the headlines on r.t. international russia and america released a joint statement on cooperation in syria agreed upon by trump and putin on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam. play in the middle east intensifies as saudi arabia drops more bombs on yemen while also being accused of stirring up old war against militarized space splashing the cash on new warfare capability. eleven am here in moscow a very good morning to you from all of us here at r.t. international come your latest world headlines. a civilian casualties are feared

some of the buildings collapsed it comes exactly a week after a ballistic missile was fired by yemeni fighters targeting the saudi capital. again this out of. right off the last saturday's strike saudi arabia blamed iran for it saying to iran supports the the fighters in yemen later a senior u.s. air force official said that the ballistic missile did come from iran though tehran says no. then i read more things on the business. that's been demonstrated. there are pictures that take that to mean that connects the dots to iran in

terms of who supply. missiles and that capability from what i am going to and that why don't we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen we don't know but definitely did something against iran and against the mind. so the conflict between the two regional powers is escalating not only in yemen and saudi arabia is accused of storing up war against lebanon and that allegation came from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah political and militant group which is backed by iran. and one of the. saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation the 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 and he specifically ardently attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and interfering in arab

countries also warning that to him 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 them locking horns for years and while there's no direct conflict between them it's always been through proxy wars and love and on is in fact a prime example of that 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 that could go and fight their war there if they want to but the fact that. actually the reason where they give to get out or their intention against iran increasing. tension and no longer really rhetoric against the lebanese government and specifically only against hezbollah they're actually warning the president and the foreign minister that 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 oppressed and 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 who's the 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 as 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. thinks the recent developments in the region are part of saudi arabia's broader strategy to confront iran riyadh is rolling out a new plan no to create chaos in the region were. it not risk with geopolitically isn't easy sure it's low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as we speak this week in saudi arabia to try and create some sort of military strategy. iran to destabilize around or or any of iran's proxies in the region in 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 is for its own intervention its policy in the region day to the apec summit proved a joint statement on syria according to the kremlin and discuss the issue on the sidelines of the summit at the joint statement was prepared by the country's top diplomats to russia's for often as american counterpart rex tillerson earlier on saturday details here with artie's india to try and. despite the fact that eight formal bilateral meeting between the presidents of russia and the west and donald trump never took place although they did shake hands and we saw them having a discussion while they were walking along the alley somehow a joint statement on syria from the two leaders came out first of all a lot of our putin and donald trump have confirmed their determination to defeat

islamic state in syria. besides this when it comes to the syria peace process and the joint efforts by the u.s. and wash and air force in the country the two the leaders have agreed to maintain current channels to ensure the safety of russian and u.s. military in syria and prevent dangerous incidents in the syrian airspace speaking of deescalation zones in the war torn country the leaders said that the agree how important they are once again and putin trump reaffirmed their commitment to sovereignty integrity of syria called on the parties in syria to participate in the political process putin trump confirmed and their final statement once again that the peace in syria has to be reached in the framework of the geneva process now let's just for a moment go back to looking at the interactions of the two leaders here at the apec summit in downtown vietnam.

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defense budget proposes to. creation of a sixth branch of the military the space corps however congress block the proposal despite approving a seven hundred billion dollar 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 and as our. reports the 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 birthrate 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's to say what is a weapon. any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon if that our jet is intentionally placed onto a collision course with another space object this makes treaty verification impossible yet they keep saying that everything that you do has a peaceful purpose take the x. s. y. in the space craft. 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 us 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 us air forces x. thirty seven b. which has spent almost two years orbiting 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 the 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 what the air force is is proposing to spend on space by twenty percent and we're shifting to space as a war fighting demain just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. just about now quarter past the hour here in the russian capital used to work for the cia and then he gets banned from speaking in the e.u. parliament because he appeared on a russian ready a program will keep the full scoop on after the break.

that's already entrenched. octopuses us giant squid penetrating every facet of the economy and it's being financed by money that they can borrow. zero percent and buy anything without any. regulations bumping into them whatsoever so then you apply that to maybe five or six times companies five years from now you can just five or six companies to share prices will be exorbitant like they're google or amazon the berkshire hathaway stock prices over two hundred thousand dollars or. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution. was

a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian. thanks for joining us here for the program. and a frequent 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 at the very last minute because he co-hosted a radio program of the russian media sputnik kiriakou now he worked for the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects then spent two years behind bars for whistle blowing 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 when about sputnik a nazi guests of how to enjoy the share of naming and shaming one european think tank recently branded all of them useful idiots.

thank you. i mean you called me a useful idiot. expressing my opinion and. doing it. instead of talking about what's next. me from getting this close to the white house i'm with you. why not ban the color pink one. i should be sent to the town to try to break me on the wheel. you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion continue to speak good company i'm in good company. because. it is already international a ghost city what you're seeing now is some of the very latest pictures from the

iraqi city of mosul which was liberated from islamic state. a massive operation conducted by iraqi forces on the western led coalition put an end to the terrorists' three year hold over the city regional officials now saying that ninety percent of all territory in both iraq and syria that i sold previously seized has been retaken however of course the liberation has come at a very high price. way . according to the latest u.n. estimates the battle for most school claimed more than two thousand five hundred civilian lives over seven hundred executed by eisel and more than four hundred and fifty civilians were killed by western led coalition airstrikes during the liberation campaign almost

a million were forced to leave their homes and we spoke to one iraqi m.p. about the very hard consequences of the liberation campaign he assad and a minimum there are many towns line and ruinous on the right bank of the tigris river and then of a governorate in some towns the bodies remain under the rubble all infrastructure there is absolutely destroyed during the mosul operation lots of civilians died just a colleague on the new part of the city there are many children today because parents and relatives were killed and they are in dire need of orphanages and the iraqi government should create special centers for them are over lots of women lost their families there are some who survived i slipped up to date who have been raped by the terrorists their relatives often turn away from them so that they would instead matteis the whole family. of four in germany is suspected of having killed one hundred and six patients recent a toxicology tests reveal that the victims had apparently been poisoned peter all

of the reports. bills h. drugged 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 an expectation of what would happen next it took a while before the crew scale of his crimes became evident following be 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 when 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 there through a stupid move. then they may never know the true number of people he murdered people of. over forty years after the end of the vietnam war and the u.s. has released a series of new videos of its military operations in that country some of the footage showing aircraft dropping phosphorus bombs napalm as well during the bombing campaign in northern vietnam the videos filmed in one thousand nine hundred sixty five some ten years after the actual start of the vietnam war during all of that america did face criticism for its use of chemical and biological weapons but vietnam also became a testing ground for all sorts of different weapons. and

. the kurds people repeller produced the food affects of wandering soul in which haunting sounds said to represent the souls of dead were played in order to protect the superstitious snipers. her. i know we are back and often now.

we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but none of us signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm 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 illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the wady and decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. called

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even media platforms using block chain technology and i've got former u.s. attorney mr parker said here with me for that standby who must start right now. america first to set it president donald trump obviously but his latest utterance was in vietnam during a stop on his eleven day tour through asia the audience was filled with c.e.o.'s attending the asia pacific economic cooperation summit on friday part of his speech covered the basics we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore and then he added of twists that he doesn't blame countries for doing it they're looking out for their own interests they were just doing their job in fact he'd do the same it had his usual top line talking points america had been treated

unfairly but shame on itself for letting it be fooled over and over again he highlighted the united states bad deal with the country right now it maintains its sixth largest trade deficit with vietnam it totalled thirty two billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen another issue of tension at apec regarding the president is his decision to pull out of the trans-pacific partnership a trade agreed.