lattimer putin says the u.s. is attempting to create problems around next year's presidential election in russia comes in response to moscow's perceived meddling last year. the u.s. justice department demands r.t.m. erica registers as a foreign agent before monday the channel's bank accounts could be frozen if it doesn't comply. with saudi arabia or does it citizens out of lebanon and mediately after the resignation of the saudi foreign lebanese prime minister he made his announcement from riyadh. and prosecutors revealed the true extent of a u.s. navy scandal with hundreds of officers and admirals accused of trading military secrets for sex learning and alcohol 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 thank you aaron good to have you with us now the u.s. is trying to slow divisions in russia ahead of marches presidential election now that's according to latimer parroted he added it comes as retaliation for moscow's alleged hacking and right now it's sport in the crosshairs but for them. there are serious concerns that in response to a perceived meddling in the u.s. election they want to cause problems during the presidential election in russia through the liberal games that you to be held in february when these the presidential election in march your concerns that someone wants to so discontent among sports fans and the athletes that. government is somehow responsibly food

violation. we can discuss this further now if he stuck in very good joins me in the studio thanks for coming in jackie's now presidential election in russia and the olympics in south korea what's the connection here well put in highlighted the fact that we're seeing this fresh wave of doping accusations being leveled against russian athletes just three months before the upcoming winter olympics better to be taking place in south korea in the past week more medals and standings have been taken away from russian athletes who participated in the sochi olympics some have been banned from all future games and there was even rumors flying about the russian national anthem were in fact be banned from the opening ceremony of the upcoming olympics and the russian president really just sees the timing of this is specialist given that the russian presidential election is only about one hundred days away according to him accusations of state sponsored doping are really just causing a tense environment before the election takes place now what does the u.s.

have to do with all of that well that's where it gets a little bit more complicated he stressed the fact that international sports organizations including the i.o.c. the international olympic committee are highly highly dependent on sponsors and those fine advertisements and all that money that is they are fused with due to that saying that there is quote huge layers of connections and dependencies and the u.s. in fact has the constraining controlling stake when it comes to sponsors and those who are buying ads so he went on to also cast doubt on the argument that these three impuls of the russian from the russian af may have been tampered with as well . was due to the switch just a few months following the sochi olympics acting on the instructions of the on you see we handed over to elysium laboratory which is essentially under what is control so there were no complaints whatsoever on receiving those samples so the samples have been stored there for two with a. a years ago and only then did questions arise when the violence might have been

opened or simply been doing with the samples he's been scratching or biting them there but. he also went on to call for the anti-doping system in the sports world to be improved overall adding that these suspicions really really do disturb him given that it's sort of mixing politics with the olympics and that really goes against what the games are meant to stand for absolutely jacqueline vega thanks for those details but sports not the only field where russia is under pressure it seems the u.s. justice department has ordered all to america to register as a foreign agent by monday if the broadcaster fails to do so its bank accounts could be further is that the controversial legislation was adopted more than seventeen years ago before world war two to counter nazi propaganda in america the head of the russian upper house commission for information policy alexei pushkov believes we're seeing an upgraded version of the information war against moscow.

into a missile never enough it was. before the war against russia was carried out in a media level media misrepresentation of russia's actions taken seriously in the ukraine is an example of those on the level of the fake news for instance c.n.n. and the new york times carried out campaigns about links to russian authorities but now we face a news maze of the information administrative and legal resources of being involved with people that happened in the u.s. when it was reduced agent informational much code to use them when she thinks institutions are getting moved to limit activities of the media outlets because it's not liked for political reasons and pressure on russian media doesn't end the u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing that cable and satellite providers aren't required to carry video content somehow links to the kremlin that means providers could decide for themselves. whether to show such content or not what's important to note here

though is the bill is yet to be approved russia has promised a similar response with some top politicians proposing a tit for tat response if the bill gets adopted journalist and writer neo clock believes the pressure on russian media is down to its recent success. this is absolutely outrageous i think we could call it mcafee's or what it really is mccarthyism on steroids now is that it's a significant escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so successful and i think it would be wholly wrong for the head of r.t. america to actually comply with this and to and to say that he's a foreign asian or to a foreign agency be wholly wrong or i think the response to this should be to carry on i also think it might be a good idea for the russians to say that if this goes ahead that from monday all

american journalists who work for c.n.n. have to register as foreign agents in russia or they'll be arrested two can play this game. cia director mike pump a.o. is under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over last year's alleged heart of the democratic party the u.s. intelligence community has been laying the blame for the hat on moscow it's been revealed that pompei i met with william binney a former national security agency official in late october donald trump's request now binney believes the alleged hack 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 of issue back in july so here's a reminder of how events unfolded announced by a cyber security firm working for the d.n.c. in june twenty sixth the suppose that hack was blamed on two russian linux groups but the next day an anonymous hacker deuce of

a two point zero claimed responsibility though 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 which leaks released thousands of the democratic party's emails my colleague neil harvey spoke to william binney who believes a foreign hack 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 as the veteran intelligence fresh knows who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from that 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 eight what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example so 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 now 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 i can twenty thirteen william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed privacy violations in the n.s.a. spying program then c.n.n. described him as a whistleblower with

a dramatic story but now they're branding him a conspiracy theorist then he himself says that china will use these 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 after 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 that . saudi arabia has ordered its citizens to leave lebanon and mediately that's after the resignation of the saudi backed lebanese prime minister who was in

riyadh when he made his announcement in his speech say at every re attacked iran and hezbollah for quote sowing conflict in arab states adding heels they feared being assassinated lebanon's former leader was known for close ties to the saudi government which also accused iranian backed hezbollah of hijacking lebanon's political system the news comes amid rising tensions between toronto and riyadh. however there is growing concern the proxy war between the two regional rivals could turn into a direct confrontation artie's more advanced you have explains recently barely a days 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 who's 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 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 reigning in influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were never iran is present to plant discord and destruction and interference in our countries in lebanon syria. yemen what i would like to say would be iran and its followers that they will be losers in their. way come because in within the past and they have gone 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 rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored

rebellion is dying their jihad just 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 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 unexpected be checkmated riyadh here the saudis are 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 battened 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 pepe escobar believes that saudi arabia is attempting to change the narrative in the region with his provocation saudi arabia is isolated in the new nie emerging new we believe they've lost in syria because of the feel of the dash project they lost in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not vulcanization but about iraqi national unity the lost again with the blockade against got there they are losing the war on yemen which is horrifying with tens 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 bringing the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving level 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 southeast asia are going to be caught in the crossfire is absolutely horrific

situation there is collating very very fast. the 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 on his p.c. all of that takes a closer look at the claims where the g twenty goes riots do tend to follow both the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year and homburg has been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they are not allowed to. say . this is the bit of kit in question the. 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 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 in 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 humbard 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 following there is

a person in the cordons with sides who are eighteen part four of security in order act the operation was carried out in full compliance with the existing hamburg regulations it was understood before the summit the police hadn't intended to use rubber bullets or tear gas but after rioting raged out of control they changed tack the decision to employ the m. said p. one has seen lawmakers from the opposition left party consider legal action against the police chief for breaching the weapons act there's strong regulations what can be your instincts federal state of germany and what cannot be used. so we knew it when we see that. it was by police or. against the german. to use its. i think it

is an abuse which. really totally. repercussions from the violence seen at this year's g. twenty continue to rumble on. many have forgotten what world leaders actually gathered at the g. twenty to discuss in the first place. back off this short break stay with us. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to be press it's like before you know more people. i'm interested

always in the water. here's what people have been saying about rejected and the second is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah mr john oliver a party america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of love right back to the night president of the world bank paid . to. send us an e-mail. hello welcome back hasn't breaking news for you right now wiki leaks has accused the cia of writing a computer program to impersonate the antivirus software of the russian company

kaspersky lab they organize ations the it has published the source code for the cia hacking tool known as hive the malware masks itself and personating other companies which is said to be what happened with the russian cyber security firm we're going to be bringing you more on this as soon as we get it stay with us for that. colossal bribery and fraud has engulfed the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called finance leonard case who have now revealed the true extent of the scandal four hundred and 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 it is being treated as fraud and not espionage while the identities of the people implicated are being held back supposedly to avoid jeopardizing the investigation use of such information would likely reveal sensitive details about

the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases. kind of moment explains how the terms espionage and corruption appear to have 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 booed 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 as it 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 the 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 in quetta 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.

he months later i started with you to. where you we're in time for g.q. . so it looks like photographers without malintent and whistle blowers get hit with stiff penalties but if you're a good ole 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 kill them up and are seeing new york.

as confusion as a potential meeting between donald trump and florida may appear to end on friday in vietnam the u.s. secretary of state said the encounter may not go ahead and i can write off to the russian president's office confirms the meeting trying to explain 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 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 yet this is bound to become the number one story at. the apec summit twenty seven t. the first time mr trump and vladimir putin met each other was at a different summit 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 syria cease fire and also the deescalation zones will clump and who can 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 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 and president putin here and done on vietnam my colleague neil harvey will be with you at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. prescribe medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was

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