what kind of meetings were arranged carried out successfully it was just good to be . very good i think it did does not should depend on who is in power mr robert mr putin it doesn't matter i will come to is should be determined people should be determined to have a long lasting solution for pla bloom's creative travel environment for the development of relations not of the short term all immediate term but in the long run thank you very much for your attention thank you i'm here to work to continue my work. i've just been listening to that appear to be speaking at a media conference on the final day of the apec summit in vietnam breaking down some of the main topics that have dominated this year's summit and shouting some more lies on what words were said between himself and his u.s. counterpart donald trump but let's get more on what was said now from the who's in down on for azalea good to see you now a lot of topics are covered by the russian president in this media conference could you give us some of the highlights.

while you are absolutely right there was a super immensely wide range of issues that lattimer touched upon he was responding to questions both from various russian media outlets and international ones as well so let's start with syria that's something he talked about a lot during this press conference according to the washing president adopting a joint statement on the syrian crisis with his u.s. counterpart donald trump was very challenging and difficult but super important in the wake of the latest terrorist attack in the u.s. and also the constant threat of terrorism around the world just to remind you the highlights of this joint statement was that both leaders agreed on their determination to continue their efforts to defeat as. state and syria besides this

what they're going to do both countries russia and the us is keep up the channels between both the russian military and the american military to avoid collisions in the syrian air space where the air forces of the two countries are conducting air raids against the terrorists and also other possible incidences when it comes to the settlement of the syrian crisis the leaders agree that things can only be done through political means and the final settlement should be done in the framework of the geneva process the so-called geneva process i'm talking about here then a lot of our putin was asked about his brief conversations with donald trump we anticipated formal talks the second talks in history between the two presidents but we understand that the only met on the sidelines but a lot of improvement did say that donald trump was professional and friendly and

the russian president besides this expressed regrets that they didn't have enough time to discuss the many issues that are currently there between the two countries and that are making the relationships between moscow and washington very difficult moving on to something that is worrying everywhere at this summit not only here of course but around the whole world that is the north korean crisis still does not accept the nuclear status of north korea so they are supporting all the u.n. resolutions that were adopted by the security council but a lot of our proven is called on all the sides in the call to lower the degree of confrontation lot of important believes that in this case the only option for the parties is to start talking at the negotiating table and besides this the russian president called on everyone to actually look at the roadmap the plan that was.

suggested by russia and china here and the main point of it that is that the crisis can be sorted through the military means now the question that was asked by my colleague an r t correspondent was about the ongoing crackdown on russian media and us and lot of i was talking about democracy and freedom of speech notions that are sacred for the u.s. community here's what he said about that take a listen. it might be funny but to be funny because. those who do that tonight states they've been saying proudly that they are democrats for the first. and then the freedom of speech for them it was the most important stay being saved at their champions of the freedom of speech and without freedom of speech there is no democracy and so that kind of was sold in our mass media in the united states that's an assault on the freedom of

speech itself. the russian leader moved on to talk about retaliatory measures that are currently being mauled by russian lawmakers he said but some of them are actually quite harsh the suggestions that are being made but according to the russian leader the response will be. appropriate and he pointed out that the russian media never influenced the actual process or any kind of outcomes in the u.s. politics and of course the presidential race in which the. president donald trump became the u.s. leader of course but this follows an outcry crackdown on tea and other russian media outlets in the u.s. just to remind you the u.s. department of justice set a deadline for r.t. america that is our u.s. branch to register as

a foreign agent and we had to obey because otherwise our the head of america could be arrested and our assets there could be frozen now then there was the social media giant twitter which without any warning banned the r t all kinds of r.t. ads that were legally purchased for the media giant and as we may well remember twitter cited the u.s. intelligence reports that said that russia and the us election but according to a lot of our putin again nothing like that happened one of the american journalists asked the russian president about the current state of bilateral relations between moscow and washington and invited her putin actually said that both countries need to look into the future and for instance look at all the economic possibilities that can open up if the two countries work together as an example he put forward

many u.s. companies that one. to do business in russia exxon mobil for example rex tillerson was the former c.e.o. of exxon mobil he's now u.s. secretary of state so maybe he can use some of his experience in that a lot of our proven reminded the audience that any hostile activity that moscow comes up with is always in response to hostility from the west from america or from nato another example that the russian president put forth was the expansion and the growing military activity and presence of nato in eastern europe to which russia always has to add an adequate response so these are the main points of the putin press conference that just concluded a few hours ago here in the city of. so much covered in their president putin's press conference after this year's apec

summit but thanks for breaking it down for us that's not easy. in other news now saudi led asterix have targeted the defense ministry in yemen's capital civilian casualties are feared as some of the buildings collapsed it comes exactly a week after a ballistic missile was fired by yemeni fighters targeting the saudi capital. if you were one hundred or so who. was. going to come along. and don't miss out. on the you know well right after last sunday's strike saudi arabia blamed it wrong for it saying to wrong supports the his the fighters in yemen later a senior u.s. air force official said that the ballistic missile used originated in

a wrong iran deny is the accusations. venerated markings are. it's been demonstrated and there are pictures that take that to mean that connects the dots to iran in terms of who's supplying. missiles and that capability of some i am going to enter although we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen it's the missiles and they've managed to increase the missiles range political commentator and writer at the one believes that more escalation in the region can be expected we know that the saudi high can a blockade of libya yemen they pose more restriction on yemeni ports their ports and also border crossing so why they are doing that they said we do it in order to close the holes and sanction against yemen so but the problem is you know there is only smuggling. ring in besides it would be through air

force all three seaports it is a more discoloration and told of this i would be that american against iraq so i wouldn't be surprised that there will be some sort of attack or military revenge against iran more economic sanctions more maybe economy expansion again live and we don't know but definitely there is something against iran and. so the conflict between the two regional powers is escalating not only in yemen saudi arabia is accused of stirring up war against lebanon that allegation came from the leader of lebanon's hezbollah a 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 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 and he specifically ardently attacked iran accusing the country of planting discord and destruction and interfering in arab countries also warning that to hit their hands 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 urge 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 with 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 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 let me on. actually the reason where

they can get out or of their intention against iran with increasing. tension and no war mongering rhetoric against the lebanese government and specifically only against hezbollah they're actually warning the president they are warning that 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 pool of unease 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 who's the rebels that are fighting the very government . again same sort of situation they're 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 or 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 now to create chaos in the region where. lebanon will not respect geopolitically is an easy shot it's a low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as we're speaking 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 break up so high in the last five or six years largely due to saudi arabia's fault

it's an interventionist policy in the region and we've seen the emergence of hezbollah. and its proxies even stronger iran's 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 don't push it into the water tuition. balance from speaking in the e.u. parliament for appearing on russian radio we've got that story and more after this break. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or falsity could a tart was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia.

here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's the law of the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than the blue. sea people you never heard of love redacted the night. president of the world bank very. seriously he sent us an e-mail i fear that we may see the iranians taking the first steps towards restarting the nuclear program which will only further ratchet up tensions and further increase the risk of war that's the big danger here this is not just about killing the video this is automatically putting the united states on a more civility to. welcome back the latest u.s.

defense budget proposes the creation of a six branch of the military the space corps however congress bloke's the proposal despite approving a seven hundred billion dollars military budget for the upcoming year it's amended the bill so that any american military space activities will be controlled by the u.s. air force and as my gauthier of reports of force come old us love the idea. little did you know this week may well go down in history the pentagon's announced it's weaponize in space job one for an air force and an air component is to gain and maintain air superiority for them from attack and freedom to maneuver unlike space superiority it's not an american birthright yet a resource a plan for a 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 if that object 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 our 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 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'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 what the air force is is proposing to spend on space by twenty percent and we're shifting to a space as a war fighting to me just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. whistleblower and frequent guest john kerry arco 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 last minute for co-hosting a radio program on the russian media outlets but nick carried out to the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed that the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects he spent two years behind bars the whistle blowing we spoke to carry out who told us how he was removed from the e.u. parliamentary panel 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 updated schedule

and my name was was not associated 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's 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 two of. jacked 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 then i thought well ok well american politics

rears its ugly head even in brussels junko we are one of many they cannot guess that of how to enjoy all that share of naming and shaming and you're paying think tank recently branded them useful idiots. because we're useful idiots i mean useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on t.v. there are thousands of us doing it his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop you'll banned me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town of london because i'm a traitor pretty clear on the we'll put up with

a long time with 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 with you on visas because we are free thinkers. want to share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter and join me again at the top of the hour for the next headline.

i think. the old situations are coming and the stand pulled to better understand that a shock is they are not in favor of the nato is coming good to that extent of the border for the show but on the other side i think if they came back to the old impression of confrontation that's a mistake on the western side too especially by the americans also on the other side. feel. else.

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