despite denials it's such a. cia whistleblower who tells us how he was pulled from and. the last minute just for being a sputnik radio host. and i thought ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels. he makes founder julian assange says that u.k. prosecutors have admitted email exchanges concerning his case. and german police authorities investigate allegations. other state services.

thanks for joining us just gone past eleven pm here in the russian capital. this is r.t. international. our top story a ballistic missile fired by yemeni rebels and targeting the saudi capital last saturday bore in reining in markings according to a senior u.s. air force official. read more of these are the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures there that to me that connects the two who are in terms of who supply. missiles and their capability overseas are now

investigating how the missile could have been smuggled into yemen which is under an extensive arms embargo saudi arabia really recused around of direct military aggression by supplying missiles to rebels which iran has denied the missiles and they've managed to increase the missiles range. political commentator and writer abdel bari atwan thinks it's too soon to come to any conclusions about the origin of the missile didn't be surprised that this. size was manufactured in yemen itself that we. believe manufacturing missed size by daring in technology we haven't seen any proof yet that could be part of that american incitement against iran are we going to witness some sort of. are we going to witness some sort of. it's actually a military arms in libya which is. we don't know yet but it is it is very very

significant american side and back to. me while saudi arabia has been accused of declaring war on lebanon the strong words come from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah are political a militant group. well. it's obvious that saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just below in lebanon the leader of hezbollah actually went on to claim that the lebanese prime minister is actually being held under house arrest by the saudis calling that an unprecedented in for intervention in lebanon's internal affairs and that's because lebanon's outgoing prime minister hasn't been seen to the situation and they only came up with the statement that they think that if you attend. i'm not going to associate that word with it but where he where is this you have a nice room clearly western powers don't have the focus of his resignation speech and he specifically accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and

interfering in arab countries also warning that they hit their hands of influence in the region would be cut off always been through proxy wars and levanon isn't the question engulfed in their own civil war situation they're backing opposing party base janice martin j. thinks that the recent developments in the region a part of saudi arabia's broader strategy to confront iran riyadh is rolling out a new plan no to create chaos in the region we're. lazy sure it's low hanging fruit military strategy against iran to destabilize proxies in the region and the next conflict the next war that we see in the middle east is going to be bigger than anything else before because the stakes. so high in the last five or six years largely due to saudi arabia for its own interest its policy in the region we've seen the emergence of hezbollah. and its proxies even stronger iran is growing as it was growing stronger more powerful in the region every single day so there's an

awful lot at stake. let's hope. that. pushes into the water tuition. whistleblower and frequent guest john kiriakou was. vital to speak at the e.u. parliament on national security whistle blowing but he was removed from the panel at the last minute for co-hosting sputnik radio's loud and clear iraqi work for the cia for forty years two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed the agency was using torture methods against al qaeda prisoners those methods included waterboarding iran he told me how he was removed from the e.u. panel which is about to discuss whistle blowing the very thing he spent almost two years behind bars for. i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on

a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i did appear at a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first panel i did not participate in so as a i wish that i had this what was going on to object the decision had been made i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the n.e.p. wait a minute it's enough that i would want to know the truth but there's no evidence put forward i just wondered what your take was on must already know. literally zero evidence no evidence whatsoever this is very simply a brash political move being pushed by the democrats and now by extension by the justice department to silence r t this has nothing to do with the fact that that r

t is a representative of a foreign government there are lots of different organizations here in washington that are representatives of foreign governments i mean nobody has yet pointed the finger at apac for example or it c.c.t.v. or the b.b.c. the b.b.c. is owned by the british government this is very specifically anti russian it has nothing to do with the news and instead it has only two to do with domestic american politics and auntie's own guest of how to enjoy their share of naming and shaming as well a european think tank recently branded them useful idiots. they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on the first two since

misdoing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop will kill bin me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one or scratch below the right i should be sent to the town one because i want to try to break me on the wheel i have put up with a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we are freezing cold. british prosecutors have reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts regarding the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange it happened back in two thousand and fourteen churkin the details following a freedom of information request by an italian journalist who has been following these son's case for many years it was revealed that the crown prosecution service

here in the u.k. had apparently deleted the e-mail exchanges with their counterparts in sweden following the stepping down of a boy around the u.k. side back in twenty fourteen and despite the fact that this journalist who asked for this information had said that it's actually according to her incredible that this information would be destroyed and that they must have something to hide the crown prosecution service have said that whatever information was deleted despite there being impossible for them to get this information back they're saying that this was something that had no legal implications in the astonished case the individual was a lawyer in the c.p.s. extradition unit discussing matters relating to extradition proceedings which concluded in twenty's twelve the case was therefore not lying when the e-mail account was deleted. now according to the weekly leaks founder himself he has tweeted that the u.k. prosecution prosecution destroyed all their e-mails the u.k.

told sweden not to interview me back in twenty eleven and twenty thirteen and sweden wanted to burn after reading those e-mails that according to julian assange now we can also tell you that there is a lawyer in an upcoming information tribunal surrounding these latest developments that are going to be heard in london next week who has said that these potential revelations could have had some impact on the amount of time that the case has dragged out for serious questions are being should be raised with the u.k. authorities around the accountability of the crown prosecution service and an internal review about the way this case is being conducted it could have been resolved a long time ago and the fact that they had been advising the swedish authorities not to come here contributed to that delay contributed to the british government being found in breach of their international the geisha and we have to remember that julian assange has been staying here at the dorrian embassy in london since the summer of twenty twelve and organizations such as the united nations have found his detention to be arbitrary and this swedish prosecution has already dropped the

rape allegations that were brought against him initially so obviously these this is now seen as quite crucial information in terms of what this could have meant for the amount of time he has been staying here in london. british human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes that these deleted e-mails could have had a significant impact on the son just case. and that does call into question what was deleted and why we know that you know your requests the samples of responding to a freedom of information request did redact the fact that is how the advise the swedish lawyer not to come to london today was drawn in the process through the only way this was found out was because the italian quarter who made that fellow request to the u.k. or the smell of someone or. minister and she was then given the

unredacted version which confirms that the crown prosecution service in the u.k. did. i advise the swedish prosecutors not to come to london to interview and if the prosecutors had come to london and interviewed. as he said he was willing to be interviewed then this long drawn out case may not continue all these years. three people have been injured in southwest france after a car rammed into a crowd according to police the driver says he did it on purpose auntie's charlotte has the details. four o'clock local time here in france the driver of a car rammed his vehicle into a group of people outside a college in the french kamin of blood which is said down in the southwest of france near to lose now we understand that three people three students were injured in that incident including two who is said to be in

a serious condition in hospital or now being treated for their injuries now we understand that those who were injured were students and were also of chinese origin in that community now the french media are reporting that the driver was known to the police however he was not on any security. what list and we understand that the police are treating this as a deliberate incident the twenty eight year old driver was said to have been known to the police because he had some previous minor offenses including some offenses including drugs but just to repeat he was not on any security watch list. the world anti doping agency says that it's got hold of a new batch of intelligence from moscow the antidoping watchdog and that the information comes from the former wider accredited laboratory in the russian capital and it's in an electronic file containing all testing data from two

thousand and twelve to august of two thousand and fifteen this is after a number of russian athletes were banned for life on doping charges i can discuss this in more detail now with a host of capital sports on moscow's capital f.m. ryan for simon two thousand and ten and again in two thousand and twelve in his lab this is a guy who we know is a certain kind of a very well known worldwide expert in dog and how to read getting caught for dog if this is coming from him and it's very very serious and it won't be just russian has a role to be a lot of heads around the world be very worried most. president putin has drawn into you know recently said that the watchdogs themselves though might not be that impartial so he's trying to turn turn things back on to them he says he might have ulterior motives that his words. sort of isolations including the international olympic committee depend heavily on a number of fast as an advertising thirty huge layers of connections and dependencies and the us has a controlling stake all of those companies are based. so president putin saying

this could be political. critics of putin of russia will say we're going to say that is new you know he's going to say anything to deflect but i was just looking at why and and its funding and i noticed that half of it comes from governments and of that three quarters comes from either european governments or governments in the americas so there is a political connection i suppose the question is to what extent could it be influencing their decisions usually of this is this is a big clue game because right now in the world of anti doping it's a massive business these are not. nonprofit organizations these are businesses so you can't for example this summer this past summer were furious that they lost a right to test us leads after world champions which of course were held in london it was sold it was tendered out to different companies so this is nothing to do with you know keeping sport clean or clean your sport in any case this is about

business. your president is right in one way in that there are a lot of you know influences from business and government as well who are putting in a lot of funding as you said a fifty percent water when it comes from government and most of it comes from the u.s. and u.k. and so on so in its essence there is a big battle for control of this huge amount of money there's international national dopping organization this grouping this kind of like groups from your side of america. from the u.k. and cabins on there fighting to control this part in the meantime water trying to stay relevant and he pulled this part russia on fortune's been caught in the middle however. if these revelations are complete completely brought him to the open a lot of these people including probably story very very nervous because a lot of revelations could be coming out of this. thread's being told you would know how things were. came in here he saw the leader of china

and the president of russia. somewhere in the expecting i can tell you that an american about the possibly happen maybe some other time. yes with anything that happens now so we and there can be repercussions. yes in fact you. know those who were on the on the podium for the you know when there's a march past who would be moved one place to the left one place to the right that mean it's been downgraded or upgraded to go on and they're playing the same thing here it's quite extraordinary that president job would then shake hands with president putin and then somebody would put on the american side up to you would pull the plug of a no no we can't go ahead because this would look bad back in america and it will do you harm. and the situation is toxic now because. american

ministration really is afraid to meet any russian official because it could be misconstrued to be used by the political enemies back in the united states. and the democrats love this and the press love it because the they want this type of information. and they will make a big figure for this and i wouldn't be surprised if some story came up saying that putin had decided didn't want to meet the press club but in fact he was the one who pulled out of the meeting because he'd been offended by something that you just basically make up anything if you like fake news. and you're in the realm of fake news and it's quite extraordinary which means that very good ministrations and i think i can safely say thank goodness that person didn't high five donald trump as he did the peruvian laser otherwise i think the western media would spontaneously combusted non the less media speculation and the saying that washington was waiting

for moscow to agree on certain conditions for the meeting is that likely do you think. but there are always behind the scenes debates and discussions and you have to talk through and agree how you're going to have the meeting what's going to be discussed and you work out what's going to be the in the communique afterwards what you're going to say afterwards obviously they couldn't agree and i take it that they couldn't agree because that the american camp was divided they didn't speak with one voice and had this voted with one voice then we could have come to some agreement and i presume that the russian side i spoke with one voice they had opposed say that worked out long and so on but there was squabbling on the american side revealing again the weakness of the american administration and their inability really to fashion a policy which is a straight line when one is given the impression there's always exactly new can in

which you know which direction they're going to go in and after this really fast one could say what president putin then moves on to this is going on to the philippines he'd try and put that behind him and so on but of course the press in america will have a field day because they will they will hide i think has the one mistake or the one failure of it is wonder what he.