and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. one. the u.s. launches a war and government. will transfer from the scripts with all their leaders are made public threatening to. diplomacy. bush'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. secret documents show that biotech giant. tried to influence media and scientists to improve the reputation of

a controversial we talked to one of the firm's executives plus. another miner is rescued from a flooded diamond mine in the far east of russia after spending nearly twenty four hours trapped underground eight people remain missing. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour the white house has announced a crackdown on intelligence on government leaks which have left the trump administration in turmoil the culprits are 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. the attorney general say's the justice department has been pursuing a by three times more leaks than during the final years of the obama administration and it's not only government employees who could face prosecution the media could also be forced to reveal its sources critics have slammed as an attack on free speech but there are fears that some leaks could be putting national security at risk with more or not here's jacqueline booga. i think we have to stop both as

attorney general just as efforts are stepped up to root out those responsible and want to employ advice kellyanne conway even speculated lie detectors can be reeled 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 and here's the crazy thing it is only you know getting out in 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 and i still you seem to have been the final straw provoking our age even among critics who say a line has been crossed is not fair this president. in terms of the leaks with the

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 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. 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 plug and the damage can finally be mopped up. r.t. washington d.c. . former russian ambassador to the u.s. surge has opened up about his conversations with 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 as the details here is murat. he says that he's still shocked and indignant over all this attention that's been devoted to his to his meeting with flynt he asks since when diplomats forbid gaijin with politicians with members of an administration that is off to rule 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 a daily contact 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 about sanctions because we believe they were implemented in an illegal politically aggressive way to begin with. 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. 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. 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 wired tabs 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. when we are russian law a stone historian martin mccauley whether he believes mr kissel yaks 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 and the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is part of the border if

a russian say something they don't believe it and the. president trumpeted something about the push toward russia this is a that's st louis you shouldn't be saying that russia is already and we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately no. you haven't the ones that president trump who would like. they would love to improve relations with russia. get things going and so on but congress is doing its best to ensure that route russia deteriorate. video has emerged showing the aftermath of a deadly strike in yemen but due to its graphic nature it has been heavily edited and also be warned is the stripping it shows the bodies of a family being dragged from rubble following an alleged society led coalition strike nine people were killed including six children after their high school

lobster cording to local officials the our strike occurred during a battle between the u.s. and saudi backed forces in yemen against al qaeda in the city of sabah 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 be under its allies have restricted fuel supplies the head of the un's development program in the country sees the icac for the conflict is bleak because humanitarian organizations are being shut out. another worrying aspect to the conflict is what's being called the world's worst art break of cholera it's already claimed the lives of nearly two thousand people since october you too can tell me needed food and water there's little or no medical assistance for those who catch the disease. you have been seeing a massive cholera outbreak really one of the biggest killer outbreaks we've seen in

our lifetime in soft about two months 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 west affected by cholera the cholera epidemic and the humanitarian crisis more widely every 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. with a conflict in yemen has been known going for over two years and it's left over ten thousand civilians dead and many more people in dire need of. you know. that's what the a lot of. the stuff that you know the things are these are the causes that are.

far. more news we're closely following this hour the taliban's been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan mainly in the south of the country a series of assaults over the past four days dozens of people killed soldiers and civilians the spite efforts to eliminate the taliban lasting a decade the terrorists still have a large presence in the nation according to the latest u.s. report for reconstruction there forty percent of afghan territory is currently controlled or contested by the taliban. because if.

i. was looking it. up. for me there was. a washington house provided millions of dollars to assist stuffed down a stone 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 on the admitted its feel to achieve its goals president trump voiced his over the fail campaign during his latest meeting with generals progress reports over the past number of months haven't been positive we are not winning in afghanistan right now but we won an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate going on year sixteen now people are an 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 were it really underscores once again the u.s. needs a strategy it doesn't have one and the it's not going to have one if they're going to rely solely on a military solution among the stories after the break there are toxic revelations about one of the world's best selling weed killers sweep more and plenty more besides.

all the food we took. every the world should experience in go get it on the open roll. according to just. walk up to the world cup on long term iraq. what do you want your current take on the administration right now just sixty. or they're having a tough situation with what they inherited from obama but i think the big problem for crop is that as soon as he won he pretended everything was great i liked him better as a candidate when everything was. when the data was phony the statistics are real the unemployment rate is much higher don't believe the g.d.p. the stock market is

a big fat ugly bubble that's trouble voted for the truck by god everything is great it's a ball market the economy is great that's all because. sixty minutes into the program you're very welcome back eight miners are still missing well over twenty four hours after a flood of a diamond mine in russia's far east water poured into an underground shelter with one hundred fifty one people inside the rescue operation is ongoing here's a video showing a worker being rescued on sunday morning. one hundred emergency services personnel are involved in the rescue operation they have been joined by volunteers some of the miners who were evacuated let's take a look now at how the disaster actually unfolded. were.

well the company which owns the mine is called hits one of the world's biggest diamond producers and mines most of russia's diamonds the region was the sculptor to be diamond rich back in the nineteen fifties in two thousand and nine the underground mine was established to extract diamond bearing or it produces up to a million tons every year however the facility has constantly been hit by strong

undercurrent water currents. were continuing to keep a watch on the rescue operation we will of course keep you posted on the fate of the missing miners and what happens in that region as well as. secret documents show that the american biotech giant monsanto tried to influence media and science reports on its popular we round up one of its key ingredients has been linked to come 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 in the world health organization labeled ron dollops main ingredient full state as potentially carcinogenic to humans on the animals last month health officials in california

also said it could cause cancer monsanto's promos though paint a different picture but what about the main active ingredient. is it harmful regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved place the state based products like the state is applied to once absorbed it travels to the roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans precise effective and proven. the newly revealed documents which surfaced during a court case against monsanto show that concerns among staff about the product safety go back many years here is some all of them monsanto back in two thousand and three a scientist for the organization told a colleague that quote you can not say roundup is not a carcinogen because the necessary to carry died two years before another route of serious concerns about testing the weed killer the months on to e-mails all sort of

feel contact with a science consultancy firm called inter tech about editing research with among some two scientists the remailed sure writer from the business magazine forbes requesting a high quality drop from months on to before writing an article on roundup and marie miller was later fired for ghostwriting to. play the risk associated with the project and even harvey put the revelations two months on to 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 gave him no orders whatsoever as to what he needed to write 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 authorship we call that

ghost writing and it is unethical what was he referring to there in terms of ghostwriting it was a complete misunderstanding. and it was resolved with appropriate full tribunal authorship 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 that 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 roundup has actually caused cancer there are question marks over maybe guy for say the self isn't cancer in juicing but perhaps the actual product how do you respond to that claim well the only other ingredients roundup is put together with two to two completely round up

formulation is what's called a search has been studied extensively neither one of those have to be cancer causing agents. lawyer and author of the upcoming book law vengeance mike a pun tonio believes the u.s. government knew about the dangers associated with roundup. 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 is been going on since one thousand nine hundred 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. the british computer hacker credited with stopping minatory a swarm of christ sign for a time because allegedly admitted to police that he created. were designed to steal banking details marcus hutchens was arrested at the hocking conference in las vegas and could 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 kronos

virus which spreads through e-mail attachments and steals banking details from infected computers his lawyers say he plans to plead not guilty attends became known for discovering a hidden kill switch in the woman crying sign for it it struck a. over one hundred fifty countries causing valcke in airports hospital of banks and other infrastructure back in may it work by encrypting data on infected computers making them inaccessible and then demanding a ransom some three hundred dollars worth of bitcoin buttons work in stopping one of christ saw him labeled a hero. people so inundated with mass just thanking me saying i'm a hare i mean i so just ready for this to maine for tracking and i didn't intend for it to sort of blow up on me to be away from the media i was just doing my job and i don't really think that i'm a hero to but former cia analyst john kerry believes the hikers 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 twenty five minutes past eight this summer leaving here in moscow i'll be back at the top of the hour stay with our team know if your programming. really right in iraq at that. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter

we've earned one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just l a free market works. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society did from the whatever the government tried to do both at nestle maybe. it might be making things worse. by saying this is

not work this is goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. modellers ario filling in for lindsay france you're watching broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. coming up under fire the company is constantly think all the vehicles after one catches fire with a driver inside and job jubilation we look at how july's jobs report beat expectations and what that means for the economy in terms of policies moving forward later guy high rents are kicking more people out on the streets how other international cities compare with the u.s. homelessness problem that. starts right now.

super is again catching heat this time for knowingly renting out defective cars to its drivers in singapore the ride sharing company was slow to pull the recalled cars off the road until one of them caught fire with a new driver inside luckily the driver was not hurt but it in a statement we could have done more when learning of the recall the wall street journal was the first to report this story seven months after the fire because car ownership is so pricey in singapore the company was having a hard time attracting drivers so the country's operation bought a fleet of thousands of used cars and rented them out to drivers and some of the cars it buys are from grey market importers instead of dealership.