from. it's russia's actions which threaten the international order on which we all took. the british prime minister calls on europe to unite against the so-called russian threat in a speech critics say is designed to draw fire from his struggling bricks of negotiation. after pressure from the u.s. justice department this channel's been forced to legally register as a foreign agent we take a look at what that changes. from words towards the rhetoric and proxy conflicts intensify between iran and saudi arabia we look at what might be unleashed if they resort to a military solution. is

one pm tuesday the fourteenth of november my name's colleen bright welcome to news from r.t. international first for you this hour the british prime minister is calling to unite against russia and it's supposed threat to the continent accuses moscow of military aggression election meddling and spreading fake news but without going into any detail. russia's actions which threaten the international order on which we all depend so i have a very simple message for russia we know what you are doing and you will not succeed while the mansion house speech is an annual event where the prime minister traditionally delivers a foreign policy speech and it was the lord mare of the city of london he was introducing the prime minister today and he used the opportunity to remind the prime minister about how worried for the finances in the city generally is about the lack of progress in the brig's it talks he said that fine words but an opossum it and the city wants to see

a good briggs it deal now however to reason may's speech hardly touched upon the issue of bragg's it at. he spoke about global challenges facing the u.k. and its allies and the star of the show in times of global challenges really was russia that was what she chose to focus criticism on russia has fermented conflict in the dawned us and mounted a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions it's just blind use asians from the united states britain generally follows the united states into various

disasters this is just another example of the u.k. following its big brother in the us down a road to nowhere the fact of the matter is when ever a politician either is about to lose or is in the process of actually losing the bring out the old scapegoat which is russia the same thing is now happening in britain where a prime minister who is facing an almost certain end of a brief career in power is now bringing out the old scapegoat. one of major major accusations was that russia had used large scale cyber attacks against sovereign state but you failed to notice that in many cases by the allegations of hacking in the french or german elections and no evidence was actually put forward to support those claims. better than russian hackers r.q. e-mails no i don't i mean we have evidence of attacks coming from the plane and we shall be evidence of that some very well known recent website conveyed. and then

and so we just go with. no information pointing at that interference. the british p.m.'s message comes on the back of what's been a tough week for her domestically she continues to be hounded by employees over her breakfast negotiations which is yet to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so that the e.u.'s chief breaks it negotiate or says he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning bracks it talks could collapse entirely pressures also building on to reason may with rumors that forty m. peyser readying a letter of no confidence that numbers just eight short of the required total to force a new leadership election within her conservative party we discussed a major predicament with party veteran and former government minister peter lowy he believes that her speech wasn't just directed at moscow it was as much a message to europe as it was to russia is saying we are the major security in the european continent we have the best armed forces and the greatest ability to deploy

them we want to continue to be allied with our european neighbors when we leave but they've got to remember if they want us to be helpful and firm and stand by them they don't want to weaken us or we can their relations with us it's important that we do deal with the second half war she was saying that we won't deal relations with russia we certainly don't want to return to the cold war we recognise that we're actually the opposite ends of europe and for hundreds of years we've been natural allies even when we don't like each other's regimes we are natural allies. the blame russia code is also being played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry star trek actor george takei who's accused of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early eighty's claims which he strongly denies now deleted tweet attack a said russian amplifying the allegations against him he attached a charge which apparently shows he was targeted by russian trolls about information

came from a website that claims to track russian influence on twitter called the alliance for securing democracy but even it states that not all the six hundred accounts of monitors are necessarily created all controlled by russia and some of the reaction on social media isn't buying into claims. media analyst lionel says the jumping on the russian allegations bandwagon is getting out of hand. he should have said the cling on may have done it no says russian box so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true to make some sort of

strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or naturalization is forty years old and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this who is going to say ah yes george tech guy yes yes and it's patently absurd and this also goes to this notion of how does this russian interference work does anybody ever stop with ask what is this mean one who is believing this destroy does he make any sense. the next chapter in the fingerpointing saw grafter months of pressure from washington r.t. america is now being forced to register as a foreign agent in the united states has got more on this now across

a story. made in reality called think about it r.t. america is now officially a foreign agent in the us eighty years after far came into being our us branch has officially registered under the foreign agents registration act which dates back to the times before world war two back then the purpose forward was to make sure that no u.s. citizens get influenced by the organizations that are funded by nazi germany whatever it was the purpose of the american department of justice in the twenty first century they obliged just to do this they set a deadline and r.t. america did follow the deadline they met it because no one wants to be in trouble with the u.s. legislation but let's just look at some of the things that r.t. america could be obliged to do all the time under this law for example attaching a public disclaimer to any bit of information that comes out or providing

a copy or a version of it to the department of justice within forty eight hours of transmission so the question is this and many other rules will we be able to actually follow that and i believe that it will take a long while to adjust to all this just think about it does that mean that any tweet that gets posted by r.t. america will that need a disclaimer does that mean that we need to send all our all our to america's twits there and some experts have actually argued whether it's technically possible with the social media output in the twenty first century that we're going to nations get involved in although this crackdown on r.t. america has gone. generally ignored by those who would usually expect to speak out on issues of freedom of speech it didn't go completely unnoticed you can take the committee to protect journalists that's a new york based ngo they were very critical of the ultimatum set by the department

of justice here's some of their statements compelling our teeth to register. as a bad idea we're uncomfortable with governments deciding what constitutes journalism or propaganda and many would argue that the u.s. government here is applying double standards because we have a chinese global t.v. network called c t n they have a branch. america and it's perfectly fine no issues with them so i won't be lying if i tell you call it that if. we're all waiting for more reaction from individuals and also n.g.o.s something is not going to go unnoticed harry that was the reaction in moscow well when it comes to retaliation it is still work in progress no specific measures have been announced but i can tell you that the law makers are currently working on that and previously we heard from high profile officials including the president vladimir putin that definitely summer toleration

will come. just a little slower you might get it those who are doing this in the us have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech is always been the main value did to buy them so there's no democracy without freedom of speech and its media in the us is make no mistake and it's back on freedom of speech so we'll definitely have to formulate a response to that and it will be tit for tat. the question is which particular media outlets could get affected by this retaliation and we hear previously from russian officials that this will be american based news organizations organizations that are directly funded by the u.s. government think voice of america or the likes of c.n.n. there is a video channel called current time that may fall under this as well plus radio free europe slash radio liberty now there is something important in order for these

news outlets to become foreign agents and this organization russia is all a story in this country of course i meant russia's own legislation needs to be amendment amended and currently the m.p.'s are working on that and we just heard from the vice speaker for the duma he says that according to the drafted amendments news agencies will remain untouched although if a media organization is from another country it doesn't only it's not only about the us of course here or if it gets funded by anyone from abroad they may have to be on the list and we'll see when this amendment this draft amendment finally gets approved of course tell you about it since with moves in parliament already if lawmakers come up with anything else no doubt you'll come back to update us for how they relate to trying to thanks very much for that. just to remind you the pressure on r.t. started with the u.s. intelligence community claiming our channel was a so-called cog in russian meddling into american affairs back in september the us

justice department then demanded that we register as a foreign agent despite no proof that russia had any impact on the us election social media then began blocking our adverts on google you tube and twitter they did that ahead of testimony in congress despite having no problem with our team prior to that and some of the experts we've been speaking to think the pressure on r.t. america is a deflection tactic away from domestic problems in the us. the question here is why have the a.c.l.u. and amnesty international and all of these other civil liberties and human rights groups which defended al-jazeera its right to broadcast in the middle east when saudi arabia demanded al-jazeera shut its operations down why have they been silent on r.t. this is a clear attack on press freedom well the ruling elites desperately want to shut down any discussion of social inequality which is the engine that created this political upheaval and insurgencies in both of the two political parties and shift

the focus towards foreign actors to blame for and actors for the unrest and to blame. critics and dissidents for full matin discontent because if reality is faced and we confront the fact that this vast social inequality is tearing apart the american fabric then we have to confront and. dismantle the institutions that are creating this social inequality and that is what the ruling elites are desperately attempting to prevent. thanks thousands of people in yemen have lined the capital streets in protest against the saudi located of their country last week riyadh introduced a full blockade on yemen closing all access by and see the saudi led coalition and the civil war in twenty fifty supporting the ads to government against the rebels its goal kates have left millions starving and this led to what's been called the

deadliest outbreak of cholera in recent history however after pressure from the united nations and human rights groups the saudis claimed on monday that they would roll back the blockade to a polish one again. however human rights watch says that claim is a form of cruel fiction explaining that the ports the riyadh will reopen are not enough to provide essential supplies of food and medicines saudi arabia says it will continue with it's partially blocked. it until it's convinced there is no flow of weapons from iran going to the who thing rebels of the civil war in yemen is being seen by middle east experts as a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran next artie's jacqueline berger looks at whether the current cold war between the region's most powerful countries could lead to full scale conflict. the rivalry between middle east powerhouses saudi arabia and iran is nothing new yet it's becoming ever more tense with fears growing of a full blown war a missile launched by yemeni rebels directed at riyadh earlier this month has already got the saudis talking about direct aggression and war the coalition's commom considers this

a blatant active military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia joy you know the mites and position of the public people more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the iranian people you're not strong enough to do that wherever we look in the region conflicts can often be boiled down to saudi arabia and iran countering each other by proxy the saudi military campaign against the who is the rebels in yemen backed by iran saudi backing of sunni rebel groups in syria iran's support the assad government both of those conflicts are exactly panning out well for saudi arabia so how would they fare in a direct conflict with iran let's break it down. looking at a global military strength rating the two countries aren't far apart on the list with iran at twenty first and saudi arabia taking the twenty fourth position. and all riyadh's aviation outstrips tehran's iran wins out when it comes to tanks

and naval assets by a long run. it's probably no surprise that the saudi kingdom has a massive defense budget coming in at over fifty six billion dorf in the islamic republic's six billion and change. but when it comes to male power iran has significantly more citizens fit for service and the event of war you have a very rash ruler in saudi arabia i'm talking about the crown prince. you know he's just about ready to do. it so if you look at what happened with the lebanese prime minister it was basically forced to resign. and that gives you just didn't indicate of the how far will have been somebody is willing to go but i personally would be very very surprised if saudi arabia lost the war on iraq i would completely rule out iran launching a war on saudi arabia if study arabia had. a guaranteed stored chance of

winning i think it would go away with a war but i think saudi arabia believes it doesn't have a chance of winning a war against iran the rhetoric might be a boiling point at the moment but there's still no sign either side is ready for open conflict you're watching out see a british teacher's in trouble for saying well done to his pupils details on reaction when we come back. to you so. he put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be with us this is what. reasonable people are. interested always in.

this city. again the u.s. army's widening its recruitment pool by allowing people with a history of serious mental illness to enlist but psychiatrist warn that it could cause further harm to those vulnerable recruits column open house the story. mental

health issues no longer rule you out of serving in the american army at this point according to documents acquired by usa today if you have a history of depression drug and alcohol abuse bipolar disorder or even a self mutilation you can apply for a waiver and join the u.s. military the decision was primarily creased availability of medical records and other dates and which is now more readily available these records now army officials to better document applicant medical histories what's more important if you look at the reasons is that the army is having trouble recruiting new soldiers the number of waivers for marijuana use have increased as well chief of staff mark milley says that the army should be between five hundred forty thousand and five hundred fifty thousand but at this point it's only four hundred seventy six thousand active duty personnel people just aren't signing up many of today's youth . are. not inclined to want to leave their family and friends don't want to leave

their relatives family and friends they opposed them joining the military service it was kind of sad to find out for me being a prior soldier that the american public when we did the research they thought of the army as the lower left hand quadrant and we joined the army because we had nothing else to do lowering the standards of recruitment makes sense but it does present some problems in two thousand and five the standards were lowered for similar reasons and as a result the level of basic education among troops dramatically decreased by two thousand and seven about thirty percent of america's fighting men and women did not have a high school diploma in two thousand and twelve the standards and restrictions went up but now once again there's a shortage of people in uniform so once again the rules are changing a lot of the standards have been changing adjusted we have relaxed the standards too much in my opinion we have recruited very heavily in the volunteers were sure what i would call the lower middle class and the lower. soon or societies that are

not willing to unite then it is a fact the wall into your memory. is very expensive to fund to educate to train and so on incursion and movement into the middle east the way we did in depth in a state in iraq that took a heavy toll on room. the united states boasts of having the most powerful military in the world but if you look at how far they're willing to go in lowering the standards of who can be recruited it seems there are fewer americans that want to be part of it it would artsy new york. thanks to british school teacher has been suspended off the praising his students joshua sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done goals but that upset one pupil who now identifies as male the teacher insists he apologized immediately and says it was an accident the student in question. came in did very well and then i said well then girls started really well and i was met with

a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found out six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for a missed gendering within the community and for one day that transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where i've been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons josh also told us that he believes he's being singled out by the school over his religious beliefs i think i've been bullied really for you know for who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's a trend. nationwide is that christians are able to.

live out their faith in a professional setting all the incidents a big talking point in britain right now as to whether the schools are overreacting or highlighting a sensitive issue that needs careful handling. this particular teacher accidentally missed gender by calling a trans boy pupil a girl it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause offense so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i think that the school should obviously point out to him that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognize and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter is absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made an honest mistake and apologized that should have been the end of the matter this whole transgender agenda he's getting much much too much

influence in the british media and embrace society there are very small minority i feel sorry for anyone who thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain don't say there is doing anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. the lesson of hydro the sixth biggest cathedral in the world has played host to a classical concert aimed at building a cultural bridge between russian and american music lovers. it was.

the event called concert for unity included will famous pieces by both countries composers locust was led by renowned russian conductor that was joined by the washington national cathedral quiet top russian pianist of his but some have talked to us about the importance of the four. i think those measurements from i would. be in position to speak of the major language in the world who does. the sleep and music when we but music classical music isn't big terribly. it's small simple. i'm hoping that we can find a way to keep doors open to cultural dialogue because in difficult times it is cultural dialogue that helps to create a common common ground for giant for finding ways to.

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