those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisors to be involved but takes it to a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain presentation assassination the stance of thinking about rights that we've got no place seems to be selling arms to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the war while having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardment of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over four and a half billion pounds worth of weapons while the us. still worth over one hundred ten billion pounds some of the biggest deals in u.s. history and the visits of the have been selma also being raised in parliament today by the labor leader jeremy corbett a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation

six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the block a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her governments this is cannot be right that her government is colluding in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes but it's also to be mentioned that in addition to these hundreds of protesters there is a small council protest numbering a couple of dozen people who are here to welcome the haven't been to london but in any case this protest definitely the larger of the two. here a former russian policeman labeled the siberian return. has been jailed for life

for a series of grisly murders that shocked the nation the fifty two old men described as a model employee that was a perfect husband but have been living a sinister double life for almost two decades. thank. you with their skills so much and you know it's. going to show that this is not.

going to. be a business. thank . you. we didn't lose a deal of. the. truth . which i just want you to do so then. we.

cry in the us after the merge the saudi national with suspected links to al qaida was able to live freely in the country for seventy is lawmakers are now demanding answers as to why the state department grants the mount a visa khaled maupin reports maybe hard to believe but the alleged al qaida terrorist has been living in the united states for seven years unnoticed saudi national naive flower flawed is now been arrested and at this point members of congress want answers about how this was allowed to happen in two thousand he attended an al qaeda training camp two thousand and eleven he moved to oklahoma on a nonimmigrant visa joining his wife in two thousand and sixteen he was even able to get a pilot's license however that was revoked when the f.b.i. finally started an investigation now he is in custody awaiting trial on a number of charges the indictment charges two counts of these a fraud. the third countercharges health launch with making

a false statement to the f.b.i. when he denied ever having associated with anyone from a foreign terrorist group he may not have been able to enter the united states of authorities had actually been able to pay more attention it turns out that back in two thousand and one his fingerprints were actually found on an application to a terrorist training camp furthermore his father was named as a person of trust in an al qaeda document now at this point that data was not able to be analyzed until twenty seventeen i'd say there was a number of breakdowns going bert's with the original intelligence was maintained and stools he should have been on the watch lists you know who was on the list oh marmont teen the pulse nightclub shooter recently released cell phone records indicate that just days before the attack he was considering whether or not to attack disneyland he was on the f.b.i.'s radar screen after making threats against his coworkers and claiming to have ties to jihad ists however after ten months of

monitoring and three f.b.i. interviews they determined that he was quote not violent or dangerous after he did carry out his attack the f.b.i. said he had self radicalized on the internet we're working hard to understand the killer and his motives and his sources of inspiration but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some ports through the internet so the internet did it hah well remember that florida school shooter apparently he left tips on the internet that he was planning to shoot up the school people called the f.b.i. about it but they never bothered to look into the matter if he is a german the protocol was not followed. the information was not provided above and below. it no further investigation was conducted that. this is an ongoing daily or of the united states and it's not just the u.s. it's also in europe to properly vet these people and the f. i had ample warning

that the orlando attacker was a threat but because he was muslim they did not want to look into it they did not want to seem that they were targeting the certain religious group even reports that come out with school shootings in the united states where the f.b.i. many times received a phone call warning them about the shooters and nothing happened because of that the f.b.i. did not follow up so i think it's not so much a lack of resources at it as it is a lack of knowledge or understanding about threats that matter the most. to develop his story next you crave the started seizing assets partly belonging to the russian energy giant gazprom it's the latest in a row the city can own for the moment. here is a dispute because across the latest twists and turns we fish for the next four years ago the contracts are in dispute between ukraine and russia what's the latest know them well kevin it's one of these cases when you can easily say not again because russia and ukraine could be on the brink of

a real all out gas war so as you were saying kiev has begun seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gazprom a few days ago though gas said that it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev but in this case there's something for you to bear in mind no matter what happens in politics the ultimate reality is that for all these years ukraine has still been heavily relying on the russian natural gas imports and eastern and central europe to in this case and a massive share of these gas supplies were delivered through ukraine so if there's jenga tower of contracts for the purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapse as staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue yeah i'm not even. going to do is watch the. britain france etc etc going to minute

a lot of our. ukraine or the been there's been a blip a couple years but nasty said it was a blip in the past. believe ukraine was siphoning off some of the gas will come out of it that answer doing ok because russia wants to be seen as a reliable partner doesn't it so why where are we here at the moment what's going to happen next well speaking of the court decisions and what led to these latest steps by gas from enough to gas again ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas problem have been settling their disputes in a stockholm arbitration court and they've been having countless issues with each other for the last few years and one stockholm tribunals ruling forced the cranium firm to give the russians a sum of about two billion euros dollars and that was basically gas bill that they hadn't paid for but then the latest decision was that russia's gas from must pay ukraine's nafta gatt is more than four point six billion u.s.

dollars and that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do that math then moscow ends up owing more than two point five billion euros dollars and the bosses at gas more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas that they were buying. not betray it is justified the decision by the show of deterioration in the economy we're categorically against the greens economic problems been solved expands. so russia ukraine gas wars have happened before and it has previously led to energy crises in the region those in the west as you were saying for now they don't have to worry about anything and again it's not in any of russia's interests to spoil this reputation as

a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia how to protect its political and economic interests and technically it wasn't gas rumsfeld go is so the twists and turns continue will continue to follow it thanks for explaining it's complicated. right next to my. district close to jerusalem's old city side their lives are being ruined by an excavation project there's really archaeologists and settlers have been tunneling on the buildings in the neighborhood there in search of the ancient ruins of the city of david but their activities above ground appear to be causing devastation.

in the south lawn after the excavation work started the ground began to sink our houses leaning about twenty centimeters to watch shine and the walls have started to crack the floor has also granted. them to have it done a look at the house she relayed until it collapses under the children it on my son and his wife look at the destruction look at how crooked the house is look at the wallace they're all broke in the roof once fallin on my grandson.

hear them working at night and the door starts to shake of course i'm against it this is our home we're also supposed to go normal can stop them well this is what they want they want the arabs to leave this home so that they can take them. with the many years we have been complaining but no one helps us but one day we felt the house moving so we called the police they made us all leave but it rains now water lands on the furniture we have lost everything there is nothing left for us. residents in the us to have a moment of fuzzy against having us. fleet of f. thirty five fighter jets stationed nearby the people of burlington say they're deeply concerned about the noise pollution and safety over it all to make their feelings loud and clear then they did this campaign is use joyed speakers to blast

out the sound of a flying jet right in the city center. oh and to try to get the message across the number of protests were held last week against this f. thirty five base police made one high profile arrest among the activists to one of the co-founders of the ice cream brand ben and jerry's ben cohen local air force bosses meantime already spent around eighty three million dollars preparing the base for the jets and the vermont national guard said choose a night that indeed the thirty five are still sure jewel to arrive in the autumn of twenty nineteen. the airport in burlington is located in a very heavily densely populated area so there are one hundred twenty four thousand people that live within about five miles of the runway half a dozen of us put on

a demonstration of what that sounds like and people came running out and said stop this is horrible my children my animals my family this is not appropriate for a city it's one of the causes of heart disease it's a cause of cognitive impairment insurance according to the best medical studies what happens is children have delayed reading learning disabilities memory and concentration become impaired well controversy is the basis and it's a controversial play in the f. thirty five program as the most expensive u.s. weapons system to date with the expenditure of about one point five billion dollars thus far and yet out of two hundred eighty aircraft half are still grounded as a speak american seven allies are currently implementing stealth strategy operations with these fighter jets nine countries in total were involved in the f. thirty five development but it's been a bumpy ride repeated production delays and cost overruns of really plague that

project along the way from donald trump to the pentagon's own chief weapons tester the f. thirty five has been getting more flak them fans and described now as being simply too big to fail is the co-founder of the protest movement in burlington again. you're forced didn't make this decision to base f. thirty five fighter jets in the city of burlington based on the facts so we don't want any of these to you it's going to be damaging to the people of vermont it's going to be in it's going to make us a collaborator with any kind of foreign intervention that the president decides on . before i say goodbye this our first breaking news coming through on the screen is the reports coming through from vienna the austrian capital of a knife attack in which several people have been injured media this a male attack apparently randomly struck people near pratt a park in the city's jewish quarter austria press agency is quoting police sources

say at least three people a seriously injured attacker probably still large as a hot story right now and the motive for the attack is still not known heavily armed police units being called to the scene i'm just reading food for some other let's hear it saying officials say at least three injured all aged between the think about forty and fifty two women and a man taken to hospital will be across that as we get more we'll let you know i'm back in half an hour to get track all our new stories twenty four seven at r.t. dot com. back scousers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificial mortgage through dr carried away that's cause a report. hello

and welcome to cross talk where all things considered peter lavelle the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are

entering a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we were told russia's hypersonic weapons can render u.s. led missile defense systems useless can washington allow this to stand and are we now in a new arms race. talking hypersonic wars i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace in lake jackson we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in london we have married a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here are the reactions to president putin's address to the joint some bully. parliament last week. it was like a thunderbolt for a lot of people and of course it was roundly condemned no context was given except

for the russians are bad and aggressive behavior that's what we hear all the time but the fact of the matter is and i'm sure this applies to everyone here and many of our viewers if you look back at. for example in two thousand and two when the united states unilaterally moved away dropped the anti-ballistic missile treaty the very foundation of arms control speed up to the munich security conference in two thousand and seven read that speech read the speech that putin gave to the general assembly the united nations in two thousand and fifteen and then we have last week what i'm doing is connecting a lot of dots anyone that's paying attention understands perfectly well what's going on here ok mary go right go ahead. well i think that everybody sort of thinks that they understand what's going on but one thing that they certainly didn't understand or at least i felt that about the british reaction was that they did not understand that putin is in an election campaign so i think you

have to understand that this was a state of the nation speech given in the context of a russian election in less than a month's time and it's all very well for people in the west to say oh it's not a proper election no putin's bound to win and there's no contest and all that is probably true but the fact is that there is a campaign and putin needs to get his vote out and i think without that context the picture is incomplete but if we go back to the actual substance of what putin was talking about under of course the spectacular visual effects that played behind him i knew i watched that speech live and i knew what the response was going to be as soon as he was talking i knew what it was going to be it was going to be about a new cold war it was going to be about russian war mongering and it was going to be about a new arms race and yet if you read very carefully or if you listened to what putin

was actually saying he was talking about russian security he was talking about the american unilateral application of the missile defense treaty and about how the united states had been developing that particular branch of weapons technology defense technology and russia had decided and now achieved its aim of catching up very well i mean i don't think the election playing really has anything to do it is because the speech that he gave was supposed to be given last december. but they were interested paid in the nuclear posture review and they held it back so with all due respect to mary i don't think it has anything new with domestic politics ok but daniel the but one of the things is that i think and i've been watching president putin from the time he came into office he's not one prone to embellish or to exaggerate as

a matter of fact it's very straightforward and to the point here and i think this is this speech was a reaction they digested all of these military and security reviews that trumpet ministration has put put out and well the russians are putting their marker down and i think that it was it was and then i'll agree with mary i mean after all of the broken promises all of these new weapons systems russia said ok we can push back and we will go ahead daniel. you know i think there is an element of electioneering and i think if it's not perhaps a somewhat more subtle but i can imagine that president putin has a lot of his he has a lot of vulnerability in a way on his right for lack of better term people in russia russian voters who are expecting him to be a little bit more responsive to u.s. provocations and nato provocations on russia's border to us occupying thirty percent of syria illegally i can imagine that's where his weakness is if he has any

weakness among russian voters people saying why are we sitting there letting them walk all over us so in that sense perhaps that is entering into his mind but otherwise i mean if that is the case how different is that than any u.s. presidential campaign where they all try to outflank each other being more much more pro-war than anyone else you know it george the info in my in my first question to mary i mean i kind of gave the lineage there. it's really quite remarkable to me that how remarkable the response has been because if you're been looking at arms control and u.s. russia relations over the last decade or so. you know russia is basically telling the united states that your threats against our sovereignty stop now and we have the means to react in very forcefully and it's called defending your sovereignty nothing more than that go ahead george though that's exactly right and that's why he. brought up the issue of the united states withdrawal from the

a.b.m. treaty but there's obviously more to it than that i mean there's also the nato expansion right to russia's borders and there is essentially now but the constant belligerent russian rhetoric now emanating from the western capitals and when you build up arms on russia's borders. and you start actually shooting at russians in syria and when you combine that with the russian hysteria in in washington in london in other capitals then you've got a very serious situation and i think you're absolutely right peter when you said that putin is not one to rhetorical flourish he's not want to exaggerate to bloviate he's not donald trump so he has

a very serious person and i think he was putting down a marker and say stop this now before it gets out of control because we mean business exactly if you carry on like this it is going to end badly you know mary the over the years when they were before the negotiations with the iran nuclear deal the pentagon constantly was telling russia that all these in these anti-missile defense systems in poland and remain were many they have nothing to do with you it's all directed against iran and then when the deal is signed they actually admit to that well we still have to keep them there is it because of russia well yes because ok i mean this is the kind of relations and partnership russia has with nato you can't believe what they say ok or they talk out of both sides of the mouth at the same time with russia did with putin did exactly what he promises his promise the russian people that a war will never be fought on this country soil ever again and he's making sure that happens go ahead mary. well i think that there is

a perpetual problem between russia and nato as to who is on defense and who is on oftens and who acted first and we saw this most graphically and most recently with ukraine but we've seen it all before with the expansion of nato and we've seen it since ukraine with the strengthening of the nato presence in the border states in the in the baltic states in poland where it said that this needs to happen as a reassuring defensive all nato is part because of what they see as the increased threat from russia and then of course you go to moscow and russia says well we've got all this sort of advance present suddenly in the new countries of nato and we have to defend ourselves against that at which point nato starts talking about you remember the big or maybe not quite so big russian military exercise last summer

which was completely hyped by nato spokesman and western ministers which turned out to have been a fraction oh they were too and of course mary these things these exercises are player now and stay in advance they were made public observers are allowed to come again this hype here i mean also daniel you know what i'm also on top of it here you have lethal weapons being sold to the ukrainians if you look at the the pentagon's nuclear posture review it discusses the possibility of a first strike this is throwing away his entire history of arms control not only did they rip up the b.m. treaty they're actually even going further there's no interest in the west about a new start to intermediate weapons and they're no there's no talking about that ok again this is one of the reasons why putin said what he had to say go ahead don't you. you know i think the the anti-ballistic missile batteries in poland and

romania that you referenced earlier was also about enabling a western for a strike prohibiting retaliation i think president putin said it many times before this is not about defense this is to enable last chance but you mentioned earlier you know hysteria and i think the u.s. is is under such a cloud of mass hysteria that it's palpable you know this past week in italy there were elections where the non-mainstream parties did very very well and someone joked how soon until explained on russia well into today already has just a day later played on russia by none other by samantha power by samantha power and here's here in italy are parties that were elected on an anti immigrant anti immigration policy why might it be concerned about immigration because samantha power herself was in favor of regime change in libya and syria and elsewhere that created the refugees so no matter what happens no matter the fact that power is

behind this problem no it's all russia and that's what's happening in the u.s. it really is a mass hysteria in this country ok twenty seconds georgia mean no matter what the president of russia has to say i have to say it's going to be taken into a specific context go ahead twenty seconds before we go to the break yes they always specific context then because it's always assumed that russia is an aggressive power in it because it's the that is the propaganda trope and therefore there is no context whatsoever in which you know what is it that what the west to provoke this kind of from let me jump in here how we're going to we're going to go to a hard break and after that hard break we'll continue our discussion on russia's new weapons state with.