the syrian army and its allies say they've liberated the town of al who come on board to be the last i saw a stronghold in the country which is what comes next to syria once the caliphate completely gone. iran's president warns saudi arabia is still achieve nothing through threats in the latest escalation between the sides will look at how the middle east is becoming a geopolitical chess board for rivals we are until wrong. plus the cia director mike pompei out comes under fire for meeting an intelligence expert who believes the democratic party hat why do you blame don russia was in fact an inside job we speak to the experts at the center of the story. i do believe

the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from there it was very clear that it was a local download. and prosecutors revealed the true extent of a u.s. navy scandal with hundreds of officers and admirals accused of trading military secrets sex money and alcohol and they're being charged though not with espionage but with corruption. a warm welcome you're watching our c international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital with me. the syrian army stays together with allies it's liberated the last islamic state stronghold in the country abu kemal the town's a key crossing point on the country's border with iraq.

is that. kemal is the liberation forces from four states participate in the joint operation and the small pockets of territory in nearby villages now the main and it terrorist control tunnel hawkins has more on how this small town has become a crucial point in the fall and the idle caliphate why is this victory so significant well it's one of the very final steps of the end of the self-proclaimed color for it and an end to the flow of weapons and fighters across the border from iraq into syria now just two years ago islamic state controlled northern the heart of the country now is confined to just some desert areas villages and isolated pockets in syria and iraq now the town was captured by an amalgamation of different

forces there was heavy operations proceed in the final attack by the russian air force in the region as well. so let's take a look at some of the factions on the ground which participated in capturing that final stronghold the syrian army supported by militias and hezbollah attacked from the west communic ross the iraqi border and the popular mobilization units came from the south from the town of al qaim to support the syrian allies meaning the town was surrounded on these three sides it was very much a joint operation by multiple groups many people are asking what is next well as in northern parts of syria these developments bring rival forces in the region to wear

head the sea. army its allies as the air force is just slightly further north of this map here. of course backed up by the us as the syrian democratic forces an amalgamation of kurdish militias pushing in from the north the east these factions all have different interests unclear about washington how their support for the full evolved of to ourselves the feet there's a lot of negotiation compromise and reconciliation but the fear among many is that the end of the battle against maybe the start of new battles on other fronts within syria. staying in the region now and tensions between iran and saudi arabia are rising after a missile attack near riyadh airport launched by who flee rebels in yemen iran's president warned saudi arabia it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of iran that's after the saudis blamed toran for the attack joy you know the might and

position of this republic people more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the iranian people you're not strong enough to do that and there's widespread concern the ongoing and underreported proxy war between the two regional rivals could turn into a direct confrontation and is more it looks at how saudi arabia has been adding fuel to the fire recently barely a day seems to go by without saudi arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to it's arch enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis iran's evil influence. the truth the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire

a rocket at riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy and aggression. iran's role in its direct command of its hooty proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression the coalition's command considers this a blatant active military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia the saudis also ready to throw their allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of the balloon without warning declaring his resignation while launching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and

destruction. were over iran is present it plans discord and destruction of. interference in our countries in lebanon syria. yemen well i would like to say which iran and its followers that they will be losers in their. wake up in the past and they have time from the region because. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo severed ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for cata daring to deal with the uranium and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying their jihad just allies are losing an ass ad is winning this isn't what riyadh planned we hope that and expect that during the interim

period of the of the transition period bashar al assad will exit because he has absolutely no role to play in the future here and while syria. may have been expected the chip me to riyadh here in the saudis around picking up attacks on iran on other fronts truly this is an international game of chess with nations and populations at stake ironic given that last year saudi arabia's highest islamic cleric banned the chess saying that the game causes and miti and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geopolitical scale well it looks like he was right. political analyst pathway escobar believe saudi arabia is attempting to change the narrative in the region with this provocation saudi arabia is isolated in the new

new emerging new release the last in syria because of the feel of the dash project the last in iraq i was just back from by god and the talk in baghdad is about not vulcanization but about iraqi national unity they lost again with the blockade against gawker they're losing the war on yemen which is horrifying dense of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the us congress for that matter and using american weapons and nuclear weapons and now they're trying to change the narrative they're brave in the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving lebanon which is caught in the crossfire and is still is the same old story the saudi arabia yes the run and countries in the middle east saucer states are going to be caught in the crossfire i'm absolutely horrific situation that is collating very very fast. a german opposition party is considering legal action against a commander in charge of policing the g twenty summit in hamburg back in the summer

and he claims he broke german law by permitting the use of combat weapons when riots broke out piece all of it takes a closer look at the claims. where the g. twenty goes riots do tend to follow but the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year in homburg have been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they're not allowed to. was. was was going to. was this is the bit of kit in question the zed p one multi-purpose pistol during rioting that started on the sixth of july and run through till the eighth this particular weapon was used fifteen times to fire

a rubber bullets and sixty seven times to disperse tear gas canisters the police say it's a pistol and therefore they are allowed to use it however government documents that were leaked to the press here in germany seem to show that it is classified as a combat weapon and therefore shouldn't be deployed at public events the h.k. sixty nine an h k one sixty nine are considered grenades which are classified as war weapons by the war weapons list the company that manufactures it also doesn't classify it as a pistol when contacted by r t how bird police doubled down on their insistence that they were well within their rights to use the m. said p. one the facts have not changed and remain as follows when there is a press the limb accordance with size who eighteen part four of security in order act the operation was carried out in full compliance with the existing hamburg

regulations it was understood that for the summit the police hadn't intended to use rubber bullets or tear gas but after rioting raged out combat of. they changed the decision to employ the p. one has seen his from the opposition left party consider legal action against the police chief for breaching weapons act. regulations what can we do instant through students to meet and walk along the. forbidden you would see that. it was local. against the german. to use it. and i think that is an abuse which. is the. repercussions from the violence seen at this year's g. twenty continue to rumble on long after many have forgotten what world leaders

actually gathered at the g twenty to discuss in the first place. now russia's media watchdog says it will respond like for like if restrictions are brought against russian outlets in the u.s. it comes in response to a proposal put forward in washington targeting russian media with more i'm joined here in the studio by r.t. jacqueline vica thanks for coming in jacki now what prompted this statement from russia's communications watchdog well this warning comes in reaction to a point contained in the national defense authorization act for next year which congress is currently reviewing in which it is proposed that cable and satellite providers may not be required to carry video content that is own controlled or funded by the kremlin meaning that providers would be able to decide for themselves whether or not to show such content and of course it is important to really or reiterate that this bill has yet to be approved and it only says that providers may

not be required or channel would fall under those permit parameters and we have never tried to hide the fact that we do receive funding from the russian government but that. reality has put us as a point of focus for a number of investigations in the us into allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election even our activity on social media has been a point of scrutiny twitter even went as far as to block all of our ads not even not just the political ones even with no warning whatsoever and in general our channel has just been attacked left and right by us politicians with many of them saying that our content is fake news and should be restricted and of course r.t. has strongly denied all of those accusations saying that they're really just coming from points of politics and not facts and do seemingly neverending what else was there in that document while it's legislation that specifies the budget for the u.s. department of defense and hefty sums are contained in there the cap overall is seven

hundred billion dollars for national defense and they even point out in there that's in fact twenty six billion or more that trump even asked for by given that it's a defense document it should come as no surprise that there is a whole page dedicated to russia under the heading of countering russian aggression and in that section huge sums of money are proposed to be dedicated to a number of fronts from authorizing bills to reassure america's nato allies in europe from the threat of russia seeing an upgraded version of the information war against russia. to support. the suv it was before the information war against russia was carried out only on a media level media pressure misrepresentation of russia's actions to take syria will ukraine is an example and also on the level of fake news because drew instant c.n.n. and then the new york times carried out campaigns about trump so-called links to russian authorities but then we face

a new phase of the information when administratively legal resources are being involved that happened in the u.s. we know that he was ordered to register as a foreign agent i call it informational mccullum theism. state institutions get involved to limit the activities of the media outlets because it's not for political reasons it will see if they need it because there are mixed messages on whether friday's talks between presidents putin and trump will take place we'll discuss that off the show break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington media the media. and voters elected a businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business

as usual it's business like it's never been done before. hello welcome back now that's confusion and potential meeting between donald trump and putin this friday in vietnam the u.s.

secretary of state denied any such encounter was on the cards that's right off of the russian president's office confirms to me saying the trying to explain so on the one hand we have a lot of our putin's foreign policy adviser confirming that the second who can trump the meeting will take place here in vietnam on friday nov tenth on the other hand we have the u.s. secretary of state saying that there has been no agreement on the face to face meeting yet rex tillerson also added that the american side is still figuring out whether there is sufficient substance for a formal meeting so one could only guess what's going on between the two administrations right now and what is the reason for that much contradiction well anyway if or when the two leaders meet here and don vietnam this is valid to become the number one story at the apec summit twenty seventeen the first

time mr trump and vladimir putin met each other. there was at a different some at the g. twenty in hamburg that was when the talks lasted three times longer than expected back then rex tillerson said that no one could make the two presidents stop including milady a trump bilateral relations were in a terrible state they are still right now but things did come out of these talks for example progress in the serious cease fire and also the deescalation zones will tromp and who bring up syria this time if they meet most likely yes then enormous difficulties in how washington and moscow are getting along with each other allegations of russian meddling everyone here is almost sure that somehow this will surface was ukraine and north korea donald trump has been touring east

asia and of course we understand that the two presidents right now must have many things to say to each other and hear from each other about the north korean crisis so we're all waiting for it when it happens and we'll be keeping an eye on both president trump and president putin here and done on vietnam. cia director mike pump aoe is under fire for a meeting a former intelligence official ever lost his alleged time the democratic party and u.s. intelligence community has been laying the blame for the hike on most is being revealed a pump a i met with william binney a former national security agency official in late october of donald trump's request but he believes the alleged attack of the democratic national committee was in fact an inside leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee he also coauthored a memo to the president on the issue engine line well here's

a reminder of how events unfolded announced by a cyber security firm working for the d.n.c. in june two. and you sixteen now suppose that hank was blamed on two russian linked groups but the next day an anonymous hacker goose of a two point zero claimed responsibility this has not been confirmed by the d.n.c. later he also took credit for a breach in july and at the end of that month wiki leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails when my colleague neil harvey spoke to william binney who believes a foreign hand couldn't have had anything to do with it. i didn't believe the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth so i went through the technical data that we is the veteran intelligence professionals who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from there it was very clear that it was a local download because of the speeds and all i mean we've even tried to transfer data across the atlantic through the web. and see what speeds we could achieve the

most we got was like twelve megabytes per second and you needed at least thirty eight megabytes just to pass the data not counting housekeeping so that meant that the capacity was about one fourth the one eighth of what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example i want to challenge you on this one because i read that one of the members of you're kind of team that was working on this. they disagreed with you but they weren't so convinced and i mean convinced that this was definitely the case that this had to be a download is it's not possible to transfer that speed the best we got was from a data center in new jersey to a data center in the u.k. and the best was twelve megabytes per second that's what i said was one fourth the one eight the necessary capacity to transfer that data at the rate it was download so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze find but so far they produced absolutely nothing back in twenty thirteen william binney was

a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed previously violations of the n.s.a. spying program then c.n.n. described him as a whistle blower well that's our sixth story but now they're branding him a conspiracy theorist binney and sal says the channel uses labels instead of actual evidence. they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation of gender driven stuff for over a year now and it would be kind of difficult to go back off that so but i mean to me it basically shows the the shallow weakness of the argument when you have to throw labels at people instead of dealing with any factual evidence in fact the f.b.i. knows a lot more about this than are telling anybody so it is n.s.a. but they're not saying it either so and they're not telling that this is information i'm getting from other sources i don't have it substantiated but they need to come forward and say exactly what they've got so far they've not done the.

colossal bribery and fraud has ingolf the u.s. navy has according to prosecutors in the so-called facts led case has now revealed the true extent of the scandal four hundred forty personnel have been indicted including more than sixty admirals and scores of offices all of them are accused of sharing secret information in return for bribes such as alcohol and prostitutes but is being treated as fraud not espionage while the identities of the people implicated are being held back supposedly to avoid jeopardizing the investigation the release of such information would likely reveal sensitive details about the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases article of more pics planes how the terms espionage and corruption at pittsburgh been swapped in this inquiry. but what did they do well allegedly they were seduced by leonard francis a.k.a.

fat leonard he offered them booze parties luxury hotels and cash in exchange for information about where u.s. navy ships were going in the pacific ocean he did this in order to earn contracts now fat leonard aka leonard francis is the san diego jail so giving away military information launched an inquiry into corruption now these navy officers admitted to giving away ship schedules and they pleaded guilty to bribery but leaking and giving up classified government information under u.s. law isn't called bribery it's called espionage why is the espionage act not being applied to corrupt navy officers christian saucer took some photos with his cell phone in a classified area of a u.s. nuclear submarine nobody paid him anything and he didn't leak them to anyone he simply lost his cell phone well he ended up getting sentenced to a year in prison now his mother thinks her son got a raw deal in two thousand and nine there was no cell phone ban on submarines at

that time technology was new and didn't catch up maybe hadn't caught up yet and i really have no doubt in my mind that it was a twenty two year old guy that wanted to make it out of where he worked yeah we were ready to took pictures and so will grow louder now when it comes to whistleblowers who reveal u.s. forces killing civilians or the n.s.a.'s massive surveillance it doesn't take long for them to be charged with espionage. months later i started with the agency where you we're at the time forty two.

so it looks like photographers without malintent and whistle blowers get hit with stiff penalties but if you're a good old boy in the u.s. navy brass and you trade military secrets for sex and cash well it looks like the stiff penalties just don't apply killam up and artsy new york when he would out he would love to hear your thoughts on the day stories that do get in touch by following us on facebook on twitter and i'll be back in about half an hour with the latest headlines join me then.

we'll willingly accepted the real sick of being shot wounded taken prisoner but new first signed up to be poisoned by our own people of sea stuff that was leaked or biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government. that there was any connection between burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to

compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about their own this is from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send of the growth and they don't want to pay it so the way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay. all growth and get the military or the movies in the bottle or the. delayed and then i hope you don't. i'm lindsey francis is the bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up to eighty five billion dollar deal could be a real jeopardy reports are coming in at the eighteenth tee time warner deal could be off the table if they don't agree to sell certain media properties and eight hundred million dollars that is how much the coffers of the saudi government stands

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