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Seem like hyperbolic right why then are we leading our newscast on this night with the suggestion of this potential scenario because 2 World Leaders are coming out and saying that. It is what they think could happen and these are leaders who know the region the Asian Pacific both men are all straight and both have held the position of Prime Minister let me take you through it 1st its the former Prime Minister and china scholar there is thats kevin rudd who has just penned an editorial in Foreign Affairs journal where he says the risk of Armed Conflict between the United States and china in the next 3 months. Was especially high. Then as you might expect australias current Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked to comment on his predecessors statement and surprisingly he basically agreed morrison said that the hot war between the us and china was quote previously inconceivable not considered even possible or likely but not anymore. To australian Prime Ministers one former one present sounding an alarm they seem to want the whole world to hear should we heed the warning or see it as what some would call it alarmist view well answer that question right here on the news rick sanchez where we believe. Its time to do news again. Here is the list of questions we think well be asking them are after watching this newscast today are australias concerns over a war between the United States and china justified what really caused the devastation in beirut and whats an explosives expert have to say about it are sports making a comeback or will we see even more game cancellations. For almost a full year and we hear on this news cast of watched as relations between the United States and china have deteriorated there have been arrests there been sanctions have been tariffs there but military exercises and interactions in open waters between military but that was all before the covert my democrat has one side now accusing the other of purposely making the world sick to gain any good amik advantage wow we begin our newscast today with our to correspondent john. Hot war cold war cyber war or whatever war the Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a recent interview with c. B. S. News and a war between the u. S. And china could break out if cooler diplomatic heads dont prevail he was responding to a recent article written by his predecessor kevin rudd who warned of a potential hot war that is an Armed Conflict between the us and china in the run up to the us president ial elections in november well i dont know if its up to. Differently. And certainly not as dramatically as cuban has but in our own defense weve acknowledged that what was previously. And not considered even possible will likely incidences. Charms is is not conceded in those come to. Australia has had its own issues with china lately china has criticised australias recent handling of the corona virus pandemic and morrisons comments about prioritising and indopacific alliance to balance quote chinas economic coercion after beijing banned australian barley and some beef imports following cambers call for an investigation into the origins of covert 19 morrison also took some recent heat for his view about to talk being as he said a line that connects right back to china still australia and china are significant trade partners china is the single biggest foreign owner of us truly in water with chinese investors now surpassing us in ownership of australian h 2 o. And australian imports hit 56600000000 u. S. Dollars in 21000. 00 and during the past decade australian dairy imports to Mainland China have grown more than 4 fold according to recent reports Prime Minister morrison has called on china to enhance regional and global stability rather than he says focusing on a narrow national or aspirational interest while also urging the us in trouble ministration to resolve its own issues with china on trade security and International Law for the news of Rick Sanchez John Heidi good stuff to others for breaking that down for us of print some expert guests who can help us decide for those jobs at least as a political analyst with Trilogy Advisors out of course George Galloway as youve come to know is our former british m. P. Who oftentimes talks about these specific issues in this part of the world a job that im going to start with you. How would you describe what not one but 2 Prime Ministers of australia article our. First let me begin to reduce your story that i believe that we have entered the phase of cold war. To this is pretty much the case now after chinas actions over the last 6 months beginning with the spread of covert action to the australian Prime Minister as i had a chance to read this on and there is article this morning and i dont think theres anything thats really all that startling about either the Prime Ministers comments that are in a war between china and the us is no longer inconceivable given the very accelerated militarization of the South China Sea by china i mean to be a success i just to potentially invade taiwan the suppression of freedom and autonomy and hong kong and in tax along the china border over 2000 miles long so we see a pattern of chinese lives around the world is distracted. By economic devastation but i dont believe theres any such thing as 3 months window where war is more likely or anything like that and i believe that there will be a much cooler heads prevail in both washington and beijing. Any deliberate steps towards war but the danger is deepening what has been happening on the chinese belligerence in asia and beyond the potential for a miscalculation could lead to an escalation that no one wants to see occur just to be clear at the very beginning i heard you mention covert my team are you asserting as president that the chinese did covert 19 on purpose. No im not and i actually dont believe thats what the white house has been stating what we do see is either immense gross incompetence on the part of the Chinese Communist party or potentially and i think this is really where the mistrust has emerged in the white house between washington and beijing and the communist Party Leadership from xi jinping and knew this was far more dangerous it was no longer containable who hind and yet beijing continue to impress upon the International Civil aviation organization. International flight true crime to the united to your world wide shut down Domestic Travel from rwanda to beijing shanghai and other major train he said its ok good i just want to get a clarification on that i had to do the riyadh lets go to George Galloway george i imagine you are disagree with with what mr should leaders have to say. Well that was the world as viewed through the Looking Glass where words mean exactly what you decide mean and in many cases those statements were of the precise opposite of the truth its not china others call warships in the south american sea its america thats got warships in the South China Sea its not china those Nuclear Armed planes off the coast of china its the other way around the belligerence is all on the other side the un has just been a start but we both agree on this that there is nothing remarkable about what 2 australian Prime Ministers have said because trade wars cyber wars propaganda wars cooled wars oftentimes pave the way to war if the war breaks out then of course were in if youll forgive the pun completely Uncharted Waters will it be a conventional war with a escalate to short range Nuclear Missiles will it escalate to our continental Ballistic Missiles in which case you and i will never talk again rick because the world will be and the end susi arms with which some people approach these existential questions ending of the human race questions it is quite frankly going you know why give the dog was not just a movie. Bill clinton in my lifetime kills one of my friends the finest woman in the out of world. Dog maneuver are to distract attention from the failings of his administration and donald trump has more than bill clintons problems right now just a few months out from the president ial election you gentlemen gave us 2 trusting points of view on an issue that we want to take a look at and we were certainly glad that we had you both here to take us through it john civilities John Galloway thank you sir for joining us for that discussion. And it is time now for our weekly media model segment where we look at the media stories with an emphasis on what is right and what is wrong in this profession doing a nationally syndicated writer and Award Winning journalist Ruben Navarrette always good to see you lets start with the name igor ching go on its even fun to say but interestingly enough this week we found out igor dead chain co is the source behind the socalled an infamous steal a report that was written by a guy used to be an officer with 4 m i 5 that started the whole brouhaha here in the United States if we had known at the beginning that there was just some guy just down the street from where were im speaking right now igor dead chain code with the source of the new information im not sure we would run with the story the way we did was it right yeah rick sanchez good to be with you again this is really an example taking a long way home right this is something that was created in part in washington d. C. Goes all the way around the world goes to the. Hotel it comes all the way back again back to the same block where it started yes its true the f. B. I. Has said that so. Much of the Russian Investigation had its roots in the now discredited still dossier. And now we find out finally where some of his crazy allegations that were in the dossier where they came from and they came from this gentleman igor shango as you say yes who because you love saying his name so he had anything on ukrainian god based in washington d. C. And you know it was this plant inside moscow right there next to putin you know spying on the president of russia this guy could have been like you and me. The reason this is important rick is that theres so much evidence polly go up and it has piled up over the years that the democrats were determined to create in their words an insurance policy in case donald trump got elected they were determined to do everything they could in the Obama Administration with a wink and a nod from joe biden where we heard that name before the Vice President now the democratic candidate to try to either deny the victory or make life very difficult for him once he was elected at all goes back to the dossier which is the root again of the Russian Investigation so this story while the democrats would love the story go away man rick its more timely than ever because one of the main figures involved in this is running for president on the democratic side hey i want to switch topics a little bit because twitter is in the news again there is a twitter. Twitter apparently now is banning all state by the way twitter and facebook and these entities they change the rules weekly they just all of a sudden they see a story weve got a new rule now you cant do this or you cant do that at least of soil was a little different at least from the foundations of our profession in journalism so their side of any state affiliated media entities from any specific countries of their choosing. Will be banned so the b. B. C. Is ok but if youre about as well and the thing for example youre not ok and i guess it could change from week to week what do you what do you make of that. Right the social me. Companies rake in these Big Tech Companies that testified more recently but before congress you know and theyre wired into everything theyre wired in the media and corporations in the politics and the case of twitter if you ever thought twitter was going to be political was it going to involve itself in g. O. P. Politics only not it is involved in that i read the story several times and i cant make sense of it i dont see how you can say on the one hand state sponsored media from russia bad state sponsored media from the u. K. Or the u. S. Thats ok also theres a laughable line in there where the folks at twitter apparently know so little about media they think the quote independent media lacks any kind of political agenda i mean ive been in media for 30 years rick have you ever found a piece of media that didnt have a political agenda and what is independent media defined for me please because thats what he seems to be conflicted in one way or another i had a no idea yeah yeah he was in the steel dossier youre absolutely right good good conversation i appreciate it as usual ruben thanks so much you bet thank you and this shows that theres a great chance d to watch it let me tell you what weve got coming your way after this break were going to have a weapons expert whos going to be joining us he will tell us about the explosion thats what he knows as all of us try and figure out what really caused this explosion in beirut but the world is talking about and focusing on will be right back. And illegal takeover of the government by a small group. Rather than revolution reason. Because thats the information when you have a time of people who have the power. You have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and talk about. Police or sacrifice some. Places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices for wealth use of that world for well for historical. Question that the. Pepsi max will suck is one of the most sensational stories of our time however Media Coverage appears to be limited to learning details and political overtones the single biggest question that needs to be answered is how all this could have happened where was Law Enforcement and will justice be served. Hey welcome back im rick sanchez World Leaders are responding to the disastrous explosion at the port of beirut earlier this week so today the president of france he visits the site of the blast while bringing material aid to the nation has well as the promise of even more support and he wasnt alone theres other european nations italy for example germany have all stepped up promising that a israel closer to home offered to take him lebanese medical patients iran has offered support russia the extra step it seems they sent to doctors and nurses and actually created a temporary Field Hospital. Arties igors had gone off was there has the exclusive details. This is a Field Hospital in its early stages it is just being built in fact theres another group of emergency workers on the way with more infrastructure but this is where russian rescue as will be taking those engines those still in need of medical attention from off to the blast. Well everything that you can see the round me was erected overnight it was literally an empty lot just 2 oclock in the morning last time i was here well fast forward 6 old hours and well theres already a small tent city here. Well these are search dogs have been traveling with me or rather i was with them and. They will be sniffing out those who may be still trapped. Under the rubble. The city of the roots is devastated morally physically financially in fact of all places that ive a being too apart from active war zones of course this one with all the rubble of destruction and vehicles just abandoned at the side of the road resembles a scene from a postapocalyptic movie the most and the russian 8 f. Aims here at relieving at least some of the pain i mean don of reporting from beirut in lebanon ati card alex took a step back to see the actual blast once again let me let me show you once again what this blast looked like there it is and its a pretty wide shot right so you can kind of see or as we discussed yesterday where is this explosion emanating from coming from the ground this is coming. Everybody to try to work through this information so joining us now is explosions expert rene joining us from Miami Florida mr basulto thank you so much sir for joining us this is your expertise is there anything you see in the video or what youve read or any of the evidence or to the reports that would lead you to believe that this is either a case of sabotage or Something Else maybe a missile. Its hard to tell if its i would. Not appear to be a missile from what ive read from the facts available to us right now it seems to be explosion of the Ammonium Nitrate that was being stored. At a facility theres a bit of one in nitrate so let me press you on that lets suppose somebody knew then but there was a monium nitrate there i would almost argue as many experts have been irresponsible about of Ammonium Nitrate stored in. One place for years but somebody knows that and they say i could blow this thing up pretty easily all i got to do is take a match and boom throw it into that Ammonium Nitrate i get Something Like that to happen is that a scenario thats possible that would include sabotage. Or a lot of things that need to happen or to schools like this to occur a lot of. Things need to go wrong its not as simple as strongly imagined it or the Ammonium Nitrate itself was not. Ever it at high enough temperatures the Ammonium Nitrate and. The compress on its own so you would need a sustained source. Of sheep and a very High Temperature which in this case appears to have been the fire adjacent to it you can see by the pictures you can see in the video now that theres a fire. Quite a large fire next to this facility and though what the sad part is that it was probably in stored improperly and stored being stored. Usually needs to be in a dry well insulated space. Its rare that you have that because somebody has a b. Its a silly specifically for this type of chemical and it was used to order for a long time the serial so that he composed and releases an eye to. Which itself or could be very old so youre an expert youve looked at the situation youve looked at the media oh and the prima fascia that you see in literally before your face is that there was an explosion it affected the stored. Ammonium nitrate and it caused the explosion. It makes you it makes people think then that these reports were hearing about missiles and sabotage youre pretty much knocking those down right now right were down to 30 seconds. It doesnt appear to be a missile. That there is very well known to be very explosive used in Mining Operations d or lies or. Know that. In order for it to be so i would you. Know but you do this for a living youre called into court rooms to be asked a question that i just called you so i thank you for your expertise on this and for sharing with us mr basulto run able to thank you very much. And heres another explosive segment that were about to bring you. Yes i did serve it proper to segue but what the hell or thought it was. In the world of sports where things are kind of all over the place wild yeah were going to play were not going to play what are the rules what can we do. Anyway lets start with soccer yeah lets do that because they are playing the Major League Soccer m. L. S. Now and the m. L. S. Is bactrim lets get right into the Portland Timbers taken on philadelphia even the semifinal here is already have one sebastian blocker just made it to know in the 70th minute from the corner kick header out of the back post and it was a beautiful set piece resulting in a double header as youre going to check it out one more time block those 3rd goal the tournament teammate just had that right to him and then he heads into the goal to make it turn 2. 00 to 1. 00 would be the final because the little the union without a goal in the 85th minute but it wasnt enough so imo us is back final will have a portland in it and they will play either orlando city or Minnesota United which is august 6th tonight so well find out after tonight was a bit of doubleheaders will soon be talking about sports but not just yet 1st we have loved braun versus trump you knew it was going to happen you knew it was coming and the president of the United States could not keep his mouth shut about the n. B. A. He was very crude. Anybody who meals during anthem as we know hes been saying this for years against going against the cabinet theres a whole entire n. B. A. Everybody seems the coaches are pretty much 99 percent youve got a player here and there a coach here and there has to stand which is fine but many the majority of the players and coaches during the anthem and i mean it and so i did by the way is a major news story as larry was talking about yes right it used to be that one or 2 people would do it the entire senate had braced the movement and well heres what donald trump had to say about it he said i think its disgraceful this was an interview with fox and friends of his favorite show and he did a phone interview with them saying it was disgraceful and he worked with the n. B. A. To get them open and he was pushing for them to get open and then he says i see everybody kneeling during the anthem and thats not acceptable to me when i see them kneeling during the game i just turn it off i have no interest in the game let me tell you this plenty of other people out there too now of course the King Lebron James heard this and was asked about those comments and i want you to take a listen to what he had to say. I really dont think the best community. Are sad about losing. It if you are shooting the game will go on without. Without his eyes on. Her speak for all it was the you know grasp. Of we could care less demographically speaking the n. B. A. Is not looking for 74 year old white guys they are not they do not as you heard him right there i mean thats obviously his call im not saying that you know that its not their demographic thats not their target audience and there are just fine theyre doing just fine but theyre actually up 14 percent across all the networks to e. S. P. N. And a. B. C. And viewership through monday nights game so theyre doing pretty well and its a great product the n. B. A. Has put out thats interesting in as usual that its an interesting little spillover that it sets up for us thanks for being with us im rick sanchez he is the fish tacos i will see again when its time to do news again. As the u. S. Economy was booming greening numbers of people were made homeless. 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The trumpet ministration is sending its highest level delegation to taiwan which is angering china why now and what will the trip mean for american chinese well ations well take a look at that on their side. Of politicking on larry king it was announced this week that u. S. Health and Human Services secretary alex a czar will soon lead a delegation to taiwan the announce one has angered china which considers taiwan a role province so whats behind the timing of this trip and whats its impact on america chinese relations