the headlines on the international. power play in the middle east intensifies saudi arabia. and yemen while also being accused of stirring up a war against. the u.s. military. to militarize space splashing the cash on new. capabilities. removed. the last minute simply hosting a radio program on russian media. they feel like they can't even. with the russians or with anything russian.

summit morning on saturday here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international we have the latest world news. saudi led air strikes have targeted the defense ministry in yemen's capital sanaa civilian casualties are feared as some of the buildings collapsed now it comes exactly a week after a ballistic missile was fired by yemeni fighters targeting the saudi capital. i don't have her forces who. was it was just a lot of them was not unheard of hundreds of a lot of money again these are not the norm you know right off the last saturday's missile strike saudi arabia blamed iran forward saying tehran supports the who are the fighters in yemen later a senior u.s.

air force official said that the ballistic missile that was used came from iran though tehran denies the accusations burned in iranian markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that that to me that connects the two to iran in terms of who's supplying. missiles and that capability of someone i am going to end that one which we do not even have the ability to transmit to humans it's the missiles and they've managed to increase the missiles range political commentator and writer one believes that more escalation can be expected in that region. we know that the saudi high can a blockade of lebanon of yemen as they pose more destruction on yemeni ports and airports and also border crossing so why they are doing that they said we do it in order to close the holmes and sanction against yemen so but the problem

is you know that is that is and these fucking. eighteen year starts were going to be little air force or three seaports it is more escalation and tone of this i would be at that meeting. so i wouldn't be surprised that there will be some sort of an attack or military revenge against it and more economic sanction and more may be going to be exactly as it were my live in and we don't know but definitely there is something called against iran and. so the conflict between the two regional powers is escalating not only in yemen saudi arabia is accused of storing up war against lebanon that allegation came from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah political and militant group which is backed by iran i was there and it's obvious that saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just has

been lost 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 unprecedented in for intervention in lebanon's internal affairs and that's because lebanon's outgoing prime minister hasn't been seen since last week when he announced his resignation in the saudi capital and what's more surprising is that harare's own party back in lebanon who is in opposition to has law also think the same thing that he was forced to make that resignation speech by saudi arabia and that he's being held there against his will putting the question of his whereabouts aside there's also the focus of his resignation speech that's something that's also very important to note in that he specifically ardently attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and interfering in arab countries also warning that the hit their hand of influence in

the region would be cut off and in the wake of all of that saudi arabia and three of their allies actually urged all of their citizens to leave lebanon immediately and that's a very frightening and open ended situation you know why should they leave what's going to happen there and here's where you sort of need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture in the region and that's when you have to look at saudi arabia and iran specifically the two countries have of course been locking horns for years and while there's no direct conflict between them it's always been through proxy wars and lebanon is in fact a prime example of hariri the prime minister who resigned his living leadership was supported by saudi arabia whereas hezbollah who wields massive power in the country is backed by iran and that leaves lebanon caught up in between those two major powers not only its broader strategy to confront iran because iran definitely does not start with a borderline inside of iran has its own border line they could go and fight their

war there if they want to but the fact that. actually the reason where they can get out or of their intention against iran but increasing tone of tension and of war mongering rhetoric against the lebanese government and specifically only against hezbollah they're actually warning the president they are warning of the foreign minister they are warning the speaker as well that if you do not stop or by other words if you do not abide by what we are telling you aka intervention direct intervention in the pull of a nice political spectrum then we will start a war to liberate the lebanese people from the grip of hezbollah. yemen has of course been engulfed in their own civil war for two years now and in that case saudi arabia supports the government that was ousted in two thousand and fifteen where iran backs the hutu rebels that are fighting the very government.

again same sort of situation there are backing opposing parties saudi arabia is and iran is pro assad so it's everywhere in the region and all these proxy wars are sort of coming to a head it's the fear that this could push the region into a potential potentially bigger and more direct confrontation. beirut based journalist martin j. you thinks the recent developments in the region are part of saudi arabia's broader strategy to confront iran riyadh is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount. would not respect geopolitically is an easy shot it's a low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as we speak in this week in saudi arabia to try and create some sort of military strategy against iran to destabilize around or or any of iran's 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 been great so in the last five or six years largely due to saudi arabia of food its own entrenched its policy in the region we've seen the emergence of hezbollah. and its proxies even stronger iran is growing as well is growing stronger more powerful in the region every single day so there's an awful lot at stake. and let's hope. that these these sort of instance don't push it into the water tuition. the latest us defense budget proposes the creation of a six branch of the military the whole of the space corps however congress block the proposal despite approving a seven hundred billion dollars military bill for the upcoming year it amended the bill so that any american military space activities will be controlled by the u.s. air force as r.t.s. but i guess if reports air force commanders are loving it. little did you know this

week may well go down in history the pentagon's announced it's weaponize ng space job one for an air force and an air component is to gain and maintain air superiority freedom from attack and freedom to maneuver unlike space superiority it's not an american birthright yet a resource that plan for the fight for it and when it the hints were all there almost a decade ago one hundred and seventy eight countries voted on the u.n. resolution to prevent a space arms race only two countries abstained the u.s. and israel washington also blocked a joint russian chinese effort to ban all weapons in space after all who is to say what is a weapon. any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon is that our job is intentionally placed onto

a collision course with another space object this makes treaty verification impossible yet they keep saying that everything they do has a peaceful purpose take the x. s. y. and the spacecraft. a jet that could put satellites into orbit on the cheap probably means if you can take a satellite into orbit it can also take a hostile satellite out of orbit who's going to stop them there. last year the u.s. put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual kind of ones that watch earth know these apparently monitor other spacecraft friendly neighborhood

watch. the u.s. is not seeking to weaponize space our goal is to work with all responsible spacefaring nations to ensure a safe secure and stable space environment the u.s. air force is x. thirty seven b. which has spent almost two years orbiting the earth its purpose is classified its mission is classified its budget is classified. then you've got the various kinetic bombardment and global strike projects that the pentagon is reportedly pursuing they'll probably say that those a peaceful to sue peaceful in the pentagon's space budget was doubled last year from five to ten billion and next year it's going up this year's budget increases the eighteen budget proposal increases with the air force is proposing to

spend on space by twenty percent and we're shifting to space as a war fighting domain just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. and frequent r.t. guest john kiriakou was invited to speak at the e.u. parliament about whistleblowing in relation to national security but he was removed from the panel of the last moment for co-hosting a radio program on the russian media outlet sputnik a carrier he worked for the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview kiriakou revealed that the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects then spent two years behind bars for whistleblowers and we spoke to kiriakou who told us how he was removed from the e.u. parliamentary panel. 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 laughed when she first said it because it was so ridiculous that i thought she was joking and then she walked away and one of the aides handed me an updated schedule and my name was was not associated then with the first panel that's politics in america right now isn't it where where everybody blames the russians the russians the bad guys for absolutely everything and and they feel like they can't even risk even a tangential association with the russians or with anything russian for fear of being

branded by their political opponents it's ridiculous it smacks of the one nine hundred fifty s. to tell you the truth i wish that i had better understood what was happening as it was happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the beginning and before i could even process what was going on to object the decision had been made to remove me and it wasn't until i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the m.e.p. wait a minute did i get thrown off that panel and he said well we didn't want to make a problem with the other guests and and i thought wow ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels both sputnik and guests and i do enjoy the share of naming and shaming european think tank recently branded them useful indians. people. because we're useful idiots i mean useful idiot you called me

a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots great stress in my opinions are actually there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy with the type of persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop will feel badly from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch with all the rocks i should be sent to the town of london because i'm a traitor bricklayer although we'll put up with my lifetime 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 who gives me a new ideas because we are free thinkers. quarter past the hour here in moscow the russian and u.s. leaders have approved a joint statement on syria this occurring in the vietnam war cross live after the break.

about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last wrong turn. your attitude up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a game still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one. speech you just never know what they're takers. claimed that mainstream media has

met its maker. thanks for joining us here on oxy today a ghost city these are some of the latest pictures from the iraqi city of mosul which was liberated from islamic state in mid summer a massive operation conducted by iraqi forces on the u.s. led coalition put an end to the terrorists' three year hold over the city a regional official say that ninety percent of all territory in both iraq and syria that was held by ice still has now been retaken but liberation though came at a very high price. were.

according to the latest u.n. estimates the battle for most will claim more than twenty five hundred civilian lives with over seven hundred executed by ice so more than four hundred fifty civilians were killed by western led coalition asterix this during the liberation campaign and almost a million were forced to leave their homes we spoke to one iraqi m.p. about the gruesome consequences of the liberation campaign. there are many towns line in ruins on the right bank of the tigris river in the end of a governorate in some towns but has remained under the rubble all in search structure there is absolutely destroyed joy in the mosul operation lots of civilians died due to college bombings of the new part of the city there are many children today whose parents and relatives were killed and they are in dire need of orphanages the iraqi government should create special centers for them moreover

lots of women lost their families there are some who survived i say look up to date who have been raped by the terrorists their relatives often turn away from so that they would instead matteis the whole family. over forty years after the end of the vietnam war the us has released a series of new videos of its military operations there in that country of the footage showing american aircraft dropping various types of bombs including napalm during the campaign in northern vietnam the video is actually filmed in one nine hundred sixty five that is about ten years after the start of the war during the vietnam war america did face criticism for its use of chemical and biological weapons but it also became a testing ground for all sorts of other types of weapons.

and. the kurds or the people repel or produced the food affects of wandering soul in which haunting sounds said to represent the souls of dead were played in order to bridger the superstitious snipers. those. who heard. in germany so suspected of having killed one hundred and six patients recent toxicology tests reveal that the victims had apparently been poisoned peter oliver investigates. bills h.

drug to patients in his care over a six year period in the hope of being able to bring them back and being seen as some kind of reviving angel he was arrested in two thousand and five and jailed in two thousand and eight on charges of attempted murder the main motivation behind this was so that mills h. could step in and save the day bringing people back from the coast of death but he's also admitted in a cop twist that he also did this for kicks there was tension there and in expectation of what happened next it took a while before the true scale of his crimes became evident following the widespread media attention his incarceration gathered one woman became suspicious that her mother may have actually been one of his victims a further investigation led to neil's age confessing to having killed thirty by lethal injection that saw his initial seven year sentence increase to life in

twenty fifteen police admitted that major mistakes were made if the clues had been duly investigated or to time even in golden horse hospital the deaths of many patients in our opinion could have been prevented by august of this year the forty year old was implicated in one thousand murders making him one of more than germany's worst serial killers trying to get to the bottom of just how many he may have murdered investigators have so far examined one hundred thirty four bodies and currently toxicological tests are being carried out in five separate cases to look for the drugs that were favored by mills h. we also understand that further bodies are to be exuberant as far afield as poland and turkey prosecutors say they've linked germany's noxious nurse to one hundred and six cases put their thoughts to admit. never know the true number

of people he murdered. are. they to the apec summit and the u.s. and russian presidents of approved a joint statement on syria according to the kremlin putin and trying discuss the issue on the sidelines excuse me of the summit of a joint statement was prepared by the country's top diplomats on russia's role in the american counterpart russia tell us and this was earlier on saturday let's take a look at back now at how are the two days unfolded for the two leaders.

joining us here a saturday morning in moscow we hope to see you in about half an hour.

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