the west wall that tragic b.s. trail you supported was the invasion of iraq. and all the damage all the civilians killed as a consequence of that that was a total violation of international law and so people just got out and said to us and you have a lot of people in the west. agree with president obama simply because he says it well mr fraser if i can put it to you what one other initiative american. initiative to sonic's than that a strategy has supported was in recognising indonesia as an extension of east timor something that lets you all a very bloody war which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and i know that it was primarily american support that drove that war vets you know military supplies and diplomatic support but your government under your leadership was also criticised for. well a logical cooperating with the indonesian military and presents a heartfelt i wonder if in hindsight you ever came to regret that policy and i regret greatly what happened to the east timor. i believe a straight edge to your lead and would not have been able to do ve

the bowl outbreak in west africa grows worse will an infected patient be brought to the u.s. for treatment at the centers for disease control prepares to send specialists to the region and update coming up. and snooping on congress after months of denial the cia comes clean and says it did house lawmakers well look at the potential fallout from the revelations later in the show.

which is presumed to exist between russia and the west in the west but which russia does not see. we does have a real disconnect in terms of the reality of what is going on in russia and as a result of that disconnect a lot of positive information about the changes in russia is simply not taken into account which only exacerbates the differences the apparent differences. in fact if you wanted to overcome this crisis and to prevent such crisis from occurring in the future you would literally pursue the opposite policies from the ones that the west is pursuing instead of isolation you should try people to people diplomacy instead of sanctions you would argue as people used to argue back in the nineteenth seventy's in the one nine hundred eighty s. that there should be expanded commercial ties because that conditions and makes both economies co dependent on each other and that would be the real solution to preventing unexpected political outcomes. you know but a lot of me i don't think we're going to see that because it's you know you either surrender or you know we're going to take

back into a situation where russia in the west once again. try to be friends together. those findings will come out in one to one side will most likely say the findings are incorrect. correct and. you know we will even before that those findings from made public the west into. sanctions against russia and obviously russia retaliated and they say. confrontational rhetoric goes on and on what do you think about sanctions isn't it a way of holding economy and business hostage to politics. sanctions are better than war. over say. they're obviously. it's not it's they're not great but i mean sanctions are definitely better than conflict and definitely better than killing people and you know it's you know if we can you know if you know from the west point of view. is that. the. treasure sanctions will stop an invasion of east ukraine. and you know if it's russia did invade east ukraine i mean i don't think the west or russia would try to get electrocuted for twenty or thirty years i mean it's you know it's it's. there's no easy easy easy right or wrong but it definitely is som

and most people living in russia most people living in the west one situation took. i think. people in two to say that some of the people in the west to say that it's up to us this is able to make sure that happens with a little if every time he does mention that. you know present different countries interpret the statements your statements and the statements of many politicians and the actions of politicians there are differently and let me quote you something from an interview you gave to our ukrainian colleagues from the key of post well the journalist asked you about what would you say to russia's president your responded quote president putin please don't turn back the clock we remember when the bird on wall fell and how wonderful both russians and the rest of the world felt about it now personally i don't think that this kind of hate would really be successful in the kremlin because people there truly believe that it's there when asked which is trying to turn back the clock on russia by isolating russia so i wonder if he should also be talking to some of the western lead

hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle as russia in the west continue to drift apart into a new cold war well shows world view of into. national politics is largely neglected in western media and in the halls of power russia will defend its national interest and also house its own bread lines. to cross the world according to russia i'm joined by my guests ray mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst also in washington we have the boys from mali cheese the director of the rights institute for serbian studies and in london we cross to mark macaulay he is a specialist at international affairs at the university of london are gentlemen cross-talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to you first that's ok almost any article you read in western media portrays russia as a very aggressive country bent on rebuilding the soviet union we are bent on rebuilding an empire but reality on the ground i don't see any evidence of it am i wrong. the question is whether it's bad bad bad bad poutine no shirt on bad putin on a horse n

and others in the west have called this humanitarian mission an invasion of ukraine . calls for justice over the killing of an unarmed black teenager in the u.s. city of ferguson are replied to with gas and or tear gas rather than rubber bullets even journalists were harassed by the security forces.

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of the, west of the jordan river. palestine. >> they expressed it many times, under any circumstances will never give the palestinians a state. >> but palestinians cannot choose israeli leaders. they should not be choosing stillian leaders. if you are going to have an agreement ever on this issue, it has to be between parties that actually, actually legitimate i will represent the stakeholders in this issue. and that is not going to be served by keeping palestinians divided. so i think the notion that, you know, any palestinian parties cannot participate in a government is really only aimed at keeping the palestinians divided and keeping in occupation going on ad infinitum sokollation of palestinian territory can continue. >> i think hamas is a savvy political movement, but it is violent to get something and today we are seeing in this conflict the military arm is strong and it has an agenda but the political arm is strong and very and fully in charge. >> rose: the political arm of hamas. >> is fully in charge. they c

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle as russian the west slowly turn away from each other the term pivot to asia takes on greater meaning and importance especially this pivot is all about china and its continued rise on the global stage this all translates into a multi-polar world that challenges washington's doctrine of full spectrum dominance. cross-talk the multipolar world i'm joined by my guest rodney shakespeare in london he is a political and economic. democrat and co-founder of the global justice movement in washington we have a son rory he is a independent defense consultant as well as a specialist in great power relations in trans national security and here in moscow we crossed a marks for boulder he is a senior lecturer in researcher at moscow state university or gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect and you can jump in anytime you want and i very much appreciate rodney if i can go to you first. ukraine it was the. a moment that people are focusing on but the united states and. its allies have been turning away from russia or never embraced r

i what we have here is a stalemate alexandra in london one of the problems we have here with how the west looks at events in ukraine is that they basically refuse to call it a civil war because they always say go talk to the russians now see this is the problem right here because you know either the russians are doing too little or too much ok but the fact of the matter is what dimitri just said in london is that care has to talk to the people that it's attempting to kill and this is what the west should be pushing more is a recognition that there is a civil war in ukraine and that the russians can only do so much because in some corners of russia does anything it's called doing too much go ahead alexander in london absolutely agree with you on that one peter look the question is here it doesn't really matter what russia wants or ukraine wants or the u. wants the real question is whether the people on the ground in eastern ukraine want these are the people that matter and it's pretty obvious from what they say from what we hear is that people in eastern ukraine do not think the key if rep

support, to separating gaza from the west bank. in direct violation of the terms of the oslo accord 20 years ago, which declared that the west bank and gaza are a whose territorial entity integrity must be preserved. for rogue states, some agreements are just an invitation to do everyone. israel, with u.s. backing, has been committed to keeping them separate. there is a good reason for that. look at the map. outlet to the only the outside world for any even entity, thenian west bank is separated from gaza. the west bank is essentially a prison. israel on one side, the dictatorship on the other. furthermore, israel is systematically driving palestinians out of the jordan valley. there building settlements. military zones and settlements, the usual story. that would mean that whatever is left for palestinians in the west bank, after israel takes what it wants and integrates it into israel -- they would be completely imprisoned. in the outside world. keeping them separate from one policyr is a high goal of for the u.s. and israel. the

number two, he wants to keep the gaza strip separate from the west bank and under mind the government and he wants to under mind the agreement between hamas to reconcile, and this war is being waged against palestinian national project palestinian state. what israel is doing in gaza today is not so different. they're defending occupation and their settlement and committing massacres by the full meaning of the word, and they are committing war crimes. yesterday i was in doha meeting with morning minister of qatar, and we reached the foreign minute of egypt, and we were able to reach 72-hour cease-fire. in which secretary general ban ki-moon and secretary of state john kerry. just two hours before the cease-fire was supposed to go into force, the israeli army demolished 19 homes in rafa. using the pretext of looking for tunnels. and then between 8:00 to 9:30 another 21 homes were destroyed by the israeli army. they killed five palestinians, two israelis, and that's what happened. so what happened is that i had information from different sources that palestinians are to be blamed. if it'

the west napa fault, the last time that we felt an earthquake on that west napa fault was a 5.2 earthquake in the year 2000. again we want to let you know about the first road closure that we've heard about and we'll probably be hearing more after this. look at this, the first time we saw that picture from the safeway store in american canyon. wine spilled all over the store. wow, yeah glass bottles in the liquor department broken. you could see this was a significant quake. the jolt and then rolling felt afterward, very strong. i'm sure that it was pretty scary for the folks there in napa and sonoma county. again the road closure i just mentioned got distracted by these pictures pretty dramatic this morning. solano county west 37th closed from west 80 to highway 29 in sonoma, highway 29 is also called sonoma boulevard because of possible earthquake damage so expect delays if you're heading out on to the roadway solano county roadway west 37 closed from west 80 to state route 29. no estimated time of reopening this morning. you can see there on your map the epicenter this morning of this 6

there's a photo of the west indian workforce in the canal song. this bi-racial approach put white workers, u.s. workers on the so-called gold role paid them and the black workers from the west indies were on the silver rowland paid in silver. life was very different for those two groups but a lot of what's fascinating about the canal zone is that so many workers didn't quite fit into that black versus white structure. for example the spaniards, a fascinating group. the u.s. imported about 6000 spaniards to work on the canal thinking they would prod the black workers to work harder. in fact, they did have a lot of energy but in ways that complicated life for goethals and the other officials. they were classified as nonwhites were sometimes called, referred to as or semi-white workers. they were excluded from the white hotels and cafeterias, excluded from white dormitories and the spaniards were very angry about that. they mobilized and engaged in anarchist movement. as a labor as to when i'm in the archives i'm interested in moments of tension betw

you see a closing of ranks in the west bank. ere are mass protests with the participation of all palestinian factions. and in fact many independents, who have no factional affiliation. but the conflict has done is consolidated palestinian unity in a way we have not seen it in many years. it is the only positive dollar amount -- development i can see coming out of this conflict. and ik it is also true, think the others touched on this, there is a fundamental paradox when it comes to the two separate agendas of conflict fatah on oneith hand, and the track of armed struggle or resistance on the part of hamas on the other. the paradox is, when there is calm and quiet in the occupied the israelis become complacent and the americans as well. palestinians are ignored. the occupation continues. the status quo continues. violence occurs, unfortunately, that people stand up and say, i yes, there's a blockade, an occupation that needs to be addressed. the palestinians in gaza on this an opportunity -- >> how can you have an opportunity when

i meant the wall of words between russia and the west events in ukraine everyone is hoping a meeting between president vladimir putin and petro poroshenko could ease the crisis at the capital minutes before talks with the e.u. and we are going to go is watching the gathering quite closely for us and she joins us live it may not have any significant statements being made so far. yes at least we have heard several interesting things coming from both russian and ukrainian president so far we have seen them shaking hands so perhaps that is a good sign of things to come however yet we do not know of course this is the first meeting in quiet while the first since the d.-day celebrations in france in june and of course the importance of this is that the two presidents are expected to discuss the crisis in ukraine and we have already heard from the ukrainian president saying that everybody is watching what's happening here in minsk because the face of europe on the whole world depends on this meeting however the russian president didn't use such loud loud words when describing the situation h

why people outside of the west's pool hall a c. plus. most famous red square is assessing for a dazzling display the world's military orchestra is all the pomp and the fun coming up shoulder. to what extent do you think the american and british policies in the middle east have contributed to the creation of these very terrifying terrorist groups the western governments of fully understood the policies of contributed significantly to the radicalization of young men and women around the world this is without a shadow without i will confirm with i would agree with some of the young men that we would certainly be radicalized because of western foreign policy. when we come to talk about addiction to cigarettes we were on this done quite clearly that there is no other smoking or not smoking we believe completely that abstinence. can't quite understand why we don't have the same belief or drugs or alcohol to me the only way to productively dependency is to give up trying to go. out again that's a vacuum could attempt to impose more trade sanctio

the suborder party do not bode well for a political solution if there is the readiness in the west to prompt here in the direction of a political solution we indeed have it in means. every move was analyzed during putin and partially because first encounter two months ago in france today will be much the same and here on r.t. you the whole network will be following the discussions very closely throughout the day now two more journalists who were detained in ukraine have been released they were correspondent and photographer for a crimea based newspaper unfortunately there's still no word on the missing photojournalist understand and he disappeared in ukraine now three weeks ago and numerous campaigns for his release have been held across the world backed by calls from the un russia and international human rights organizations and we are posting updates on the search for understanding on our website r.t. dot com. so at international the american president has approved the surveillance of islamic state targets on territories the group was occupied in syria a precursor for potential as s

has been moved to the west end of the bridge. >>: george: however it's done the damage to the west allmay not recover from this. just because of the traffic flow we are looking at the mix ride which is backed up on the similar period here at industrial is over two hours that we have planned shutdown. this drive time is about 80 minutes. that means it can double that. it's 80s south wanted to 38 to 237. we're back up north of there. >>: george: this is added to the corridor commute time because the to backups that met south bound 80 and west bound to a 37. south bay freeways you're still jammed up. this is from 7-- summertime to autumn. with the folks back in school. in the mid pinza peninsula south brown at edgewood the official game and chp on timor the mall was struck. normally it's the that are hit on interstate 280 but this morning it was a mile line. >>: james: with the back over services go city hall and the gray skies ahead. we have noted some sun breaking through. right now were still low sixties for the most of the bay area. 64 and have you. the cloud coverage is high spread.

more clashes between palestinians and israeli soldiers but this time it's in the west bank later we'll report from the heart of the unrest. welcome and thanks once again for joining us my name is neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international the us is carried out air strikes against islamic state fighters near the iraqi city of irbil president obama had said that he would only authorize the military operation as a last resort if your hardest attack the kurdish area where u.s. personnel are deployed and joins me now with more. nasty now these strikes they came fairly quickly didn't they after obama had said that intervening was a possibility. well let me know that's absolutely correct developments are really speeding up by the hour and the u.s. military in iraq seems to really be gathering pace what we do know is the white house spokesperson has now said that the united states will be ready to involve military deployment in iraq when iraq if it does create an inclusive government to help the iraqi government fight off the islamist militant forces fighters that have been ravaging th

he appeals to the west. he says please send advanced military aid before it is too late. >> what are we seeing from the french papers? >> "liberation" has an article that focuses on the catholic church and how the church is reacting. it points out the catholic church has given its stamp of approval to the military response against isis. it wonders if the catholic church is on the warpath. this might seem like an oxymoron. but over the past couple days, church officials in france and abroad have been raising their voice to give their approval to the use of force against isis fighters in iraq saying it is legitimate, necessary. in other words, a just war. this might seem to go against the church's traditional opposition to war and calls for peace we have seen over the 20th century, but it points out what has changed is the fact the atrocities carried out by isis may seem like too much for the catholic church and especially the targeting of christian minorities. >> in france, officials are said to commemorate th

more areas of gaza is pushed for their lease of a soldier it says was kidnapped by hamas while in the west bank anti-war protesters are dispersed with lethal live rounds. the u.s. plans to arm and train your brains a regular armed forces while the e.u. reportedly lift the ban on supplying with military technology and equipment. and coming clean on hotshot interrogation tactics. we tortured some. we did some things that were contrary to our values. president obama admits the cia crossed the line when interrogating suspects as analysts look forward to the release of declassified data on the disturbing techniques used. what you want you to national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina welcome to the program. now some one hundred forty palestinians have now been killed by israeli airstrikes and artillery fire since friday's failed cease fire a video has emerged online showing the ferocity of these attacks. it was posted by the t.v. channel and shows no one the gaza district being turned into rubble as you can see the area was leveled to the ground within the space of just an hour the i.d.

so what should the west's role be here? what's the appropriate balance between diplomacy and military action? >> well, hari, this is a major turning point in the crise because president putin has now put russian soldiers, russian mechanized equipment over the border into ukraine. they've encircled the ukrainian military and turned the tide of this law in an outright violation of international law. i think the west has three options ahead of it and it laib very importantinateol summit meeting next week in wales to consider this. number one-- stronger sanctions against the russian government and the russian economy. and this will mean very severe financial sanctions, the kind of sanctions that will really drive up the cost to president putin for what he has done. second, the ukrainian government is asking for sophisticated arms transfertransfers from europe ae united states, and intelligence support so they can fight back and control their own territory. i think president obama's been very clear, and rightly so, the united sta

the suborder party do not bode well for a political solution if there is the readiness in the west to prompt here in the direction of a political solution we indeed could be to inmates. every move was analyzed during a putin and first encounter two months ago in france and today will be much the same r.t. will be following their discussions closely throughout the day to stay with us two more journalists who were detained in ukraine have been released they were a correspondent for talk of fall for a crimea based newspaper unfortunately there's still no word on the missing photojournalist on the stand and he disappeared in ukraine three weeks ago and numerous campaigns for his release have been held across the globe backed by calls from you when russia and international human rights organizations were placing updates on the search for understand and on our website r t. american drones will be flying over the syrian airspace us availing of the position of islamic states militants name the move was approved by the american president making it a possible precursor for strikes however washi

threw smoke grenades and opened fire killing two and injuring some ninety others are the fears in the west bank for r.t. . given the very heavy toll felt by palestinian civilians in gaza hamas movement across the palestinian territories had called for a day of rage of protests here in the west bank over the period of yesterday across the west bank ninety palestinians were injured in various clashes with israeli forces here in some of those clashes live fire was used to palestinian youths were killed by israeli live fire they were shot in the chest and just yesterday evening holocene medical sources also report that a palestinian ambulance was hit directly with israeli live fire lightly and moderately injuring six civilians this is all in the context of around three thousand palestinians coming to demonstrate yesterday across the west bank in outrage at israel's ongoing operation in gaza. the operation protective edge is the deadliest israeli offensive in years more than sixteen hundred palestinians and sixty six israelis have been killed so far that's hundreds more than were killed in two