yeah. breaking news graphic and disturbing video emerges showing the body of former yemeni president ali abdullah saleh is understood to have been killed by who the fighters after an alliance between them collapsed last week. another retraction from a major u.s. media outlet over coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house team trump's alleged collusion with russia. and the president of mali confirms that a french airstrike in october killed my soldiers did not deserve to join the jihadists as was earlier believed. another lie from moscow this is r.t.

international my name is colleen bray beginning with our breaking news this hour on what's likely to be a significant development in the civil war in yemen the former president ali abdullah saleh has been killed in fighting in the capital sanaa his death been confirmed by the country's interior ministry which is controlled by the rebels the videos being released showing his dead body now please be aware that the footage we're about to show you is extremely graphic it's upsetting to watch. ali abdullah saleh was at the helm of yemen from nine hundred ninety up until twenty twelve and was deposed during the arab spring unrest the internal conflict that ensued afterwards saw him team up with these against president hadi however made a public break from the shia rebel fighters in a speech on saturday. allies saw that move as a betrayal and move to drive forces loyal to him out of the capital sanaa who the rebels say the politician was killed while he was trying to flee the city the car that you can see on the screen now is believed to be the one that he was trying to escape in the shia militants now claim that is under their control with militias

defeated a local journalist in the yemeni capital that i talked to an hour ago believed that the country now risks sliding even further into violence. within the coming two hours things will be will be clearer. about his about what happened really. this news has sent shock waves across the country so far many analysts believe that the situation on the campus and with it wouldn't stop by the death of the former president as the loyalists of the former presidents would would continue his march especially as the former president has his son in the united arab emirates. used to lead the republican guards. the believe that the. republican guards were. with would join ranks were fired against the fighters.

a top u.s. political reporter working for a.b.c. news has been suspended without pay after making false claims about potential collusion between team from moscow he stated the trumpet directed flynn to make contacts with russia while he was still a candidate but flynn is not believed to have established dialogue until after the election trumps former aide be making headlines since friday when he pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the then russian ambassador to the u.s. led became the first former white house official to be charged in the so-called russian investigation because jacqueline berger explains fake news is masking what the probe into alleged collusion has actually uncovered 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 appropriate about between members of the incoming administration and foreign

officials or what contributor for you know right now and again this is an ongoing we have no. you know no comment or 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're 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 contacts with the russians which contradicts all the other as 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 have 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 russia. if you will just view it that he ever assured the president that he was not under

any kind of investigation. the march the thirtieth and i think again i mean i think on april eleventh as well children were. 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 in. west africa where the country's president has confirmed and soldiers were killed in a french air strike in october thought its operation was targeting forces that had deserted to join an islamist group however it's now believed that those soldiers have been taken hostage by the japanese. the hostages and the should be ambiguity about that between our french friends and one of those stories where the truth is

really hard to be established but what we know for sure so far is that at the end of october the french military stationed in africa is part of the anti terrorist operation but hunt carried out a strike targeting the northern part of mali the country's troubled region suffering a lot in the last five years and currently from islamist violence according to the french commanders fifteen jihadist were killed in the attack including who they believe were former mollen soldiers who joined the ranks of the islamists the discovery of a terrorist cell in the region of. lead to a joint action between the french special forces and operation barkin soldiers this operation allowed us to take out fifteen members of this group but what is surprising in this situation is the reaction of mali's president despite the death of the country's soldiers that could have been killed by mistake and could be

considered as collateral damage his reaction is very mordor it is regrettable because unfortunately happen in these types of operations we should. not look for reasons that don't exist why is he doing that it's really hard to say he may have he's at his own reasons and we know that mali has been helped a lot by friends to fight against islamist groups in the northern part of the country but again this is one of those stories where the accounts could be different from assad's involved and it's really hard to establish where is the truth. south korea in the united states have begun conducting the largest ever joined aerial drills according to officials in seoul exercises come as washington indicates the war with north korea is becoming increasingly likely. so 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 american said six tactical stealth jets and eighteen of its latest fighter planes to participate in the drills along with around twelve thousand military personnel south korea says the drills are aimed at improving the allies wartime capabilities previous joint drills have been seen by many as a display of the two country's military might. i . last week north korea test fired an

intercontinental ballistic missile said to be capable of hitting the u.s. mainland also claimed at the weekend that washington is quote begging for nuclear war russia and china have been calling on north korea and america both to refrain from reckless moves but that calls been flatly rejected by washington political analyst joseph chang believes that's not helping the situation on the peninsula. this certainly not sensible and this is not going to be very effective both the united states and south korea are not ready to accept the suggestion on the part of china russia they 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. it's claimed that a british aid company is inadvertently funding jihadists in syria adam smith international which aims at improving living conditions in third world countries is accused of letting its funding and up in the hands of terrorists according to a t.v. documentary which will be broadcast later only boy has the details. the british government had a scheme whereby it provided funding towards policing and community services in opposition held areas of syria and this project was about funding the so-called free syrian police force and it was implemented by this company adam smith international where outside the headquarters here in london the b.b.c. panorama is now alleging that british taxpayers' money may have ended up in the hands of over extremists as a result of this british government scheme according to documents seen by the

investigation police in the electoral process province were forced to hand over cash to an extremist group that was in control of the area that it also claims that the syrian branch of al qaida nuestra had conned picked up police offices for two of these free syrian police stations in a province and there are allegations that there were dead and fictitious people on the forces payroll now the foreign office has confirmed that funding for this scheme has now been suspended take a listen to what it had to say would take any allegations of cooperation with terrorist groups i know human rights abuses extremists on the foreign office has suspended this program while we investigate these allegations adam smith international have cooled the claims about that was entirely untrue and misleading the company says that it refutes them and that it will pursue every legal avenue in

order to defend the reputation of the project and the company itself of course the topic of the british foreign aid is one that's highly controversial there's a lot of public debate about it that's taxpayers' money that's sent abroad to help all of the countries thirteen billion pounds a year to be precise. many hands say that the government should be spending some of that money instead on things like the public health service and on education so allegations that some of the government's money may have ended up in the hands of extremists it is only going to fuel the minds of political reporting from london about donald trump still have to make up his mind over which city he regards to be israel's capital they tell us all not all after the break.

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welcome back a cold case from one side of the world to the other has seen a peruvian farmer go up against a german energy giant evidence has been put forward alleging that the company are the u.a.e. and its emissions are to blame for a glass here that's melting in south america look at the two glaciers up there are blocks of ice that hang over the lake like mushrooms. only day now they could fall down in an avalanche. as in a little 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 zone to this episode and that's why we demand that they install protection measures at our glacial lake this in also so it would have. been even

better or that they should stop contaminating the climate in the future so that all people can survive. the village where salt lives is located near a glacial lake in the andes mountains and that flooding could be the result of climate change the dangers posed by the melting ice meant that the farmer move to sue are considered by some campaign groups to be the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide and so wants the energy giant to pay for the damages caused by flooding and to protect his village against future flood however are the only way 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. you're focusing on. the stimulus. so you're investing in the million dollars to make the plant think.

we're investing in a green future. or here's what the farmer's lawyer had to say about the case the current situation in this city there is no risk. for half the costs. to be invested in securing the nation a leak. in the above this is your white house he will not the self gets any money out of this but what he will get is a determination i am forced into that are only we europe's largest it has to be it's those parts. next from defense to off and seven nato members are considering a more aggressive approach to tackling state sponsored hacking they say that cyber attacks could also be an option however there could be some hidden pitfalls as more

i guess you have never explained. first came. then navy's air force is next now there are a cyber nice there is a change in the mindset so except the computer is just like a 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 defensively so the likelihood of it occurring is very high and i would say that most responsible heads

of state 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 the 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 can 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 or east bank network 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. a senior white house advisers president trump has not yet decided on whether to

recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel speculation been rife that he might make the decision this week president's going to make his decision and. this decision he's still looking at a lot of different facts and when he makes his decision. he'll be the want to want to tell you. reason it's a sensitive contentious issue is because jerusalem is a holy city for muslims christians and also for jews and it's been a key area of dispute in the conflict between israelis and palestinians the israeli government claims jerusalem as its capital and most of the international community doesn't recognize it as such now if the u.s. were to recognize it it would likely inflame tensions and cross the middle east initiative to move the country's embassy to jerusalem which he outlined on the presidential campaign trails being condemned by the arab league countries the secretary general warning that the proposal would fuel extremism and also violence one israeli m.p. has been discussing the issue artie's worlds apart which you can watch online right

now. if any negotiation has to happen it has first of all to be sponsored by an international international community and not only by the united states then other states of america is not an objective power in what's called 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 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 my regular that's why i do not see that the united

states of america especially headed by trump is a good news for the palestinian issue. finally this hour a russian trolley bus money factor has produced a cutting edge new electric vehicle that's generating interest around the world we go from santiago went to visit our factory to find out what sets it apart from the rest. worth the trials a trolley bus factory in surat of russia now by world ranking trousers number one and charlie buss productions putting out over eight hundred thousand trolleybuses since one thousand to fifty one hours early as nine hundred seventy it began exporting its product abroad to south america and europe and in twenty fourteen it created its flagship vehicle the elektra bus makes this guy special is this working in battery which makes this car a full fledged electric vehicle. the trials of packed all the way back to eight hundred sixty eight today's it has over eight hundred employees working daily

to produce two hundred of these fourteen time machines annually now as far as electro gas it takes charles a team six days to produce one fifteen battery powered vehicle aside from tech sporting a broad charles also has seventy five percent of the russian trolley plus market it's passed with eighty five russian meetings using the trials of champions. all like so what makes the electric bus special and it was in the military both with a dynamic chilled system is an optimal solution for cities that already have it requiring the special features of these vehicles including lithium ion batteries the low of the vehicle to run twenty to fifty kilometers without the need for additional. battery capacity can be selected by the customer is a more comfortable public transport vehicle and equipment lube range of speeches such as climate control insulating glazing range visibility windshields going to

make seats in both the driver and passengers it's the super bowl where you are exporting to right now and what are the plans for the future. twenty fourteen to twenty seven saying we're exporting oil extra buses to argentina right now we have a few interesting projects with the european kind of reconstruction and development and we're. also a negotiation with a number of countries in the southeast asia so we have three plans promoting the doing the job of the. end of the survey and as though it's trolley bus service has its own story like in cordoba we found the trolls and meets all our needs it has high quality machines it offer solutions such as for special needs passengers they have stopped through everything the seats layout very spacious easy to use excessive realty a lot of things that make the rides more comfortable presidents couldn't wait to

have the new look to go online and now they're asking for more so we have already planned another two and i hope we'll continue the partnership with trolls and now it's time for you to. get food like. some. high never drove a bus or get a little something to take on the system basses rod said back much old school plays fourteen tons so i could do it so can you give us a lot of brush let's just go to. some top russian tech making life

a bit more comfortable for commuters worldwide that's it for me for now join me get in half an hour i'll be back with the next hour to international news updates see them. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rescued. that's a right to be for us this is what the forecast for in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question.

time after time they were going underground on the day de facto catalan president called double faces a belgian court to defend the right of his people to break up spain coming over the show from the millions of bodies that lie in ashes of endless imperial wars around the world to the world of journalists on the ever developing electronic battlefield we speak short winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger about using his documentaries to smash mainstream media silence all this and more coming up on today's going underground well no one said it would be easy but today u.k. prime minister theresa may meet with the president of the european commission. those who support that are a very loose coalition of those left behind by rampant neo liberal economic

policies stemming from successive u.k. governments and idealistic utopian free marketeers there's against that include the failed and bailed out city of london financial institutions and what is nebulously called the establishment those who've done relatively well as inequality has soared and of course there is the young educated by british school curricula that is arguably privileged identity politics over the last five decades such of them rex it appears isolationist and anti travel has for britain is arguable colonial rule of the united states its attempt to intervene in the brics that referendum was clear and i believe the u.k. strengthens both our collective security and prosperity through the e.u. . in the twenty first century the nations that make their presence felt on the world stage aren't the nations that go it alone the british people didn't vote the way washington wanted it to and whichever way our british viewers voted one thing is next guest has been one of the few thorns in the side of mainstream narratives

some of which ultimately appeared to have failed to persuade the british people to vote to remain in the european union his name is john pilger the award winning author and filmmaker who revealed to the world not only the horrors of nato wars but the deliberately hidden abuse of power by nato governments a retrospective of his entire film work is now being held at the british library where gulmarg to change a third of the world within decades of writing there the british library festival celebrates the acquisition of six decades of print film and radio from john pilger you can go and see some of the films and watch john pilger talk at the british library on the ninth and tenth of december he joins me now john thanks for coming back on what's your reaction to this of your work in the british library well i'm armed absolutely delighted the british library is is a wonderful institution. and i went to an exhibition the year or two about propaganda. and i thought oh.