it's if. the u.s. launches a war on government leaks after donald trump transcripts with other leaders are made public threatening to damage american diplomacy. russia's former ambassador to the u.s. . in his first t.v. interview since leaving the post about the scandal over contacts with american diplomats also to come the secret documents show the biotech giant monsanto try to influence media and scientists to improve the reputation of a controversial killer. executives plus. another mine is rescued from

a flooded diamond mine in the far east to brush year after spending nearly twenty four hours trapped underground eight people remain missing. six o'clock in the evening here in moscow you're watching international and our top story this hour the white house has announced a crackdown on intelligence and government leaks which have left the trumpet ministration in turmoil the culprits are now being warned to stop or face legal consequences. leaks are incredibly damaging to our intelligence mission and capabilities simply put these leaks hurt our country if you improperly disclose classified information we will find you we will investigate you we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law and you will not be happy

with the result. if any general says the justice department has been pursuing about three times more leaks ensuring the final years of the obama administration and this not any government employees who could face prosecution the media could also be forced to reveal its sources critics' islamabad as an attack on free speech although there are fears that some leaks could be putting national security at risk of shutting now reports. the white house is leaking like a fever and it simply has to stop both attorney general. as efforts are stepped up to root out those responsible and want to turn to vital kellyanne conway even speculated lie detectors could be wheeled into the west wing to sniff out the signatures these comments of the administration's response to the waves of classified information making their way out of the white house i don't know warming and some say dangerous right i am so glad they're telling us what's going on as

a new thing every day is here's the crazy thing it is only you know getting out in the public because of the white house of whistle blowers the transcripts of phone calls between president trump and two world leaders have been the leaks and published by the washington post i've never seen a white house leak as much against itself as this the latest and most explosive leak conversation transcripts between trump and the leaders of mexico and i still you seems to have been the final straw provoking outrage even among critics who say a line has been crossed is not fair this president. in terms of the leaks with the large prison term or not no prison can do business with their phone calls from the leak to the washington post terribly damaging to our country not just to donald trump politically who i don't support but to our country that it does is it crimps conversations with foreign leaders all the way down the chain where we saw no leaks like this under the obama administration and we saw only one or two when they were related to the iraq war in the bush administration so clearly the press leaks only

what they want to leak because i refuse to believe these are the only times that they've ever had some do gooder and them something that they think should be published so in the sense that the press is selective i think that they have risen to the level of you being able to demonstrate malice being that they are not others and if they can show malice they should be held responsible absolutely despite the reported risks to national security in this leaking pipe of information continues to drip likely because trump's enemies are not only at the doors of the white house they are right inside it too between staff stragglers. from the obama era and professional shake ups within his own administration the one thing that is clear is the toxic environment of distrust is likely to cloud the halls of the west wing meaning the president will have a hard time doing his job effectively and the security of the nation remains in question and only and the damage can finally be mopped up. r.t. washington d.c. . meanwhile the former russian ambassador to the us. about his conversations with x

u.s. national security advisor michael flynn the controversial discussions which took place during the trumpet ministrations transition into power led to flare having to leave his post but it cast it as the details he says that he still shocked indignant over all this attention that's been devoted to his meeting with flynt he asks since when diplomats for. gauging with politicians with members of an administration that is after all their entire job with regards to this to this talk this conversation between himself and mr flynn says that they talked about straightforward things pressing concerns but simple ones such as terrorism for example there were no secrets mentioned he says regards the sanctions and by the way it was sanctioned as their potential talk of sanctions that really forced mr flynt to resign mystic is that says you had very direct orders from the top not to

mention sanctions. i do not comment on our daily contacts with our colleagues i had instructions not to discuss sanctions we never discuss sanctions with anybody and i assure you i've honestly followed the instructions we don't discuss bargain about sanctions because we believe they were implemented in an illegal politically aggressive way to begin with. surrogate also says that he doesn't take seriously all these allegations of of russian meddling during the election and when asked why the russian media focused and covered the elections in such great detail he says because it was fun as good a reason as any or they called him many things the politicians and the media especially during the early days of trump's presidency they. called him a chief spy they called him a chief recruiter of spies bear in mind this is a respectable person a career diplomat he's been in washington since two thousand and since two thousand

and eight and he says that these allegations are offensive and humiliating and not to him but to the people saying them to america itself is. sort of i believe all the talk suggesting that i the ambassador of the russian federation i'm a spy is shameful for a country like america it has become normal in america to talk about how the russian ambassador is why it's out how books were installed on his phone it's an unhealthy society despite everything mystic is like says he doesn't believe we're in the middle of another cold war things haven't gotten that bad he says but there are huge problems and many of them stem from the fact that there's a self perceived exceptionalism in american politics and when the media resistance when they need somebody who's willing to stand up for their own interests that's

when they get upset. wouldn't gas the if there will be asked russia analyst and a story in martin mccauley whether he believes mystic history x. comments will be taken seriously by u.s. investigators the problem is that in washington there's a very strong russian caucus and from the democrat side sometimes among republicans the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is part of the border over russia something they don't believe that . president trumps knows something about positive about russia the that's treatments he shouldn't be saying that russia is already bad and we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately in washington now there's an impasse you have in the ones that would prove the drums we would like. we would like to improve relations with russia. get things going and so on but congress is doing its

best to ensure that religious rules russia deteriorate. now a video has emerged showing the aftermath of an airstrike in yemen although due to its graphic nature we have a heavily edited it to me must warn you it is disturbing it does show the bodies of a family being tracked from rubble following an alleged and he led coalition strike nine people were killed including six children out of their house collapsed according to local officials there the air strike occurred during a battle between the u.s. and saudi backed forces in yemen against al qaeda in the city of sadder riyadh's coalition denies it was responsible saying they do not target civilians. reports have suggested that humanitarian groups can't reach areas of yemen as saudi arabia and its allies have restricted fuel supplies the head of the un's development program in the country says the outlook for the conflict is bleak because

humanitarian organizations are being blocked and another wearying aspect to the conflict is what's being called the worst world's worst break of cholera it's already claimed the lives of nearly two thousand people since october due to contaminated food water and this little or no medical assistance for those who catch the disease. eleven is seeing a massive cholera outbreak really one of the biggest cholera outbreaks we've seen in our lifetime it started about two months ago and it spreads rapidly across the country and is still growing unfortunately what we found is that there's a million malnourished children living in areas that the worst affected by cholera the cholera epidemic in yemen and the humanitarian crisis more widely are entirely manmade and created by the conflict it's totally preventable and if the conflict ended it would be much easier for us to bring color under control well the conflict in yemen has been ongoing for two years now it is left thousands dead and many more people living in thai conditions. you know. that's what i'm going.

to study. these are the. meanwhile the taliban has been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan mainly in the south a series of assaults over the past four days to see dozens of people killed both soldiers and also civilians despite efforts to eliminate the taliban lasting a decade the terrorists still have a large presence in the country according to the latest u.s. report for reconstruction there forty percent of afghan territory is currently controlled or contested by the taliban.

i was looking. for me to buy. our washington has provided millions of dollars to assist afghanistan in its fight against the terrorists however according to afghanistan's special inspector general the us defense program has cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars and admitted it's failed to achieve its goals president trump voices and get see over the failed campaign showing his latest meeting with generals and progress reports over the past months haven't been positive we are not

winning in afghanistan right now but we want an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate going on year sixteen now people are american people are tired of it they're looking for alternatives and i think president trump is voicing that their frustration in trying to come to some kind of resolution on this now i know the russians have an afghan working group i was told by some officials recently that they had actually invited the united states to participate in discussions with with their group and to discuss a resolution for afghanistan but the united states refused. unbelievable but it weren't really underscores once again the u.s. needs a strategy it doesn't have one and it's not going to have one if they're going to

rely solely on a military solution. that is why it is needy elected but controversial legislative body has been an old key right to destroy violence in the country continue some place in the capital point taken some of the bullets in clashes with angry opposition supporters. i thank. well that had the vision here to the now we hope to a parliament one parliament to dominate that by the opposition on our parliamentary that by. the opposition how snobbery now who demonstrations that will to your mind things will work out what they are going to be youthful the most gracious about their resoled. usually by allowing their queen while hauling around people who three people killed them or three in

a late march i don't see any understanding that. if they're continuing their fifty's or may. we getting wars i don't think this will die down in time so i'm both sides are entrenched one side whole however how is the national guard fighting alongside the other side and you know if the real and has some more expert reaction we've been getting to venezuela's political and economic turmoil. they so-called constituent assembly election was a fraud to call an election would be a mockery of what happened no opposition candidates were allowed to stay in and the votes cast were not in favor of one kind of against another. so the so-called candidates were all cronies of the president and the ruling p.s.u. the party which controls the executive and the courts certainly there is there are some flaws in the way it was called and in the way the election took place but

nothing that is off fundamentally antidemocratic that is the opposition have plenty of opportunities to participate in this process itself was completely. straightforward and unfair so now when they do in demonstration they still insist on going to the city center which is has been prohibited and so then of course there are violent clashes between the police and the demonstrators. now still ahead for us they sat there a toxic revelations about one of the world's best selling weed killer as well have a look at that in detail after the break.

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a diamond mine in russia just water poured into an underground shelf with one hundred fifty one people inside the rescue operation is still ongoing there's a video showing a worker being rescued just a few hours ago. over one hundred emergency services personnel who are involved in the rescue operation and they have been joined by volunteers and also some of the miners who were evacuated let's have a look at the disaster unfolded. the

. well the company which owns the mine is called our roeser and is one of the world's biggest diamond produces the firm mines most of russia's diamonds the acute here region was discovered to be diamond rich back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and in two thousand and nine an underground mine was established to extract diamond bearing or producing two million tons a year however the facility has constantly been hit by strong underground water currents of course we are keeping a close eye on that rescue operation and we'll keep you updated on there any miners that are recovered. now the new secret documents show that the american biotech giant monsanto try to influence media and science reports on its popular weed killer round up one of its

kingery ins has been linked to cancer here's how an attorney from the firm that published the documents describes the revelations. this is a look behind the curtain monsanto has deliberately been stopping studies ghost reading literature and engaging in corporate malfeasance the world health organization labor ground ups main ingredient lifeforce ate as potentially carcinogenic to humans and animals last month health officials in california also said it could cause cancer on some toes promos though do paint a different picture what about the main active ingredient. is a harmful regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved place the sea based products like the seed is applied to pleats plants absorb it travels to their roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans precise effective and proven. well the newly revealed documents do show that concerns among staff about

the products safety go back a number of years and his some of them back in two thousand and three among santos scientists told a colleague quote you cannot say roundup is not a carcinogen because the necessary tests haven't been carried out two years before that another wrote of serious concerns about the testing of the weed killer in the monsanto e-mails also reveal contact with a science consultancy firm called into tech about editing research with a monsanto scientist other emails to show a writer from the business magazine forbes requesting a high quality draft from monsanto before writing up an article on roundup and the miller was later five the ghostwriting to downplay the risks associated with the product the harvey put the revelations to a monsanto executive. an academic henry miller asked monsanto to draft an article for him did the company draft an article for him or did it give him any orders as

what he needed to write no we didn't know orders whatsoever as to what he needed he asked for assistance with a draft and we provided assistance with a draft as you requested ok i just want to read out a quote from another research i can't be part of deceptive off the ship we call that ghostwriting and it is unethical what was he referring to there in terms of ghostwriting it was a completely. aiden's and it was resolved with appropriate. tribute in order should credit says that there was a monsanto scientist who said he would be seriously concerned if somebody wanted to test the weed killer what was that concern we want to make sure good science good lab practices people who know what they're doing professionals who are capable of conducting or doing those we will always have concerns when someone out of the blue told us that they would like to ask what about the claim. scott coming from some people that one of your products roundup has actually caused cancer there are

question marks over maybe guy for save itself isn't cancer in juicing but perhaps the actual product how do you respond to that claim well the only other really that roundup is put together with two to two completely round up formulations is what's called a circus act it has been studied extensively neither one of those have to be cancer causing agents lawyer and author of the upcoming book your inventions mike papantonio believes the u.s. government action you are bad the dangers associated with it we kill. one important thing about these documents it helps paint a very clear picture that monsanto understood the dangers of their product when they were selling it by the ton all over the world the problem is the the government has known about this for quite a while this case has been out there for quite some time and unfortunately the

department of justice hasn't taken it on themselves to actually go after a criminal investigation with this but i understand here you have a company that is actually influencing the very regulatory agency this supposed to be looking out for the safety of the american public and so this has been going on since nineteen eighty five the e.p.a. in one thousand nine hundred determined that glaive to say in roundup was a primary ingredient roundup needed to be classified as a carcinogen now they said that in the eighty's and then all of a sudden with no reason to change they they said day one it will cause cancer in six years later the e.p.a. suddenly changes that classification the opposite way and now what we're seeing is why they changed. the british computer hacker credited with stopping the tourists one a crisis attack has allegedly admitted to police that he created unseld mao web

designed to steal banking details marcus hutchens was arrested at a hacking conference in las vegas and could now face up to forty years in prison if convicted the twenty three year old self-taught cyber expert faces six charges for creating and distributing the crown aspirants which spreads through e-mail attachments and steals banking details from infected compete is israel is say he plans to plead not guilty became known for discovering a hidden killswitch in the wanna cry cyber attack while it did strike one hundred fifty countries causing havoc in at ports hospitals by. and other infrastructure back in may and they work by encrypting data on infected computers making them inaccessible and then demanding a ransom for three hundred dollars worth of big coins. in stopping wanna cry so he labeled the iraq. people so inundating mess just fine king me saying i'm a hero i mean i sort of just ready for this to maine for tracking and i didn't intend for it to blow up on me to be all over the media just sort of doing my job

and i don't really think that i'm here at all but for my cia analyst john kerry actually believes the hackers arrest leaves too many questions unanswered. i read the indictment i read the statement of facts i'm not seeing a crime here at least what's in the indictment is very very weak i think is his own attorney described it is very thin and i am perplexed as to why he was charged in the eastern district of wisconsin of all places i don't believe he's ever even been to wisconsin so i think this is really the department of justice trying to make a statement which i think is going to come back and bite it because it's the f.b.i. director and the cia director who have been going to these these hacker conventions in the past telling hackers would be hackers we're the good guys come and work for us well now they go and arrest one of the most prominent hackers in the world one

who's actually provided a public service of his own country this is going to send a chilling effect through the entire hacker community you're watching r t international thanks being with us this evening do you think that you can keep across all the stories we're covering today on our social media pages and also channel i'll be back tonight with the headlines in just a. little

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