don't have to do hypotheticals. that is precisely the situation. but to take it an additional step, this idea that any witness will be called if this body decides to go to witnesses, that a witness will be called would be a violation of fundamental fairness. of course, if witnesses are called by the house managers through that motion, well, the president's council would have the opportunity to call witnesses as well, which we would. thank you, mr. chief justice. >> thank you, counse

authorities say two men plotted a robbery, police say the victim started shooting, he was killed in the crossfire. >>> a new crime chief in oakland could be making some positive changes for violence in the city. he spent the last few months figuring out what is working, what needs to be fixed to reduce crime in the area. >>> now to our original series "project:home". we are getting a look at a hidden population, street kids. >> when i came outside i was scared. i was reallyfr a et d. r>> san francisco at age 19, right around the time she came out as transgender. >> what initially started my homelessness is my father. he did not accept me for who i. he burned my clothing. that i was presenting a female. >> reporter: she moved from sacramento with no family and no connections to this big city. she says almost immediately strangers on the street started to chip away at her. >> i was raped on the stres at least twice. times got desperate for me, and i had to do sex work. things took place because i did not have a place to live. >> she has nearly 100% chance of being trafficked for six. >> reporter: w

this edition of crossfire we answer questions for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of the. beijing activists staging a huge protest in hong kong on new year's day marred by clashes with riot police. also ahead on the program u.s. forces reportedly used tear dispersed protesters outside the american embassy in a day. tried to storm torch it it comes as washington sends more troops to iraq in response to choose these attack on the. ukrainian former riot police released from jail in the recent prisoner swap revealed details contradicting the official version of the 2014 my down shootings in kiev where more than 50 people lost their lives speaks to one of the officers. who are the evidence shows that the police acted lawfully there was no open fire on citizens a terrorist act against the police did take place illegitimate seizure of power of the government offices were taken over. or international news center this is welcome to the program. after a night marred by clashes major beijing rally is underway in hong kong this new year's day

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions center was fire you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of the. leaks . and when you. present political points of us look at the distance was more than a book called a bug. in schools though it's about some new yorkers. just chill. well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things done or stand is essentially creates what we call a screen. and it's like petrol motion machine for getting ever increasing defense b

says, crossfire hurricane, have you heard of that? of the way i see it, the president was concerned about everything he has done has been looked at with a fine to call h, so he's wondering why the sun gets hired at this fabulous price while vice president biden is running the ukrainian issue. the vice president demands that the prosecutor who is investigating the son be fired, was fired, and then the new prosecutor dropped his case. the investigation. i don't think it is impeachable for him to say, goodness, this is horrible. i think that is the word he used on the phone call. this can't be impeachable, really. it's and in the interest of the united states and our own integrity and also the money we give to the ukraine, we want to be sure it is wisely spent and not thrown away on relatives of the vice president. >> shannon: whelchel, the arguments continue on the senate floor, and another day of questioning tomorrow. senator, thank you very much. ran new developments on the coronavirus outbreak, and calls for a travel ban growing. wha

on this edition of crossfire are questions for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best answer some of them. and welcome back this is our team international so we have 200-1000 officially behind us let's take a look back at more of the events that defined the here. we. are so we got the big board here and let's take a look at what we got how well you remember 2019 there was a lot of hype about a lot of things in 2019 including about the power of social media to influence. people let's take a look at we got don't believe the hype for 100 alex all right tick tock shock what do you know final break that let's take a look at the tick tock story. right they have an r.t.c. way of trying to looks at the rise of a new application called tick tock and how it has become hugely popular although it is not liked by everyone. so now. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even exist it take tock tick tock for me simply the sound i associate with the clock well if you feel the same i'll have to tell you either you're getting old like me

on this edition of crossfire we'd answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. but this is broadcast around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century i've been sworn and i'm christiane washington we have a special shout focusing on cryptocurrency here's what we have such as political turmoil rocked government and creates currency crisis our citizens trying to dig into the details plus while in singapore we have a chance to catch up with legendary investor and. bear to discuss the fate of the world's most popular. and well we didn't look at the positive growth of cryptocurrency not everyone is on board well as singapore christie spoke of the bus tour and author jim rogers to discuss his skepticism over the growing clubs. thanks for being with us today a lot to get to so we begin here. over the span. the past 2 years we have seen turmoil gripped several parts of the globe from hong kong where months of unrest have shaken what was a previously financial haven in east asia t

investigation of the candidate for president of the united states when they started their operation called crossfire hurricane. he said it would be targeting a rival, that's what that did. he said it would be calling for foreign assistance in that. tar rival, that's what that did, he said it would be calling for foreign assistance in that well in the particular facts of cross fire hurricane it's been well established that fusion gps utilized the services of a former foreign intelligence offer, christopher steele to put together a dossier and he relied on his network of resources around the globe to put together this dossier which james comey said was unverified and yet

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. across talking fan mail i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's an r.t. website writer we also have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor. a politics 1st magazine or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us we're not going to be able to answer them all but i'll get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus birthday ok we have a question from adrian home in question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead where as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. personally i find it very difficult to believe it's about donald trump will be removed from office i think that republican

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions was fire you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. a lot of the areas in the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the u.s. or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated kind of recently woken up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the us. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important. transitions to sustainable transport sustainability. a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something this must be done to anyone and i mean look. we do want to. underscore that look to what. greetings value tasia means the end is here hawk watchers of the year i mean it's the end of the year and

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. with $29000.00 and dusted let's take a look at more of the events but the find the year. this particular topic got a lot of people talking there was a lot of hype about a lot of things in 2019 including about the power of social media to influence people artie's. the rise of a new application called to talk it's become hugely popular although it's not like by everyone. these. are now you know get me. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even exist it take tock tick tock for me simply the sound i associate with the clock well if you feel the same i'll have to tell you either you're getting old like me or it's just that your online habits need an urgent update take talk a platform to share short videos is now the most downloaded app the king of all apps and instagram twitter and co you've been dethroned just so you know ever heard the song. if it wasn't for his app store majesty the song wouldn't have b

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. but if she warned you posted by you than i did the show would be sure that there was more in this g.'s new speech and you see me we do you. know muffin when you guys e.t.s. . in the news i mean that is without infringing ball. a lot of people see sawing and fuzzy fights about who can shout the most ardent most schools. but as you. last. year in. cabo but i don't. relate in total. optionality welcome to going underground we will be back with a brand new season starting on january the 8th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from the last season of the decade coming up in this show will there be blood on the hands of the united kingdom with the much of major nation media continuing to downplay the warnings of 60 doctors and wiki leaks julian assange could die in a u.k. prison we speak to the united nations niels melts who alleges british contempt of international norms of justice and we speak to the ecuadoria

sort of back and forth hostilities between the united states and iran, and iraq is caught in the crossfire. i think, as i said in my tweets earlier from yesterday to today, i believe that we are going to witness a new relation bad turn between the united states and iraq in 2020, different than what has been before and's 2003.-- since 2003. this is the first time we see demonstrations in front of the u.s. embassy in baghdad's 2003, and i believe that these demonstrators will not go away before they get what they want, which is a massive reduction of u.s. diplomatic presence. nuala: how do you think that will actually default? there are people within those buildings. a breached perhaps the outer wall but not the actual embassy itself. do you see some sort of mediation? i believe you think there will be a massive reduction of americans in that embassy, but tell me what you think is going to happen. >> again, depends on who gets involved. the original organizes, the popular mobilization forces that initially organized what used to be a sit-in -- now it is no longer a sit-in, it is a more activ

intelligence center that would be able to get people to get citizens who are not involved in the crossfire or not to become fire between the military and intelligence is all right have i thank you for that update from hard to. now libya's fragile cease fire is in doubt after warring sides failed to reach a breakthrough during 8 hours of talks in the russian capital so the warlords $24.00 have to did not sign a deal formalizing the truce but moscow says the talks are not dead however the outcome is anger turkey's presidents are accusing have taught of running away from the negotiations and he had this warning for have to his forces. in the coming days we will carefully monitor the choices that will be made between after and the legitimate government after those attacks against the people of the government of libya continue we will never refrain from teaching him the lesson he deserves while russia which supports have to campaign says it will continue to push for negotiations over a violence but there have been reports of have to his forces gathering in southern tripoli threatening the truce

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle trump's legal team strikes back after months of being on the receiving end of the democrats and media assaults the president now presents his case but does the public care. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's an r t web site writer we also have michael bryant he is a former ronald reagan white house political appointee and a george w. bush political appointee at the department of defense and of course we're joined by dimitri he's a political analyst and editor at innocent me internet media project all right gentlemen in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok again another impeachment program robert i've watched snippets of it ok i'll be honest with our audience that i cannot stomach watching so many hours of repetition and it's so tedious and you know adam schiff is not the person who. we have to say the republicans did a good job of presenting the president's case we expected that he is a reality former reality t.v. host he knows what

irresponsible dangerous ill conceived behavior $63.00 canadians needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire including the family of one of my m.-f. colleagues his wife an 11 year old son we're mourning and i'm livid. ok for more on all those developments let's cross live to done is a human rights lawyer the author of no more war as well speaking to us this hour from pittsburgh good to see you just on what we saw there not sure if you saw the canadian food company speaking about who's to blame for they to run plane crash while the tragedy took place at a time of heightened tensions on what grounds can america also be held directly responsible for runs darning of a passenger plane kelly well i think it is very clear it is he was found during a time when iran. was on high or because the u.s. had just killed their highest ranking military official general solomonic so clearly it in most people believe even the u.s. is a notch that the downing of the plane was accidental now they've acknowledged that it happened because of the increased tensions. that the u.s. created you know and this is one of

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us fire you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. because the report the 1st episode of 2020. days you ever and i are going to have some really special guests dr michael hudson you know back in the seventy's 970 s. there is a movie called death wish with charles bronson remember that remember that we could do a remake of the you are the star you play the charles bronson or all as called debt way up and you're a vigilante banker economist that goes around new york blowing away bag yet we think i love it ok i'll set that up. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. and welcome back this is our t. international now with 2950 behind us let's take a look back at more of the events that defined of a year. now we have the big board here it's kind of a fancy piece of equipment let's take a look at what we got. see where we go there we go so we have don't believe the hype

on this edition of crossfire we answer questions was for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. a lot of it here is the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the u.s. or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated 5 g. we've kind of recently woken up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. . but if she warned you and i do the dishes at the balls more than those jeans near the speech and you see me. blue truth. in the news i mean that is where that inference involved. a lot of. fuzz if i had 2 kids each other both sides. of the. cabinet 5 days doing. people who simply knew. little. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important. transition to sustainable transport sustainability. more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's. because. compa

on this edition of crossfire questions so joe was for you with the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. a lot of areas in the economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the u.s. or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated. kind of recently was going up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. . thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was writing. you know told to shut up kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me this bird thinking if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military is a very very traumatizing have happe

hello and welcome to crossfire or all things considered i'm peter lavelle over the past week we've heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate we've also heard the words war this is how the u.s. ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the american military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. talking the us around conflict i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi in foreign he's a professor at the university of toronto.

the iranian influence in iraq right john locke rickly european forces on the ground caught in the crossfire of this escalation between tehran and washington well they have any influence on any withdrawal process if it was to happen. well the ill inference that the europeans have will be diplomatic if we have a few months that europeans have very little leverage on the politics in the gulf we've seen that when them trump announced with throwing its forces from syria although the operation was maintained to fight isis a de operation and led by the european had to be scaled down because the european relies on the backbone of us meet in the region we also see. the defect that european where powerlessness when they try to. implement this barter system in order to gura u.s. sanctions against iran does the bar just because you can call in sick with sort of a euro going generates doesn't mind teen and has been. not workable since then so the europeans are totally rely militarily on the american to exert any kind of leverage in the region all right richard your font in washington what consequences f

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welcome back to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle toronto we're discussing some real news. ok let's go back to alexander in london i've been waiting for this announcement for this these reforms of whatever nature well but because we're looking at president putin's term will end in 2024 and everyone wants to know and it's a cottage industry operation successor we've been thinking about of her 20 years now it's coming about and i think the timing is just perfect it is a gradual process. looking at the constitution tweaking it here and there to meet the times and face the future here however of course we have western media coverage coming to power how do react to how westerners receive this this package of reforms go ahead alex is supposed to pull up some words let's just compact this sort of all out moment how computed cling to power when the he's made it absolutely clear that there's any going to be 2 terms so that rules him out standing as president in 2020 fool and there is no other think going to be comparable to the president. as a result of well i mean you kn