A former cia director. And other countries domestic of. Whether it. Could be him play. No one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections there who really pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just dont mess around other people. Are only for the very good to do that through online video and former cia for a very good cause. Said the former director of the cia its funny because and when america does it when someone elses even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. Weve been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven weve used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it weve planted false information for newspapers weve used with the british called king georges calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups Information Warfare hacking and thats just the stuff we know about this the johnson that helped oversee the cias exhibit g. s hed know the difference is they say when russia does it its to destroy the world even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the Justice Department just admitted when america doesnt so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing democratically elected leaders such as the cia has done is helping democracy how sending billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but dont well the United States has been interfering in other countries elections since the one nine hundred thirty s. And in the caribbean and in latin america when i was in cia in the seventys and eightys in europe i would say that the that the cia and the Us Government basically were interfering in elections almost every election that was taking place in europe this was just routine that the us wanted a friendly government of a certain type and was willing to do certain things to enable that to happen if were going to claim that america has the right to interfere behind the scenes in the politics of another country. Its a little hypocritical for then america to say oh yeah russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. You dont get to have it both ways. An iranian American Fashion blogger has been dubbed unamerican for criticizing u. S. Policies she was giving a t. V. Interview to talk about her book on terror on street fashion when she was suddenly asked about irans alleged Nuclear Program however she did turn the question around asking her interview was about american policies in the region heres a snippet of the interview lets talk about Nuclear Weapons ok because some of our viewers may say we cannot trust iran what are your thoughts i mean i dont think we can trust this country i mean what has this country done to the majority of the countries in the middle east youre an american i dont like in america. You are just. Not sounding like an american when she questioned washingtons Foreign Policy and she did speak to us about the exchange i was really shocked by by the question or the statement but also i think it also goes back to sort of the place that muslims in america constantly put themselves in that we have to constantly prove that were american enough to deserve respect deserve not being bombed or banned which all of which this country and other western countries are also involved in in the middle east and then the second that we sort of criticize the state for what they have actually done that were deemed unamerican. You also told us that shes been flattered by the positive comments shes received online tweets ranging from surprise to praise for the blogger for speaking freely heres a cut happy again commenting on freedom of expression and on going viral. I. Unfortunately i guess after the fact i wasnt too surprised because muslims and people of color in this country and across the west are constantly put in positions where were constantly kind of being used both as a term as a way of sort of talking about our maybe having to respond for our Government Policies back abroad but then having to blindly questionably sort of pray allegiance to this country who might be involved in violence in our country. I think that its sort of these are sort of underlying microaggression that happen every single day and its not just me this is happened to i was just lucky enough that this is live and i was able to record it and then being able to share online but this happens constantly every single day all the time for any Single Person who is a person of color a muslim that they consciously are kind of having to do with micro greshams that are so normalized within society and so thats why one thing that i really appreciate about sort of the fire ality of this is that people are really standing up now and saying this is not normal this is not ok we shouldnt allow this from happening in iran has also been a talking point to the Munich Security Conference where israels Prime Minister whos a vigorous opponent of the Iran Nuclear Deal didnt miss the chance to criticize the agreement he said the deal had unleashed a dangerous iranian tiger and cold for it to be scrapped Binyamin Netanyahu also hinted israel might get involved in syria to counter iran and used his munich speech to want to go to a growing threat from terrorism. This is a brief. A brief description of the middle east as it looks like though i call it the red in the black the red is isis. The radical. Sunnis the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses. And it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in and irans involvement in syria has long been a critical issue for israel but now the Prime Ministers rhetoric may even be time for actions to speak louder than words so we want is changing the ground rules in syria ive said we will not allow them to do that if mr us invites iran in militarily that changes our position such words werent enough Benjamin Netanyahu brought some visual aids said to be part of an iranian drone the israelis intercepted as it crossed the syrian Israeli Border worryingly the drone incident is being called the photos to known direct confrontation between the two sides militaries and prompted israel to hit iranian targets in syria mr zarif. Do you recognize this. You should be george. You can take back with you a message to the tyrants of terror on. Do not trust israels resolve the rainy and foreign minister mohammad job and serif later took his chance to hit back. The audience for a cartoon a secret serious. Because we were on the right side of history fighting the taliban fighting the. Fighting fighting consistently instead of joining those who supported them in creation in financing and the army actually israels confrontation with iran break out as netanyahu hint where do you think the likely battleground would be syria a terrifying thought considering the countrys already devastated by conflict the situation there is complicated enough with the turkish kurdish americans triangle in kurdish regions and Syrian Armed Forces battling the remains of terrorist groups with the help of russian jets and just when you thought the situation in syria couldnt get any messier iran is trying to strengthen its influence in syria not because of israel because of its own regional interests israel should prevent any kind of voice in the war in syria it is none of its business and theyre far we get the better it is i understand these really concerns i understand the fears for me runyan military presence on the border but in any case the fact that iran is present in syria is something that can will be solved by force kiddle be solved by war will be solved by bombarding it isnt should realize. The dutch shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrapyards in turkey and india adding to environmental and Health Problems there but ultimately violating e. U. Laws. Six. Legs. Slim. Lead. Live. The case is playing out in dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the ships sole to be broken apart in india and turkey contain a number of toxic substances which should have been removed adverse cycled before hand in a safe way it also sides the united impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries i have to find over the breach of e. U. Waste that was is being sought if convicted shipping bosses could face up to six months in prison now if its part of the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the Sea Trade Group argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and do not fall on the e. U. Environmental rules as turkey and india are beyond his jurisdiction and lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the ngo Ship Breaking platform. So you trade it is a Dutch Company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions that the odds in south asia were well known to any European Company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price and these yards of the higher prices because they do not pay for the proper Waste Management the proper infrastructure and they use Migrant Workers that are not trained its indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken on three title beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. The groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so its basically an industry which is very poorly regulated this is r. T. International nearly quarter past the hour here in moscow we are back in just a. Like many clubs over the years so i know that. The ball isnt only about what happens on the beach. Its about the passion from the its the age of the super money. And spending twenty million. Its an experience like you know. I think. It is good to have you with us today former cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he revealed cia mismanagement of a classified program to the u. S. Senate and was sentenced under the espionage act to three and a half years. Was freed after serving over two years of sentence but stunning though was not jailed for what he told the senators instead he was actually accused of leaking classified information that he shared with the senate to a journalist his sentence was softer than the usual nineteen years minimum reportedly that was because all of the evidence against him was circumstantial. A former u. S. Senate candidate who petition for release explains how he ended up being treated as a traitor. There are times reporter james wright of the now with the intercept was having about fifty conversations back and forth with geoffrey and then james rise and released a book about two thousand and five called state of war in which he disclosed the cias botched release of Nuclear Plans to iran even jeffrey tried to tell a Senate Intelligence committee about this information they tried to go after james risin to find out who his source was just around that same time they arrested jeffrey in a trap to rise in case because obama did not want to go after a reporter because the heat was on obama in the Obama Administration because he was going after a journalist the judge who sentenced stoning stated that while in a Perfect World every criminal case would be decided using direct evidence often dots not possible on at mentone again says thats because they had nothing but circumstantial evidence they went and took jeffrey to court the only type of evidence that they had was circumstantial evidence and cia agents saying that it was a disgruntled employee that released information because of his discrimination case jeffrey has maintained his innocence for almost seventeen years and healed times which originally published the story of sterlings lawsuit against the cia it has not come and his release on at mentone says that many journalists had simply forgotten about jeffrey stunning. Journalists are never asked about are asking about jeffrey sterling or talking about it and this is a man who has become an invisible man of forgotten man who is in my mind a hero the a. C. L. U. With me even handled this case and so we have to reach out to other types of which unable to tell his story. And then pick athletes from russia has tested positive for doping at the Winter Olympics in south korea the court of arbitration for sport is now reviewing the case with the World Antidoping Agency expected to announce the results of a second round of tests later on monday the athlete in question is mixed doubles color alexander crucial need ski he and his wife won bronze in pyongyang the first olympic curling medal ever for russian athletes atis elliptic trying to has more details from pyongyang. Well right now it is all down to that second doping test and if it happens to be positive that will be a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here and kyung chang the crowds have literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year brazil are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal and curling and to watch their family team work on ice was something inspiring the media went on about them for a few days in a row and they were even compared with mr and mrs smith and honestly alexander scase if he had made the same mistake or had taken the drug on purpose that would just be ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and peeing chang crucially is he has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with in any case the International Olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen after the olympics are over in the meantime the olympic athletes from russia are getting on with their quest for medals and despite all the pressure despite some of the main stars missing out the owais are have secured some bronze in silver and the crosscountry skiing squad who were teenagers just a year or two ago are doing particularly well with five medals so far no gold though. We spoke to sports radio host alan moore who says it would have been very unwise of the car in question to risk using belt on him if they take a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because youre curling is a pretty olympic you know a pretty pretty testing score to self he will be supremely stupid to be caught for you know he has said. The risk is that his drink might have been spite or Training Camp which. It does seem unlikely that he took this however one little bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach but said that all he has done he stopped taking the dog back into tears a sixty when it was bad and we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we still know of the beast. As a positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it will be we we said last week you and i sitting this year saying that to get caught for dope in the olympics you have to be very very silly and i dont think that is really. The capital of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage due to the current instability in the country tripolis ancient sites have been neglected and left out in the open one photographer from the city has launched a social Media Campaign to try and raise awareness. For the one hundred thirty three the old city is our history its our past historically it is the oldest traded fitly with africa you. Know. So do you i mean i like to take pictures of the old city is my passion. I mean nothing and i know there is no restoration of any preservation of patients no thanks. In spite of all the people took part on twitter and their plated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the fifty say that was in fact. The concerns about the historic heritage of libya are shared by unesco as well of the organization has put five of the countrys sites on its World Heritage in danger list citing of the conflict affecting libya and some of those sites dating sites i should say dating back well centuries and even millennia. What i was sharing a monday with us here at all t. International we were talking very soon with more of your world wide. So i have all this he is on his way to practice is there a pressure oppressive measureless being deployed against the Palestinian People everywhere around the set of colonialism the theft of our land and the maybe many. You know give us they think things that theyre going to his of doing of course the gun course thats a in the fog or uprising. That just. Certain i want to do is just show everybody is doing really be very clear like go away go to. Management. And they on they they when they up and they have nailed the bad thing. 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Cross talking those thirteen russians im joined by my guest mark sloboda hes an International Affairs and security analyst we also have alexander me cares he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and we have Dmitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst with international as always gentlemen crossed that affect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate lets go to those thirteen russians three entities and all that cash maybe not so much cash i was and youve been writing about it from a legal perspective give us your major take the first point to say is that of course none of these people. Has prepared a very complicated shes. Indictment which is never going to be tested because there is no extradition is an extradition bought the russians are not going to extradite these people they get to stay in russia sees doesnt have to prove any of the things that he has said what seems to have happened is that some of these people have been gauged introducing on the internet and theyve done things which lets be straightforward of glee things mr. Heard her not on her blog and not just specifically to rush as if it were actually going to hear nothing you hear at all i mean anybody who goes on the internet comes across trolls what most has done is he wants to prove that there is this vast intricate dangerous conspiracy hes put all this together hes labeled the Internet Agency instant petersburg is responsible and hes trawled around to various laws that he can stick offenses against these people essentially what this was if you read the indictment well this was a commercial market thing is what it was in and even the indictment itself admits that it was pro and trump. Hillary clinton and for everything in between i mean theres no specific political to it theres no connections at all theres not even any allege any connections between this. Supposed company which is run by a guy whos known as puta