right. from rocket man to chairman kim of the north korea the focus of the latest security council meeting we look at how in the space of just a year the white house went from bowing to destroy the country to praising. the boy who assaulted me that some day be on the u.s. supreme court why. totally. destroy.

emotional scenes in the u.s. senate is both the supremes court nominee brett kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him of attempted rape give testimony the commission will vote on the nomination of the judge later on friday and dutch police for a major terror attack after arresting seven men reportedly trying to obtain suicide vests guns and bomb making equipment plus. protesters flooded the streets of berlin following a meeting between angela merkel. and during his first state visit as president. welcomes seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now north korea was at the heart of the latest u.n. security council meeting washington's top diplomats praised progress made in relations between the two countries just

a year since president try to totally destroy the reclusive state. past diplomatic attempts to hold north korea's nuclear ballistic missile development were unsuccessful but now we're at the dawn of a new day what twelve months ago washington and pyongyang seem to be standing on the brink of war so will this new day mention bisection they're actually lost reporting from new york is it a prank. 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 halls 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 their way with this 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 that he did it to 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 page one i showed

one of the letters just to prime minister he said this is actually a groundbreaking letter like any other president donald trump would love to be remembered as a global peace me it took him a year and a half from his inauguration to zero in on his desired legacy a true br. through in the korean crisis barak obama was having a harder time segmenting his place in history books but then be aware 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 sales i've ever seen in a good disaster is still one of the dumbest e-mails 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. washington's heavy sanctions against north korea were one of the main issues discussion at the latest u.n. security council meeting and the russian foreign minister called them dated considering the progress seen from peeling yang regarding denuclearized. i don't time when pyongyang shows readiness to cooperate and positive changes to will stabilization in the region it looks more and more when our western partners propose the strengthening sanctions will north korea that given the pyongyang has taken a number of important steps towards denuclearization it would have been more logical to support the efforts for something in exchange to support the positive trend well i tend to agree that. i am not i'm not a great fan of science i think they impose on the sovereignty of other nations in ways that it is not proper and. president trump during his speech

at the un and said america will always choose independence over global governance control and domination and yet when we tell sovereign nations you cannot trade with certain countries we certainly are talking about actual domination and i think it's counterproductive i think causes hostility with the world and i think if we can if we can encourage that peace process to proceed. between north and south korea i think we can achieve some significant and perhaps diminish the level of tension we need to do that. now a new round of hearings over supreme court nominee pret kavanah is underway in the u.s. that is the senate judiciary committee is set to vote on his candidacy later in the

day president trump's nominee is accused of attempted rape and thursday's hearing did prove to be highly charged case let's get the latest now he's following the hearing for us in the u.s. could even see callup just run through them what we've heard so far and what we can expect a bit later on. well in the morning capitol hill was abuzz as once again we were hearing the confirmation hearings surrounding brett kavanaugh who's been nominated for the u.s. supreme court by u.s. president donald trump now if he is confirmed he will be a supreme court justice for life now his appointment his nomination has been tainted by allegations of sexual assault and just as yesterday today's confirmation hearings that took place throughout the morning were certainly contentious let's review some of what we heard throughout the morning other than working with us my democratic colleagues chose not to participate in this process indeed before

yesterday they had never even asked judge kavanaugh a single question of these allegations and yet again and again the refrain has been the same delay delay delay i'm very disappointed that we are here today voting on this nomination and specially in light of the testimony that we heard just yesterday that it would be an absolute crying shame if we keep treating him like you know if you saw some sort of an impostor or some sort of a person who just couldn't do this job he can do the job he has done the job and he's doing it on me the circuit court of appeals the second highest court in the country and i have a lot of confidence in him this supposed to be an independent equal branch of government we're no longer that we are an arm and a very weak arm of the trump white house. now yesterday's hearings were certainly explosive at those hearings we heard

testimony from christine blasi forward who accuses brett kavanaugh of having attempted to rape her when they were both teenagers at a party she gave testimony lots of tears and then many opponents of cavanaugh had a lot of angry things to say meanwhile kavanaugh testified himself and he got quite emotional during his testimony and it was quite explosive let's review yesterday's morning hearings that many observers say almost de generated into a political circus. 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 unequivocal my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and threats the other night actually and my daughter lies assert their prayers and little lies all of ten years old.

said to actually we should pray for the woman. it's a lot of wisdom from a ten year old republican schedule to hearing without talking to her or even inviting her to testify republicans also scheduled this hearing with dr ford without 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 the seat open and hope you win it twenty twenty you said that not me. now it's important to note that it appears there will be a vote on the confirmation of kavanagh this afternoon in the afternoon at roughly one thirty pm there is expected to be a vote on the confirmation now if brett kavanaugh is confirmed he will be a u.s.

supreme court justice for life however both sides are quite heated there are protests going on there been celebrities taking sides in the matter it's all over social media this is quite a contentious hearing quite a contentious confirmation process for brett kavanaugh. ok thanks kind of the kind of never the latest for us in new york. in other news tonight dutch police do say that they have foiled a major terror attack after arresting a gang of men trying to buy assault rifles or acquire a rifle a suicide vest and also bomb making equipment. has more on the story this is been a long standing investigation after a tip off in april and eventually the police swooped in no miscreant which they say were planning to carry out a terror attack at a high level of vent to maximize the number of victims in casualties that the

prosecutor in the netherlands this morning has been outlining some of the material this group were apparently trying to obtain the suspects were in search of a k forty seven hand guns grenades explosive vests and room materials for several car bombs well what do we know about the ringleader the so-called ringleader of this group what we understand he's a thirty four year old man who is of a rocky origins we also understand from the police that he was convicted last year in two thousand and seventeen of attempting to travel to syria where he wanted to join i saw the terror group as for the rest of the group seven members in total we had some from police that their age twenty one to thirty four three of the group including that ringleader had all been convicted of trying to travel to syria where they wanted to join that terror group i saw now we understand that they were attempting to not only put. guns and rifles they were also looking to obtain

woman which could then be used to create a bomb and we understand from the authorities in the netherlands that they were quite far away along in their attempts to create this terrorist attack this is not the only time in september that terror has been on the front pages of the netherlands earlier this month the jihadist was shot dead in. sit down after stabbing two arrests the threat level in the netherlands remains it out of a possible maximum of five meaning that there is a real concern that there is a chance of a terror attack in the country. the kremlin has reacted to the british media frenzy over reports that u.k. security services have identified a third suspect in the script poisoning case spokes person noted that the case does the facts not press speculation or unofficial investigations. reports.

rumors upon theories on top of speculation it doesn't seem to end the kremlin has dismissed these rumors about the suspects their relationship with moscow was just that rumors and hasn't seen any case files. the whole discussion is built around. the results some kind of investigations by some kind of . nobody can know which pieces of evidence of which are true various investigations are underway by journalists. all this raises questions concerning the results of those investigations we do not know how. they are based and so on it's hold hold a discussion with the media we would like 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 who lived and so. they have to have the initial material.

is not a joint investigation. you need to be an issue material on the source. we jointly cooperate so that's why we don't want to speculate the latest but a third russian agent has been identified suspected of carrying out reconnaissance at the script. the other theory that surfaced and the rounds in the media this week is about one of the two original suspects but sure of bending cat which calls itself an investigative outfit and is widely seen as the russian says it has this covered his true identity and authority. apparently a decorated serviceman what they did is they truly through decades and decades of russian military academy graduation photos until they found a man with a resemblance to share of then use that leaked database on the internet to find him . name that's all the proof that they offered that to kate in the rest of their

article to speculation about his career which is all odd when others revealed links between syrian jihad ists and pro rebel white helmet rescuers telling cat insisted that it merely likeness on photographs was insufficient proof but there you go we it team managed to reach the head of the military academy referred to by betting cat where it should be get used to study and they have serious questions about bending cats narrative one hundred percent of graduates in a two thousand and one back then i was a commander of that squadron there is very little information on him or his or graduating yes it's rubbish is that enough a survey who would graduate such an academy would be sent on a task like this are graduates or field officers and it's not even special services who would be trained to perform tasks like these even so it's rubbish that a g.r.u. officer would be sent to poison someone they were not ours i think this story was

planted seventeen years went by the phrase from the photo is not remarkable they were between twenty and twenty one years old when they graduated but they have changed from that time and there we go the latest twist in the script. rule coaster ride of rumors and speculation inconsistent sees and revelations and judging by what we've seen so far one shouldn't expect this ride to end anytime soon but i guess if they watching are say we're back with more nice and to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.

u.s. president donald trump took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly iran 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. faulting you know we need to go back and buy more foreign force that's not self-sufficient that's also the position of the god that's the mission to that. goes in any case even if there is a number of contingency they've got to go back one day to the to the country. and.

here with. me difference is in germany a moment on his first state visit as president and the protests is they have already showed up on the streets of berlin at a news conference with chancellor merkel and one called for closer economic times. and we find it very important that we cooperate with germany in the economic field according to the win win principle we have 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. state visit with the full military honors for president here in germany and it was all very friendly at the press conference as he stood alongside chancellor angela merkel but scratch just a little bit below the surface and it was clear that they're all still major issues . tween berlin and ankara president otoh one from his side he was all very keen

always very keen to bring the talk back to economic cooperation between turkey and germany one of the reasons for that is because when it comes to economic cooperation well that's one area they. can unite against one person in particular. well the press conference it was announced that there will be an upcoming meeting on syria and conspicuous by their absence from that list of invitees was donald trump in the united states the meeting will comprise the leaders of russia of turkey of germany and of france. 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 cast our minds back in there were some real top shelf insults being hurled between the two nations i can see turkey being admitted to the european union i have never been able to see it happening. germany 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 on the christian democrats the green party are all enemies of turkey to support those political parties who are not enemies of turkey as well the tensions between one current berlin could be seen in the room the press conference took place in one of the accredited journalists stood up during the press quest. 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 queue who are german citizens and they want them released president wants angle or merkel and others in the international community to condemn the golan movement who 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 it was going to the u.n. movement we take you very seriously but we need more information to fix the status

for this organization we do search some persons on the request of turkey but on the other hand there is a lack of information where there are all of them are in this country that this state visit was all about bridge building some of that has been done but it's clear that there's still while there's still weren't 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 its low ebb. these are all over there now french authorities have launched an investigation against a black rapper for inciting violence and racial hatred that after he posted a video showing a white man being tortured shot and hanging from a tree in called for white babies to be killed you cheaper suspended the clip called hanging the whites while the rapper himself nick conrad says it's nothing but a work of fiction he also. claimed to be simply turning the tables on the suffering

black people have had to endure for years but outrage at the video has gone all the way to the top for example the french interior minister has strongly condemned the rapper he also called for further legal action too and was backed by politicians from all the major parties we put the issue on whether there needs to be limits to artistic expression up for debate. all violence in this way is to p. deplored of course but let's put it in perspective there are literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of hits on you tube videos from neo nazi hard right rock bands so i'm all for the rule of law replying but he does seem to be massively disproportionate when there is no general trend in the french black community or elsewhere for this sort of thing and the one time here example people have descended on in france you'll be exaggerating now you have to agree in any way

but undoubtedly these i exaggerate i mean there is a problem there is a problem. i am using in general i am drill music i am gonna last one hundred black kids at the moment lee aligning in the more true your have been lying in a more tree we should condemn all violence like this all violent lyrics like this this kid is only at our say forty downloads we're going to be very careful we don't blow this out of proportion but he i've read the lyrics he's talking about stabbing caves in a nursery white kids and hanging their parents i'm sorry laughs out of order in my book just well let's see what the guy said the guy said i wanted to reverse polarity and show what it's like for black people for hundreds of years to be victims to these things sounds credible to me whether he meant it or not who knows only he can tell but i do know there seems to be a big disproportionate difference with the way he's been treated to the way that

the rest of the offenders on you tube are being treated one would never try not to condemn slavery would not you know no one's trying to make an excuse for that if he has used a seed and change the priority of it good however but by the same token condemn both. but the baby had a hand the international that's how things looking safe today programs continue after the break. right.

now but. later. this is going bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i'm bart chilton in washington coming up on back to the u.s. and russian weapons sales have raised a righteousness and ridicule in asia former pentagon official michael maloof joins us to look at the fracturing fault lines and with higher fuel prices some global shipping companies are seeking more cost effective water routes we look at the cold

economic and operating realities of arctic shipping route with the seals throw mark over ford with plus we get a new perspective on crypto currency is around the world with somebody i've been trying to get on the program for months. andriy on flair iot of heat of the a c you're going to love this guy and the business of television is changing and some of t.v.'s old is now in new we get the inside scoop from host of the big picture and veteran media consultant hollin cook all of that in the next half hour let's go. argentinean president marie c.-o. machree has reached an agreement with the international monetary fund to accelerate delivery of an augmented bailout package that now totals fifty seven billion dollars i.m.f. managing director christine lagarde called the package the biggest loan in the history of the i.m.f. she also said the i.m.f. effort to intervene in argentina is just beginning let's take

a listen to what she had to say this week in argentina. we may. tell them to. launch a program. putting together. in the deal the macro administration agree to spending more spending cuts to balance the national budget in twenty nineteen a year ahead of previous plans and to run a one percent surplus and twenty twenty the mecca of ministration also agreed to adopt a floating exchange rate on their badly battered economy and that the argentine central bank would only make a limited intervention in the case of what ms la garde called extreme overshooting of the exchange rate the agreement is already controversial given argentine history the i.m.f. was widely blamed within argentina for contributing to their economic collapse back in two thousand and two after that collapse argentina.