speaking at the apec summit in vietnam flatmate putin says russia will take a symmetrical response after r.t. america was ordered to register as a foreign agent in the us. and attack on our leader the us is making a mistake and attack on freedom of speech itself. bring the summit to russia and america released a joint statement on cooperation in syria agreed on by trump and putin on the sidelines of the events. and riyadh's power play in the middle east intensifies as saudi arabia drops more bombs on yemen while also being accused of storing up war against lebanon. plus the

u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize its space splashing the cash on new always to warfare capabilities. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the karen good to have you with us president putin has given a media conference on the last day of the apec summit in vietnam for more details on what was said i'm joined by our franken now who's in vietnam for a senior what did the russian president have to say about our channel. make you high again well when answering our correspondents questions on what really is apparently a crackdown on our. in the us vladimir putin pointed at freedom of speech which he

called the essence of democracy and according to the russian president that is something that is being bluntly violated in the us currently. to deal with students those who are doing this in the us have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it here to buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and it's not going our media in the us is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself. mr putin also promised that the russian government will come with an appropriate response that may affect american media outlets that are currently operating in russia and this is a reaction to what decision by the american department of justice that set a deadline just recently for r.t.

america to register as a foreign agent now we were forced to obey this to avoid being and trouble with the u.s. legislation but in any case there will be massive challenges for our team america and the operation something that our editor in chief our editor in chief story margarita soon called unbearable working conditions for a media organization and then before this there was social media giant twitter banned all r.t. ads that we purchased according. with the rules of twitter and twitter was citing a u.s. intelligence community report on allegations of russian meddling in the us presidential race where an entire chapter was dedicated toward speaking of allegations of russian interference with the presidential race i want to tell you so. when u.s.

air force one the plane of donald was on its way to her noise the capital of vietnam journalists talked about donald trump bringing up the allegations of russian meddling during his conversations with weiner putin i'd just like to give you a quote from donald trump he said this every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i really believed him when he told me tells me that and this is something that for vladimir putin according to donald trump is very insulting when a lot of important during his press conference was asked about the ongoing investigations inquiries hearings that he called anti washington a lot of our proven replied saying that he believes it's all part of the u.s. and terminal political infighting. i think that's everything regarding the russian dossier in the u.s.

has to do with only going internal political standoff it's simply part of the desire to use anything in the fight against the current president. in any case moved on to say that moscow is always ready to turn on the page and as an example he brought up the business the way that russia and russian and u.s. companies can work together so he is looking forward to that that's something he said during his press conference here. at the apec summit. a lot of positives that it's not easy to with the breakdown of the russian president's press conference after the apec summit thanks that. now despite the poor state of relations between moscow and the west at the moment the second day of the apec summit so some positive moments between the two sides for example the russian and american presidents released a joint statement on this. in syria they both confirms their determination to

defeat are still in syria insisting that syria is a sovereign country the president also agreed that the conflict in syria doesn't have a military solution adding that the final political settlement should be found via the geneva format earlier we discussed this with the director of the no source think tank. what we see from the very short statement that all very short details very few details we have is that the that the americans and the russians have agreed on key issues of the geneva process still center stage and also when it comes to future elections they will be supervised by the united nations that syrians outside syria and i'd be able to participate in this so that's some sort of progress but at the same time it's good to have them agreeing on something rather

than having this summit going on without them agreeing on anything which would been a huge disappointment a much anticipated formal meeting between the two at yet the pair did bump into each. other news now sounded as strikes have targeted the defense ministry in yemen's capital as sun our 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. of the. one. hundred or so. was a. lot of. them and. some of them the germans are. and then you would write off the last saturday strike saudi arabia blamed iran for it saying to wrong supports the who the fight is in yemen later a senior u.s. air force officials that that the ballistic missile used originated in iran iran denies the accusations. when i read markings on those. that's been demonstrated and 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 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 and political commentator and writer at tilbury at one believes that more escalation in the region can be expected we know that the saudi high can a blockade of lebanon of yemen as a cause for a section on yemeni for their 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 it is and it's fucking. everything it starts we're going to be through air force all three seaports it's more escalation and flown over so i would be that way to go against iraq so i wouldn't be surprised if there will be some sort of attack or military revenge

against iran more economic sanctions more maybe economy expansion again as it were my eleven and we don't know but definitely there is something against iran and i mean this is. so the conflicts between the two regional powers in the 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 a walker and it's obvious that saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just has been largely 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 it an unprecedented 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 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 love but on 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 let me on. actually the reason where they can to get out or of their attention against iran is increasing the tone of tension and. rhetoric against the lebanese government and specifically not only against hezbollah they are 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 pull of a nice political spectrum then we will start a war to liberate the lebanese people from the grip of hezbollah. yemen has a person involved 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 anti assad 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. they were 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 an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region were. not descriptive because it 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 a military strategy against 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 so you are a good food it's an interventionist 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. does don't push it into the water

tuition. the latest u.s. defense budget proposes the creation of a six branch of the military the space corps however congress blocks the proposal despite approving a seven hundred billion dollar military budget 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 marg as do you have reports the air force commanders love the idea . 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 or resources planned 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 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 they 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 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 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 to me just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. i'm speaking in the e.u. parliament for appearing on russian radio with but that story and out those after

this short break. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry 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 day. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question are are. basically promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to us there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its

maker. welcome back now whistleblower and frequent guest john kiriakou was invited to speak at the e.u. parliament about whistle blowing in relation to national security but he was removed from the pollo at the very last minute for co-hosting a radio program on the russian media outlet sputnik carried out to work for the cia for fourteen years and two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed that the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects and. spent two years behind bars for whistleblowing we spoke to carry out

who told as how he was removed from the e.u. parliamentary panel. was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament 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 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's max 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 and i thought wow ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels but sputnik and ati guests have had to endure all that share of naming and shaming and your pain think tank recently branded them useful idiots.

because we're useful idiot i mean useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots great stress in my opinions r t there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop your band 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 terrorism because i'm a traitor brick me although we'll put up with a long time to be sure you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak i'm in good company moment good company if you want to do this because we are free thinkers. now a ghost city these are 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 in the u.s. led coalition person and to the terrorists' three year hold over the city regional officials say that ninety percent of all territory in both iraq and syria that i saw previously seized has now been retaken but liberation came as a very high price. according to the latest u.n. estimates the battle for mosul claims more than two thousand five hundred civilian lives with over seven hundred executed by eisel more than four hundred fifty civilians were killed by u.s. led coalition as strikes during the liberation campaign and almost a million were forced to leave their homes we spoke to an iraqi and pay about the

gruesome consequences of the liberation campaign. a minimum there are many towns lying and ruinous on the right bank of the tigris river and of a governorate in some towns bodies remain under the rubble all infrastructure there is absolutely destroyed during the mosul operation lots of civilians died as a college 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 are over lots of women lost their families or some who survived i slipped up to date who have been raped by the terrorists their relatives are from turned away from so that they wouldn't stigmatize the whole family. a former nurse in germany is suspected of having killed one hundred six patients recently toxicology tests revealed that the victims had apparently been poisoned all of the reports bills age drug to

patients it is over a six year period in the hope of being able to bring them back to being seen as some kind of reviving angel he was arrested in two thousand and five jailed in two thousand and eight on charges of attempted murder the main motivation behind this was the mills age could step in and saved. 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 truth 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 nils 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 nineteen murders making him one of 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 pests 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 but sober for us to admit that they may never know the true number

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