pattern and practice of harnessing the machinery of the fearsome machinery of the u.s. federal state against enemies of the obama administration and in favor of friends of the a bomb in a straight shooter that's the larger story or not simply whether clapper should be prosecuted for the one instance that's admitted we did lie under oath to congress. the defense ministry has released a video of tests of its latest missile systems among the new weapons is the hypersonic kinja or dagger missile which can go ten times the speed of sound and is said to be capable of outsmarting all existing defense systems and then there's the start of that rocket intercontinental ballistic missile which has a vast range it can carry multiple nuclear warheads artie's made out of gas dia it was granted exclusive access to russia's latest nuclear deterrent.

meet satan as natives come to cool this the thirty six and two hundred and nine tons of nuclear ged and it is a paradox if these things are evolution in anger it likely mean the end of human civilization and yet it is that very fact that guarantees that new sane man will lead the press the red button.

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swedish zoo is receiving death threats for the controversial practice of culling healthy animals as it zoo's director though says it's regrettable but necessary. yeah i think it's the best way of taking care of the animals he says to let them sleep. and sometimes i got to. and sometimes we need to euthanize.

the so really you go with. the think animals shouldn't get killed in the raw deal animals but i've been through that says several times that it's a beautiful place and i take my kids you know this is true it is a regrettable that this leads to cute animals but there's no reason why a lens writes this information that is terrible and those people just don't understand how to run the. quota past the hour here in moscow the russian presidential elections are less than one week away just about would we speak to one of the contenders. that'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 press.

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monday headlines here when r.t. international and it is exactly seven days now until the presidential election here in russia and he is starting its special coverage. but you see. yes i was seeing your son jack top because the human eye that's the. music that really made you were but it doesn't seem like. much but with the people you know it was a little rusty anyway he did after he did today but it. sure.

which. we got on the chin that. he said he just didn't look at your. stupid look at edition you can. put up with him go to sleep we're going to have to . do is you have to. be. respected scholars over to one of the hopefuls pawel dean in the candidate for the communist party he's a fifty seven year old director of a farm and his left wing platform proposes nationalizing big industries and banks and i asked him about some of the pressing issues facing russia and its society.

there is terrorism it appears in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for certain doctrines imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation as for terror groups existing outside of the country we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. i think the european union pictures russia is a threat in order to consider data its internal policies i'm getting the impression that the e.u. of thora t's present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves while doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you

already have a lot more weapons than we have and your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more and for that reason it must be shown that there is some sort of threat in existence. we can put this issue to a referendum but i can tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population will be against same sex marriage it's certain so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether their leaders talk. although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims won't be doing it in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation and throughout the week here on r t international we will be introducing you to russia's presidential hopefuls and how they view the future of the country and the world and on sunday march eighteenth to join us for our special coverage of

election night live on r.t. international. the independence movement in catalonia shows no sign of dying down five months on from the referendum that was branded illegal by the spanish government. forty five thousand protesters attended a rally in barcelona on sunday calling for a new government that will work towards catalonia from spain people chanted their support for the former cattle and president. now he and four other separatist leaders are currently out of the country could face prosecution if they return home demonstrators also divided the release of local politicians jailed for their roles in last october's vote after the referendum madrid imposed direct rule in catalonia but jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign says a spanish government is failing to uphold democratic rights. i think what the

spanish government is attempting to do is to grain people don't and of course it's still not the number of least one way it's done now is to send riot ships in with probabilistically seems so doing within the last week has been trying to strangle the mood by feeling people are using b.d.s. administrate to take weeks to strangle the possibility of establishing an end and we have to look at this and actually start to question what democracy really means and the european context i have not seen and not internationally which i have proceeded piñon when it comes to what's going on in the past when we normally get the situation on pigeon what you have in peace and you know you have a champion and join the saudis and in who's been text is be anointed was the leader and that has won a parliament and even be allowed to leave the jail on monday to attend the beat that's been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack in very obvious ways and it's important that the international community the e.u.

and protect you are asked to stand up on the state of democratic rates and it's not doing. a group of fraudsters has been busted in some petersburg for selling fake passports though fake not in the way you might expect to apologize but of a technical glitch there on the program we'll get to that as soon as we can for the meantime though we are back soon with more on r.t. international. lemme walk you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace talks forcing you to

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time after time here we're going underground in the last week of campaigning for this week's presidential election in the largest country on earth russia coming up in the show was the saudi crown prince in london this week telling tereza made to go to war with iran the u.s. colonel who helped make colin powells case for war on iraq at the u.n. warns of a war that could kill even more than tony blair as shock and awe and. rise like lions after slumber we speak jillian young ridiculed by mainstream media for predicting the huge quake in british politics plus will tomorrow's u.k. spring financial statement do anything to make britain more equal we speak to grassroots activists fighting for equality and working plus representation well

that's a more coming up in today's going underground and first it's not only post bricks in britain little need to look further afield for trade opportunities the trumpet ministration ascent former c.e.o. of exxon and current secretary of state rex tillerson on a tour of u.s. arguable proxies in africa firstly ethiopia infamous of how it was at war during the one nine hundred eighty s. live aid concerts national state of emergency has now been declared in ethiopia just one day after the i'm expected resignation of prime minister my real death and yes ethiopia after years of i.m.f. world bank policy and billions in u.s. military and civilian aid and weapons sales is in a state of flux tillerson destination the old british colony of kenya over which the u.k. still stands in the dark about mass killing and torture during them. uprising unprecedented times in kenya the only other kind expected to be on the ballot paper for the election rerun late in the month has pulled out yes reverberations are

kenya's most recent general election could give you his party's alleged corruption of the vote this in a country crucial to u.s. military ambitions in the indian ocean world's longtime ally until this investigation oil rich nigeria continues to battle with oil shortages fuel shortages brought nigeria to a standstill that nigeria sold arms and given between four hundred and six hundred million dollars every year in so-called aid for at least the past decade by the us taxpayer that's for chad in central africa to listen will be visiting a country he knows well according to rachel maddow of m s n b c you referenced a book on the secretary of state's company steve cole points out in his book private empire that the total of u.s. aid in chad the total of american aid that we spend in that country foreign aid and military aid even the total less than twenty million dollars while exxon is paying them more than five hundred million dollars a year in oil revenue and that whole exxon move that all happened in two thousand

and six that happened right after this guy took over as the head of access. yes rex tillerson allegedly enabled weapon sales by a oil of contract in chad but there's no need for anything like that in his other destination of djibouti where a quarter of the population lives in extreme poverty they were doing a category three qualification which involves quite a deal of stress and quite a deal of what fundamental lot of weapons in the do it today you have to listen stop in djibouti no doubt referenced the u.s. top secret base at camp lejeune a from where drones fly to kill people all around the world there will have been some tough talking as a new superpower though has also moved there on the red sea to a nation known for high rates of illiteracy unemployment and childhood malnutrition the chinese navy is setting up a days in djibouti to support has scored peacekeeping and humanitarian missions and

ships carrying chinese military personnel left in southern china province on tuesday to sell for the country located in the horn of africa the base to be set up will provide support for operations in africa and west asia and china's people's liberation army said the decision to stay out of the days was reached after friendly negotiations between the two countries and allied with the interests of both sides whether to listens talks with african nations which end tomorrow or to the benefit of both sides of drug be little progress since the end of u.k. colonialism is another matter at least the former oil boss who says he felt helpless in the rush to tony blair's war on iraq now appears to realize it was a mistake the decision to go into iraq and change leadership in iraq upon reflection. bush perhaps not did not achieve those objectives we do not have a more stable region in the world and our national security has not been enhanced

well joining me now from falls church virginia in the united states is someone who made the case for that iraq war he's a retired u.s. army colonel and former chief of staff to secretary state colin powell welcome again larry wilkinson colonel even rex tillerson fully recognizes the failures of the iraq war you made the case for why a goal and pile you believe a similar rush to war against iran is currently underway i do not a good saw granted majorly by the fact that we have this almost obsequious sycophantic relationship with israel and particularly with its prime minister bibi netanyahu is willing to die after the last american to take on iran you know that repeatedly the united states says they are the only democracy in the middle east which is why the us has that alerts i'll quote to you gideon levy of ha'aretz along with me and several others made speeches about the us israel

relationship in gideon's said how can anyone call a state that has the towed talent terry and brutal occupation going on in the west bank and he didn't even mention gaza a democracy i say get in the right how is it always former top officials like yourself out of power that come up with these appear phonies about israeli power was not present when you were in the state department. absolutely it was in fact in the conversations that go in and i had secretary powell and i had with regard to the u.s. is are all issues ship we're not too less a service than the one i just gave you but the realities of power especially in a republican administration but let me not hesitate to say democrats too like bachmann indias and chuck schumer from new york and so forth are as guilty the realities of that power at the highest levels in the united states is that as one

individual said policies made intel of live not washington and i know you've been addressing this recently why if it is indeed israel that is forcing the u.s. hand here why isn't israel just attack iran. well we lost the connection with colonel larry wilkerson that subsequently we retrieved it colonel thanks for coming back after that brief blip we were talking about the attack on iran why doesn't israel which is never confirmed by the way that it has two hundred nuclear warheads why doesn't it just attack iran why does it need the help of washington i think there's a two part answer to that question wanted is they need great power over slide if you will the united states doing jumping is quite different from israel doing something isolation and to add more concrete they also need the u.s.

to do the real heavy war israel has an extraordinary military capability but its capability that's pretty much confined to a very narrow range and it's been designed that way. it cannot project power to the extent that it would be able to eliminate the actual nuclear program and do other things that it would need to do in order to feel assured that it is its attack it more that the only power really on the face of the earth that can do that is the united states multi carrier around the clock operations in terms of therapy our massive strikes out of the huge air force base in gutter and so forth i know you know you made it erode and you had not only iran there not iraq and of course israel did lose the war in lebanon against as a bull and i got to tell you though in britain i don't know whether you've been

reading the news crown prince mohammed bin selma has been visiting the prime minister in the queen here i understand your knowledge and intelligence of. this region suggests that saudi arabia would also be part of a an alliance with israel and washington in this war on iran. you know i think saudi arabia is in many respects a long pole in the tent especially with mohamed been so man as the heir apparent and really the king saudi arabia wants are on taken down and saudi arabia has an erstwhile alliance right now we are with riyadh in order to accomplish those and did i mean of course we would be speculation but obviously he's here in london you'd think that he'd be telling the british prime minister about these sorts of plans what do you think of the british just response straight from. requests from washington. i think it's a little bit of both but i also think prince bandar has demonstrated in the past

how much billion dollar bribes impact in both washington and london so it's not much doesn't make much of a stretch of imagination for me to imagine theresa may having some incredible leverage exerted on her so that she is at least neutral of not supportive because explicitly saudi has never threatened military action on terror and it talks against iran all the time and says it's a dangerous country but it's never ever it's never even said it's a big ally of israel you know it's a it's an alliance of convenience and the saudis even more than israel would like the united states to do the dirty work in iran the saudis simply do not have the kind of power that would be necessary to invade iran invest it for some decade or so which is what it would really take if you wanted assuredness that the nuclear

program was indeed stopped and as to how we can stop this war as most people in the international community arguably would wish for. could beijing lower moscow or them together stop the war there has to be some remaining full conversation between moscow and washington moscow to bring power to bear on don't ask us and on terror on and washington on riyadh and israel and to a lesser extent turkey still a nato ally by the way and there has to be some good offices all for probably and some leverage offered by beijing has significant interest in iran and so the road initiative has a whole segment that envisions pipelines running south and north south the north in iran and on into europe and so forth china has a lot invested and a lot in prospect for investment so yes they have great interest we forget that

iran is in geographically speaking western asia the middle east nomenclature sort of throws us all western asia in other words china is more or less region of the world and so yes beijing washington moscow all need to be brought to bear on this to prevent the conflict in syria and prop potential conflict with iran from leaving widening or even happening and becoming a more region wide conflict and even a global conflict going to larry wilkinson thank you after the break a millennial is officially tuned out of mainstream media parallels to explain the rise and rise of jeremy cool been ridiculed by every outlet of britain's ever and the head of devorah spring statement the drays amaze universal credit policies lead to a thirty two said worries in the use of food banks in the u.k. the list of all coming up about to have going on to grow.

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