it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. north korea threatens to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific just hours off the washington slapped the state with yet more sanctions. i. learned demanding the release of a dozen regional officials arrested by spanish authorities madrid calls catalonians upcoming independence referendum illegal. and almost ninety percent of syria is now free from islamic state according to the latest figures from the russian defense ministry but the country faces a long road to recovery after suffering the horrors of. show exploded in many

innocent people children need to. be watching altie international live from almost coast today with me in a day or two to welcome to the program north korea threatened 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 the pacific region has ever seen he added that the final decision has not yet been taken and will come from the country's leader. the announcement came just hours after donald trump promised 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. that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea and the little man went to repeat we strongly condemn the rockets and nucular adventurism of pyongyang you can violation of un security council resolutions but the pressure of military history is not just a dead end and a destructive path there is no doubt all resolutions of the un security council should be fulfilled day long with sanctions continued provisions for the need to return to the goetia we call for a halt to the blocking of these provisions which the north korean leaders branded donald trump a gangster and a road in response to the present speech at the un general assembly adding the time son fit to be a leader and the scale of more panics planes many of the heads of state also

criticized the american approach. as world leaders gathered for the united nations general assembly 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 our engagement 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 and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed the need for diplomacy on north korea and stern of 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 we heard the foreign minister of germany slammed trump for his national ego and warned against pursuing the interests of just one country you know the country needs 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 when choose between nations and countries of this world is gaining even more ground national is worthless as a principle for a world for this world vs describes the world as in the reno account of the ground which everyone is fighting against everyone else and which everyone has their own interests 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. the u.s. representative to the un nikki haley has admitted to washington doesn't care about the nation's opinions and only does what it wants but global policy expert georgism really believes such policies a doomed to failure first let's listen to exactly what haley had to say. it has never moved us to care about what other countries say what does move the president is are we doing everything in the best interest security interest for the american people saying what she said she's expressing a kind of us. in which you don't just say it's just does whatever it feels like doing it it will not be restrained by any forces at all of course this is completely idiotic because you know it's just simply isn't strong enough big enough to be able to have its own way on everything international cooperation requires

everybody to be on the same page and work on the same script and try to achieve the same objectives. over to catalonia now where thousands have gathered outside a court in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials had been arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown against the upcoming photon independence which winter it calls illegal . a. well. i i. protest is chanted pro referendum and pro independence slogans the vote on whether catalonia should stay part of spain is set for october the first the central government opposes the move in every way and has deployed a wide range of measures to prevent the vote taking place. in the latest move daily fines of up to twelve thousand euro have been imposed by spain's constitutional

court on top officials for every day they continue will be nice in the referendum it means officials will have to pay at least sixty thousand in total if they refuse to back down before the vote on october the first we heard differing opinions on the issue from a political analyst from a traitor and a pro independence activist from bath alone now. the 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 that operation which was the only of the house of the original parliament some of the terminations democracy is legal we have voted with our absolute majority of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with them or proceed they will have to justify it to international community because this madness natale

a government members being arrested private people that they all know where house they are being arrested and then being questioned here not only against the spanish law on the european relations it's even against the. most important things right now they have to restore their order their under law in dr ian. 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 selling their things and their business is the rest of the country so. business in catalonia without the rest of the country they are they all can do anything so that is an important thing and madrid is not forcing anything catalonia is a dynamic can treat with and gives

a net result to the european europe we are not deficit terry and we are once a most export and i want to receive the most the international investment. there is not compromise on the referendum they have to drop that idea and to leave the referendum back because. that the reform is not going anywhere catching on as a nation it was all right to be three hundred years ago they didn't they got it when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake. it's little surprise catalonia is bid for freedom has the backing of a number of other regions in europe where talk of succession is strong one of which in scotland i think is of concern anywhere is for a state to seek to deny the rate of people to democratically express their will at

the rate of self-determination is an important international principle and i hope 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 and stand with them on the basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on catalonia independence the catalonian people themselves should be the ones who have the right 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 have been living for a year to see that they 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 vote for you i'm very moved to saying that in fact catalonia is push for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's an attempt to go it alone it held a referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving however following the braggs that vote of twenty sixteen when

a majority of scots went against the national decision to leave the talk of the new referendum emerged again we discussed both scottish and catalonia calls for independence with columnist let's leave it at. for the catalans 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 event haven't thought 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. with the german general election two days away news outlets stepping it of 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 reports of russian meddling to emerge 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 half and being 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 angular 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 movement 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 fair asli fiddle in this year's federal elections. we don'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 perhaps we 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 software dated fourth of 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 nauru's 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 parties. on martin short as. the race however a third place could play kingmaker should there be a minority government currently predicted to at that spot is alternative for germany or known for its strict anti immigration policies we discussed the f.d.a. and many other issues in an exclusive interview with the german foreign minister gabrielle. yeah gabrielle firstly thank you for one ring out by agreeing for

a second interview agreeing for a second interview is a big honor according to that spiegel yes that's how we would like to thank you can we take it as a step towards a tantrum between germany and russia. skipped the fact that i'm giving you an interview no i think we should get accustomed to having more media outlets covering german politics we also communicate with turkish channels and newspapers in germany many people watch russian channels so of course we should pay some attention to them to make sure german policies are expressed in their content i'm convinced that we do need a new day terms with russia despite some very complicated disputes of the crimea and the situation in ukraine we can't tackle global problems without working with russia that was just a short preview and you can watch the full version on r.t. dot com and tomorrow well begin our special coverage of the german election twenty

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strength of the european union was very detrimental for the development of local and regional economies and only if these economies are developed and. they recreate a livelihood for the people they will be in the final event see the stop of this i mean gratian from these countries. welcome back to the program only this half the problem is in breaking. just in from

syria the russian defense ministry says it submarines targeted tyrus in the province of idlib it adds they destroyed checkpoints unarmored vehicles of those who took part in the attempt to capture russian police two days ago in hama province the ministry said the rockets were fired from three hundred kilometers away. now almost ninety percent of all syrian territories now liberated from islamic state 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 killed more than fifty thousand tyrus russian fighter jets have conducted almost one hundred thousand airstrikes in over thirty thousand flights to eliminate terrorism in syria one of the country's main battles is now ongoing in derry saw where syrian troops backed by moscow are trying to eliminate remaining pockets of terrorists all to travel to the city to talk to people who lived there for three years and i still.

i have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly months in the last few months shell exploded in killed many innocent people including children it is or has been soaked in blood. that i would play with them i would push them and close them i was like a mother and a father took them but only of those two died. suddenly when i went outside the floor ramadan to buy food and medicine for my mother she was sick she had a stool going to heart attack when i went out i was injured by a shell must 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.

facebook has agreed to release to congress they throw about adverts or by russia as amid the ongoing investigation into alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen us election. we are 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 fake accounts like to russians going 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. facebook claims it discovered three thousand paid political ads which could have links to russia they cost one hundred thousand dollars in total and were bought between twenty fifteen and twenty seventy company ads all the purchased advertisements are linked to quote in authentic accounts. the kremlin has reacted to facebook's moves saying it has never placed any political adverts in social media we discussed the latest with encrypted service found chris' kids. well they're running out of time they can't prove anything that russia did anything bad 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 are 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. battered by hurricane harvey and the americans are now suffering the terrifying facts of a fresh well the storm the high winds and driving rain of how to commemorate there are already fouling the islands of pride to rico. gloria is the strongest hurricane to hit the territory ninety years it's already

left nineteen dead and dozens injured with hundreds of songs and stories the turks and caicos islands on the bahamas are expected to be the next victim however the area has weakened to a category two storm. and with one hurricane falling on the heels of another people are coming up with some rather surprising explanations from bad politics to divine intervention ati's samir khan reports. with natural disasters ravaging entire cities and driving millions from their homes some see them as a form of divine punishment i'm looking at all this and i'm saying here's a city that has boasted of its l.g. bt devotion its affinity for the sexual perversion movement in america their underwater. and most americans repent and this used to repent unless new orleans repent they will likewise perish that's the message that the lord jesus christ is sending home right now but if you don't buy into the divine punishment idea what

about the blame trump theory and see fall stands with p.r.c. to resist trump and his call him a manipulative racist administration how the whole say and katia i blame triumph of this hard the government will manipulate the weather to exterminate blacks even if they have to queue whites some hollywood celebrities have turned that around suggesting mother nature has an axe to grind with trouble that climate change is due to human activity and we continue to ignore it and the only voice that we really have us through voting. so. we voted and it was really startling. me watching these hurricanes now and it's really hard especially while promoting this movie not to. feel mother nature's rage ralph celebrities love making outrageous claims for attention but that's hardly what you'd expect from

a respected academic i don't believe in instant karma but it kind of feels like it for texas i guess since we're a red state we deserve some bad karma too right yet those who voted for him here deserve it as well can story a sociology professor was fired for tweeting that texans deserved hurricane harvey because they voted for donald trump and guess who else believes hurricanes and earthquakes are divine punishment. the islamic state well i just think it's absolutely i mean anybody who thinks that a hyper active hurricane season is anything new doesn't know how to do minor historical research i think there's been a growing trend i've noticed at least in america that this belief that whatever you like. or think or believe that you automatically hate the opposite entirely you're either this half or you're this half and you two are supposed to hate one another and so now we're at

a point where no matter what anybody believes or says even if it's a joke they're demonized by an entire group now it seems that when it comes to natural disasters rationality and common sense can be overridden so long as it serves their political agenda. and of course. we'll be here at the top of the way. at the united nations u.s. president donald trump described his vision of foreign policy as principled realist he also tried to convince the gathering of the general assembly that his idea of america first is compatible with his speech and none the less he sees the world differently and use predecessors.

is. the most. it was a. kind of. syria. where the who he will get a good area for immigrants it's this we've never really know for sure but this has been a active area. yet . you know. when i started no i. tease is about the fate of the iran nuclear deal while rand promises the united

states will pay a high cost for walking away from the agreement the latest on this edition of paula . politicking on larry king before we begin we wish you a happy new tear it to all of our friends of the jewish faith myself included so happy new year to myself as to will of 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 u.s. for details in his speech before the u.n. general assembly on tuesday mr trump blasted 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 seale brian 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.