Here in moscow thanks for. The tonights welcome to the program for more than a year. Of tensions and italys Ruling Coalition has come to a head the Prime Minister has resigned and solve the countrys interior minister called for a vote of no confidence but once again leave the country in 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 course plunging into a fresh political crisis in his resignation speech on tuesday often you know at least during the attack on the deputy Prime Minister i mean to you even this damage to you is so over the week basically accusing him of doing everything to. Profiting self 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 to 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 that government. On the world of business of the manage those that produce things but its really demands action so the only thing that italy cannot afford 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 and the italians would choose a government the government 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 is happened is this been reversed so 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 boat significantly higher than what the polls say would happen for the 5 Star Movement so. Does this all mean for italy now well thats perhaps the 1000000. 00 question there is the chance that the 5 Star Movement to austin the Biggest Party could now go on to form another Coalition Government with the parties leading the Democratic Party led by its release former Prime Minister renzi and that was something that the material really actually came to about today when he launched his own attack in the senate we could also see a technocrat government or a National Unity government or of course they could be those snap Elections Research here at the Italian Center for electoral studies pardo believe such a Coalition Never had a chance of long term survival it was the 1st government formed by these 2 parties that by someone and never been in government and the league previously in government but with certain right governments so this was a new experimental Coalition Governments we have problems in the Coalition Government to these unique one was not expected to last a bit longer regardless of what that didnt mean is there is hope to go and be clear in the beginning but of course nobody expected these 2 for let alone who starts so close a balance to be doubtful but this is completely surprising and even m. P. s from the league didnt really understand why salvini moved so fast in this very moment. U. S. Attorney general william ball has removed the acting director of u. S. Prisons from his post after the recent death of described minutes youre free up there. With some real micahs of praise the decision had concerns over the conditions at the jail where he took his life. Was convicted of paedophilia back in 2007 at the time he was sentenced to 13 months in prison that was part of a deal signed by venue u. S. Attorney alexander across the epstein had many friends in high places among them donald trump bill clinton and even 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 baron el chapo epstein and been taken off suicide watch the spite having made a recent attempt on his own life we spoke to his former lawyer mark furnish he thinks conditions at the jail may have pushed him over the edge. The conditions to which he was subjected would go even the needs 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 was alleged to have been and 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 geoffrey 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 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. The u. S. Military has announced plans to develop new hypersonic missiles with intermediate range they would have been banned under the i. N. F. Treaty with russia which was recently scrapped by washington it follows the test of an american Cruise Missile which was also outlawed on without agreement russias foreign minister claims the us was for powering for the test long before the treaty expired on the 2nd of august. The 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 launch Cruise Missile of the us west coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 kilometers of flight the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed between the 2 rivaling superpowers in the cold war back in 1987 and certain types of short term mid range missiles that expired on the 2nd of august with President Trump saying he had no willingness to extend it due to alleged violations by the kremlin russias 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 launch missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct those research and Development Activities then turn to an f. Treaty so the department of defense will start their steps on building those systems they couldnt before. Live now to go through cocreator of defense and Foreign Affairs thanks for joining us so good to have you on today quite an escalation is that the u. S. Intending to build these new hypersonic must hold these ranges obviously previously by and under the treaty armed potentially with ballistic warheads here that came from acting secretary of state acting secretary the army rather ron mccarthy i suppose the question is are you surprised that these plans are moving out so quickly. Theyre not moving ahead so quickly that taken far too long by strategic status to get underway the. Russian development of Hypersonic Weapons in this category began in the late 9980 s and they were showing models in 9095 russia is by far the most advanced power in the development and deployment of weapons of this category hottest on a glide vehicles and Hypersonic Weapons delivered by a variety of means the reality is that the i. M. F. Treaty as weve discussed before was dead and buried years before it was formally abandoned by both russia and the United States and it was of course constraining both russia and the United States from competing with the peoples republic of china which has been developing its own intermediate range Nuclear Forces and particularly have been also working on Hypersonic Weapons the united. Will probably give china has recently been looking at deployment always hypersonic glide vehicles on board missiles and on and on mounted on aircraft russia has an extensive ray of Hypersonic Weapons which go well beyond the the original i. N. F. Treaty the idea of treaty discussion is an absolute cannot it has really nothing to do with the development of this new era of technology. The United States was late coming to the film is well behind both russia or end the peoples republic of china in this the us air force does have 5 programs now it would take knowledge and probably another 2 which they havent acknowledged in the development of both Hypersonic Weapons and hypersonic defense capabilities but look at the United States it was any in 2009 that the United States have to ally itself using nasser initially. With the university of queensland in australia which had developed hypersonic models and capabilities and so now australia and the United States are developing Hypersonic Weapons capabilities testing them in Central Australia but the reality is that the us is way behind russia and to be able to public of china in this era. The Russian Foreign minister just a moment ago said these u. S. Missile tests were planned long before washington with roof and on f. Treaty but what youre saying is that both sides really happen violating it and this whole treaty was nothing but what was done if that is so how dangerous is this escalation. Well its not its an inevitable progress look treaties are designed to capture a moment and to deliver a titian when its looking extra because its not intended that treaties ever throughout history on weapons and technology will stop the growth of the eventual evolution of technologies it will it can do is cause it for a while now the test youre talking about im not in the new weapons categories i have a sonic theyre in a very much a stopgap area the u. S. Cruise missile test was of a subsonic Cruise Missile which was shelved because of the i. N. F. Treaty and its just been reactivated into the us at all there are always plans for the activation reactivation deactivation of weapons and the like to suit contingencies so it actually is surprising to me that it took so long to to have this test of an old very Old Technology subsonic Cruise Missile but notice that it was back in the inventory and had a capability these some sonic weapons are extremely vulnerable to it offensive weapons such as the s 400 s. 500 which the russians deploy and the chinese now deploy and for that matter now turkey is getting them deployed but the reality is that this is this test was just symbolic of the fact that the u. S. Is back in the business and the message of that test was not for russia it was for the peoples republic of china which brings me not someone asked question was the Chinese Foreign ministry has been accusing the u. S. Of engaging what they describe as a cold war mentality and 0 sum games you mention the developing some weapons on their own deploying some of those weapons what do you think the situation with china where you think that will go and what do you think was the motivation for the u. S. Pulling out from 9 after eating. The motivation for pulling out the on a treaty was twofold one the treaty was no longer effective and no longer even a playable to the soviet union and the United States given up the soviet union to disappear secondly technologically it had been eclipsed by these new types of weapons so that they are getting back to the chinese accusing the us of going for a cold war mentality how about this for a question for the Chinese Foreign minister why did president xi jinping the Chinese ForeignMinistry Self in the defense minister in late 2018 say that they had declared a new 30 year war on the united state they said they had declared a war on the United States and it was their hope that the United States would not respond to this what were they thinking is this a joke. You know what theyre what troubling times we live in greg coakley editor of defense and Foreign Affairs thanks for your time and insight today here not in the National Thank you. Social media platforms twitter and facebook said theyve blocked a number of chinese accounts for 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 region 18 from within the peoples republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically tempting 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 in authentic 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 of a draw for legislation allowing extrusion of suspects to Mainland China demonstrations have since broadened to other political issues over the last 11 weeks ronnies a frequent turn violent with police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protests the little call takes a closer look at whats motivating the protest is. Freedom Fair Elections democracy its words like these youll find throughout the western Media Coverage of the protests in hong kong but the reality of it is all much more complicated. Its n