thank. you. this precious action which stretched on the international border on which we. the british prime minister calls on europe to unite against the so-called russian threat in a speech her critics say is this to draw fire from the struggling negotiations. 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 changes. from words for the rhetoric around proxy conflicts intensifies between iran and saudi arabia we examine what might be unleashed if they resort to military measures.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is our two international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story this hour the british prime minister is calling to unite against russia and it's supposed that threat to europe freezing may accuse moscow of military aggression election meddling and spreading fake news without going into any detail just 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 need to live as 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 option to tell mine the prime minister about how. worried for finance errors in the city generally is about the

lack of progress in the briggs it talks he said that fine words butter no parsnips and the city wants to see a good break zip deal now however to reason may's speech hardly touched upon the issue of bragg's it at all as he spoke about global challenges facing the u.k. and its allies and the star of the show in terms of global challenges really was russia that was what she chose to focus her criticism on russia has fermented conflict in the dawn by 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 the put into 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 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 her brief career in power is now bringing out the old scapegoat or one of these major accusations was not russia heard use large steel cyber attacks against sovereign foreign states but she failed to notice that in many cases like the allegations of hacking in the french or german elections. no evidence was actually put forward to support those claims

better than it's not russian heart because our q e-mails no i don't i mean we have evidence of attacks on the from the plain english of the evidence of the some very well known the russian website conveyed. and. so we just go with. no information pointing at that interference. or the british p.m.'s message comes on the back of a tough week for her domestically theresa may continues to be hunted by m.p.'s over her breaks in negotiations which are seemingly yet to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so that the e.u. chief breaks it negotiators he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning breaks it talks could collapse entirely or pressure is also building on may with rumors that forty m.p.'s are readying a letter of no confidence that number is just eight short of the required total to

force a new leadership election within her conservative party we discuss the p.m.'s predicament with party veteran and former government minister peter lilley he believes her speech wasn't just directed at moscow was as much a message to europe because it was to russia saying we are the major security power 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. we do deal with the second half or 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 heman we don't like each other's regimes we are natural allies. well the blame russia

card is also being played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry by star trek actor george tech a music used of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early eighties claims he strongly deny and deleted tweet kay said russian balls were in the allegations against them he attempts to chart which apparently shows he was targeted by russian trolls the information came from a website claims to truck russian influence on twitter called the alliance for securing democracy but it actually states that not all the six hundred accounts it monitors are necessarily created or controlled by russia and some of the reaction in social media isn't buying into the case claims.

the media. jumping on the russia allegations bandwagon is getting out of hand. he should have said that cling on and may have done it no says russian bots 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 certain that some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation 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 i was

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 this story doesn't even make any sense. after facing months of pressure from washington r.t. america has not been forced to register as a foreign agent in the us let's get straight into this because correspondent joins me in the studio hi you brass tacks what does this mean for the child. you don't well just think about it r t america is now officially a foreign agent in the u.s. eighteen years after far came into being our u.s. branch officially registered under the foreign agents registration act which dates

back to the times before the second world war and back then the purpose was to make sure that no minds of u.s. citizens are influenced bargain is ations that are funded by nazi germany whatever it was the purpose of the u.s. department of justice in the twenty first century r.t. america. the first they set a deadline and r.t. america met the deadline because nobody wanted to be in trouble with u.s. law enforcement but just let's take a look at some of the things that r.t. america could be obliged to do all the time now for example attaching a public disclaimer to any piece of information that comes out or filing a version or a copy to the department of justice within forty eight hours of transmission and many other rules and i can tell you that it will take a long while to adjust to this new reality and actually to figure out whether it is technically possible to take tweets for example does this mean that any tweet

posted by r.t. america needs a disclaimer or do they need to send all the tweets to the u.s. justice department and experts have argued that in the reality of the social media output in the twenty first century which is normal for any media right now this could be something that is actually in part impossible to be honest although this crackdown on our team america has been largely ignored by those who you would expect to speak out on the issues of freedom of speech and didn't go completely unnoticed you can take an ngo based in new york that's called the committee to protect journalists they were very critical of the ultimatum said by the department of justice here bits of their statements compelling our team to register under far and. bad idea where i'm comfortable with the government deciding what constitutes journalism or propaganda and you may well argue that the us authorities here are applying double standards because there is china's c.d.t.

in america that's operating in the us no issues whatsoever. it's the us branch was there for a few we were years and it was absolutely fine and i won't be lying you know if i tell you that here at r.t. we're all expecting more critical reaction from individuals and n.g.o.s what about the reaction then from moscow is something expected there well i can tell you that it's still work in progress when it comes to the reaction here in russia no specific measures have been announced but the lawmakers are working on it and previously we heard from officials on the very highest level including the president vladimir putin that steps will be taken. to slow and you might create 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 did you buy them so there's no democracy without freedom of speech and attack on our media in the us is that make no mistake and it's back on freedom of speech itself it will definitely have to formulate

a response to that sort of when it will be ten for tat is it going. the question is which specific media outlets will be affected by this retaliation russian officials said that it could be either u.s. based or american funded media you can think voice of america the likes of c.n.n. a video channel called current time radio free europe slash radio liberty but now here's something that's important here in order for these news organizations to become foreign agents in this country russia's own legislation requires amendments and the lawmakers are currently sorting this out we just heard from the vice speaker of the duma who said that according to the drafted amendment news agencies will remain untouched but if a news organization is not a news agency but it's from any other country not only the u.s. or if it gets funding from abroad they may have to end up becoming

a part of that list of foreign agents in russia ok so we just away the final take on the from moscow for bringing us right up to date thank you. well indeed just to remind you the pressure on our t.v. 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 u.s. justice department then demanded we register as a foreign agent now that's the spite no proof that russia had any impact on the us election social media event began blocking our adverts on google you tube twitter they did ballot ahead of testimony in congress the spine having no problem with authority prior to that and the experts we spoke to think the pressure on our team america is that the flexion tactic away from domestic problems in the u.s. 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 actors for the unrest and to blame. critics and dissidents for formatting 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. delusions of people in yemen in the capital streets in protest against the saudi led blockade of the country last week introduced a full blockade on yemen closing all access by. the sunni led coalition entered the civil war in twenty fifteen supporting the government against hutu rebels its blockades have left millions starving has led to what's being called the deadliest brink of cholera in recent history however after pressure from the united nations and human rights groups the saudis claimed on monday they would roll back the blockade to a partial born again however human rights watch say a claim is a form of quote cruel fiction expanding the ports riyadh will reopen aren't enough to provide essential supplies of food and medicine so the rebias say it will

continue with the partial blockade until it's convinced there is no flow of weapons from iran going. to rebels. well a civil war in yemen is seen by middle east experts as a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran. 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 jordan you know the mites and position of the public people more powerful than you have been able to do anything against the iranian people you're not strong enough to do that where 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 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 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 mohammed bin son you know he's just about ready to do any dangerous iraq if you look at what happened with the lebanese prime minister a socket it was basically forced to resign and that gives you just an indicator of the how far behind but been some man 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. guarantees or chance of winning i think it would go ahead with the war but i think saudi arabia believes it doesn't have a chance of winning and 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 more news in ninety seconds stay with us.

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hello again the u.s. army's widening its recruitment pool by allowing people with a history of serious mental illness to enlist but psychiatrists warn that it could cause further harm to those vulnerable recruits with the story here kill amuck. 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 us military the decision was primarily due to the increased 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've relaxed the standards too much in my opinion we have recruited very heavily in the volunteers were what i would call the lower middle class and the lower. soon or societies that are not wealthy in that it is a fact the volunteer memory. is very expensive to. educate to train and so on incursion and movement into the middle east that we didn't do

afghanistan or iraq that took a heavy toll on room. the other states boast 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. artsy york. a british school teacher has been suspended after praising his students just us sutcliffe congratulated his muffs last by saying well done girls but that upset one people who know identifies as a male the teacher insists he apologized immediately and say's it was an accident the student in question. came in did very well and then i said rather than girls you 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 mis gendering within the community and initially 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 well joshua 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 well the incident is a big talking point in britain right now as to whether the schools overreacting or

highlighting a sensitive issue that needs. this particular teacher accidentally missed gendered by calling a trans boy pupil a girl it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause a phone it's 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 it's absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made an honest mistake. 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 they're 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 not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain don't say that he's done anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me if you'd like to delve deeper into bout dot com house you cover now i'll see you again in half an hour's time. africa's assuming that africa is going to be a complete powerhouse africa is going to be the twenty first century winner in the crypto world because they're already in the mobile phone already exchanging and dealing on currencies the already light years ahead of america europe india africa baby that's one thing about moving to africa i want to be part of the revolution in africa. you seen years ago i

traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better life better and i think they are inheriting whenever my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand called inhofe a million americans have been killed by phones in the us how does the team yes we did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw it had to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. good hopes and. we put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go on to be pros this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and. this should. greetings and sal you taste you know every so often hawk watchers generally through a combination of outrage hubris and ego the veil covering up who really pulls the strings in washington d.c. gets gets lifted in a crack of light shines through illuminating just how corrupt and irresponsible to the many the system has now become recently one of those rare great moments came

courtesy of diamond resorts international founder and major democratic party donor steven kull back who gallop answered on the m s n b c and tore down that veil after being asked but asked by host stephanie ruhle if the democratic party is right to adopt the message of the bernie sanders down with the billionaires progressives here was his response it's so f.n. wrong whoa i've come to schumer i've talked to whiten i've talked to palosi and and i said if you used the term billionaires again i'm done. call back when i'm to say during the course of the interview that we should be the party of doing well we should be the party of business and leadership and i've made it very clear i'll cut your money off and others will do the same we've had enough we need to rebranded. and that plagues and gentlemen is how politics really works

it's the big donors the steve include backs the sheldon adelson is the koch brothers who decide just what the party message shall be otherwise no money for you no money for you and was super pacs raising over one point five billion in campaign money and according to the washington post just ten mega donor individuals and couples contributed nearly twenty percent of the one point one billion raised by super pacs by the end of august in that presidential election cycle of last year the new gilded age of politics is here in washington and around the world it is not going anywhere which is why we are watching the hawks. that's. the bottom. that i got.