hughes's an israel. accidentally russian military plane in syria in which all fifteen servicemen on board were killed. so. the stories of the week the world. drugs a major step toward seeing many of the countries. competing on the world stage for

russia. the confirmation hearing for president supreme court. proving to be one of america's most divisive nominee ever. with the top stories from the past seven days and rise up to the moment of well this is the weekly r t international hello and welcome. after the tragic downing of a russian military plane on monday night off the syrian coast the blame game has been intensifying between the main parties directly or indirectly involved in the incident our senior correspondent breaks down the aftermath. it's a bad really bad situation there's the tragedy fifteen people dead to friendly fire

and then there's the fallout everyone's blaming s. like a chain of accidental events fortunately it appears a military escalation has been prevented verbal one is in full swing of course but there's a lesson here five nuclear powers of fighting in syria on different sides and the tiniest spark there could cause the biggest inferno the world's ever seen a note on this later in the day we are expecting russia's defense ministry to release a detailed report on what exactly happened in the skies over the mediterranean we will be following not so to stay with r.t. for the latest updates well just to recap what indeed happened six days ago a syrian. a russian military plane killing everyone on board missiles were launched

in response to an airstrike by is really have sixteen fighter jets and accidentally struck the russian plane the tragic incident happened around thirty five kilometers off or have your screen sport in the country this would change nothing for those athletes who have been accused of doping are serving their bans this is all about clean athletes the door is not shut open for them it's only they've been given the chance to open that door into the sport because one of the main conditions of the international association of athletics federations to reinstate the russian athletes was that should be operational meaning that you know athletes have to be checked for doping in order to be clean and in order to be participating international competitions flying the russian flag so essentially this happened now but a lot of work is ahead and make no mistake about it now risotto will be heavily scrutinized and will be heavily checked by water so it's definitely a long road ahead deputy head of russia's doping agency sees the organization went to greece. lengths to ensure compliance in the blood. it's been

a lot of work this saga has lasted for almost three years a lot of things have been done the russian anti-doping agency now has a completely need team it's been hard to work for russia sports ministry as well as wada they're provided international experts to rebuild the capability of russia's anti-doping agency from my viewpoint it's a well earned think terry and it's not a victory of just one and it is the logical result of all the hard work of those involved and the reinstatement of the result of that i mean this is a turning point in the in this whole story and i see a good will how the rush to get back to. championships and seeing the she's a day to celebrate a lot of restructuring. that has been made but easy is what makes these decision very important it shows that there is a willingness to change seeing and i've seen this is what comes.

right heading stateside now. supreme court pick has proven to be perhaps the most the vice a figure ever to be nominated for the job brett kavanaugh is conservative views being praised by most republicans and heavily criticized by most democrats the controversy intensified after his confirmation hearing got mired in sexual assault allegations this week and strongly denies the accusations leveled against him saying he's ready to clear his name while his accuser has also agreed to testify to congress killam open house more on trump's contentious choice for the lifetime position of. the hearings surrounding the appointment of a new supreme court justice by the president has turned into arguably the most burgeoning political issue in the united states at this time as the nomination process continues for brett kavanaugh we're seeing a circus of anger and accusations. writ

evident mr chairman. mr chairman. we cannot possibly move forward mr chairman just in your very warm welcome not they are given their duty. for here. we cannot be recognized i move to adjourn. them and i move. here's why the issue is so diverse to the u.s. supreme court has the final legal say on crucial issues and justices are appointed for life no wonder both sides want to put the balance in their favor so the gloves come off the accusations are now flying first a woman who is sitting behind kavanagh was accused of giving secret fascist hand signals it turns out she is the descendant of holocaust survivors then some miss

attributed quotes about birth control started flying around the internet hillary clinton herself was spreading this false information here for to birth control pills as abortion inducing drugs that such a fool to me an issue for you to i want to be sure will clear this didn't happen numerous funk chicks to prove this false then cavanagh's habit of buying baseball tickets became breaking news investigative reporters scoured his financial disclosure. and learned that he had his friends tickets to a baseball game so as you can see there's still plenty of silliness to go around but then things got serious accusations of attempted rape which is career ending stuff in the age of me two came up christine blasi forward accuses brett kavanaugh the tempting to rape her back in the one nine hundred eighty s. when they were both teenagers at a party now she wants an f.b.i. investigation if the senators who have come forward and said they want to treat the

seriously mean that then they'll they'll have an investigation of these allegations so that we all go into this more informed so twenty four women who went to high school with brett kavanaugh signed a letter saying that they support the accuser then sixty five women signed another letter saying that they defend brett kavanaugh his character now those who support the democrats generally believe the accuser those is support the republicans think she is lying and i've been calling her names not surprisingly the media is now taking sides this was intended. and i believe offensive forward judge kavanaugh has lied multiple times she's not sure when it happened where it happened who else was president she never reported it to anybody this is nothing if they get away with this there is then you have c.n.n. running the country because this allegation could be made against anyone at any time now the u.s. department of justice says that it's not

a federal case but it seems like proving guilt or innocence isn't exactly the issue here i think the nomination should be withdrawn the bar here is not. whether you have not criminally assaulted someone it's credibility trust integrity so who is brett kavanaugh now to some he's a well respected adjudicator who happens to have some republican ties to others he's a sexual predator now supreme court justice nominations often turn into political confrontations but rarely do they expose such a deeply divided america. art see new york. just sticking with this story a little longer one of the most i'd spoken opponents to breath covering those nomination is former presidential candidate hillary clinton however it wasn't long until many pointed out that her husband former president bill clinton also face the locations of sexual misconduct which did not stop him from reaching america's highest office her husband when he was president faced allegations that were not

the same as this certainly but had connections to these kinds of allegations from years ago have we learned anything over the years about due process not just for the accusers but also for the accused well i think that you have to take each of these situations sort of on their own merits. and one of bill clinton's alleged victims reacted by of picking the f.b.i. to investigate her rape accusations as well. shows you the difference in the double standard that existed back then and still does today i think i think this is this don assuring that they can do this to mr cavanaugh it is the absolute definition of hypocritical and that's what's really disheartening especially for the american public to see these democratic leaders that have been elected being absolutely hypocritical and two faced really not only when it comes to the clinton trials where all of this wasn't enough what we heard it wasn't enough you can't

come against him whereas a woman makes one allegation is refusing to testify there's no other information nobody really has any information there's no evidence but the word of this woman that's not to say that sexual assault allegations are important but the timing is very suspicious of course so we've now shown that the congress the united states of america doesn't care about facts or evidence as mrs it says about political differences. the much talked to promote program was supposed to be the biggest women support initiative in afghanistan but according to a report by the washington watchdog it's been altered fear hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. taxpayer money was spent the goals were huge but in reality only a few dozen women were held.

since two thousand and one the door has been reopened for afghan women they joined the police the army and entered politics and together we can help women and girls across afghanistan develop their talents raise their voices and strengthen their communities and their country and. then i didn't know if this money was spent properly there would have been changes in women's lives but we don't know how they spun it or who they gave it to you. haven't done so much for afghan women there's an exhibit held in india a man is representing afghan women this program in afghanistan is for women and we still get replaced by a mad why do we have the capacity. personally

request of usa to support us by providing a smooth incompetently going to modernize the aircraft section their response was negative they said they were huge to train as i have ten years' experience i don't need the trainee i need the machinery. plus i thought until i filled in forms last year and again six months ago they told us that they would let us know but there was no response even when we called them they never called back hundreds of thousands of women across afghanistan ready to work ready to work. with our to international coming up china warns of consequences after washington piles more sanctions on beijing we get into that this.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever

we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. twenty two minutes past nine am this sunday morning here moscow welcome back no yesterday saturday china summoned the u.s. ambassador and postponed joint military talks with the united states it comes in response to washington slapping sanctions on beijing over its purchase of russian weaponry china warned the u.s. it would face consequences. we strongly call on the us to remedy the mystique and council the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences russia in turn called washington's punitive measures

another demonstration of dirty competition well yes four hundred is rush's immobile surface to air defense system and it's not just china buying it other nations are in advanced stages of purchasing and india and saudi arabia are showing interest too while turkey another u.s. ally also really bought it well a senior u.s. official urged the others to think twice before engaging with russia's the fence and intelligence agencies chinese affairs analyst victor go sees the ongoing feud with washington will only both stir beijing's partnership with moscow. i think the u.s. decision to sanction the only equipment department and it's a two star general is a major negative development and i would say people are very shocked if the united states really bets on alienating china and russia for example given all the reasons

for russia and china to be cold cold. military cooperation them today's action by the united states is a major boost in that direction definitely china will not step down and china i think will have all the more reasons to increase its military cooperation with russia and possibly even important more airplanes and and try missile systems from russia sanctions by the united states against the chinese military will further review any incentive on the chinese product to improve its relations with the united states and i think eventually let me completely disregard the about these states of china is also in broiled in iraq with sweden beijing has accused the country of mistreating chinese tourists and even of violating their human

rights while this all comes out for an altercation between staff on a stockholm hospital and a chinese family over check in. this is the key this is the key. this is. just a few see. here. just don't think this. is like the money midnight for police to toss defenseless tourists it's a graveyard this place is too much. the chinese foreign ministry has made complaints to the swedish side on the urgent need

to work out of the office to gauge the pace we shoot but. we only know that we have done everything we could do for these guests but at the same time we cannot accept that there are staff are exposed to threats and the other guests will suffer from a threatening situation. well that's our review of the week for now i'll be back in what just over half an hour's time with plenty more but stay with us now because it's news makers and global thinkers galore in the hot seat it's worlds apart with.

it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active. in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery. a german company developed. a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims who have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering their not only want the money i want the revenge. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory in dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

very critical time to sit down and talk. long. long welcome to worlds apart it's become an international more interests or that women's rights are human rights which in a world where women already make up the majority of university. actually it may

appear a bit redundant how much more women's empowerment needs to happen by gender specific policies to become and then that one is able to discuss that i'm now joined by. united nations undersecretary general and executive director of the un women madam undersecretary general it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time we are recording this interview on the sidelines of the eurasian women's forum which if it were dedicated exclusively to men's issues may have been perceived as sexist given how many accomplished high powered women have gathered here do you think we still need gender centered policies because. the women who are gathered here are not. a true reflection of what happens in society they are women who are concerned about this issues they're using advantage physician who advocates on behalf off.

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