iran's next year's presidential election in russia it was supposed to moscow's perceived meddling last year. the u.s. justice department demands r.t. america registers as a foreign agent before monday. iran's president warns saudi arabia it will achieve nothing through threats in the latest escalation between the sides we look at how the middle east's becoming a geopolitical chess board for rivals realize until iran. and prosecutors reveal the true extent of a u.s. navy scandal with hundreds of officers and admirals accused of trading military secrets for sex money and alcohol they're being charged though not with espionage

but with corruption. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital with me becky erin our top story this hour the u.s. is trying to sow divisions in russia ahead of march's presidential election well that's according to vladimir putin he says the moves in response to moscow is perceived to meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. ok well let's cross live now to. who joins me in the studio to tell us more now what exactly is fundamental putin's allegation i

found well he's making a connection to the upcoming olympics and the upcoming russian presidential election he says that in response to america perceiving russia having meddled in the election that they're trying to do the same here and what he's pointing out is that right now we're seeing another wave of accusations against russian plates of having used alleged doping in the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics and so what he's saying is that this second wave is sort of coming out of nowhere just before the russian presidential election he pointed out the fact that the i.o.c. the international olympic committee are really relies on its sponsors and advertisements and the majority of those sponsors and all that money is actually coming from the united states itself and that is just very suspicious that this this next wave is coming just one hundred days before the russian presidential election he went on to point out the fact that

a lot of the accusations that are coming out right now in the past week more russian athletes have been stripped of their medals and of their standings from the two thousand and fourteen olympics and you pointed out a lot of the evidence that in meddled with and that they were there for two years and there's no telling russian with those samples inst so anything could have happened and it's just not clear at all so that was another sort of this news just broke in the past an hour or so and very much so and of course that's nothing new right now the russian. the justice department in america has demanded that america register as a foreign ange agent and that came down a little while ago but the deadline is now by next monday and it's actually being said that. the head of our team america could be arrested if they don't comply that the bank accounts could be shut down if they don't comply so it's a very serious issue right now that obviously everyone's going to important to

reiterate of course that that they'll have the other kemal the towns the key crossing point on the country's border with iraq. border from iraq into syria. as the air force is just a lot of negotiation compromise and reconciliation but the fear among many is that the end of the battle against or maybe the start of new battles on other fronts within syria. saying in the region and tensions between iran and saudi arabia are rising after a missile attack near riyadh airport launched by healthy rebels in yemen iran's president warned saudi arabia it will it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of iran after the saudis blamed tauron for the attack joy you know the might and position of this law make republic people more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the iranian people you're not strong enough to

do that 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 its arch enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis see iran's evil influence. the huth 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 and 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 arraign eons and then going to saudi arabia and out of the blue without warning declaring his resignation while launching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were of iranian prison to plant discord and destruction of.

interference in our countries in lebanon syria. yemen well i would like to say it was the iran and its followers that they would be losers in the. wake of because in within 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 cattle daring to deal with the rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying their jihad allies are losing an asse ad is winning this isn't what riyadh planned we hope that and expect that during the interim period of the fall of the transition period but said will exit because he has

absolutely no role to play in the future here and while syria. may have been expected the chick meted riyadh here in the saudis a ramping 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 has highest islamic cleric banned chess saying that the game causes and mateen and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geo political scale well it looks like he was right. political analyst pat they ask about believes saudi arabia is attempting to change the narrative in the region with its provocation saudi arabia is isolated in the new nie emerging you'll be the least they've lost in syria because of the feel of the dash project the last thing 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 got there they are losing the war only yemen which is horrifying with tens of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the us congress for that matter and use the american weapons and nuclear weapons and now they're trying to change their narrative their brain in the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving lebanon which is caught in the crossfire and it still is the same old story the saudi arabia against the run and countries in the middle east saucer states are going to be caught in the crossfire. to rumble on long enough but the beautiful guys are great so what more chance for. peace is going.

welcome back there's confusion of a potential meeting between donald trump and lot of a pit in this friday in vietnam the u.s. secretary of state has denied any such encounter was on the cards with us right off to the russian president's office confirmed the meeting trying to explains so on the one hand we have a lot of our putin's foreign policy adviser confirming that the second putin trump meeting will take place here in vietnam on friday november 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's some formal meeting so one can 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 bound to become the number one story at the apec summit twenty seventeen the first time mr trump and vladimir putin met each other was at a different some at the g. twenty in hamburg that was when the thomas talks for example progress in the syria cease fire and also the deescalation zones will tromp and putin 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 plus ukraine and north korea donald trump has been touring east asia and of course we understand that the two presidents right now ma. have many things to say to each other in here

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welcome to worlds apart the vast bulk of international crises has created a situation in which humanitarian commitments increasingly look more like you told me and ideals and legal obligations faced with meager budgets and the need to help more and more people it's easier to just look the other way or push the problem to a neighbor what does it take not too well to discuss that i'm now joined by francesca rocket the newly elected president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies well mr olcott thank you very much for your time and congratulations on the election thank you thank you very much it's probably the worst time to be in charge of the i.f.r. c given both the growing scope of humanitarian needs and the man's challenge of securing the funding to meet them why would you even want these kind of job but let

me clarify for us all that this is not our job. here paul starr and i am a volunteer i'm not paid for my position i've been a volunteer and in my national sales idea for many years this is a this is a passion for fashion for humanity try to improve. the way in which we need to get there and for me these is my always my priority and i having the owner in there is for somebody to do it in the most important most relevant we're going to your money toward it's really well mr rocca because it's a volunteering effort how do you keep your face in what you're doing alive seeing the misery and the violence the suffering proliferated to an extent they have been for the past decade or so yet but for as this is it's like a mission i am not the. we won seventeen million so people that i've decided to

dedicate their life to to set of humanity their legacy over to you and our legacy oh of course. it's a question to sacrifice part of our work time and i mean really the first. prize and these are our families our fields this is where this will be my my role in the next four years now mr oakley i know you rely on volunteers but you also have to work with local actors including local governments and i may be cheapest a mistake but it's a common view here in moscow that the so-called international community has no problem coming together to create problems like the ones we observe in the middle east or north africa but it's very very rarely joins hands in order to solve and i being too negative. if i look at the capacity of. the international community and they go on to fix the problem that are causing so many suffering of course there is nothing to be optimistic but if you look of the

capacity of you money to each human beings do. you believe you but.