i. mean the stories that shaped the week moscow accuses israel of provoking the accidental darning of russian military planes in syria which fifteen servicemen. on the program the world anti-doping agency reinstates russia's drugs a major step toward seeing many of the country's top athletes competing on the

world stage. in the confirmation hearing for president from supreme court pick stagnates in rate. proving to be. the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments well this is the weekly on r.t. international alone welcome. after the tragic downing of a russian military plane on monday nights off the syrian coast the blame game has been intensifying between the main parties directly or in directly involved in the incident our senior correspondent. it's a bad really bad situation there's the tragedy fifteen people dead the friendly

fire and then there's the fallout everyone's blaming everyone i meet on the jets deliberately created a dangerous situation for the war ships and aircraft located in that area while it may have been a syrian missile that down the plane it was israel that set the stage says russia israel bomb syria again the syrians defend themselves and the russian jet gets caught in the crossfire the israeli military though blames iran and hizbollah israel holds the sod regime whose military shot down the russian plane fully responsible for this incident it was their fault israel had to bomb syria you see iran was transferring lethal technology to hizbollah via the syrian military apparently so israel had to stop them the syrians panicked and started launching

missiles everywhere israel is blameless says israel as for the united states can you comment on the shoot down of the. russian jet yesterday and whether or not the us had any visibility in it over d confliction mine or any other means as far as the tractor we did not the coalition was not involved with this did you have any visibility into it as it was happening through either your own radar or through the confliction line we did not that i'm tracking and see what happened usually when one doesn't see what happened one doesn't blame anyone unless one can get in a cheap shot against iran i would like to express sorrow to our council partners russia for the tragic loss of life. when the russian plane was downed yesterday if russia is interested in bringing peace to syria it should make sure iran in its militias leave syria ones from for all the risk of

a broader conflict and leave with them. iran is responsible for creating the syria we see today it's an interesting argument israel's be emboldening syria monthly sometimes weekly in order to prevent iran from launching an attack on israel to date they have been zero it worried me that attacks and a whole lot of israeli ones would you know be ninety to one that we condemn this new active israeli aggression against my country the un security council must bring israel to account for its violation of international law israel attacked syria's twice this week but apparently some are unaware of that we are. strange isn't it how selective people are about international law and bombing but others seeing this as a warning wake up call the risks of conflict escalation a huge risk of miscalculation

a misunderstanding that led to the downing of aggression and catch late on a small scale the match an even more frightening with of a wind miscalculation we call all parties especially when we are getting the positive news regarding what could have been a dramatic military escalation to refrain from military action israel has expressed its condolences and even offered to send the head of its air force to russia to report on the incident putin's urging calm saying this was a tragic fluke. this situation is different from the one when a turkish jet shot down our plane but then turkey intentionally shot down the aircraft but now it looks 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 fighting in syria on different sides and the tiniest spark there could cause the biggest inferno the world's ever seen day note later in the day a little later we are expecting russia's defense ministry to release detailed report on what exactly happened in the skies over the mediterranean we will of course have all the latest updates on the program on not just for another let's recap the details of what actually occurred so we know six days ago a syrian battery shot down a russian military plane killing everyone on board missiles were launched. in response to an earth strike by israeli f. sixteen fighter jets and accidentally struck the russian plane that project incident happened around thirty five kilometers off the syrian coast just as the earth craft was returning to base we asked regional experts about how the tragedy could affect relations between the main players in the syrian conflict the israeli

regime put the russian service men at risk intentionally in order to be able to carry out this attack on syria which is of course illegal in itself. the arrogance of netanyahu has caused him great difficulty now because he has to be answerable to the russian people and then stead of apologizing as usual the israelis are looking for scapegoats russia changed a lot in recent years also in its foreign policy russia used to be or used to be considered it is early is totally pro. and even antes israeli in soviet times russia is now quite even handed in the middle east and he tries to keep good relations who is all the parties which is. the arabs with the palestinians with turkey and israel and. i wonder how long will it last that you can be

a friend of everybody because by the end of the day we are dealing with a very frigidly reality in the middle east with very contradictory powers and a lot of atrocity as we know in violence until now russia really succeeded to keep this balance polisi and to be a so-called friend of everyone which is quite an achievement i must see. the world anti doping agency has voted to reinstate russia's anti drug body thursday's decision ended a three year suspension for alleged state sponsored doping. the great majority of the world anti-doping agency's executive committee decided to reinstate the russian anti duping agency and is compliant with the world anti-doping code. given russia a list of commitments to be reinstated one point was access to data on some old

stored in the moscow just russia's agreement to do it was enough for them however the main sticking point had been the report by canadian dr richard mclaren which alleged russian run a state sponsored doping scheme not the list called for it to acknowledge complicity in doping moscow denies such a program ever existed but in a letter to wilder russia's sports minister admitted that there where issues within the country's anti doping agency now the reinstatement was widely met with the sent us or sports correspondent alexy ownership ski reports it's definitely been a very difficult decision for water and even in that statement the knowledge that the decision would be unpopular and would be met with a lot of criticism the u.s. anti-doping agency chief. he went as far as saying that wada needs to be completely reformed after that decision it's a blow to clean sport and in fact for the past week or so the criticism coming towards was way you know everywhere on social media in the in the articles on

television. not only that the number of anti-doping agencies in the world including the u.k. the united states new zealand australia poland canada they were all urging the president of water not to take the step to reconsider you know is surprising because how would you expect the country to purify its sport if you're saying that its agency which is destiny which is tasked to purify the sport should not be operational it's a chance that wada gave to the russian anti-doping agency to have fewer 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 recite it will be heavily scrutinized and will be heavily checked by water so it's definitely a long road ahead while the deputy head of russia's anti doping agency sais the organization went to great lengths to ensure compliance. 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 knee team it's been hard work for russia sports ministry as well as wada they're provided international expertise to rebuild the capability of russia's anti-doping agency from my viewpoint it's a well earned i 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 i mean this is a turning point indeed in this whole story and i see a good will how the rush to get back to. championships

and seeing the day to celebrate a lot of restructuring. that has been made the easiest what makes this decision very important it shows that there is a willingness to change seeing and i've seen these what comes. around let's head stateside where donald trump supreme court pick has proven to be perhaps the most divisive figure to be nominated for the job brett kavanaugh conservative views of being praised by most republicans and heavily criticized by most democrats now the controversy. intensified after his confirmation hearing got mired in sexual assault allegations this week strongly denies the accusations leveled against them saying he's ready to clear his name while his accuser has also agreed to testify to congress and has more now on trump's contentious choice for

the life time position. 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. rick kavanagh mr chairman. mr chairman. we cannot possibly move forward mr chairman your very warm well it will not be given their meeting. or here. we cannot be recognized i move to adjourn. them and i move. on here's why the issue is so diverse in 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 mis attributed quotes about birth control started flying around the internet hillary clinton herself was spreading this false information huge affair to birth control pills as abortion inducing drunks the set off a lot of harm to me an issue for you too i want to be sure will clear this didn't happen you were spanked chicks to prove this false then kavanagh's habit of buying baseball tickets became breaking news investigative reporters scoured his financial disclosure. and learned that he had a tickets to a baseball game so as you can see there's still plenty of showing us 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

cabinet has lied multiple times she's not sure when it happened where it happened who else was present 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 is 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. artsy new york. yeah a very partisan issue and indeed one of the most outspoken opponents to brett

kavanaugh is nomination is former presidential candidate clinton however it wasn't long until many pointed out that her husband former president bill clinton also faced allegations 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 you know sort of on their own merits. all of bill clinton's alleged victims reacted by asking the f.b.i. to investigate her rape. but it just shows you the difference in the double standard that existed back then and still does today i think it's i think this is this don ensuring 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's as about political differences. much toted promote program was supposed to be the biggest women's support initiative in afghanistan but according to a report by a washington watchdog it's been altered feeler 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 helped take a look. since two thousand and one the door has been reopened for afghan women to join 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. then i didn't have an. this money was spent properly there would have been changes in women's lives but we don't know how they spend it or who they gave it some time before they haven't done so much for afghan women there's an exhibition held in

india a man is representing afghan women this program in afghanistan is for women and we still get replaced by mad why don't we have the capacity. personally requested to say to support us by providing a small shiny incompetently to modernize they have to have sections their response was negative they said they were huge to train his after news experience i don't need the training 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 were processed at a stand ready to work pretty work.

in the morning ten twenty here in moscow hope you're having a great day were if you are do join us again in ninety seconds we've got more global news from the week that was. you know world's big partners a lot 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 troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development 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. if. you're back with r t international suffered a china some in the u.s. some bossed around 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 us it would face consequences we strongly call on the us to remedy the mistake and cancel the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences. well russia in turn called washington's punitive measures a nother demonstration of dirty competition well the s four hundred is russia's most 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 an interest to wild turkey another u.s. ally has already bought it and a senior u.s. official urged others to think twice before engaging with russia's defense intelligence agencies chinese affairs analyst victor sais the ongoing feud with washington will only bolster beijing's partnership with moscow. i think the u.s.

decision to sanction the pioli equipment department and its 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. military cooperation them today's action by the united states is a major boost in that direction definitely china will not step down china i think will have all the moral reasons to increase its military cooperation with russia and possibly even important mall airplanes and and try missile system sanctions by the united states against the chinese military will further reduce the incentive on the chinese product to improve its relations with the united states and i think eventually it turned on me completely this recopy that the states well china is

also embroiled in iraq with sweden beijing has accused the country of mistreating chinese tourists and even violating their human rights that is after an altercation between stuff at a stockholm hostel on a chinese family over a check in time this is how it played out. this is a key reason. you see. here. at midnight for police to toss defenseless tourists. the graveyard in this place is

too much. the chinese foreign ministry has made complaints to the swedish side on the urgent needs of the start of the office to gauge the case you need them we see but. we only know that we have done everything we could do for these guests but at the same time we cannot accept that their staff are exposed to threats and the other guests will suffer from a threatening situation. from. ukraine its crisis and what the future holds for the country of forty four million people that's all flesh tied next and it's an arty international.

you know world of big partisan movies lot of things 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longed to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trades per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one in one business show you can afford to miss the one and only. in early february of two thousand and fourteen as the made crisis was getting more violent there was a phone call that was intercepted it was a call between the secretary of state for european affairs victoria nuland and the

u.s. ambassador to ukraine geoffrey pyatt questions of credibility. private chats between top u.s. diplomats was leaked online i think you. got you know what he me. on the outside i think. working for yeah. probably. so you had this remarkable phone call. of the u.s. government apparently talking about a coup or how they were playing to restructure the government of ukraine. exactly i'm not saying the whole u.s. government feels that way the there is there is division on this but the neo

conservative element wants very much to change the strategic dynamic in eastern europe. cons are very smart people and they've been at this for a long time they came in around the issue of propaganda they studied how to create hot buttons for the american people they had this experience when they were getting the american people to get excited about central america back in the one nine hundred eighty s. . they ground forces. with the russian artillery and they've been applying those same strategies ever since they remain very dedicated to achieving their goals they still want to get rid of certain governments they want a regime change in syria for instance regime change in iran they're very skilled at this and they have a lot of allies now inside the news media inside the government and that means that they can do a lot to control the narrative of any story so i think in america these days we have told ourselves that there are a lot of ways of dealing with these problems.