our headline stories this hour another retraction from a major us media played over its coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house. collusion with moscow. the u.s. korea begin their biggest ever joint. north korea says washington is quote begging for a nuclear war. also ahead on the program and. of warfare nato members began drawing up plans for more muscular responses and that's a quote to state sponsored cyber attacks.

live from our international news center in moscow this is r t thanks for tuning in my names. our top story this hour full claims on washington's ties with moscow have landed one top u.s. political reporter with a suspension the a.b.c. news network handed out the punishment for a report which said donald trump had told his former security advisor to contact russian officials before his election victory instead it transpired it was after he became american president that involved the war in syria but critics are now rounding trump for hindering an investigation into his acts adviser michael flynn's actions. what we're beginning to see is the putting together. case of obstruction of justice i think we see this in the indictment the four indictments and plays that have just taken place he sets out that he wasn't acting as a rogue agent that in fact he was acting with the knowledge and at the direction of

people who were senior members of the transition team i think probably all of which ultimately ended up in the administration of president tweeted on saturday he'd fired flynn for lying to the vice president and the f.b.i. flynn at the time was under investigation when f.b.i. director james comey claimed he was asked to drop the case and trump's lawyer has taken responsibility for composing the potentially incriminating tweet with the president himself he hit back out james coburn take a look i never asked me to stop investigating flynn just more fake news covering another commie lie. but if checking explains fake news is must being what the investigation into alleged russian ties has actually proven. after almost a year of investigations into whether team trump and big bad russia were in on it together the only concrete things to come out of those inquiries is

a couple charges of making false statements and a shocking revelation that we knew a year ago this building doesn't see anything necessarily. you know you know played about for attacks between members of the incoming administration and foreign officials that are what's on trigger right now and again this is an ongoing we have no. you know no comment during no problem with them doing such on their own the obama administration saw no issue in michael flynn's conversations with the then russian ambassador because it was par for the course but that didn't stop the media running wild over his guilty plea for in fact checking to the wind like a.b.c.'s award winning chief investigative correspondent brian ross who won't be on the air for the next four weeks because of his false reporting on flynn he's prepared to testify we have told by a confidant against president trump against members of from family and all those in the white house is prepared to testify the president as a candidate donald trump ordered him directly to make contact with the russians

which contradicts all that donald trump has said this point that bombshell report sent shock waves across the nation even taking the u.s. stock market only to be proved fake in reality michael flynn was asked to contact the russians only after trump had already won the election which makes a world of difference you can't sway a vote that's already played out a.b.c. issued an apology about how they deeply regret the serious error saying they had not fully vetted ross the story well maybe they should have known better given his history of producing fake news back in two thousand and one ross made the explosive claim that saddam hussein may have been responsible for anthrax attacks in the u.s. citing only anonymous sources the white house personally shot down that story and what they refer to as concocted claims one news agency describe ross as quote having produced more high level haphazard reporting than perhaps any other reporter on. television although to be fair he's far from alone when it comes to reporting especially when it comes to stories on rush.

he will dispute that he ever assured the president that he was not under any kind of investigation. march the thirtieth and i think again i think i told him we're not investigating him personally that was true. corrections clarifications and apologies are all well and good but more often than not once the fake story is out of the bag the retraction does little to put it back on. to another headline stories this hour aside korea and the united states have begun conducting their largest ever joint drills according to officials in seoul

the exercises came to washington indicates war with north korea is becoming increasingly likely. so what has the potential of war with north korea increased since this latest launch i think it's increasing every day which means that we're in a race really we're in a race to be able to solve this problem is crazy to send spouses and children to south korea given the provocation of north korea so i want them to stop sending dependents and i think it's now time to start moving american dependents out of south korea. america send six tactical stealth jets and eighteen of its latest fighter planes to participate in the drills along with iran at twelve thousand military personnel so i korea ses the drills are aimed at improving the allies wartime capabilities many also see them as a display of the country's military might.

i . north korea announced last week that it had tested its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile to date it's full of to be capable of hitting the u.s. mainland feeling young also claimed this weekend washington is quote begging for a nuclear war russia and china been calling on north korea under american boot to refrain from reckless moves but that goal has been flatly rejected by washington political analyst use of chang told me the recent developments indicate that the parties to the conflict are unwilling to negotiate. this certainly not sensible and this is not going to be very effective both the united space. are

not ready to accept the suggestion on the part of china russia may need to stop nuclear missile tests on the part of north korea and military exercises on the part of the united space and south korea to january. atmosphere for negotiations it will be difficult to expect beijing to do more wowed the united states we feel so as to do anything to bring about peaceful negotiations on a rational basis i think the united states probably i understand is now extremely a diver go to ours north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program so the only way is to negotiate we still come on the wisdom of all parties concerned and we still assume that the remaining rational on the last point it certainly

means that at the moment at this stage all parties do not want a military conflict in the region. violent mass protests are continuing in honduras over allegations the country's presidential election was rigged that's the spike the authorities agreeing to a partial recount of the vote i am. i hear those are the scenes in the capital tens of thousands of people out in force to get their backing to the opposition candidate salvatore. or the ballot papers are being reviewed but nasrallah says he will not recognize the result less a much broader. is not the rally he also gave a speech urging the army to refuse to enforce a nationwide curfew that was imposed last week well current president juan orlando

hernandez not stay late victory in the vote he surged towards the right at the end of the coin and many are suspicious of the nature of the win for hernandez tensions then spilled over in the central american nation leading to a week of unrest in which three people died many others were injured.

defense too often it's seven nato members are considering a more aggressive approach to talk to state sponsored hucking they say retaliation could even involve cyber attacks however there could be some hidden pitfalls as it's very difficult to prove the source of any attack against if explains. first came on these then navy's air force is next now there are a cyber nice there is a change in the mindset that computers just like craft and ships have an offensive capability in two thousand and fourteen need to recognize the need for collective self-defense in the cybersphere self defense in two thousand and sixteen need to recognize the online world as a battleground land sea and the internet in two thousand and seven seed they're now

talking about a sense of capabilities a fence attack boy that escalated quickly it is inevitable because the way competition works if someone doesn't do something then someone else will and so either you're doing it often simply or you're doing it defensive plays so the likelihood of it occurring is very high and i would say that most responsible heads of state would would would be on board with such a program the united states britain germany no way spain denmark and the netherlands have announced that they'll now respond to alleged cyber attacks with their own problem here is not that all these countries shouldn't they have the right to stand up for themselves every nation does the problem is how on earth are you going to prove anything given the ability to to use proxies and to spoof. it's very difficult to tell where a cyber attack originates from when the target is able to capture the code

compromised some machine. they can sometimes read the signature of that code and say oh that looks like russian code or looks like chinese code or looks like israeli code so they can say it reminds us of or has sections or modules that look like ones we've seen before and so that type. forensic analysis can be used to determine the likely source but you can't tell where the actual payload came from that isn't fantasy thanks that we could leaks we know that the cia has an entire mechanism dedicated to impersonating others they do this by faking digital i.d.'s and by leaving behind traces leading to third parties like china or russia which begs the question how do you respond to your email being hacked when you can't reliably deduce who did it if you crash your suspected adverse series bank network will bring down

a power plant perhaps the national traffic light system there's nothing no rules in the cyber world is wilder than the wild west ever was we're out of reporting donald trump is still to make up his mind over israel's capital city we explain that story in fighting words just like the second stories they were.

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recognize true islam of the capital but won't move the american embassy there from tel aviv this spotlight on earlier pledge to do just that presidents going to make his decision and and he hasn't made his decision and he's still looking at a lot of different facts and that when he makes his decision. he'll be the one to want to tell you. well jerusalem has a special separated body status as the city is contested by israel and palestine its been a key area of dispute in the conflict between the two b. israeli government claims jerusalem as its capital but most of the international community does not recognize it. if the u.s. were to recognize it it would likely inflame tensions in the mideast trumps initiative to move his country's embassy to jerusalem which he outlined on the presidential campaign trail has been condemned by the countries there a secretary general warns that the proposal would fuel extremism and lead to

violence a member of the israeli parliament discuss the issue in the latest episode of support. if any negotiation has to happen it has first of all to be sponsored by an international international community i'm not only by the united states then other states of america is not an objective power in what's concerning israel and palestine i have seen already how trump administration and trump himself is acting on different issues he is unpredictable he is this is the least we can say he is not stable in his policy and fatah made a good ad it is known that all the people that are working with him on the palestinian israeli issue are very very much a loyal to the israeli side if we take into consideration also the american interest in the region and how israel is serving these interests for them i am

going to that's why i do not see that the united states of america especially headed by is a good news for the palestinian issue. a court case from what we saw of the world to the other senior peruvian former go up against the german energy joint evidence has been put forward alleging the company or w e under its emissions are to blame for an ice glacier melting in south america. the blog of the two places up there blocks of ice that hang over the lake and. they now they could fall down in an avalanche. in the middle knows when this will happen there's always the risk that a huge flood wave will rush down into our valley it would be a disaster loan to him a good person who does too and that's why we demand that they install protection

measures at our glacial lake and also so it would have. an even better or that they should stop contaminating the climate in the future so that all people can survive through. the village where saw lives is located near a glacier lake in the andes mountains and it's flooding could be the result of climate change the dangers posed by the melting ice meant the former move to r. w. we considered by some campaign groups and others to be the largest emitter of carbon dioxide and sole once the energy giant to pay for the damages caused by flooding to protect his village against future floods. however r.w. he denies the accusations saying the case has no legal basis in a report the company says its objective is to avoid or minimize the negative consequences of its activities while promising to reduce emissions by fifteen

percent within three years. we are focusing on. listing it. so you're investing in the millions your to make the part. we're investing in a green future. or we took the opportunity to speak to the former lawyer as well about the case. the current situation in this city i don't know is you know there is. that for half the costs. to be invested in securing relationally in the markets in the east above the city of white house he will not himself get any money out of this but what's he looking at is a determination by which injuries that are we europe's largest you know how big it's those costs. you know three time

oscar winning director or first stone is on sophie and co in around five minutes time in fact he talks about his up close on personal interviews with vladimir putin on the current state of u.s. russia relations this is some of what was talked about we went to the kremlin and we shot mr putin or over three days. at that time we didn't know if this would go on it was simply you know take it as it comes like we're doing and play it by ear it was spontaneous i gave him a list of quick questions i was areas that i was going to cover but it wasn't limited he didn't say it was totally spontaneous i didn't have any limitation else can handle all the way through and as you can see by every day i look different he was always the same he looked very together i was sometimes i had jet lag and play here was blown in the way and this that i get i changed appearances several times

but. in other words i'm the opposite of an american anchor i don't look like megan kelly i don't look like you even he's the ultimate negotiator you wear you out he really believes in talking about everything there's no there are certain points of interest for every country has its national interests and constantly in parts of this russia has its national interests and he's open to the go to negotiating anything but those national interests and when you cross the line. he will let you know because you know i thought i pushed him or whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession in what's going to happen next year there were times i riled him more than once but i am concerned and the reason i undertook the series was i was very concerned about going back to my relationship to russia what happened to the american russian relationship.

and he always interesting oliver stone do stick around because that full interview is coming your way in just a few moments spent at the top of the hour colum bray has all your news this monday afternoon they were.

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be. so we need to seize these opportunities in organizing. the welcome to serve. not say he won oscars. films are cult classics part of american consciousness now all over a stone's latest project was to film an extensive series of interviews with

russia's ludmer couldn't. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience i over sounds great have you with us today so if you're having a great trip in moscow it's just got here so your book competitor extensive interviews with is published by you called the good interviews for day to day shows climax to my strange life as an american filmmaker climax your career oh this is the best thing you've ever done. you know i have to take the point of view that it could be the last film too you never know time is seems more precious when you get a little bit older and as a filmmaker it's a very young profession you know and very few and america especially it kind of goes fast you don't get often another chance so i felt like this was a kind of a climax not that it's a feature film but that it's the most safe at this time in history the

most forbidding character to american media to american and western europe to i think forbidding kind of. cross into that into another world i'm glad i got here i mean i did mr castro and i did mr chavez i did mr arafat's and also as a young who was a character when he was out of office back when he was out of office he's now in power forever it seems but these characters all led me to this moment with mr putin . and i frankly i enjoyed the meeting him i met him originally on the at the on one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and a lot of the movie and soden was represents what ad this point of view was so getting that information took time and we came back and we're trying to be accurate the last scene of the movie was shot in moscow so after

a by one i met mr putin which is in the back room of a theater in moscow a play an old like hundred sixty s. play he was attending to promote folkloric culture. we met the back and i asked him about mr snowden and he gave me the russian version his version of what happened which was fascinating different than what we had been told in the public. newspapers and so forth but anyway long telling the story quickly is getting back to the end of the movie if snowden we shot in moscow to a weekend with with ed and then we turned around a few days later we went to the kremlin and we shot mr putin over three days and. at that time we didn't know if this would go on it was simply you know take it as it comes like you're doing and play it by ear.