the special. graphic and disturbing video emerges showing the body of the former yemeni president ali abdullah saleh he is understood to have been killed by who he fight is after an alliance between them collapsed last week. also this hour the president of mali conflicts the french account of an air strike in northern mali in october saying the mumbai argument killed soldiers not jihadists and another attraction from a major us media outlet over coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house team trumps alleged collusion russia.

hello good evening you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone eight o'clock here in the russian capital now we begin in yemen where former president ali abdullah saleh has been killed in fighting in the capital sana'a a video has been released showing his body but he's be aware though the footage we are about to show you is extremely graphic and upsetting to see salai was at the helm of yemen from one thousand nine hundred twenty twelve and was supposed during the arab spring unrest the internal conflict that ensured afterwards saw him team up with the rebels against president however he made a public break from the shia rebel fighters in a speech on saturday is former ally saw this move as a pretrial move to drive forces loyal to him out of the capital sana'a who the rebels say the politician was killed while he was trying to flee the city found the car you can see here is believed to be the one he was trying to escape the shia

militants claim son are is now under their control with pro-style a militia is defeated a local journalist in the yemeni capital believes there's a been a clear divide among yemenis over sollars dealings with the saudis. this latest decision to turn back to the domination of saudi arabia has angered many yemenis specially as the saudi war has led to the killing of thousands of civilians and also it's a devastating impacts of its blockade on the imposed of the country well while i consider that such a decision betty. for. saudi arabia to open a new chapter of relations with yemen such a such a news also have been welcomed by some yemenis. ok let's discuss this than i with yemeni journalists he say in our car saying he's with us good evening she has saying thanks for coming on what you think will be the

consequences of salaries death in the water own country. to be honest i think this will strengthen. position inside yemen because the last was considered after his speech two days ago when he called for the saudi that coalition to open a new page with him now. in full control of all of the last forces he cannot interfere anymore and move and fight against the. coalition. it was actually a big mistake from him to decide to turn against the horses which he was in coalition with them it could have been better if he had actually broke the coalition and withdraw from the government withdraw from the high rolling council he could even have used parliament which is totally under. his party controlled he

could have used it to dismiss them on government but seems to be that he had it all planned with the united arab emirate but like i said now where you have only one power in yemen it's always better than having to. always have conflicts how do you think saudi arabia will respond. the saudi because they now they have lost one of their final card which they have used it after almost three years of war in yemen i think now they will think more in half in peace in yemen they will think as well more about the answer of the hoti season more military equipment more ballastic missiles from the last. forces and they have actually used all their force in yemen from

the first day they haven't got anything new to use i mean unless they're going to use a nuclear weapon which i don't think they have it but the hoti are always surprising the world with a new. like the one they launched at the united arab emirates into the nuclear power plant and i'm sure they have many many surprises in their pocket including invading saudi arabia and areas like niger and city which is about twenty kilometers from yemen and. they have surrounded. the site months ago and withdraw after like there was told they could do it again and they can enter that city and they can hear a. good reason for do you think that this will just intensify violence and i what you've said this is obviously good for the. last i mean this isn't this

isn't a step towards peace is it high you say it. i mean i wish that the last alexander hasn't done that hasn't turned back to turn toward the saudi but because the hoti were put in a really really difficult. position jose has called the idea of the law solid before his speech like for calm and he said we have to tall we have to sit together but when someone has declared war against you like ali abdullah saleh did against he has cut many roads into the front line they have made many checkpoints they have seized many army bases so and sorrow down he has no. no other thing to do only to response into this latest fighting in yemen and i just i want to add about the ali abdullah saleh how he was killed before his death i think hours before his death there was a mediation team trying to get an idea of the loss and solidarity to an agreement

so he will surround them so long surround themselves to mediation but when when they were doing that they were surprised that ali abdullah saleh has to lead and there was fighting in area in the land. office and he was on his way to madrid and this is with a checkpoint there and this resulted in his death so he died fighting and they don't as people say assassinated him he was fighting back and he killed in the battle. we really appreciate your insights one at a time a live in. a yemeni journalist thank you. africa where the country's president has confirmed mali in seoul just work in a french strike in october the french. operation targeted forces that had to join an islamist group is now believed. had been taken hostage by the jihadists

. the hostages and the should be ambiguity between our french friends 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 mali and saw who joined the ranks of the islamists but what is surprising in this situation is the reaction of 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 mortar it it's regrettable unfortunate happen in these types of operations which should. exist why is he doing that it's really hard to say he may have his that 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 sides involved and it's really hard to establish where is the truth . a top u.s. political reporter working for a.b.c. news has been suspended with pay after making false claims about potential collusion between team trump and moscow he stated that former national security advisor michael flynn was directed by trump to make contact with russia before the election took place but flynn is not believed to establish dialogue until after the vote from former aide has been 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. flynn became the first former white house official to be charged in the so-called russia investigation but. explains fake news is masking what the probe into alleged collusion is 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 appropriate about between members of the incoming administration and foreign officials or what country they're for you know right now and again this is an ongoing we have no. you know your comments are no problem with them doing search 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 that 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 russia. will dispute that he ever assured the president that he was not under any kind of investigation. the march the thirtieth again on a. i think on a pro level just won't tell them we're not investigating 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. meanwhile the f.b.i. has been threatened with legal action after it was accused of hiding information from rule my kids the u.s. times intelligence committee says the agency doesn't need to explain why it dropped a key agent in the so-called russia investigation while our correspondent in new york is kind of muffins and he's across this force and he's with us now to get even take out of what more can you tell us well the u.s. lawmakers on the house intelligence committee want information from the f.b.i. and if they don't get it there could be criminal charges for contempt now at this

point what the committee wants to find out is why top f.b.i. investigator who was looking into trump in the allegations of russian collusion and such they want to know why he was fired now reports seem to indicate that he was fired for an anti trump an anti republican bias the can committee has set monday as the day that they want to know they want testimony and they want answers from the f.b.i. this is devon newman is the chair of the house intelligence committee explaining their frustration. by hiding from congress i'm from the american people documented political bias by a key head investigator for both the russian collusion probe the clinton investigation the f.b.i. and the do you engage in a willful attempt to thwart constitutional oversight responsibility so if information is not provided with monday being the deadline it appears that legal

action could be taken against the department of justice and the f.b.i. now essentially this individual peter struck he seems to be accused of having an anti republican bias and exchanging some tweets that were quite hostile to president trump and supportive of hillary clinton now in his usual style donald trump got on twitter and he spoke up and was highly critical of the f.b.i. he said that the reputation of the f.b.i. is in tatters and he said that it's tainted he called the f.b.i. dishonest now the house and house intelligence committee says that they want answers from the department of justice about why this topic agent was fired they want answers they want information and if they don't get it this will be going to court. interesting stuff things kind of that was a kind of thing for us in new york thank you you're watching on the international still ahead for you russia's fight at the upcoming winter olympics will be decided in just over twenty four hours we'll have the details on that because of the

stories to just off the break. it's. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to dress. up to be like to be prosperous like them before three in the morning can't be good

get. interested always in the waters of our. first six. but again welcome back now by tomorrow we should know russia's fate for the upcoming winter olympics in south korea they could face a blanket ban and that's because the international olympic committee is due to meet in theirs and switzerland to discuss the findings of two commissions into alleged state sponsored doping in russia just ahead of that meeting though an interview with a key figure in the scandal has been released and to talk more about this we're joined now by a friend here in the studio just tell us that he's been speaking. as anything new

come to light and even andrew i can tell you that we are totally sure that is going to be in golf with journalists for the announcement for the verdicts and it can be anything it looks like the international olympic committee has got quite a few options as you said from a blanket ban of the entire russian team to letting international sports federations make the decision on the disciplines or individual athletes when it comes to making decisions on either the gang twenty eight seeing medal hopefuls or the saatchi champions so far the i.o.c. has been sticking to individual approach and cases are being looked at separately and that does give the russian athletes some cope however as the investigation continues the man behind all anti washing accusations in the first place the former head of the moscow anti-doping laborde trigger gauri watching cause he keeps coming

up with new things to blame the russians for he has been wanted in russia as a criminal just to remind you that is after he fled the country in disgrace he has been called wessell blower and the western media and a credible witness by the international olympic committee while ahead of the i.o.c. verdict a video interview with mr rochon called surface and the russian media where one of the things that he's talking about appears to be his motivation. we don't know if you don't want to listen to the school day by day just like chess do you need the. zakim a little eleven o'clock you know. you must look. up to the minister is the better seeing this and that is this it was as. well

when mr of is referring to that documentary film he's talking about a program called icarus which brought up the russian doping scandal and he was one of the main contributors to that documentary so from the things that you just heard it looks like there are always plenty of folks that are ready to offer plenty of cash to mr rotting co for what he says or for what he allegedly has now how that affects his motivation you can decide for yourself but let's move on and listen to another bit of that interview soonish alertly it's going to get this you can directly. east you will see below the lyrics of affiliated with the risk that you can do. the only serious look at this new thing with. acoustic signal of you're there is it actually nation secure.

yes it would actually never work yet with this school and i've seen you get. so wow grigori watching covers were referring sorry to his all lab as one of the two almighty laborde trees that were capable of courting to mr raj uncover cheating both ways to clear the russian athletes of positive doping tests and otherwise to destroy russian sport ass he said for some years so you might as well bear that in mind when you listen to the i.o.c. verdict tomorrow and when they keep repeating according to the things that were told by the credible witness grigori watching golf. certainly will know as you say within the next twenty four hours whether russia the russia team will be able to compete isn't it it's the winter olympics early next year ok thanks lee that was a trick. now it is claimed that

a british aid company is inadvertently funding you have this in syria adam smith international which aims at improving living conditions in third world countries accused of letting its funding and up in the hands of terrorists according to a t.v. documentary which will be broadcast in britain in a few hours as more. well up until last night the british government harvest scheme whereby it provided funding for policing and community projects in oprah's ition held areas of syria and this project was all about funding the so-called free syrian police and it was implemented by a company called adam smith international its offices are in this building in london and adam smith international is a think tank it's a lobbying group and it also promotes democratic reforms around the world given the chaotic nature of civil war and given the makeup of the syrian opposition an

investigation done by b.b.c. panorama now alleges that some of that government money may have ended up in the hands of extremists as a result according to the documents seen by this investigation police in the l'equipe province were forced to hyundai the cash to the extremist group that was in control of the area that it also claims that the syrian branch of al qaida battle nuestra kind hand picked the offices for two of these so-called free syrian police forces in the aide live province there are also allegations that there were dead and fictitious people on this force's payroll and the foreign office has now confirmed that it has suspended the funding towards the ajax scheme that is the access to justice and community security scheme in syria take a listen. and the allegations of cooperation with terrorist groups and of human

rights abuses extremely seriously and the foreign office has suspended this program while we investigate these allegations it's important to note that these allegations have already called some more severe brown hair in the u.k. adam smith international have called the allegations entirely. untrue and misleading they put out a statement saying that it refutes the claims and will pursue every legal avenue to defend the reputation of the project and the company as well as the chop pick of britain's foreign aid is highly controversial here it's one that's been part of public debate here because it's all about taxpayers' money being censored brought to help other countries thirteen billion pounds a year to be precise and many here say that the government should be spending at least some of that money on funding things like the national health service or education instead so allegations that some government money could be getting into

the hands of extremists in syria is only going to fuel that argument. now a senior white house advisor says that president trump has not yet decided on whether to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel speculation has been rife 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 that when he makes his decision. will be the one to want to tell you. well jerusalem is a holy city for muslims christians and also jews and that's been a key area of dispute in the conflict between israelis and the palestinians government claims jerusalem as its capital but most of the international community doesn't recognize it as such well if the u.s. were to recognize it it would likely inflame tensions in the middle east initiative

to move his country's embassy to jerusalem which he outlined on the presidential campaign trail has been condemned by the arab league countries in fact their secretary general warns that the proposal would fuel extremism and also lead to violence to. discuss the issue on artie's worlds apart. 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 our states of america is not an objective power in what's concerning israel and palestine i have seen already how. 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 father made a good as it is known that all the people that are working with him are on the

palestinian israeli issue are very very much loyal to the israeli side if we take into consideration also the american interests 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 meanwhile jordan's foreign affairs minister has warned that the recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital could have a negative outcome for the arab and muslim world jordan has already called an emergency meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation and the arab league on the potential consequences of trump's decision journalist a media activist kuttab thinks that the u.s. doesn't understand how sensitive the issue is. not seeing a country today has an embassy in jerusalem because there understand that this is

a sensitive issue and they don't want to kind of hurt or tap to tamper with something that sensitive so i think the u.s. is playing with fire and the u.s. doesn't understand that jerusalem is not the palestinian issue alone it is an arab issue it's in the muslim issue and it's an issue of real consequence and sensitivity to millions and over a billion muslims around the world so i think the the idea is that they want to make sure washington understand that they're tinkering with their very dangerous lives. you know a grenade here and if it's going to blow up we're going to lob in everybody's face so that's how things are looking so far today here on r.t. i'll be back with more news in just over half an.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. here's what people have been saying about redacted the night with the sixty's full on author of the only show i go out of my way to i'm going to leave out of the really packed a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than booth at that and see people you never heard of love right back to the night my president of the world bank paid. to. send us an e-mail. list and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to me like you

know. this isn't my cup of tea is going up to the study hall maybe. you know john i just hope. the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those ruined who were on the vision. only could do this. and that is a lot at that age to have this lady of the muscle that you had i know if you continue muslims you know do more commitments last don't piss off.