the u.n. security council votes unanimously in favor of sweeping new sanctions against north korea in response to pyongyang is intensifying missile tests. the u.s. launches a war on government leaks often don't transferring 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.

live from moscow i'm resigning or could with your latest news here on r.t. international the un security council has unanimously approved new sanctions against north korea they will target and restrict north korean exports to other u.n. member states in key industries such as metals and food with the aim to dent the country's economy by around one billion dollars per year north korean nationals will also see travel limitations put in place and foreign investment blocked the resolution drafted by the us was in response to north korea's intensified missile tests. or russia's un representative has said the sanctions were needed to make north korea stop its program he stressed however that the sanctions should be the starting point for future dialogue with north korea. if you do not see the russian federation has agreed to the resolution on north korea we understand the need to

stop the nuclear program which is unacceptable for us which the newly implemented measures against north korea cannot be an end in themselves but rather an instrument to get the country into constructive talks. earlier we spoke to gregory illich member of the advisory board of the korea policy institute and richard baca regional director of the anti waltz a coalition about the new sanctions thinking in terms of dialogue no if anything from expire log even less likely than before but if you mean a factor of a clear imposing a collective punishment on the entire north korean population and bring about the economic collapse of north korea then i may be a factor of course unfortunately but if you want sanctions or thoughts recalling the inmates are. the only increase the likelihood of a conflict or increase the tension is at the very least very unfortunate actually the un security council has passed this resolution and i think you'd agree

misplaces the blame for the tension and the korean peninsula every year hundreds of thousands of south korean and tens of thousands of u.s. troops participate in military maneuvers in korea that are openly aimed at regime change in north korea they're rehearsing for regime change it's clear to anyone who's at all objective that north korea's nuclear program is meant as a deterrent they know without a doubt that they were to one ship first strike that they would be annihilated by the fire fire fire greater nuclear power of the united states. meanwhile the white house has announced a crackdown on intelligence and government leaks which have been seriously damaging to the child administration the culprits of being want to stop now 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 says the justice department has been pursuing about three times more leaks pandering the final years of the a bomb or administration and is not only government employees who could face prosecution the media may also be reform forced to reveal sources critics have slammed that as an attack on free speech but there are fears that some leaks could be putting national security at risk jacqueline dugard picks up the story. i think we have to stop both attorney general. as efforts are stepped up to root out those responsible and want to turn to violence 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 at an alarming and some say dangerous rate 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 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 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 all leaks are plugged and the damage can finally be mopped up. marty

washington d.c. . meanwhile former russian ambassador to the u.s. has the 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 word cast you have talked us through what we've learned he says that he still shocked and 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 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 or bargain about sanctions because we believe they were implemented in an illegal politically aggressive way to begin with. kislyak 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 why it 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 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 we also rush analyst and historian martin mccauley whether he believes mr kislyak comments will be taken into consideration by u.s. investigators. the problem is that in washington there's a very strong russian caucus and from the democrat side sometimes among the republicans and the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is positive about russia have a russian say something they don't believe it and. present trumps there's something about positive about russia to say that st louis shouldn't be saying that russia is . who we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately in washington now there's

an impasse you have in the ones that president trump who would like and his people they would like to improve roads and who russia. get things going and so on but congress is doing its best to ensure that relations with russia deteriorate. video has emerged showing the all of them off of a deadly air strike in yemen but due to its graphic nature it has been heavily edited and please be warned it is disturbing. it shows the bodies of a family being dragged from the 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 u.s. and saudi backed forces in yemen and al qaeda in the city is sada riyadh's coalition denies it was responsible saying they do not target civilians. well

reports have suggested that humanitarian groups cannot reach areas of yemen saudi arabia and its allies have restricted fuel supplies for head of the un's development program in the country says the outlook for the conflict is bleak because humanitarian organizations are being shut out another worrying aspect to the conflict is what's been called the world's worst outbreak of cholera it's already claimed the lives of nearly two thousand people since october due to contaminated food and water and there's little or no medical assistance for those who catch the disease. yemen 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 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 color under control the conflict in

yemen has been ongoing for over two years now it's left more than ten thousand civilian dead three million displaced and masses of people in dire need of help you know. that's what the modelling that will be there with a lot of. this is that you know there's a lot of these the limit of the sort of are. there. are. just after the break we have news from azerbaijan where an explosion has ripped through a dormitory building injuring dozens. chose

seemed wrong and. just don't hold. the baby to shape out just to get the ticket and. because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. i.

two azerbaijan now where an explosion has torn through a dormitory block in the east of the country resulting in a fire local media have reported that there have been fatal a tease although no exact numbers have been given yet medics say that twenty five people including one child are in hospital with most suffering from smoke inhalation the cause of the blast is currently on clay although authorities say the blaze has now been put out of course we'll continue to update you on this developing story as we have more. the taliban has been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan the mainly in the south of the country a series of assault over the past four days has seen dozens of people killed by soldiers and civilians despite 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 territories currently controlled or contested by the taliban. luckily. for me that far washington has provided millions of dollars to assist afghanistan in its fight against the terrorists however according to the special inspector general for afghanistan the u.s.

defense program has cost payers cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars while failing to achieve its goals president trump voiced his anger over the campaign during his latest meeting with generals and progress reports over the past couple of months have not been positive we are not winning in afghanistan right now we want an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate going on year sixteen now people are in 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 a 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 worked 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. now eight minus all still missing well over twenty four hours after a flood at a diamond mine in russia's far east water poured into an underground shelf with one hundred fifty one people trapped inside the rescue operation is ongoing kids a video showing a work of being rescued on saturday morning. over one hundred emergency services personnel well or involved in the rescue operation and they've been joined by volunteers and even some of those miners who have already been evacuated let's take a look at how the dissolve unfolded. the

. the company which owns the mine is called al rose or its one of the world's biggest diamond produces and mines most of russia's stones the acute your region was discovered to be diamond rich in the one nine hundred fifty s. in two thousand and nine the underground mine was established to extract diamond

bearing or it produces up to a million tons a year however the facility has constantly been hit by strong underground water currents but continuing to keep a watch on that rescue operation and of course we'll keep you posted on those missing miners. venezuela's newly elected and culture a virtual legislative body has been inaugurated as street violence in the country continues police in the capital deployed tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with angry opposition supporters on friday. ok. well that had provisional here but now we have two a parliament one parliament is dominated by the opposition are a parliamentary by name call of my lord of the opposition how smart. demonstrations

there were to your mind things will work out what they are going it's beautiful the most gracious but they're resold. usually by oh there's we in one hundred people who three people killed them or the start of the late march i don't see any understanding. is there are continuing their fifty's or maybe getting wars i think this will die down and die and so on both sides are entrenched wildfire the whole however out of the national guard by the along the earth side it's just you know it's a real. you know the news this hour secret documents show that the american biotech giant monsanto tried to influence media and science reports over its popular we kill or call round up one of its key ingredients 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 of life asserts potentially cost new genic to humans and animals last month health officials in california also said it could cause cancer monsanto's promos though paint a very different picture what about their main active ingredient. is it harmful regulatory agencies and more than one hundred sixty countries have approved play for state based products like the state is applied to bleat once absorbed it travels to their 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 are just some of them in two thousand and three a month sometimes scientist told a colleague that quote you cannot say roundup is not

a cough nugent because the necessary tests haven't been carried out two years before that another wrote of serious concerns about testing the we kill or the monsanto e-mails also reveal called tom typed 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 for a month before outing an article on round up henry miller who was later fired for ghost writing to downplay the risks associated with the product neil harvey put the revelations to him on santo executive. an academic can remember 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. aiden's and it was resolved with appropriate. 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 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

ingredient 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 you're watching r.t. international with me rosanna lockwood i'll be back with more news in just thirty minutes time stay with us. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that. fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as a species of endless and needless political theater politicians more than just celebrity are two ruling parties are in reality one party to corporate and those

who attempt to puncture this. breathless universe of fake news to sign the push through the cruelty and exploitation of the neo liberal or are pushed so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche but squeak we must. call the few we know. everyone in the world should experience phillida and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to a gesture. from the modern world come along for the ride.

for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests down a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel i've done are to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded and you'll get the straight talk in the same. your launching our team special report. that. basically everything that you think you know about civil society has broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. normalizing. we don't need people that think like this on a plane. this is an incredibly situation.

welcome to on contact today we discuss the collapse of the american traditional system with legal scholar dr khan the system in the fact is the only way you can retain even a semblance of freedom is to walk around with the rest of your life with a criminal record and that's called freedom. chris. our courts and law schools have become wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state they have abandoned the guiding principles of justice the judiciary and legal profession serve the needs of the one percent not the ninety nine percent the rule of law has been inverted that does not guard against the abuse of power but advances the interests of those with money power and influence our elected officials as ralph nader has pointed out have permitted the creation of a judicial system with secret law secret courts secret evidence secret budgets and

secret prisons all put in place in the name of national security attorney client privilege has been abolished and redacted published judicial decisions are released to the public hey b.s. corpus probable cause privacy and due process have been for many a race especially for the two point three million people railroaded into. our prison system without trial r t correspondent examines the collapse of the american judicial system. do you have faith the justice system is there to serve you the ballooning private prison industry wouldn't be possible without courts enthusiastically sentencing nonviolent offenders to time behind bars and things to regulations like the federal three strikes provision instituted by president clinton in one thousand nine hundred four and that dynamic has been officially codified let's look at the state of california as an example bipartisan policy adviser at the legislative and now.