i am. glad i'm here putin says the u.s. is attacking free speech by forcing r.t. to register as a foreign agent adding tit for tat response from russia is on the table. riyadh's power play in the middle east intensifies as saudi arabia bombs yemen's defense ministry while also being accused of declaring war on lebanon. cia whistleblower john kiriakou was removed from an e.u. parliament pile of them last minute simply for co-hosting a radio show on russian media outlets but. they feel like they can't even risk even tangentially association with the russians or with anything russian and the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing the cash

a new orbital warfare capabilities. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the karen the top story this hour attacks on r.t. in the u.s. are equal to attacks on free speech as according to president vladimir putin he was on soaring reporters' questions on the last day of the apec summit in vietnam our correspondent the trunk is there for is let's close like him now and find out more bring this up to speed on the latest would you please. nagy hello again well when president vladimir putin was replying to our

correspondents question about what really turned into a crackdown against r t in the u.s. he pointed at freedom of speech what he called an essential part of democracy that is currently being bluntly violated in america. because we deal with students that exclude him and those who are doing this in the u.s. have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it hits who buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and it's not going to our media in the u.s. is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself. mr putin also promised that the russian government will come up with appropriate retaliation and russian lawmakers previously hinted that american or american funded media can be affected the likes of c.n.n.

voice of america a video channel called current time and radio free europe slash radio liberty this is a reaction to a very recent decision by the u.s. department of justice to set a deadline for our team america our u.s. brands to register as a foreign agent and we were forced to obey because otherwise we would have been in trouble with the u.s. law but in any case as a foreign agent r.t. america will now face and norma's challenges and difficulties something our editor in chief margarita simonyan called unbearable working conditions for a media organisation which are a to destroy r t then before this there was media giant story social networking giant twitter which. without warning banned all arty ads which were legally purchased citing a u.s. intelligence community report about the russian meddling in the us election where

an entire chapter was devoted to r.t. did i say russian meddling yes i did and here's something i want to tell you about it according to american journalists who are traveling with donald trump the american president did bring up that issue during his few chats with vladimir putin at the apec summit in vietnam and here's a quote from mr trump that they shared every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i really believe that when he tells me that he means it i think he is very insulted by this is what donald trump said about that but going back to the vladimir putin press conference here's how he addressed the many russia related investigations inquiries and hearings that are simply nonstop in america.

i think that 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. as well despite this internal political stand of all the difficulties that are there as a result of this a lot of our putin says that russia is ready to turn the page and look into the future for the benefit of both the russian and american people and really he wants to start a new chapter in ties between the u.s. and russia thanks for that wrap up. speaking to us live from down in vietnam now despite the poor state of relations between moscow and the west at the moment the second day of the apec summit did see some. positive moments for example the russian and american presidents released a joint statement on the situation in syria they both confirms their determination

to defeat to isolate syria while insisting that syria is a sovereign country their presidents also agreed there can be no military solution to that conflict while out in the final political settlement should be found through the geneva no negotiations format the director of the no source think tanks encourage the two sides are at least working in the right direction but we see from the very short statement that visual details very few details we have is that the americans and the russians have agreed on key issues a to have 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 might be able to participate in 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 be a huge disappointment a much anticipated formal meeting between the two presidents never transpired to get the pair did bump into each other more than once.

in other news now saudi led air strikes have hit the defense ministry in yemen's capital sana'a are civilian casualties are feared to some of the buildings collapsed riyadh has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to his the rebels' ballistic missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago. well that was you know who forces will pull. out of the. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh i can miss how the end of the world right after last saturday's

strike saudi arabia blamed iran for it saying to wrong supports him the fight is the latest scene a u.s. air force official said the ballistic missile was made in a wrong turn wrong that denies the accusations per minute radio markings are. it's been demonstrated. there are pictures that depict that to me that connects the dots to iran in terms of whose line. missiles and that capability i am i am going to end that war that 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 abdel bari atwan now expects further escalation in the region we know that the saudis tighten a blockade of lebanon yemen and they cause more restriction on yemeni for 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 that if there is only a sparkling. decides it would be through air force or three seaports it is a more escalation and told of this i would be against iraq so i wouldn't be surprised that there will be some sort of attack or military revenge against iran more economy sanction more maybe economy expansion against hezbollah in lebanon we don't know but definitely there is something called against iran and that means the light and. the conflict between the two regional superpower is escalating not only in yemen the leader of lebanon's hezbollah accuses saudi arabia of affectively declaring war on lebanon the issue is complicated as the political and militant group is backed by riyadh's rival iran

a walker and it's obvious that saudi arabia has declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just has belonged 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 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 in that he specifically and 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 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 lebanon on. actually the reason where they can get out or of their intention against iran but increasing. tension and 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 tell you any intervention direct intervention in the polygamist 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. 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 an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region were. lebanon in that respect you have little clue 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 been great for rocked 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 we've seen the emergence of hezbollah. and its proxies even stronger iran's growing as bill is growing stronger and 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. for the u.s. congress has rejected plans to create a six branch of the military a special space corps a proposal had been passed by the house of representatives back in july but congress wasn't so keen and excluded it from the final seven hundred billion dollars 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 but as mark of 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 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'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 they do has a peaceful purpose take b x s y in that 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 u.s. put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual kind of ones that watch

earth know these apparently monitor other spacecraft a 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 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 the fens ready set arms race. well back off they saw a break stay with us. so here i am amazon that's already entrenched. that's an octopus's us giant squid penetrating every facet of the economy and it's being financed by money that they can borrow in perpetually at zero percent and buy anything without any trust regulations bumping into them whatsoever so then you apply that to maybe five or

six time companies and five years from now you going to have just five or six giant companies the share prices will be exorbitant like their google or amazon this or berkshire hathaway stock prices over two hundred thousand dollars a share. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or a tone was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian. welcome back now a prominent whistleblower asked to speak at the e.u. parliament found his invitation cancelled at the last minute due to his links to

russian media john kiriakou co-hosts a radio program on the russian media outlet sputnik he's also been a frequent guest on this channel kiriakou worked for the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed the agency had been waterboarding al-qaeda suspect he spent two years behind bars for whistle blowing we spoke to carry out who described to us how he was removed from the parliamentary panel was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament and the first one included a representative of the british sanders organization 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 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. two of jacked the decision had been made to remove me 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 the panel and he said well we didn't want to make

a problem with the other guests and i thought wow ok well american politics really is it's ugly head even in brussels. the latest pictures from iraq's mosul liberated from islamic state in the summer suggest it's now become something of a ghost city after a massive military operation u.s. led coalition and iraqi forces put an end to the terrorists' three year hold ninety percent of all territory in both iraq and syria previously seized by islamic state has now been retaken however in mosul this is all that's left. according to the u.n. the boss of the mosul killed more than two thousand five hundred civilians seven hundred of them were executed by eisel strikes by the u.s.

led coalition killed more than four hundred fifty civilians and almost a million have been forced to leave their homes we spoke to an iraqi m.p. about the huge price of the liberation campaign he especially 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 but has remained under the rubble all infrastructure there is absolutely destroyed during the most of 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 are over lots of women lost their families or some who survived islip to have been raped by the terrorists their relatives are from turned away from now so that they wouldn't stigmatize the whole family. a former nurse in germany could turn out to be the country's worst post-war serial killer recent toxicology tests river reveal more than one hundred

of his patients have been poisoned on his p.c. all of it has the details build a 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 save the day bringing people back from the coast but there is. also admitted in a cop twist that he also did this for pics 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 pests are being carried out in five separate cases to look for the drugs that were favored by mills age we also understand that the 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 so their first to admit that they may never know the true number of people he murdered. we love to hear your thoughts on the day's stories they do get in touch by finding and following those of social media for the latest headlines join me at the top of the hour. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam

polystyrene 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 be 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. call for help and get the middle finger to move using model is. delayed and i hope you don't . go to war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle of things going. to new thoughts credit tell you that because of the public by files of the

most important news today. the bad guys who tell me you are not cool enough to fight there. are the hawks that we along with all will watch. i'm lindsey francis is boom bust broadcasting around the world in washington d.c. coming up transportation in the u.k. is regulators not to mention blackout it's an epic fight covering health and safety drivers' rights labor issues paying taxes and much much more it never ends also retail in the age of tech the holidays are coming up that's where the true nature of consumer spending is revealed something trend watchers are looking at is just how much tech has taken over and who is buying the most of it the host of the big

picture home cook fills us in and it's the year of the cryptocurrency don't deny it pick point getting nearly eight thousand dollars countries around the world banning it or embracing it offer the banks retailers even media platforms using block train technology and i've got former us attorney mr barr hilton here with me for that stand by 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.