The content being here in moscow thanks for joining us and our team to national dan hawkins with you tonight welcome to the program. A more than a year of tensions in italys Ruling Coalition have come to a head with the italian Prime Minister. Offering his resignation so after the countrys interior minister called for a vote of no confidence once again leaves italy in a deep political crisis. Well that resignation over its nice Prime Minister said because they had been widely speculated for the last few days and now its happening forced plunging into a fresh political crisis in his resignation speech on tuesday often you know the police during attack on the deputy Prime Minister i mean to you even this damage to you is so. Beanie over the leak basically accusing him of doing everything to profiteer himself and profiteers party but the government and he accused materials so binnie of being the one whos driving the government into crisis make it all up to the parliamentary debate will go to the president of the republic to officially communicate then this government intended my resignation this Prime Minister well salvini had cooled 2 weeks ago for snap elections amidst the Summer Holidays in italy saying that the Coalition Government as it stood was simply workable saying that he just couldnt work under the constraints of back government. On the world of business of the man as those that produce things but its really demands action so the only thing that italy canada forward is to waste time anyone who is wasting time is doing so because theyre afraid of losing this seat we asked that we vote as soon as possible the italians would choose a government to govern us a Coalition Government was formed back in june of 2018 and it was put in or pretty or coupling between the Left Wing Party of the 5 Star Movement and the anti immigration anti Establishment Party over the league the 2 coming together to form that Government Back in june of last year following the elections in march since then what we have seen is a rather rocky road that the partner is having several disagreements including recently about a railway link between france and italy what also has happened is theres been a reversal in the fortunes of the 2 parties since those elections about 14 months ago back then we saw the 5 Star Movement taking the lions share of the vote compared to the league and now it seems to flipped on its head with poll suggesting if a vote was held today that the league thats material things party would take some 38 percent of the vote significantly higher than most. The polls say would happen to the 5 Star Movement so what does this all mean for italy now but thats perhaps the 1000000. 00 question there is a chance that the feinstein movement to last of the Biggest Party could now go on to form another Coalition Government with the parties leading the Democratic Party led by italys former Prime Minister to you frenzy and that was something thats material sylvie actually came to did back today when he launched his own attack in the senate we could also see a technocrat government and National Unity government who of course they could be the snap elections lets go live now to all the Photo Research at the italian electoral Italian Center for studies thanks for joining us good to have you want today what do you see happening now in italys government what changes do you think we can see in terms of policies internally and externally as well. Well that thats the 1000000. 00 question of course of where everybody is on the stand its not going to be easy to predict the future an italian politics especially in this india said so what is going to happen in the next few days that is that the president the republicans are going to have some thoughts with the leaders and might there something of course is going to call for immediate elections and other parties in the center right will join him in the support for the new elections but probably that by something meant ended in look at the he might be open to some kind of a Coalition Government between the 2 of them so i think that is what is going to happen on that is going to play out in terms of policy that is very hard to predict there especially i mean the 2 never try to form a government together when they try briefly before the last a moment and the leads on dead after their months 1018 elections in the government that collapsed today the 1st a moment then a Democratic Party indeed to try and briefly to come to an arrangement but the very songs so it is not that easy to understand what the possible government of platform of these new coalition will be did consummate the right decision in resigning do you think its going to put an end to the current political crisis. Well i think that was the only more he was left with the real question is was something youre right there in having the government collapse or right now he was hoping to go to the election immediately that theyre not that possible coalition would emerge and so the president the republic was forced them to go to the immediate election but maybe even then predicted that lisa bloom is what is happening right now these possible answer between a democracy by the with the rancy very prominent these are opening to the 5 Star Movement and of the 5 Star Movement or the my own the current leader of the body the one that these in government we stand beneath is very much unlikely to offer to the Democratic Party but they fundamentally live in that was the founder of the but he opened himself to the look at the body not there to start but then you barbarians salvini to form a government on his own so death move was unpredictable and of course a surprise salvini that now finds himself in a position that he didnt want to be leaving the government there without the possibility of having the new election and go back to the government saw we had in Uncharted Waters everybodys speaking off salvini many people of course blame him for the government crisis but it is quite a long history does that of short lived governments of resignations as well actually so is this really anything new or is this a month of italian politics. Well it is new in the times that the this is happening 1st of all this was the 1st government formed by these 2 parties defy someone and never been in government and their leader previously in government but with certain right governments or so this was a new experimental Coalition Government and already as you said we have probably seen it start where the shell governments to this unique one was not expected to last a bit longer regardless of what that they mean is there is hope the end be clear in the beginning but of course nobody expected these 24 let you know will start so closer to their balance mean approval and this is completely surprising and even m. P. s from the league didnt really understand why sell any move to so fast in this very moment. Going back to how important do you think his role was in contes resignation in coming full of criticism as of late but do you think he could have survived the vote of no confidence no i dont think you can call them. The leader there at the clear that they were going they ask the 4 nonconfidence vote so unless they actually turned around completely and avoided the coffin of silicone to government the government was going to be to not receive the confidence these evening so on to prefer to do that actually offer his resignation without having informal hold of nonconfidence by the senate tonight just speaking of what it is going through now the moderate crisis is making headlines is that thats what a lot of people a lot of politicians are talking about solving and called to have quite different opinions on what needs to be done to deal with that do you think anythings going to change with qantas resignation. Well if the Democratic Party and ive some woman do well find this in a way to form a new involvement with the 2 of them of course and i think they will not implemented in the same policy that suddenly as implemented so to being condit as expressed openly some reservation over the immigration policy that the cabinet has shared to survive as implemented in the past 15 months or but. Yesterday we could see actually the cabinet as a whole implemented what so many want in especially on immigration on top i think that if the Democratic Party is going to form a government with by some. Less for a more or less 3 were on these migrant sheep if these snuff elections are called and they do go ahead do you how do you think these 2 parties are once again be able to be in government you mentioned this a new coalition one of the parties such as never been in government do you think we could see a repetition of this coalition or will it be a lover of accommodation what is the most obvious and i mean games of immediate election is that the sun being you will run on an Additional Center right coalition with previous allies like berlusconi spot the and on about in that i can promise of the valley and they would win the election if the election immediately. And i would say that probably theyre not going to back and advise them and the world would run separately on their own and they would then drop a losing both of them the elections. The 5 star well i dont think they are sorry go ahead arent go ahead although i do think that we are going to see in new york between the 5 star moment and the league in the immediate future not ok all the Proper Research at Italian Center for actual studies thanks for joining us good to have you on today. Thank you for having me thank you. U. S. Has conducted its 1st test of a 500 kilometer Cruise Missile type previously burned for over 30 years under a new and now defunct arms control treaty between moscow and washington russias foreign minister claimed the us was preparing for the test and long before the treaty expired on the 2nd of august. It should be known from october of last year when the Us National Security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump statement about washingtons withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue but a final decision it appears that then or maybe even earlier us started preparing the missile tests conducted on sunday and banned by the treaty the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground Cruise Missile off the u. S. West coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 kilometers off light the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed between the 2 rivaling superpowers in the cold war back in 1907 and certain types of short and mid range missiles that expired on the 2nd of august with donald trump saying had no willingness to extend it due to alleged violations by the Kremlin Russia denied the claims and repeatedly invited washington for talks some parts of the us establishment want welcoming to the idea. The United States must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct does research and Development Activities bento to an f. 3 t. So the department of defense will still have some building though system they couldnt be full United States has said that this is not Nuclear Capable and the United States is planning for another test probably in november this one and somewhere between 508000 kilometers a range but the one that theyre testing in the ember is miscreants 3004000 kilometers or range thats another in this series a very unfortunate moves that have been going on for the past couple years at least well we can actually dated back to 2001 with the announcement that the u. S. Is going to clear the a. B. M. Treaty theres only one major nonproliferation treaty remaining the new start treaty which ends in 2021 and the United States has already indicated that it was certainly pull out of that one also or not when they do that one which means we are on the verge of nuclear anarky. The u. S. Attorney general william barr has removed the acting director of u. S. Prisons from his post after the recent death of disgraced millionaire Geoffrey Epstein some lawmakers have praised the decision amid concerns over the conditions at the jail where he took his own life. Now back in 2007 epstein was convicted of paedophilia at the time he was sentenced to 13 months in prison that was part of a deal signed by then u. S. Attorney alexander across the epstein had many friends in high places among them donald trump bill clinton and Prince Andrew at the time of his death the financier was awaiting trial for sex trafficking offenses he was being held at a facility reserved for the most dangerous criminals among them the drug el chapo epstein had been taken off suicide watch despite having made recent attempts on his own life we spoke to his former lawyer mark furnish he thinks conditions at the jail they have pushed him over the edge. The conditions to which he was subjected would buckle even the knees of the strongest among us its this is one of the toughest federal pretrial detention facilities in the country and the conditions are inhumane epstein was subjected to conditions that were similar to those of guzman but not remotely justified by his character or what he was accused of because he was not. A violent individual like Chapman Chapo was alleged to have been hes not a guy who has escaped from prior facilities like guzman was alleged to have done so one would be comparing apples and oranges to liken the 2 to each other but yet their conditions of confinement were strikingly similar and theres something fundamentally wrong with that and whats fundamentally wrong with that is that jeffrey abstain did not belong in that facility to begin with. Just my own personal opinion it wouldnt surprise me to learn of anything that might have happened with Jeffrey Epstein and in my view at that in that facility the real story the real miracle is that we dont hear about these sort of things more about murdered pretrial detainees or suicidal pretrial detainees because the facility. Is barbaric and its a whole its its its like i dont use the word lightly lightly but its sort of like an american go log for people who have not yet been convicted of anything so the real shock here is that we dont hear about deaths at pretrial oppressive onerous pretrial detention facilities like the m. C. C. More often. Any of us could one day find ourselves rightly or wrongly on on the. Business and of of the United States department of justice and nobody nobody said should be subjected to the conditions that epstein was exposed to for many reasons one of which is that compromises your mental and physical functioning and you cant assist adequately in preparing your own defense and it crushes people we dont really know what happened to mr epstein but but certainly i believe personally that being a locked in a facility like that under extraordinary conditions would logically wreak havoc with ones mind and body so i certainly i certainly believe that they personally that they could have played a role absolutely i mean i think we would be foolish to to deny that but again one doesnt want to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease and the disease is how people are routinely denied bail with a shocking ease given the laws that Congress Passed allowing prosecutors and judge to do that epstein did not belong locked up pending trial and he didnt belong in a hellhole like that before he had been convicted of anything. Social media platforms twitter on facebook say theyve blocked a number of chinese accounts for allegedly trying to undermine the protests in hong kong. We are disclosing a significant stayed back to informational pression focused on the situation hong kong this disclosure consists of 936 a cancer originating from within the peoples republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in hong kong including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground we removed 7 pages 3 groups and 5 Facebook Accounts involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a Small Network that originated in china and focused on hong kong. The protest movement in hong kong started back in june over drof legislation and now an extradition of suspects to Mainland China the demonstrations have since broadened to other political issues over the last 11 weeks rallies have frequently with police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters. Dont call to takes a closer look at whats motivating the demonstrators. Freedom Fair Elections democracy its words like these youll find throughou