what they do and they do nothing. north korea threatens to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific just hours after washington slapped the state with yet more sanctions. i. learned demanding the release of a dozen regional officials arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown over the upcoming illegal independence referendum. and almost ninety percent of syria is now we from islamic states according to the latest figures from the russian defense ministry but the country faces a long road to recovery after suffering the horrors of war. and show exploded and

killed many innocent people including children the result has been. watching international live from moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program north korea has threatened to test a powerful nuclear weapon in the pacific ocean saying it comes in response to escalating military talk from washington the north korean foreign minister says it could be the most powerful detonation of a hydrogen bomb pacific region has ever seen he added that the final decision had not yet been taken and will come from the country's leader. you know when it came just hours after donald trump announced they will be a new round of sanctions against pyongyang however the russian foreign minister speaking at the un general assembly stressed that sanctions are just the quote

provisions to return to the negotiating table. but i am announcing a new executive order just. that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea the little ones who are we strongly condemn the rockets and nucular adventurism of pyongyang in violation of un security council resolutions but the pressure of military hysteria is not just a dead end and a destructive path there's no doubt all resolutions of the un security council should be fulfilled day long with sanctions continued provisions for the need to return to negotiations we call for a halt to the blocking of these provisions it's appalling meanwhile world leaders are calling on the u.s. to stop pushing its own agenda on the international stage caleb maupin explains as world leaders gathered for the united nations general assembly we heard the foreign

minister of germany slammed trump for is national ego as and warned against pursuing the interests of just one country you know of the country first known leads to more national compensation and less prosperity in then there will be losers. looking around the world today it seems there will be which puts one's own national interests first and is no longer engaged in the balancing of winches between nations and countries of this world is even more. national and is worthless as a true principle for a world for this world vs describes the world as in the marina a can of ground which everyone is fighting against everyone else and which everyone has their own interests sigler gabriel was speaking in response to donald trump's america first rhetoric as president of the united states i will always put america first meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed the need for

diplomacy on north korea and stir the pressure and threats we've been hearing from the trumpet ministration they will be met with fire fury things will happen like they never thought possible and the united states seems to be out there on their own when it comes to the iran nuclear deal donald trump called it one of the worst and most one sided transactions that the united states has ever entered into france things differently. i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran are engaged went on nonproliferation allowed us to work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great era this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control multi-lateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward the united states likes to present itself as the leader of the free world but if you

look at this year's general assembly speeches it seems like the free world is a little bit reluctant to follow washington's lead. r.t. new york. to catalonia now where thousands have gathered outside a court in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen officials. a crackdown against the upcoming. vote on independence. well. my god. yeah but yeah. protesters chanted pro referendum on independence slogans the vote on whether catalonia should stay part of spain is set for october the first the central government opposes them in every way and has deployed a wide range of measures to prevent the vote taking place we had differing opinion from a political analyst from that region probably and it's like this from both levels.

based referendum it's our legal it's against the law. of the of the regional law that is suspended by the highest court in a spain it was. young it was only of the house of the original parliament some of the termination democracy is legal we have voted with absolute majority of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with them or cressy they will have to justify it to international community because these madness natale government members being arrested private people that they all know warehouse they are being arrested and they're being questioned here not only against the spanish law and they're being revelations it's even against. most important things right now.

to restore the order there on the law we're not going to step back we will talk with all the international committee. with which we already have thousands of treaties the main places that they are things and they are business is the rest of the country so. business in qatar on your without the rest of the country they are they are down do anything so that this. is not forcing anything catalonia is a dynamic contrie with gives a net result to the european. europe we are not defeated to terry and we are once a most exploited the ones i've received the most international investment there is not compromise on their offer and whom they have to drop. to leave the referendum bar because not the reform is not going anywhere catch on an asian nation it was

all. three hundred years ago they didn't they got it cheap when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending dad mistake and from street protests and politics the issue of catalan independence now spilled over into sports. i don't want to see it i believe that we're much better together the stronger we are here today to make it clear that i'm first looked over we are going to war to refer to decide our future we'll hold you've been told the spine is just a doesn't want us to. try to reach an agreement eighteen times in the answer has always been. one of europe's biggest football clubs f.c. barcelona is condemning the recent raids and arrests in the region along with madrid overall crackdown on the referendum the team's motto more than

a club reflects catalan nationalism and its supporters use it to promote the independence movement there even a chance of independence during every game when the clock which is seventeen minutes and fourteen seconds a reference to the year seventeen fourteen when spain defeated catalan forces and took over the territory. the i is a little surprised to learn his bid for freedom has the backing of a number of other regions in europe where talk of succession is strong one of which is scotland. i think it's of can say in any year is for a state to seek to deny the rate of people to democratically express their will and the right of self-determination is an important international principle and i who very much that it will be respected in catalonia and if we did a survey and there's a chance for glaswegians to stand with the people of council want to go. on the

basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on cartoon independence the catalonian people themselves should be the ones who have the big to choose the future course of the country i feel very proud and that's well very moved to see scottish people especially glaswegian people living for a year to see that demonstrate in favor of the government process that we're leaving that we shall have a referendum we will cover a friend and that we will we will bode. very moved to saying that. in fact catalonia has pushed for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's succession it howled a referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent of the population voted against leaving the however following the break of twenty sixteen when a majority of scots went against the national decision to leave the e.u. talk of the new referendum emerged again while we discussed both scottish and

castle and calls for independence with scottish columnist leslie. for the casual arms and for the scots the case is being made as an aspiring saying these are nations who want to become states now do you tend to think as an onlooker what else can the catalans do if their attempt to even have a vote is resulting in such heavy handed approaches so it looks like it will be in practical terms it may be impossible to halt but the question is what next. almost ninety percent of all syrian territories that are liberated from islamic states these are the latest figures from the russian defense ministry on the ongoing battle against the terrorists since the beginning of their campaign two years ago russian air forces have destroyed almost one hundred thousand terrorist positions in their strikes russian fighter jets have conducted more than thirty thousand flights one of the main battles in syria is now ongoing and there is saw

west syrian troops backed by moscow a trying to eliminate remaining pockets of terrorists are to travel to the city to talk to people who lived for three years and i saw siege. i have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly once in the last few months shell exploded in killed many innocent people including children the result has been soaked in blood. and i would play with them i would push them and trust them i was like a mother and a father to go but only both died. when i went outside for grandma to buy food and that simple my mother she was sick she

had a strong going to heart attack when i went out i was in. juba shall blast what can i do now i used to do all the housework and stand in line to buy food now i can only see and cry. over back in a couple of minutes just after this break. most

people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. welcome back to the program with the german general election two days away news outlets a dubbing it one of the most boring campaigns in memory especially after the fireworks

of the vicious french campaign just months ago and many were waiting for of ports of russian meddling to just to spice things up artie's peter picks up the story we're into the final stages of this german federal election but one question keeps popping up with the question suppose to interfere in this. expectations that russia would try and meddle in the german vote haven't been met but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been interference the house just hasn't come from moscow german researchers say they've tracked down online trolls who've been posting attacks against angle or merkel and other leading german candidates

while putting online and promoting support for the anti immigration alternative for germany party a lot of the stuff we've seen in germany can be or at least inspired by the right movements in the us the german cabinet meets every wednesday morning just behind me and after this week's meeting the interior minister came out and sounded almost disappointed that they haven't uncovered a russian plot to the ferrous the fiddle in this year's federal elections. we didn't see that putin has meddled in the election campaign maybe they didn't try maybe it's still common since mr seems to think that the time is possible for her to see should look into the german government's own election software since it apparently only took warner i t enthusiastic not too long to find holes in it. we have found several fundamental errors in the p.c.

will serve to have tasted food through july twenty seven c. including insufficient protection of the services and lack of encryption the transmitted results the weaknesses and how an influence an election results in various attacks naruse. don't trump became the president of the united states of america russia was accused of having meddled in the selection these are patients against russian meddling in is going on and you know all even if you're going to lecture but the question is if a war polls on they are all fair or not the opportunity to choose is much higher than in the computer software program. the state computers there are some weak points really helped us to do. with fewer than two days to go before polls open fear mongering over a russian hacker if the election come to nothing perhaps with this election being

something of a foregone conclusion it's no wonder that we've seen conspiracies and fantasies about foreign intervention and interference being a little more interesting and more exciting to pitch than talking about the race itself peter all of our. latest polls show that two parties are on the local scene and lawton chiles has a steep elite the race how the third place could play kingmaker should that be a minority government currently dating for a third is alternative to generally known for its stick in the place and policies where we discuss the party's popularity in an exclusive interview with the german foreign minister. in. the german parliament has never given the floor either in bonn or in berlin to people who promote nazi propaganda i think it will change once again not all members of the f.d.a. and not all of their voters and nazis but you have to be aware of the fact that

some of the party leaders do have those ideas and they want to encourage other people to act in a particular way it is not just alexander garland there are other people who have lived of the state who get a state pension and are now pitting the people against the government we know it can happen and it is happening right now it is outrageous there are also people with really dark intentions there are people who will not work for the peace of our country or europe we need to talk about it out loud. i was in it. and i would like to refer to a quote by hillary clinton who wants called half of trump's voters a basket of deplorable. to have a concern that by talking in this way you only mobilize those people that we saw that in the us people responded to such statements in the following way you know it is not true and i will vote for them anyway. first of all i think we need

to stop pretending that the issue doesn't exist voters need to act responsibly to you can say i want to live in the country use the opportunities provided by the democratic system and then disappointed by something vote for politicians who will destroy democracy unlike other countries this nation had prior experience of what could happen if these people become part of society i have never seen an election campaign like this one before with so much for us at even violence when members of democratic parties are exposed to verbal and sometimes physical attacks during door to door campaigning the country is in good shape and we want to keep it that way we do not want discordant division here are my two major points we must expose the real intentions behind the ideology of people like beer and hooka and at the same time talk to us citizens about their concerns i've always argued that germany is facing the challenge of a dual integration we need to help refugees settle down here and at the same time

unite people who already live here shouldn't create the impression that the authorities are doing everything for one group of people and nothing for the other i think angle merkel made a major mistake when she refused to back the idea of a minimum level of pension benefits it is something our nation needs then i would be able to tell those communities that are seeing a wave of refugees we will compensate your expenses regarding refugees will also provide the same amounts for your own residence we need to pay to improve our schools health care and child protection services so that people do not have a false impression your thirties have forgotten about them but there is one thing we cannot agree on we cannot downplay the threat of what is happening in the mines and unfortunately hearts of some of the f.t.'s leadership this is a dangerous path for the country. facebook has agreed to release to congress data about adverse bought by russia made the ongoing

investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in their twenty sixteen u.s. election. we were actively working with the u.s. government on its ongoing investigations into russian interference we've been investigating this for many months now and for a while we had found no evidence of counseling to russia and look to russia running ads i directed our team to provide the ads we've found to congress as well now as a general rule we're going to be limited in what we can discuss publicly about ongoing law enforcement best occasions so we may not always be able to share all of our findings publicly but we support congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public and we expect the government to publish its findings when their investigation is complete expert claimed it discovered three thousand paid political which could have links to russia they cost one hundred thousand dollars in total and report between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen the

company adds all the purchased advertisement is a link to quote in authentic accounts we discuss the latest with encrypted server found chris kits. well they're running out of time they can't prove anything that russia did anything with the with the american election so they're obviously trying to you know put some news out there to make to try and keep the story alive well they're contributing to the russian hysteria there you know there's two sides to this there's president trump and then there are the other people and the other people lost power they were surprised they lost the election and now what they're trying to do is get back at president trump it's just that simple and what's happening now is they're finding that their whole russian story fell apart right in front of their eyes because there was nothing there and now they're trying this so it's going to be it's another bit of nothing they may try and use this is a way to try and regulate people like matt drudge or other with news websites to say well you're accepting ads from you know potentially from foreign people but you know there's no way that

a news website really even knows who the advertisers are. a black woman from texas who criticize a shopping center for being racially insensitive has now found herself at the center of the race storm danielle a rider wrote this book a facebook post office saying cotton used as a decoration in a high street store she complained that cotton represents the hardship of african-american slaves and therefore should be removed from display however her post sparks such a strong reaction she blocked her social media account. what is really wrong with my post is the reaction that is receiving from the past the nation that i have to block by page because my facebook page has turned into. a feeling of burning racism . a group of black students also found of friends when cotton was used as a table decoration at a dinner hosted by the university's president he later apologized for the instance saying he should have been more sensitive although many questioning just how far

a fence to go. you know slaves at a lot of different things days nurses they wash dishes do pate accountancy bacco turnip greens mostly greens the whole thing is just silly because if you follow that chain of thought then everything that you pretty much use on daily basis would not be able to be using the more if you're a white person you know these days you get called a racist as where you stand being called a murderer or anything else an average black person is just being honest about it is really silly is just a flower it's not anything racist what i think is races av

a high bar for actually what's being a racist if you are using racial slurs or you try to deprive someone of opportunity i think that americans need to kind of up our bar as well because it erases in that received. your facebook twitter and of course our website. i'll be back at the top of the alice so stay with us. at the united nations u.s. president donald trump described his vision of foreign policy as principled a realist he also tried to convince the gathering of the general assembly that his idea of america first is compatible with this vision nonetheless he sees the world no differently than his predecessors. this was the with me.

but i you. know both of us but i guess sort of kind of this side of this is for. syria. where the abu he will get up to six good area for immigrants it's. never really know for sure but this has been a active area. yet . enough well. donald trump teases about the fate of the iran nuclear deal while iran promises the

united states will pay a high cost for walking away from the agreement the latest on this edition of all the. politicking on larry king before we begin we wish you a happy new year it to all of our friends of the jewish faith myself included so happy new year to myself and all of our viewers on wednesday president trump told reporters that he's made a decision about the future of the iran nuclear agreement but he declined to say what that decision is i'll let you know is all he said to reporters who asked for details in his speech before the u.n. general assembly on tuesday mr trump blasts of the iran deal as an embarrassment for. the united states iran's president responded by saying the united states will pay a high cost if it walks away from the deal which was the negotiated by the obama administration

so what is mr trump's end game and where do both countries go from here let's talk about that with robert c. o'brien one of my favorite guests former u.s. representative to the u.n. general assembly during the george w. bush administration he was also senior adviser to the presidential campaigns a bit romney and scott walker and he's the author of while america slept restoring american leadership to a world in crisis he joins me here in los angeles what do you make of all this well good to be with you on a happy new year as well and look i thought the president gave a very hard hitting speech at the u.n. i think it's one of the best speeches of his presidency frankly he came in and did three things that i as a former representative of the at the u.n. who sat in those chairs and listen to other world leaders a he complimented the u.n. on things that was doing well dealing with refugees for example and the new sanctions on north korea.