the u.s. launches a war on government leaks after donald trump's phone transcripts with other leaders and made public threatening to damage american diplomacy. russia's former ambassador to the u.s. opens up in his first t.v. interview since leaving the post about the scandal over contacts with american diplomats also to come this hour secret documents show that biotech giant monsanto try to influence media and scientists to prove the reputation of a controversial weed killer we talked to one of the firm's executives plus.

another miner was rescued from a flooded diamond mine in the far east of russia after spending nearly twenty four hours trapped underground eight people remain missing. hello there coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour the white house has announced a crackdown on intelligence and government leaks which have left the trump administration in turmoil the culprits are being warned to stop and i will face legal consequences leaks our intranet are very 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 you will not be happy with the result. the attorney general says the justice department has been pursuing about three times more leaks than jury in the final years of the obama administration and is not only government employees who could face prosecution the media could also be forced to reveal its sources critics though have slammed bath as an attack on free speech but there are phase two that some leaks could be putting national security at risk jacqueline vigor reports. i think we have to stop both attorney general guy as efforts are stepped up to root out those responsible and want to turn folks invited kellyanne conway even speculated lie detectors can 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 the public because of the white house 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 when australia seems to have been the final straw provoking our region even among critics who say a line has been crossed is not shared this president. in terms of the leaks with the large present trump or not no president 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 in the 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 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. own administration the one thing that is clear is the toxic environment of distrust is likely to cloud the whole 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 u.s. history act has opened up about his conversations with ex u.s.

national security advisor michael flynn the controversial discussions which took place during the trumpet ministrations transition into power led to flynn having to leave his post but it has more details he says that he's still shocked and indignant over all this attention that's been devoted to his meeting with flynt he asks since when diplomats forbid gaijin 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. so gay also says that he doesn't take seriously all these allegations 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 you know days 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 bust through the russian federation i'm a spy is shameful for a country like america has become normal in america to talk about how the russian ambassador is why it's out how bugs 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 is willing to stand up for their own interests that's when they get upset or advance the if there will be os russia analyst and historian

martin mccauley whether he believes mr kissy x. comments will be taken seriously by u.s. investigators. the problem is that in washington there's a very strong. caucus and from the democrat side sometimes among republicans the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is part of a bargain over russia something they don't believe that. president trumps knows something about positive about russia but st moves he shouldn't be saying that russia is. who we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately in washington now them. you have been the ones that would prove the drop we would like. we would love to improve relations with russia. get things going and so on but

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

humanitarian organizations are being blocked another worrying aspect of the conflict is what's being called the world's worst outbreak of cholera it's already came allies of nearly two thousand. and people since october due to contaminated food and mortar in this little known medical assistance for those who catch the disease 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 of 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 calderon to control the conflict in yemen has been known going for two years now it has left thousands dead and many more people living in die conditions you know. that's what.

the other political parties are the us are. or. are. the taliban has been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan mainly in the sinai a series of assaults over the past four days is seen dozens of people killed both soldiers and also civilian efforts to eliminate the taliban lasting a decade the terrorists still have a large presence in the country in fact according to the latest u.s. report for reconstruction there forty percent of afghan territory is currently controlled or contested by the taliban. but.

because it. was i i was looking it. up but. for me there. was. no 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 is failed to achieve its goals president trump has voiced his anger to over the failed campaign during his latest meetings with general some progress reports over the past months haven't been positive either

we're 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 but they're looking for alternatives and i think president trump is voicing that their frustration in and 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 were it 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. venezuela's newly elected but controversial legislative body has been in all the right to district violence in the country continues police in the capital deployed to gas and rubber bullets in clashes with angry opposition supporters. thank. you. thank you well the hip issue here is the now we have two a parliament one parliament in the me at there by the oval fish on our parliamentary i mean at that by nicholas my lord of the opposition how snobbery now who demonstrations that will to your mind things will work out what they are going to be youthful demonstrations about their resold. usually by their queen while homegrown people who three people killed them all started in late march i don't see

any understanding i feel this is their continuing their fifty's or. maybe getting wars i don't think this will die down in time so i'm both sides are entrenched one side whole however house the national guard fighting alongside the other side is just you know it's the real one is some more of the expert reaction we've been getting to venezuela's political and economic turmoil. the 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 and the votes cast were not in favor of one pending against another. so the so-called candidates were all cronies of the president and the ruling 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

fundamentally anti-democratic that has the opposition had plenty of opportunities to participate in this process itself was completely. straightforward and fair 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 clashes between the police and the demonstrators. now there are talks about one of the world's best selling we will have the details after the break. here's what people have been saying about redacted and this is it just below. the only show i go out of my way to. really packed a punch. is the john oliver of r t america's. apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of. jack tonight

president of the world bank hey. seriously send us an e-mail. right now just to. have a tough situation from obama but i think a big problem for. want he pretended everything was great i liked him better. when everything was. data was phony the statistics on the unemployment rate is much higher don't believe the g.d.p. the stock market's a big fat that's going for the truck. market the economy's great the fall because. this is still missing well over twenty four hours after a flood a diamond mine in russia. water poured into an underground shaft with one hundred

fifty one people inside aeration is only going well here's a video showing the work being rescued just a few hours ago. over one hundred emergency services personnel who were involved in this rescue operation and they have been joined by volunteers and some of the miners who were evacuated let's have a look at how the disaster unfolded. the

company which owns the mine is called and is one of the world's biggest diamond produces the firm mines most of russia's diamonds while the u. cutey region was discovered to be diamond rich back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and in two thousand and nine the underground mine was established to extract diamond bearing all it produces up to a million tons a year although the facility is constantly being hit by strong underground water currents of course we are keeping an eye on the current rescue operation and will be bringing you more details as soon as any information comes in. secret documents show that the american biotech giant monsanto did try to influence media and science reports on its popular we kill a round up one of its keen greediness 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 labeled roundups main ingredient lifeforce eight as potentially carcinogenic to humans and animals last month health officials in california also said it could cause cancer and santos promos though do paint a different picture. what about their main active ingredient. is a harmful regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved places sea based products like the state is applied to pleats once absorbed it travels to their roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans precise effective and proven by the newly revealed documents to show that concerns among stuff about the products safety do you go back many years in fact here are some of them back in two thousand and three a monsanto scientists told a colleague that quote you cannot writes

a roundup is not because the necessary tests haven't actually been carried out two years before that another wrote of serious concerns about testing weed killer or the monsanto e-mails also of your contact with a science consultancy firm called into tech about editing research with a monsanto scientist other e-mails show a writer from the business magazine forbes requesting a high quality draft from monsanto before writing an article on roundup and miller was later fired for ghost writing to downplay the risks associated with the product neil harvey put the revelations to a monsanto executive. an academic ken remailer asked monsanto to draft an article for him did the company draft an article for him or did it given any orders as what he needed to write no we didn't know orders whatsoever as to what he needed to write he asked for assistance with a draft and we provided assistance with a draft as he requested ok i just want to read out

a quote from another research i can't be part of deceptive authorship we call that ghost writing and it is unethical what was he referring to there in terms of ghostwriting it was a completely solution. and it was resolved with appropriate. tribute in order to 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 tests are doing those to us we will always have concerns when someone out of the blue tells us that they would like to ask what about the claims scott coming from some people that one of your products round up 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 search it has been studied extensively neither one of those have to be cancer causing agents lawyer and author of the upcoming book or inventions mike papantonio believes the u.s. government knew about the dangers associated with a way to 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 it. now the british computer hacker credited with stopping the tourists want to cry cyber attack as alleged to me to police that he created and sold mile web designed to steal banking details marcus hutchins was arrested at a hacking conference in the vegas and could now face up to forty years in prison if convicted the twenty three year old cyber expert does face six charges for creating

distributing the cronus pirates which spreads through e-mail attachments and steals banking details from infected competes is is lawyers say he plans to plead not guilty hutchens became known for discovering a hidden kill switch in the one i cry cyber attack when it struck in iran hundred fifty countries causing havoc in at ports hospitals banks in in the. back in may and it would by encrypting data on infected computers making them inaccessible and then demanding a ransom for three hundred dollars with a big killing hope. can stopping one i try so him labeled. people so inundating mess just thanking me saying i'm a hero i mean i so just ready for this to mean for trucking and i didn't intend for it to blow up on me to be away from the media i just saw doing my job and i don't really think that i'm a hero to former cia analyst john kiriakou believes the hackers arrest does leave too many questions unanswered i've read the indictment i've 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. he was he has been with us

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