a stage for political statements amid revelations that many actors speeches were written by a company set up by a former iraq obama staffer. a very warm welcome to the program on this monday morning we're glad you decided to join us for your world news update this hour let's get started. the death toll from the corona virus outbreak has exceeded 900 people with over 40000 confirmed cases globally on this backdrop the russian air force has carried out an airlift back in waiting russian citizens from china's province hit worse. 144 russian nationals and foreigners were brought home from we were on the coronavirus at the center 5 russian military planes carried out the emergency airlift. we have very happy we were waiting for you when you finally rescued us thank you very much evacuees were transferred to a rehabilitation center near the siberian city of 2 men where they'll be monitored under quarantine such high level precautions being taken amid fears about the spread of the virus similar methods being approached across the globe in the u.s. military bases have become makeshift isolation areas for hard evacuees but if you look at some reports it sounds like russia's dusted down its good legs we have total imprisonment all of it looks so surreal people in full body chemical protection suits a constantly coming in but many of the guests have been taking to social media to show just what their temporary lives are like to send you a callar is one of the. bonus here is our room and everything is very good there all the basics. you can easily live 14 days here there is a shower of a t.v. fridge which i haven't used yet a wardrobe and a mirror when i come into the room i found fruit sweets and tea on my table everything is good cosy i'm happy. the evacuees provided up to 4 meals a day one complaint mentioned they're not allowed to leave their rooms despite this they can chat to their roommates some have been working out but most reading books or watching t.v. . has plenty to fill the time just. so i'm planning to do my chinese language studies now that i'm going to read i've already done my exercises so i need to stay active and now sit around doing nothing. evacuees are under the close watch of medics who make sure they're all doing well but doctors checker's morning and evening to take our temperature or listen to how we breed examine our throats none of the evacuees are showing any symptoms of the virus and if it stays that way they'll soon be able to head home. the south korean film parasite has won best picture at the oscars surprising many it's the 1st time a foreign language movie has won the prize joaquin phoenix and renee zellweger one of best actor and actress but many are concerned that actor speeches such ceremonies have become too politicized it was found that many actors speeches are written by a company working with top politicians and organized by former staffers of the. artist takes a look. as acceptance speeches used to be straightforward thank you i don't know what to say my gods but it seems the simple times in hollywood are long gone now they're as much about climate change elections and the quality is they are about cinematic achievement women 18 to 118 when it is time to vote please do so in your own self-interest it's what men have been doing for years. and culture is the 3rd leading cause of climate change 70 percent of the water it pollutes the most water the statistics are staggering dedicating our lives. save our environment and figuring out how we can save our but how did we get here when and how did all these major stars catch the woak bug because you didn't seriously think of the all right there except in speeches themselves now did you so perhaps it was right about the time barack obama's old stuff as and speechwriters switched to offering their services to the west coast maybe jon favreau no not this jon favreau the other jon favreau yes this one he is not just your average scribe he was also a director of speech writing for the former us president and me told me via 2 he was once obama's national security spokesman the duo founded a firm called fenway strategies back in 2013 and while there are not disclosing the names of their clients they are proud to work with hollywood's elite over the last year we have worked through some of the highest profile individuals on the planet from former presidents to oscar winners fenway strategies employs people who have diligently served not only barack obama but other democratic luminaries including hillary clinton michael bloomberg joe biden and others among a bus respectables as confidentiality is the name of the game here who's to say if fenway was involved but see if you can notice a common theme everyone associated with the black women's agenda. i'm thrilled to be with you i'm thrilled 'd to be associated with you as a black woman i am especially proud to stand here today because i know for certain that the dreams of my ancestors run through me the race is moving the laws the whole the. bigotry of choice should. have. just in the one you know we had. the white house we add a pathological liar in the white house. one of fun ways employees. also authored a book called impeach the case against donald trump wonder if he got the ending right and if anything a transition from capitol hill to holywood has added some much needed glitz and glamour to boring old political messaging rushing for rights is a speech forces dream come true because unlike politicians who are not professionals at memorizing lines or delivering them in compelling cars mustique ways arches actually know how to deliver the lines so is it really a surprise that ever so glad to be able to spend some of their fat hollywood paychecks on a few lines of text that can launch them on to the divine bounty and of the woke in a matter of minutes find it kind of interesting how creative the democrats have become here in trying to disseminate their messages so they're using 21st century methods to win a 1000 century political ideas here on this in the left is going to try anything they can this election season to try to either bash the president or promote their progressive ideas especially now with the oscars and the timing of the. after is coming on the heels of their resoundingly loss in their attempts to try to impeach and remove president from god unfortunately because of group think in the bullying that permeates in hollywood right now any celebrity that leans to the right is going to be ostracized and on lot of them have actually been blacklisted out of the industry a production box by brock and michelle obama won the oscar for best documentary the film by britain's channel 4 news sparked massive criticism of donald trump's policies but there's been more controversy in the category as a nominated documentary on the syrian city of aleppo has been accused of pushing a pro terrorist angle and airbrushing the role of militant groups in the region. had some pain and. we also are proud to have developed this film from watson for guess what short films join the siege of aleppo all the way through to this incredible feature documentary proof that's a unique support of independent filmmakers across the world can have a huge impact. that movie won a british academy award for best documentary as well as around 60 other prizes worldwide however the team's affiliations have raised concerns camerawoman want. has been an outspoken supporter of the syrian revolution and her husband has been repeatedly spotted which the hottest including a man who beheaded a child independent middle east journalist vanessa be laid off says that the documentary is flaws do not end there. they deny the existence 1st of all. of the extremist armed groups and the terrorist groups and we have to remember that most restaurants which is there in syria was and still is the dominant force. in east and now of course what we see or are these 2 protagonists effectively commissioned by channel 4 to produce reports that were presenting a misrepresentative view of what was happening in a celebrity and this view was not being verified or investigated independently for channel 4 it was being republican as gospel in a sense now that at least the liberals liberates what we're seeing now which for some a. denial of justice and a continuation of the suffering that the people went through both front of the occupation of the group and in west of the press that would be being targeted more tunes from east and. you can find more analysis of the documentary and the situation on the ground from the independent journalist covering the syrian conflict check out but that's the billions of views on r.t. dot com. also on our website an interview with the russian singer who has some in washington claim is tied to the 2016 u.s. presidential election meddling allegations the man is union i go laro entrepreneur and pop singer who was also once donald trump's business associate this apparently being the reason why he attracted attention in the u.s. special counsel investigation into alleged russian meddling parties oksana boycott spoke to the man who is believed to have arranged the much reported meeting between donald trump jr and russian and i tell you. that meeting was a central focus of the miller probe here's a quick preview of that interview. the now infamous strong town meeting that's been dodging air and to russia lower in the tally of the senate's got do you think this whole thing was. how africa lee on the your side on my side. 100 percent was handled ethically. simply for the reason that i was always ready to testify and we reached out and said the d.s.m. is coming to united states and allocated 2 weeks for my tour to you know testified to congress to the miller to speak to them to whoever wanted to speak to me about this whole set up my only negotiation. aspect was that i want to do it voluntarily so i don't have to get stuck in the united states and the millers team replied that it can only be mandatory which would mean i would have to stay in the united states that the investigation finishes which at that point was over a year in progress so i thought the main reason for why your care was the only reason because of what he wanted us to gain because i had another but $110.00 shows that year that i would have to risk because i'm stuck in the states and these are major financial risks as well so all i canceled was the american tour which cost me about half a $1000000.00 in personal losses but we did return tickets and now we are heading for the store again i think everybody should be realistic if there's you know this whole spy thing going on between russian america i would not be involved my manager music manager would not be involved i don't know why by the way i was a manager for michael jackson as well. another 20 years ago. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he is ready to resort to drastic measures against gaza and recent attacks on his country. i want to make it clear we will multics up to new aggression from gaza only a few weeks ago will eliminate to the senior command of islamic jihad in gaza i will indeed. i will not least of all actions but to approve crushing action against the terror groups in gaza but palestinian militant group hamas call netanyahu threats a provocation adding it will only encourage palestinians to fight on tensions have been on the rise after the us president announced a peace plan for the region many called the proposals heavily biased in favor of israel subsequent clashes have led to numerous civilian victims including children one palestinian family sheltered one such incident with us warning you may find the following images upsetting 14 year old mohammed has been in a coma since being shot in the head last week by israeli soldiers the victim's family say that he was simply walking in a local park with friends moments father described how he learned about what happened. muhammad was shot in the head i wasn't home at the time my father got in touch with me he said my son was wounded i was driving at that moment when i got back i saw my son was badly injured he was taken to hospital but only after soldiers removed the brave blocks and then my son was put in intensive care. and its response to r t the israel defense forces say that their actions were justified and there were dozens of palestinians in the area burning tires and throwing stones and also added that they are aware of the boy's injuries meanwhile mohammad grandfather told a rather different story of what happened. as you look at that as the children went to the park and saw soldiers there of course they were scared so they hid behind a rock at one point they wanted to see the soldiers had gone so mohammad stood up to look and then he was shot a bullet hit him in the head from the right side he lost a lot of blood and fell into a coma he's arms and legs are paralyzed his story is one of many tragedies in our town every time a child becomes a victim people are terrified i can tell you that the soldiers really do shoot at children in our town so we have more global news coming your way after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy glue from day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development that only . exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. welcome back to the program we were relations obtained by the new york times cast doubt on what led to the extreme tensions between the u.s. and iran last month baghdad military officials are questioning washington's version of events according to which to run a backed militia launched a rocket attack on an iraqi military base killing an american contractor but the iraqi side says there might have been a very different culprit. reports. so fought and this is be the north pole yeah a plague volcanoes and shootings and it all began with a very need in the world war 3. to go to the dogs you. got. one thing leads to another and we're on the brink of that war now imagine finding out that it was all based on a lie as you know asteroid the u.s. forces were attacked by hezbollah to base near kirk that. the us used the incident of the k one base attack as an excuse to accuse hezbollah and hold it responsible this is a weak and false pretense that it cannot be taken as a justification to target groups that are in the iraqi borders and defending iraq. iraqis have a least consistencies with trump story 1st the jaw graffiti the initial attack which america cited and blamed on the iranian backed by his wallet happened in this sunni muslim populated area of kirkuk province shia muslims such as cut the buys bolo iranians they aren't welcome there if you've never been to iraq let me spell it out taking a walk through the wrong neighborhood can get you killed and fact cutter has bowler hasn't been seen in this area reportedly for years who has made a home in the area is isis they launched 3 attacks here just days before we as iraqi forces cannot even come to this area unless we have a large force because it is not secure how could it be that someone he doesn't know the area could come here and find not far in position and launch an attack. the villages near here in a new europe their sympathy with the why do we resort to blame in his book or those american intelligence connected the dots real quick they examine the truck that apparently launched the rockets at the u.s. base connected it to cut the best bowler iran cited intercepted communications and then hid everything literally they haven't shared thread of information with their allies or iraq or the defense took office of actions in defense of our personnel interests in iraq by launching 15 strike eagle against 5 targets associated with hizbullah which is named iranian and sponsored shiite militia groups and i would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from iran we have requested the american side to share with us any information any evidence but they have not sent us any information the inconsistency as they mounted mount the truck that the u.s. says fired $31.00 rockets at them well iraqis adding lies that unfounded fod less than half of that what adds minor compared to what comes next the iraq war in the u.s. base that there was a growing risk of isis attacking them on november 6th iraq's national security council since a report to the americans noting that since last october i says terrorists have endeavored to talk a one base in cook district by indirect fun could you shoot rockets to sum up here is how it went the americans were warned that isis which controls territory around the u.s. base and hates america was plotting to attack and the intro kits at the base the attack happens so blames and then bomb. a brewery in malaysia citing intelligence either too secrets or too shameful for show anyone you decide the classic justification for not sharing such intelligence is normally that you know there are affiliated elements within iran and so probably such intelligence could be leaked but at the end of the day you know if there is something serious then probably at least there needs to be some intelligence cooperation the united states never has the whole truth probably they need the iraqi side this side of the story or version of the events so they would go and have a certain committee under the umbrella you know under which they are cooperating and say look we have this what do you have on the incident but it could well be that the united states not sharing the information means that they actually don't have in from information and that they just want to use this incident in particular as a pretext for doing whatever they wanted to do it in the 1st place and the u.s. appears to be on equally shaky ground in afghanistan as a well to pentagon troops have been killed and 6 wounded and a hard province in the east of the country an afghan soldier opened fire after an argument that's according to local officials an individual an afghan uniform opened fire on the combined u.s. and afghan forces with machine gun we are still collecting information on the cause or motive behind the attack is our moon at this time. u.s. troops are facing growing hostility in the country coming under increasing attacks often has been trying to reach a peace deal with the taliban and in his state of the union address president trump said u.s. soldiers are not meant to serve as law enforcement agencies for other nations. research analysts at the center for conflict and peace studies says afghans will want american forces out. with all the collateral damage that's happening with all the civilian casualties that's happening the best of the american allies you know someone that the americans actually helped to become the president the former president hamid karzai he's even speaking against the americans in criticizing the americans for whatever they're doing in afghanistan and and he thinks the american presence in afghanistan is a problem there's no doubt that the afghans one point in eventual you would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a competition and this sense is very strong. and now for some world news in brief starting with the spectacular launch of the solar orbiter to study the inner workings of our nearest star. 3. 0. and lift up. the joint nasa and european space agency craft was launched from florida's air force station on sunday nights it will provide the 1st high resolution images of the sun's poles. to india now where thousands have joined iraq led by a far right party leader some 600 police officers were deployed to provide security as protesters called for the deportation of illegal migrants. and the north coast of france has been placed on high alert with trains and flights canceled as storms here approach as heavy winds are already shaking the port city of colombia. that's a roundup of the day's top news for now as always thanks for tuning in i'll be back in about 30 minutes time. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. it's seemed wrong. but old rules just don't call. any new world to get to shape out of disdain and become educated and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the 2 teams most of the conflict i would say overall is around money and most of their money is made. close one on each other just because he know each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of the prison complex just to get some 20 alive where. you don't care and cares about you so your care might anything. wrong. the holder doctrine eric holder former attorney general under obama this is the idea that banks are systemically important they can't be process because this would be a danger to the society as a whole but what's remarkable is that this idea has bled over into other industries so now boeing has a major scandal on its hands and it's claiming that a systemic way important in the law doesn't apply to us other agricultural companies are saying now we're systemically important we're above the law that is leading to bionic kleptocracy this becoming a i think it's a stock or c. is the right word it's ruled by the least qualified are now in charge of running the economy and the results are obviously catastrophic. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle we're being told there is a war being waged in america about the destiny of the country and the world indeed the washington political establishment and their daughter minions as well as the media want to destroy trump but don't be fooled by partisanship is alive and well. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my ghost glenn these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and the resurgence of russia we also have dmitri biopics he is a political analyst and editor it interests me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen as always cross in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate let me go to london 1st here alex i'm naming this program dumpster fire because like i really don't know where to start here we're in post impeachment post a state of the union address post. and it only continues to.