you were there. was there were the it was there it was the it was there was. from rocket man to chairman kim with north korea the focus of the latest security council meeting we look at how in the space of just a good the white house went from trying to destroy the country to praising. police for a major terror attack arresting seven men reportedly trying to suicide vest guns and

bomb making equipment. recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court. has been trying. to stray. emotional scenes in the u.s. senate is both the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him. give testimony. of the welcome is just gone four o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching international. now north korea was at the heart of the latest u.n. security council meeting washington's top diplomat. praised the progress made in relations between the two countries just a year since president try to totally destroy the reclusive state. past diplomatic

attempts to halt north korea's nuclear ballistic missile development were unsuccessful. but now we're at the dawn of a new day well twelve months ago washington and pyongyang seem to be standing on the brink of war so i will be mentioned by secretary lost and he reports from new york it's only been a year and then boom donald trump's second u.n. general assembly just listen to it i would like to thank chairman kim for his courage and for the steps he has taken a lot of very positive things are happening with chairman kim he likes me i like him we get along but most importantly i believe that chairman kim jong un wants peace and prosperity for north korea twelve months ago same building same holds same mr trump no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people then the depraved regime in north korea

no north korea hasn't undergone any regime change surgery chairman kim is still in his chair but miraculously little rocket man is now an awesome guy rocket man shooting rockets all over the place and with me he's not get nowhere with it he will truly regret it five years. the likes of which nobody has seen before totally destroy north korea rocket men mad men is on a suicide mission for himself so that if there is a state that while today kim jong un is the president's most admired pen pal i'm sure you've heard about the beautiful letter so i've received two letters from jim and kim much personal correspondence magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters letters. one i showed one of the letters just to prime minister and b. he said this is actually

a groundbreaking letter like any other. donald trump would love to be remembered as a true global peacemaker it took him a year and a half from his inauguration to zero in on his desired legacy a true breakthrough in the korean crisis barak obama was having a harder time segmenting his place in history books but then the year when nuclear deal came to the rescue and the mission find your perfect legacy was complete after nearly two years of intensive negotiations backed by strong sanctions become trees represented in this room achieved what decades of animosity and rhetoric did not and thanks to this deal we have seen real progress shortly after mr obama was gone the deal was left in tatters no matter how monumental it had been in the first place the worst deals i've ever seen the good disaster is still one of the dumbest

details one of the worst deals ever it was the iran deal i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one donald trump waved good bye to the green minutes he quit unilaterally without paying attention to pretty much what the rest of the world has to say about today's action sends a critical message the united states no longer makes empty threats when i make promises i keep that donald trump may indeed keep all his promises as president but it does happen that rivals sometimes take over the white house after term one what if and a couple of years someone else will be representing the u.s. behind these new one general assembly walls in new york a million to train from. what washington's heavy sanctions against north korea were

one of the main issues of discussion in the latest u.n. security council meeting the russian foreign minister called them dated considering the progress seen from pyongyang regarding. when pyongyang shows readiness to cooperate and positive changes will stabilise asian in the region it looks more and more out related we're now western partners proposing the strengthening sanctions on north korea given that pyongyang has taken a number of important steps towards denuclearization it would have been more logical to support the efforts of us something in exchange to support the positive trend that it is hard to judge whether their statements match reality however just meeting by dialoguing and talking is progress and i think it needs to be acknowledged and praised that they are doing that however have we moved any closer to or the idea of

a peace treaty and we moved any closer toward finding a way to all weighed the nuclear build up on the peninsula i'm not sure through the efforts of washington that we have i think we have through the efforts of president bush and south korea and what they're doing but i don't think at this point in time we can say progress has been made because they should be entering the peace treaty ending the korean war as a prerequisite to tots. now we have some news just in here in r.t. because danger police have shut down two major bridges and stopped there he services connecting denmark to sweden and germany authorities do say the measures are part of a major security operation although they haven't provided any further details safe we're going to keep a close eye on that and seemed to know more or let you know about that. now the meantime dutch police say they have foiled

a major terror attack that soft arresting a gang of men trying to acquire cell rifle suicide vests and also bomb making equipment show it been skiing has the details on the. this is been a long standing investigation after it pulled and eventually the police have now swooped in on this screen which they say were planning to carry out a terror attack with a high level of bent to maximize the number of victims in casualties that the prosecutor would suggest that the police have got a real harmful right across europe right across the world actually with not only individuals that are starting self radicalized and going off and over on bridges and things but also groups like this who are really much more scary because if you set a vehicle bomb off or you have an a k forty seven then you're going to kill lots more people and we've had a bit of a bit of a hiatus in terrorist attacks recently that's a good thing but we should be complacent these big attacks could happen at any time

and just on that point do you think the public will feel more secure when they hear stories that the authorities of course haven't gang members that were planning terror attacks or do they become more afraid thinking goodness you know how big is this threat where the threat is that there's this is not going away and the police across europe across the world have been saying this now for many many years there's a real threat and a real risk of a terrorist attack at any time pretty much every country across europe has got a very very high threat level in place that means a terrorist attack could happen at any time and if you go to the big court in london at the moment pretty much every call is full of people who are being charged and convicted or hopefully convicted of terrorist a terrorist planning so this is a big issue the fact that the police and security services have been successful we should all be happy about it but we should also be aware that these attacks can happen really quickly and change the world. just one final point chris we do know

that the ringleader of this particular group had fought for isis in syria he came back i think he was convicted and then released is there a lesson there. well there's big lessons actually that we've got hundreds of these people that are really really you know they're fighters and they want to be fighters and we know that they want to be fighters but you also have to operate in within the law of the land that you're in and most legislations don't allow you to arrest people and not them up until they've actually been convicted of offenses and what the doctor had to do here is to compile a case let them let them effectively hang themselves give them the new so that they can they can but they can try to buy the guns by the explosives before they can actually take them before call chris really good to talk she thanks your insight this afternoon i was a chris phillips he's a former chief of britain's national counterterrorism security office thank you. now and what proved to be a highly charged hearing both donald trump supreme court nominee and the woman who

accuses him of attempted rape have testified before the senate judiciary committee i recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court i denied the allegation immediately categorically in unequivocally and here today not because they want to be am terrified my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and threats i intend no wheel well to doctor for her family the other night actually and my daughter lies assert their prayers and little lies are all of ten years old. so do i actually we should pray for the woman. it's a lot of wisdom from a ten year old. we need we know well.

i believe that if i came forward my single voice would be drowned out by a of chorus of powerful supporters this is a circus following the hearing president trimmed to double down on his support for his pick for the supremes cool cool cover his testimony powerful and the keys democrats of the destruction calling on the senate to vote for the nominee. ports now with more details from washington international issues like iran d.p. r. k. and actual wars like syria and yemen have taken a back seat and capitals hearings have been a dominating the news cycle for a couple weeks now and we witnessed a series of twists and turns over the past month or so and all of america's tuned in to find out if cavanagh did or did not sexually assault christine ford over thirty six years ago but all the suspense and media hype surrounding the case is making it seem more like

a soap opera than serious news having no was questioned for hours but it looks like the only thing that's clear from all of this is that both of their lives have been turned upside down well in this incredibly polarized climate of americans chose a side long before either of them spoke republican scheduled a hearing without talking to her or even inviting her to testify republicans also scheduled this hearing with dr ford with out having her allegations investigated by the f.b.i. if you wanted an f.b.i. investigation you could come to us what you want to do is destroy this guy's life hold this seat open and hope you win it twenty twenty you said that not me the entire country is watching how we handle these allegations i hope the american people can see through this. shame that you knew about it and you can help it you had no intention of protecting daughter for in fact it would be super difficult to

find anyone whose minds were changed after listening to the testimony and we won't find out how they're going to vote until friday so as of now there seems to be a motion over substance mary kom reporting now as washington does put more economic pressure on turkey its president is paying his first state visit to germany when the details of his meeting with chancellor merkel just after the break.

thanks guys are fine it will survive they say maybe the girl. could take it easy this is the central plank support diet good news for the coven right now so stop. the old thing you know we need to go back and buy more for force out stuff. that's also the position of the god that's the mission to the song goes in any case even if there is a number of calls to go back one day to the to the country. welcome back to with aussie now british media are abuzz over a new turn of events in the script poisoning case that some reports that the third

suspect is now being identified by u.k. security services let's get more details now from. following things for some more of them what more do we know. well the media isn't letting up on all the speculation around the fair all this theory crafting and rumor mongering it's really gone up a notch the latest story doing the rounds in british press is that a third suspect has been identified apparently involved in poisoning the screwballs and he apparently also a russian military intelligence officer he did a reconnaissance mission at the house before the alleged poisoning. this is this is everywhere now and in the british press the latest story this week but when an address when the question was asked let me put in spokes person he said that he said that we can't address these rumors because we aren't part of the investigation

he again called for a joint investigation with britain to get to the bottom of this. is hard to hold a discussion with the media we would like not to do that we don't know if any of the facts are true if we can make any official statements about who looks like whom who lived where and so on for a service is to be able to join the investigation they have to have the initial materials suggested a joint investigation our services need the initial material on the source re case after that and we jointly cooperate that's why we don't want to speculate. as i mentioned that isn't the first bold new claim to have emerged this week and wednesday we saw a report that one of the one of the spies agents as you want to call them that was a volved in posing the scribbles was apparently identified by an investigative group belling what they did is they trolled through all the graduates of russian

military academies going back decades and they found a man that resembled bashir of resembled. but but they said that he's actual name going by as passport was of his real name being an attorney. who was not only an excellent field agent the prostrate but a decorated one as well would the government government honors. the picture though they which they got from an online database is all the proof they offer the rest of the article was speculating about his career what he may or may not have been up to on the other hand cat itself says that that is pretty solid proof. in the past when they would defend the white helmets for example and when others pointed out resemblances between syrian jihad ists and white helmets the people that jihad

is islam is served as both fighters and then rescuers belling katz said that that was not a good enough comparison. one hundred percent simple to spit on very good way to do it in two thousand and one when i was the commander of that squadron there's very little information on him but he has all graduates yes it's rubbish that's an officer who would graduate such an academy would be sent on a task like this or graduates the field officers and it's not even special services who'd be trained to perform tasks like these even so it's rubbish that the g o u officer would be sent to poison someone they were not ours i think the story was planted seventeen years went by the face from the photo is not remarkable they were between twenty and twenty one years old when they graduated they have changed from that time. so the academy where this knowledge bigger apparently went denies that any of its graduates were involved in such silly missions but.

doubtlessly they'll be more theories more mongering in this affair until we actually get to the bottom of it ok thank you but i guess if they're with the latest. turkeys later that one is in germany at the moment on his first state visit as president at a news conference a chance for a call for closer economic ties. cologne and we find it very important that we cooperate with germany in the economic field according to the win win principle we are thankful for german support our trade relationship is getting better again we want to win win situation with germany in the present and the future. ok let's go straight to berlin now and our correspondent there peter oliver peter we got a taste of the press conference there what else was said. well this was the full honors the red carpet firmly rolled out for president of turkey he's received the

full military honors the full state banquet will be taking place on friday evening but this press conference it was all very friendly on the surface but just scratch a little bit below and it was very clear that there are still a number of issues that there are real tensions between berlin and over president one for his side he was very keen to bring things back to talking about economic cooperation between turkey and germany one of the main reasons for this of course could well be that it's on economic territory that germany and turkey can unite against one person in particular. well at the press conference it was announced that there will be an upcoming a meeting on syria and conspicuous by their absence from that list of invitees was

donald trump in the united states that meeting will comprise the leaders of russia of turkey of germany and of fronts. but this meeting between president and chancellor merkel well it's a miracle it's happened at all on the scale in which it's happened just not so long ago in custom mines back in there was some real top shelf insults hurled between the two nations. i can see turkey being admitted to the european union and i have never been able to see it happening on your money you have no relation whatsoever to democracies and you should know that your current actions are no different to those in the nazi period president jeopardizing everything that you've built together with others and your unspeakable nazi comparisons. do not cut the ties to those who want a partnership with turkey. i'm calling on all my countrymen in germany the

christian democrats the green party are all enemies of turkey to support those political parties who are not enemies of turkey. well the tensions between anchor and berlin could be seen in the room the press conference took place in one of the accredited journalists stood up during the press questions revealing a t. shirt that said freedom for journalists on it he was then removed from the press by security services leaving mr wanted mrs merkel to stand on looking rather or quit while it was done but there are clear issues and many of them relate back to the twenty sixteen attempted coup in turkey the turkish site they want those they claim took part in the coup or helped organize the attempted coup who are currently here in germany seeking asylum the german side they say this five people in jail in turkey over the coup who are german citizens and they want them released president or one wants to the american and others in the international community to condemn

the golan movement he says were behind the attempted coup however chancellor merkel stood right alongside president said he shouldn't be holding his breath for that to be declared anytime soon from germany from another that it was going to land movement we take you very seriously but we need more information to fix the status of this organization we do sorry some persons on the request of turkey but on the other hand there is a lack of information whether all of them are in this country that much of this state visit was all about bridge building some of that has been done but it's clear that they're still while they're still words from the angry exchanges between the two countries that have gone all over the last couple of years they have not gone at all just yet at times it looked like we were making progress at other times it looked like nothing's changed in the relationship and it's low ebb. interesting times ok thank you peter that was artie's peter all over for us there in berlin.

thank you for watching say it was good to have you company we're back again as usual in just over half a. u.s. president donald trump took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly a red for some sitting in the general assembly trump's words were simply laughable however what is happening in the middle east and beyond is anything but fun.

welcome to. the afghan war against the taliban has dragged on for seventeen years but a terror group shows no signs of defeat what are afghanistan's chances to finally end the bloodshed will ask afghan deputy foreign minister. the war against the taliban has been bogged down in stalemate for seventeen years now and almost top of all afghans have grown up knowing only conflict without any prospect of peace. i'm going to do to be dealing with an insurgency forever can any government in kabul perswade the guerrillas to sit down and negotiate and when will the war torn country finally begin to start healing. for a minister in this year and thank you very much for being part of the show today great pleasure to ghana is always such a hot topic of discussion. so the latest version afghan war that has been. going on

for seventeen years doesn't seem like anyone is close to claiming victory. how long do you think this stalemate will last. you see there is an effort to get rid of what does. the still beds.