i. mean. this is quite a gathering. a lot of people. media. continues to make a stir at the u.n. general assembly and it seems no. limits. what the president accusing it. as an investigative group claims it's

revealed the real identity of one of the alleged attack is on the program some of the information. nine am and rain in moscow on this thursday morning welcome top top stories for this hour. after two days of meetings with his counterparts at the united nations donald trump held a special news conference with the world's media on wednesday night as he was grilled over a range of his latest claims he received unexpected reaction this is quite a gathering. a lot of people. media.

america so true. didn't expect their reaction but that's. how honest and it's not diplomatic and they find it funny. let me tell you all day yesterday they were falling over themselves to get a picture with pan to talk about how great his speech was how strong it was whether he said good things about them or not they are. honest with that and they weren't laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun at the press conference donald trump attacked old enemies like iran and china but he also talked about syria and the successes achieved as early as reports from new york. if syria is the road to peace that is mostly because of. own efforts

at least that's the way the president sees it i put out on social media and elsewhere i gave my pump a zero john bolton everybody these orders. don't let it happen i said don't let it happen. that doesn't mean they can't be selective they can't be you know go in they've got to do what they've got to do with terrorists assume the terrorists but don't kill millions of people. and it's start to use some of it was quite surprising to hear the president repeat the words thank you to syria iran and russia for putting the live offensive on a halt but whatever else the president mentioned the word iran it was nothing pleasant to say the least very strong language and also at the press conference mr trump continued to bash the year. nuclear deal very hard we know that

pretty much the rest of the world disagrees with the american leader on that but during his speech mr trump made it clear that he doesn't really get bothered by that this week you put out a call to action to other countries to rally with america to put pressure on iran rouhani still calling for the u.s. to come back into the old deal but after meeting with world leaders this week did you make any progress towards a potential new deal does it matter what world leaders think going to run iran's going to come back to me are they going to make a good deal and that's even after president trump's first ever chairmanship of the u.n. security council where he can't have misheard an entire round table of other world leaders and government ministers i ask all members of the security council to work with the united states to ensure the arabian regime changes its behavior deep doodoo it creates the united states unilaterally drawn from the

agreement a decision with far reaching consequences that makes more on see the libya categorically condemns the. actions imposed by the government of the us against iran. we agree with the u.s. presence objectives on iran but we disagree with the methods for achieving them is abiding by its commitments on the deal it remains the best means of preventing iran developing a nuclear weapon this is something that we are actively working on together with china iran and the e.u. another highlight of the meeting was donald directly accusing china of meddling journalists who were and wanted an explanation and president trump did say that he wasn't misunderstood and that he's in fact got evidence of the interference attempts but that's about it.

as i just mentioned trump was quite harsh on china during the un session and accused of meddling in the upcoming us midterm elections it was artie's egos down off explains such tactics have been seen before in fashion the talent to dazzle has the designers brought in bottom in political fashion donald trump markets themselves as chief. and it looks like russia is going out of style not once was it mentioned in trump's un speech regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election. coming up in november. against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade

washington's needlework has already retailing their agenda actions that china has taken undermine a rules based order unfair trade practices particularly by china the chinese are very active we can watch very focused efforts to steal american information well china we here at r.t. know what it's like to be showcased in the window of the white house political boutique first things first accusations of election meddling are still in vogue so make no mistake what used to be russian hackers and the presidential vote in twenty sixteen giving way to chinese hackers and the mid-term ballot this season permits continued hacking of our defense secrets to its focus on collecting vast repositories of personal personnel to. information to better unable. to use child exploits are transparency and open society china is also being

introduced to the concept of sanctions being thrown in the same basket with moscow over beijing's purchase of russian weapons in this narrative the trade war waged by the us on china fits like a glove after all the purpose is the same to hurt and nation's economy our trade imbalance is just not acceptable. china is market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated when it comes to pushing an independent foreign policy china and russia cut from the same cloth this trend is also propelling beijing to the top of the u.s. diplomatic kill list we do want it to her very closely what appears to be an effort to expand their influence beyond their own region in places like africa. latin america the pacific island. and we are concerned by some of the tactics that the hunt for chinese spies is in full swing too as if the land of the american

dream has been rid of russia's agents and what seems to be a new fad in this china dominated collection military rivalry taiwan is a breakaway province from beijing's standpoint while from washington's it's a lucrative opportunity no wonder the massive new us three hundred and thirty million dollar weapons deal with taiwan fell flat with china washington is definitely a free that china is in the passing lane many economists are predicting that sooner rather than later china will have a larger economy than that of the united states of america that from washington's point of view presents a crisis for the united states of america likewise you see there are states trying to recruit other nations into its china ball particularly japan australia and india this is a very combustible situation so it appears like russia is indeed stepping aside

this fall winter season replaced by china in pretty much every dimension you know the boogieman dress is one size fits all. the dispute between the e.u. and the u.s. over how to deal with iran has escalated dramatically in recent days on monday the block's foreign policy chief announced europe will be working with russia and china to create a special payment channels to allow the trade with iran to continue ultimately in defiance of u.s. sanctions and that's some pretty harsh words from washington they european union has this so wrong and it's all because of their ego and their pride. and that's not graining who helped. get this deal together she's trying to hold a deal together because she did it but she's not looking out for the best interests

of the european countries who number one don't want to do business with iran to reason that she's attacking based on ego and pride is because she's deflecting the fact that the united states has had nothing but ego and pride when it comes to the way in which we're mishandling trade deals mishandling the way we treat other countries what the u.s. should be doing right now is actually trying to go in that direction which is to open up trade with other countries let american culture spread would businesses and consumers in other countries learn more about the way we think and the way we are the ideas of america the ideas of freedom freedom of the present liberalism these are great ideas but we're not going to spread them by cutting ourselves off and there is nothing more arrogant nothing more foolish nothing more counterproductive to cutting ourselves off cutting i our ideas off from the rest of the world as part of washington's moves against iran the u.s. national security adviser demanded the independent swift payment system on which

banks around the world rely on day to day stops business with the country. banks and financial messaging services such as swift must take a good hard look at their business with iran and ask themselves whether it is worth the risk you know the european union is strong. rhetoric and weak on follow through so we will be watching the development of this structure that doesn't exist yet and has no target date to be created we do not intend to allow our sanctions to the evaded by europe or anybody else. and the reaction to that came fast with european leaders hitting back and warning america against attempting to make decisions for the european union. it cannot be accepted that the united states would decide which world regions european companies can trade with they can develop economic activity . i'm sensitive to president comments on the rise of oil prices but i think if you

follow that thought to its conclusion you'll realize that it would be good prices that the run be able to sell it at the economist richard one believes it's possible the swift will bow to us to. cut ties with iran. u.s. does put a lot of pressure on many actors so swift might do that we don't know but of course the u.s. has a very you know that's for a very aggressive policy of sanctions so swift will certainly listen to those words the u.s. has put a lot of pressure on various issues and it has used the sanctions were going to be economic spoken more aggressively even against the european companies against swiss companies and this is as really. put a lot of tensions on european companies and especially since the financial crisis so it's some point my twenty go up and say this is too much i mean we have to go or own way and we have to find strike a new balance. a program here on r.t.

international the independent investigative group belling kept along with the telegraph newspaper claimed to have discovered the real identity of one of the chalk attackers if not only should office alleged real name but also some other rather surprising details as he certainly reports the online blog belling cat which is run by elliot hey good claims of uncovered one of the two men who were named by the british government as being responsible for march's novacek attack in seoul's three now the two men were named by the u.k. as being alexander petrol and bashir of butts according to balance the latter of these two men who they've all mosques they say his real name is anthony checked and that he's a colonel in the g.r.u. but according to their own source in the all it's a call an operation like the one in souls three would usually be carried out by

a low ranking operative who would be no higher than a captain that have in the past carried out investigations into incidents in the ukraine and syria and it's those incidents and those investigations which of course people so called into question the veracity of their work. cat is doing is nothing more than reading tea leaves every level analysis is a method used by hobbyists never been to syria doesn't speak a word of arabic and he can duck says press and reset from the comfort of his armchair the software incident has been a sore point between the u.k. and russian governments and the u.k. governments have consistently blamed the russians as being responsible and that was the theme which repeated itself when to resume a address the united nations general assembly the u.k. saw the consequences of these norms being the road it in salzburg this year when russia recklessly deployed a nerve agent on our streets the united kingdom has presented to detailed evidence

clearly laid out in charges of attempted murder and the use and possession of a chemical weapon against agents of the russian state. uncorroborated rhetoric on the incident is on the rise the u.k. is stubbornly rejecting the idea of a joint investigation with russia which we have proposed on numerous occasions that's despite the fact that such a joint investigation is exactly what's called for in the chemical weapons convention if they don't want to cooperate it begs the question then of whether the u.k. has something to hide now we've heard no official response from more thorough teams here in the u.k. to those specific allegations in the ballin cat blog the police and the metropolitan police and the home office both having not commented on them and the russian government while they've consistently denied any involvement in what took place and solve three hundred of called on the u.k. government to hand over any evidence or intelligence that they've gathered so that

they can help with the investigation after the investigation was released the u.k. defense secretary took to twitter to thank those who were quote reveal the true identity of the solsbury suspects but then twenty minutes later governor williamson all of a sudden deleted that tweet without any x. . well. 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 he longs to be ultra rich eight point six

percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees 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 numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. the most thing you know we need to go back to invite more follow on force that's not self-sufficient that's also the position of the gallon that's the mission to the song goes in any case even if there is a number of contingency they will have to go back one day to the to the country.

if they stories and retarding to be headlining act at this year's general assembly mr donald trump it isn't just foreign powers he has been hitting out at but socialism is coming for a talk as well as keep them up and reports that's an argument we have heard from him before. trumps un general assembly speech this year contains some old material not long ago venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth today socialism has bankrupted the oil rich nation virtually everywhere socialism or communes has been dry it has produced suffering corruption and decay all nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings us to everyone stops at roughly the same thing in last year's un speech and he got a similar awkward response the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has

been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. trump doesn't seem to realize that the cold war is over and the specter of soviet style marxism and leninism is no longer hanging over eastern europe meanwhile trump also doesn't seem to realize that socialism is rather popular around the world the german social democratic party the british labor party many political organizations and leaders across the world adhere to some vague form of socialism in fact socialism is getting more popular in places that are a lot closer to washington than venezuela. we believe that every working class american just serves the opportunity to change their economic destiny and their children's future and that is what that's the message that we need to frame to them in terms.

of piecing this crime sisson our democracy where people who will do like to see. the rich. leapin and we should absolutely have a health care system that provides help here for every citizen in our country socialism is quite popular among millennial is in the united states more popular than capitalism in fact some pollsters say that if donald trump had run against bernie sanders in the twenty sixteen presidential election he might not have been able to pull off his victory we decided to ask dakota lily a young activist why he thinks that socialism is on the rise in the united states people my age especially the really sick of you know the ills that capitalism brings upon if you look at the student loan crisis right now the student loan debt

is the largest holder of debt in the country more than credit card debt you know we have for profit you know educational institutions that charge sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars per semester per year you know the unemployment rate trump says it's four percent or three percent in actuality it's eight nine ten percent third the room is made up of socialists you know it's made up of people from bolivia and cuba venezuela china you know angola south africa it's made up of people who completely disagree with him on the you know if you look at last year's speech he said you know socialism in venezuela is not failing because it's being you know put to use wrongly it's being put to use completely correctly no one said anything for a good solid five seconds and then this year they laughed at him actually so when trouble repeated his anti socialist tirade at the un the question is was he really aiming at caracas or was the gaming at a new source of opposition to his policies here at home where it seems that trump has unwittingly made socialism great again hey look him up and r.t.

new york. danish police are investigating one of their own offices for hugging a protester in a hit job during a rally against the country's most of them face veils the issue had been raised by and. the photo of the office and the protester can be interpreted as police in denmark sympathizing more with demonstrate to supposing the niqab ban than with parliament legislation therefore i want to complain about the officers behavior in the officer reportedly hugged the protester who had burst into tears after hearing she would not be fined for staging a sit in the protest also said she was relieved to find out police would not be looking to forcibly remove face veils stop the islamization of denmark group joined a complaint against the officer the independent police appeals authority is investigating the case of the officers and lawyer insists she acted in accordance

with police guidelines denmark's ban against face veils came into effect on the first of all coast and follow similar restrictions in austria belgium and france critics though are concerned where this is taking society. our community is a made up of various groups and the police need to police all of those groups fairly. the nature of the complaint. could effectively be summarized as the police aren't far right you know. and that isn't what the police's job is other places job is to facilitate protest in a liberal democracy and that seems to be what the officer went along with doing policing the population of a country is not an easy thing to do and you cannot have the police enforcing. any law. at the lower end of the scale we have absolutely no discretion whatsoever it doesn't work like that in a democracy. has the russian foreign ministry turned into a troll factory

a new report by the us news website the daily beast claims the kremlin has upgraded its troll and bot campaign by using the twitter accounts of its embassies and the foreign ministry it claims they are trying to confuse the public by blending the truth with multiple competing narratives.

i do. the article singles out one particular russian tool the contests for the most ironic post about russia's relations with the west he can see that winning picture for the best cartoon on boris johnson following his anger at the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman being invited to the house of commons where we discuss the story with columnist and author ted rall. the united states government does this all the time u.s. government officials make jokes all the time the president of the united states uses social media extremely effectively and makes lots of jokes on it in fact he

probably would not be president if he hadn't used twitter extremely effectively so it's mystifying why anyone would say that this is somehow inappropriate the united states. has has house official channels on twitter and otherwise that make jokes i've even seen jokes about things that are pretty grim for example the department of defense twitter account has made jokes about drone strikes and weapons that bomb civilians in afghanistan and elsewhere those are pretty tasteless jokes so i guess you could say that a terribly tasteless joke might be something that would cross the line but jokes themselves are why not they're an important part of dialogue thanks for joining us for the program here on r.t. international more of your thursday world headlines and about half an hour. the democrats are not socially lever all they are pro war and so are the

republicans and the problem people have a trough is that he's pro peace and that's not acceptable and i'm. the today that runs except for against iran. well you don't charge the charge to stop the guy walking the walk and you know you have to do it you have to do but he's not actively going down the path that hillary clinton clearly was going.

to welcome to the alex salmond show and to our look at the party conference season through the eyes of those who are well placed to take an overview of the great issues affecting their parties next week the tories gathered in birmingham and yet again you don't threatens to split the party asunder but is it a voice from the party's past who can point the way to the future first of course to your tweets emails and messages you have had a great response to our show last week on the idea of a centrist party surely says former politicians by party discussing a new center party was helpful to knowing u.k. future post bricks it donal says new party in same system is just another political gravy train was problem and to solve and over folk time scotland pushed for independence again to skate this quagmire the team is alive and walking five hundred miles and finally tackling says i would be interested in a u.k. center party less all efforts for scottish independence fail in that case a u.k.

center parcs would be a great idea i would support a center party hypothetically and scotland the. now to the tory party in birmingham back in the politics of the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's which i believe a member of course but alex is very much a part of one movement dominated and divided the country the prime minister margaret thatcher but then the second best known politician was the public more famous even the leader of the opposition was a minister for health education a cardi of the hugest mite of market edwina still stood firmly on the pro european side and the tory splits of the one nine hundred ninety s. her ministerial career was cut short by raging controversy from an unexpected direction salmonella in a production but her public role then blossomed into a big three two on television once described as the woman with a brass neck a silver tongue i think wouldn't pay to ever live lives we know how some typically straight talking for those whose.