Democratic president ial candidates slammed Donald Trumps decision to pardon American Service personnel convicted of war crimes they look at how his predecessors have also absolved those guilty of atrocities. And we visit the border between denmark and sweden where checks have been imposed after bombings and shootings in copenhagen. Youre watching our Team International bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices thats on her honey said on sunday that the government will come to save those who are worst affected however there has been trouble at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of irans Supreme Leader burned. The surprise fuel price rise announcement came on friday with the government saying the revenues will fund support for the poor meanwhile washington has voiced its support for the protests a move that tehran slammed as hypocritical with more here is r. T. C. The start of. Now for turan this hike in fuel prices is a lesser evil because they are saying that their economy is backed into a corner its falling apart because of all these sanctions that the United States has imposed against it and these 3 rounds of sanctions coming out of washington and targeting irans economy have been widely unpopular they have drawn International Criticism and europe for instance has been very vocal calling on the United States not to impose them to pull to pull back but they have failed so far to do any to take any action about it and now when iran is essentially pleading for help saying look are economies falling apart we have to take measures that are really unpopular among the general population europe has remained silent and that goes in stark contrast with what were hearing from washington because despite all the violence and all the riots on the streets of iran the United States have decided to side with what theyre calling peaceful protests as we said the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the United States is with you the United States supports the iranian people in the peaceful protests against the regime that is supposed to lead them we condemn the lethal force and severe Communications Restrictions used against demonstrators but we certainly stand by the people of iran what youre seeing today is them standing up. To their government saying that you know we demand accountability now these words have been met with out reagent iran for instance the Supreme Leader of iran has said that he wont allow any foreign power or any outside force to pressure his country into the economics of mission and will not hire people who will not be taken advantage of by outsiders economic pressure of our nation there is that of course still theres defiance by on the part of the official government and again they have been taking steps to quell the anger like with subsidies and. Saying that they will remain. As to those who were heads who founded worst buy this fuel price hike but still with all with the mounting pressure both from outside and now from the inside it certainly does look like the american sanctions are taking its toll on the reigning economy we spoke to political scientist. Who says u. S. Sanctions have had a devastating impact on the people of iran. We are hearing increasing reports not just from you know reliable sources but also u. N. And other International Organizations about the devastating effects of the u. S. Sanctions on order in the rain ians particularly with respect to the import of much needed medicine and you know you also have. The Overall Economic impact that is contributing to an employment and and so on all of which mr pearl conveniently ignores and claims to be you know in support of the people shedding crocodile tears for down while imposing these harsh and savage economic sanctions on iran that are in violation of the u. N. Security Council Resolution 2231 as well as the International Agreement that the u. S. Unilaterally walked out of. The u. S. President has intervened in the cases of American Service personnel convicted or accused of war crimes and afghanistan and iraq donald trump pardon 2 u. S. Army officers and restored a navy seals rank yes im a critic president ial candidates have attacked his decision. Theres nothing promilitary about overruling military Justice System to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes the president has again dishonored our Armed Services trumps intervention in the American Military Justice System to Pardon Service members accused or convicted of war crimes betrays the rule of law the values that make our country exceptional and the men and women who wear the uniform honorably he is not fit to command a troops. Despite the criticism from democrats its not just this republican president who has pardoned atrocities brings us more im just a heads up her report includes our new feature and q. R. Code you can get to use and get more background on the story. A victorious Election Campaign or a platform of non intervention but dont trump is still juggling wars against fake news and the democrats and far away against tara so its hardly surprising he has a soft spot for the dogs of war no not this one these ones. I. The. Walking free cut to see of the president s generosity and you know why well when youve got almost a quarter of a 1000000 soldiers aboard boosting morale and giving an incentive to put your life on the line in foreign lands its just what you have to do when our soldiers have to fight for our country i want to give them the confidence to fight for some of their trumps words fail to ring true against a backdrop of human rights reports questioning the morality and lawfulness of american activity abroad for those im convinced these latest pardons can be added to the already bulging thought labeled military activity with this use of his powers trump has sent a clear message of disrespectful or morality of the military Justice System and those in the military. By and by the laws of war i would include the victims of these crimes but have no illusion he can screw them up to a shameful trump might have been an outsider when he took the reins in 2016 but his policy of whitewashing questionable u. S. Military activity is a favorite white house past time previous administrations were also busy posturing up cia crimes and ducking accountability brought bamma for example the very president who found the cias tool to techniques went around doing some pardoning of his own giving to soldiers who talked to detainees to death a freepost best not to dwell on the past he said on woods and upwards for those who carried out some of these operations within the 4 corners of. Legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the white house. I do not think its appropriate for them to be prosecuted as a general deal i think that we should be looking forward and not backwards and apparently it doesnt matter whether you read or blue take george bush he was also pretty relaxed when it came to those secret cia silos and some believe our military and intelligence personnel involved and capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk a perp prosecution under the war crimes jack simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional way. This is unacceptable. And while these soldiers might have been given a get out of jail free card despite having been tried and convicted by a court condemned by International Watch dogs and housing the blood of civilians on their hands i wonder if 2nd chance cards will be given so easily to those quoting out the crimes Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant with you it should be closed down probably and decisively but im not for the Death Penalty so if im not for the death i dont want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this gone beyond anything i am aware of wiki leaks walks like a Hostile Intelligence Service and talks like a Hostile Intelligence Service u. S. Cyber warfare people should use wiki leaks for target practice it seems for u. S. Officials theres still plenty up for interpretation and that its safer to be trigger happy than day to expose someone with just the click of your mouse we spoke to joe lombardo from the United National Antiwar Coalition he thinks its wrong the u. S. Prosecutes those who expose war crimes are than those who commit them. It shows that tells the world that the United States can be lawless with impunity in countries all over the world that a position was held by clinton it was held by bush it was held by obama and is now held by trump its a position that cant be justified under any sense of justice and these people who deserve to be in jail these war criminals are kept out and over people that expose the crimes such as julian a son george chill segmenting those are the people we go after and prosecute theyre trying to kill the messenger but they dont say anything about the message because they cant say that one word that he said put out through wiki leaks was was untrue its not a very good policy. Now to denmark where officials have temporarily imposed checks at border crossings into sweden and it was prompted by a spate of bombings and shootings around the capital. Among them was the bombing of the tax agency in august the Danish Justice Ministry claims the perpetrators had travelled from sweden are. Reports from the border between the 2 countries. Denmark has drawn a line and the bridge behind me they have put checks to stop and search anyone coming from sweden after copenhagen has seen more than a dozen explosions in the city this year alone the danes blame it on rival gangs mostly from sweden and hoping that these checks will put an end to it the explosion at the tax agency and the double killing in her leave are examples of the serious crimes that can flow across the border from sweden we will not accept that to counter the threat of serious crimes by the crime we are now strengthen in production of the border with sweden by introducing temporary controls and strengthened Police Efforts in the area then mark and sweden are both e. U. And area members the or is on bridge used to be a free passport bridge for nearly 60 years but not anymore for at least 6 months it is this bridge that the danish authorities believe perpetrators crossed into then more causing all the explosions. But as bombings become a worrying trend in the usually safe country here in sweden criminal gangs are on the rise according to official statistics there have been 38. 00 more explosions this year than 2018 but its only the explosions gun related crimes are fast becoming a concern to during the ninetys the average were 4 per year now nearly 40 and the public puts these incidents down to immigrants but the teligent chief says it is not correct to link newcomers to criminal organizations. In sweden they do not. Make a fist still counts of who says sweet is who is actually an immigrant so in sweden they do not know this but we make these counts in denmark and we can see that a lot of those who are. They are 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants the people who are arrested who are from sweden who it does these attacks in copenhagen are also 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and of course it would be normal to show that they if theres a problem with the 2nd and 1st generation immigrants and that is social why would do this in denmark because we have to know. What the problem is before we can do anything about it from the famously soft approach that once worked well d in sweden the government has gone on 180 degrees by announcing a plan allowing police to have greater stop and search powers but also making it easier for them to search suspects houses and access their devices and all this with the backing of sweetness officials we welcome that denmark is taking action to fight crime in the orissa and region i have respect for the Danish Government strengthening Border Control you know that to keep criminals on a short leash the country of Little Mermaid bicycles and label had its fair share of violence in the past in the ninetys this quiet country saw bombings and shootings by rival biker gangs but no checkpoints were introduced well whether you blame it on the migrant crisis or law and orders in europe are becoming real again eventually slips us for r. T. Now you might have noticed a new feature weve started today certain stories have a q. R. Code alongside them which you can use to get more information on those stories so you get the chance give it a go or back with more news just after this break. Chose seemed wrong. But old rules just dont hold. Any old belief yet to shake out this day you cant get educated and in detroit because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. The world is driven by a dream shaped by the. Thinks. We dared to ask. Him back Russian Media outlets our team and sputnik are allegedly named in a still classified u. K. Parliamentary report on moscow suspected interference in the 2016 referendum the claim is made in an article in the british newspaper the sunday times report apparently also states though that the impact of supposed russian meddling is unquantifiable we go live now to isa alley in london for more isa how exactly did we earn a mention in the classified report. Well the british newspaper the sunday times published an article with the eye catching headline revealed the russian reports but theres still a lot much in that all to call by way of exactly what that report contains now this is protecting to the cross Party Intelligence and Security Committee in the u. K. Parliament the i s c and theyve been looking into alleged russian interference in particular with regard to the bribes and referendum of 26 scene and as far as the times goes they point to the social media activity of a number of russian outlets. Social media analysis revealed that articles published by the russian sites had 4 times more social media impact before the brakes a vote than the official leave campaigns. Now the Sputnik Agency and ourselves out get special mention in this article and it points out thats more than 260. 00 articles pointed posted by the 2 outlets on social media got up to 134000000 impressions that doesnt mean shares or likes just that it could have potentially been viewed by that many people they compare them to the number of tweets or ots calls sent out by vote leave and leave the e. U. They were the 2 biggest proly evil pro beggs that Campaign Groups who only generates a potential impressions of 33000000 and 11000000 so the implication being that all it see spot nick have a pro leave bias and that they got more impressions than those outlets however counterarguments without some say is that its simply a case that see spot the car being criticized for journalism for doing their job now when it comes to political interference in the referendum and also in this upcoming election weve seen a number of interventions by u. K. By us politicians in the u. K. Politics and another one decided to chime in. And dumbfounded that this government wont release the report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before election happened reporter like you and others should be absolutely relentless in trying to get to the bottom of it now the opposition here in the u. K. Accuse the government of suppressing this report we are still waiting for it to be published in full the sunday times havent published it theyve just merely said it was very clear and theyve seen number 10 denied that theyve been suppressing this report in any way saying that theyve been following the normal procedures when it comes to revealing information such as this is the alley reporting live from london thank you. The number of people seeking sex reassignment surgery in the iranian capital is on the rise thats according to the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization now we spoke with iranian actor and director some on our us too who was organize a small Theater Group staging performances to promote transgender awareness that. I live in iran and i was a well known director and it is clear that during 3 to 6 changes a little unnerving but i was a kid my shaman fears when i went through this procedure at the age of 41 which audiences in our theater include family members of transgender people and workers who come and watch my performance im glad that they come here it changes their views on gender issues i think the influence of my theatre has been significant so we have large audiences and the performance runs up to 24 nice if we can reach just turn that around 3000 people then thats a big step i have the chance to create something positive in the middle east i already have 6 projects going on internationally compared to many countries we all sentrys ahead but we are also behind some countries so we need to improve and we have the potential. Transsexuality was made legal in iran in 1987 the government offers Financial Assistance in certain gender reassignment cases according to the state Welfare Organization of iran 70 people apply for help every year now sex change is regarded as a medical disorder in iran and is only permitted after a rigorous assessment process this includes medical tests and psychiatric examinations we spoke with a surgeon about the rising trend. I carry out gender reassignment surgery on 2 or 3 patients each month patients a fully supported some of their costs are covered by state funds but they need to pay the rest of my colleagues who are aware of what we do and i havent heard any negative views from patients who come in for other procedures kidney stone removal and so on they view positively physically about it and the patients attended least 10 therapy sessions and psychologists and psychiatrists theyve given full information on the operations possible side effects the pros and cons so when patients are except for surgery and come here they psychologically then they start home and therapy. Lastly lets look at some world news in brief we start by bringing you live pictures from hong kong where theres been a fierce standoff at the university of hong kong between anti beijing protesters and Police Officers trying to inject the demonstrators from the campus but were met with fire bombs Police Responded with tear gas and made numerous arrests. Philetus round of protests in chile and saw demonstrators fending off Police Forces with laser pointers officers used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse the protesters the unrest in chile or up to the made mention why grievances over and now scrapped transport hikes. Before we go just a reminder that we are using q. R. Codes on our reports now and they will lead you to more information on the stories you can give it a try at the top of the next hour. You know world big. Lot of things and conspiracy its time to wait to dig deeper to. The stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. The tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been only implemented from the inside venezuela things are different were going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate. Famously have a son of the moment goes. Down person that sort of data to see on the campaign the map of the moment the focus of the whose story isnt new nixon called in Henry Kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants and making the economy of venezuela scream. Good food descriptions sound up to easing even for the owners so to choose this pet Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than whats necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be as healthy as people believe and we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders theyve got allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because theyre already making a 1000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. What politicians do. Put themselves on the law and they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or somehow want to. Have to go right to cross the survival before 3 of them or 10 people. Interested in the waters in the. First super. Low end welcome to crossfire were all things are considered Peter Lavelle spoiler alert beside issues of the program is not about the triumphant pietschmann drama instead we focus on ukraine and why. Our Corporate Media is so misleading about the military coup in bolivia. Across talking some real news im joined by my guest and he is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor and innocently internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos hes the editor of politics for us magazine are you gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate im going to go to as usual the markets and london 1st here i hope you didnt waste too much time watching the congressional hearings over the last week it was a total waste of time it was a Kangaroo Court but one thing that kind of struck me is that how and i didnt know this i didnt know that the United States and ukraine were the kind of strategic allies that they were made out to be on National Television so tell me marcus when did this happen because as far as i know ukraine is not in nato the United States and ukraine have no treaty of self defense protecting each other that made none of these things exist theyve never been debated but apparently according to these functionaries thats what spoke to adam schiff ukraine is an important strategic ally your thoughts my friend. Or pizza allowed to say this there is a clear sense of the little relates within the american establishment its. American democracy and this latest attempts to impeach the truth really does its allies what is going on in america now its turned into pieces joining me tell and yet in the kremlins you once remarked that there can be no. Doubt ukraine and indeed that accurate statement by who will shortz can and cant be beat. Really applied to the russian empire namely without the ukraine that could not have been as artists and part for centuries the ukraine has been of absolute importance to moscow but if in our recent communist times and in present day times however pete the ukraine is also of enormous importance to america because not only does washington carve it the same dust through an Agricultural Sector as or ukraine along with its black sea coast lines but american policymakers understand that by depriving a lush of a close relationship with ukraine this will weaken
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