it. looked a few years ago the story. repatriations . the servant. girl of the treasury board. political blackmail economic pressure and brute force methods being used by western governments according to russia's foreign minister and his fiery address to the un general assembly. the us senate judicial committee votes to move brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination to the senate floor.

a major terror attack after a rusting seven men reportedly trying to obtain suicide vests guns and bomb making equipment. plus protesters flood the streets of berlin following a meeting between. arrest his first state visit as president. it's midnight here in the general somebody is coming to an end with politicians from around the world taking the stage russian foreign minister sergey lavrov raise concern over some countries trying to hijack u.n. principles. john you know there's up with a number of western states are seeking to preserve their self-proclaimed status of global leaders and prevent a natural transition to a multi-polar world order through that means including political blackmail economic

pressure and brute force search activity is lead to devaluation of international law the international community has paid dearly for the self-serving ambitions of these countries diplomacy a culture of negotiation and compromise have been replaced by unilateral restrictions like un security council approval such actions are not just illegal but also just anything. less cost lives now to political scientist and author cabaye or frosty rb welcome to the program wow that was very intense wasn't to watch and quite long the q. and a session any gay lover of a time did so and he did answer everything that was thrown at him he said some of western states are trying to prevent a transition to a multi-polar world through the use of political pressure and brute force what exactly do you think he was referring to. i

think that he was referring first and foremost to the trump administration's blatant policies that undermine the international the post-war to international order and the chaos that. resulted and will grow in time because there's no sign that trump administration has any intention of you know making a u. turn and readapting the basic international norms and values the president and his foreign policy team are trampling upon mr mr lavrov delivered a very powerful jab mr trump and you know some of his many trumps associates in in the european scene we saw the travesty of u.n. values that the security council dhea the day when president mark ron and three some

may paid only lip service to trump's trashing iran nuclear did that has been approved by the un security council compared to mr rose as well as the chinese foreign ministers with strong denunciation. unilateral move so i thought that this was a turf eric timely and very powerful speech by foreign minister lavrov that resonates with the international community and shows that these unwise policies by some western governments of growing international divide between west and east and the balk of the international community supports the position and nancy aided by mr lover of today was very very interesting to listen to that i mean the u.s. at the moment because they've obviously had trouble speaking

a couple of times i seems to be treating iran as its main opponents on the world stage how do you see the tensions between washington and tehran developing. well unfortunately. specter called we witness the united nations by the u.s. officials this week there's little room for optimism and i'm afraid we are on a slippery road toward greater tension and wars so unless the us of asia was agreed that their present course of action is confrontational and as mr lavrov quite rightly said they create you know artificial crisis not a crisis of necessity but of choice and we saw the disastrous iraq war and you know other examples of u.s. intervention is them. backfired on the u.s.

and western interests as a whole and they're now about to repeat the grave mistakes. tension between us and iran is building in the persian gulf region and there needs to be preventive diplomacy and the dire warning issued by mr lavrov today hopefully will be loosened by the decision makers in you know london paris of course washington. yet to see whether that will indeed happen in practice but certainly the suggestions were there in the speech today when there let's move on to israel's netanyahu benjamin netanyahu obviously we've seen a number of the leaders speak he decided to in his speech show photos of an alleged storage facility for nuclear weapons to the u.n. general assembly i got two questions i suppose do you think that was the right

platform to do that and what do you think he was trying to achieve by showing those photos. well of course is the second time and mr netanyahu is doing this and you know his attempt is futile as has fallen completely and deaf ears and either doesn't really care that hardly anyone in the international scene pays any attention to him anymore because they're familiar with his theatrical and you know he just has been addicted to this kind of you don't know fall b.-a. is useful to him and his garment to deflect attention. and solve problems with the palestinians and arabs in in general there's an absence of very sad and tragic absence of any movement toward a middle east peace process and mr netanyahu instead are coming to the u.n.

and addressing this major issue that he is responsible for more than anybody else in the world he jersey rosina and focuses on iran demonizes iran and and throws all kinds of force an answer and she ate it allegations in order to divert attention from his own you know political sense basically and that's not washing in with anyone in the world community today and we saw that it was a very muted reaction to all the good reasons ok we've run out of time there thank you very much for sharing your views here on our take have a political scientist and author thanks. now dutch police say they have foiled a major terror attack that's after arresting a gang of men trying to acquire assault rifles suicide vests and bomb making equipment shot depends takes up the story. this is been

a long standing investigation after a tip off in april and eventually the police have now swooped in no miscreants which they say were planning to carry out a terror attack at a high level of vent to maximize the number of victims and 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 forty seven handguns grenades explosive vests and 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 have 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 by so now we understand that they were attempting to not only put hand 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 a way 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. after stopping. the threat level in the netherlands remains that 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. facebook has admitted that nearly fifty million accounts have been affected after

a quote attack on its platform the social media giant warn that perpetrators could have misused the accounts. our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost fifty million accounts it's clear their attackers exploited a vulnerability in facebook's code this allowed them to take over people's accounts facebook admitting that a breach took place on choose day with fifty million accounts being affected and ninety million also being logged out and having their passwords research a huge breach and again eroding trust in facebook now they say that the account could have been used by perpetrators they still don't know whether the accounts were misused or whether any information was accessed and also they say at this early stage of their investigation they don't know who's behind the attacks all based on all of this has sparked outrage which has been expressed on other social media platforms i knew something was up last night when i saw an error has

occurred when i clicked on to now logged out of my account of their country member right password time to change it again if they refused to protect those dimona tice consumers clients should quit in possibly the should be put out of business it's been a tough year for facebook to come in for huge amounts of criticism that their platform has been used to disseminate fake news and they've brought in the atlantic council to get rid of so-called fake news that's controversial because it's seen as being censorship on free speech and closing accounts which don't follow the government line in places also earlier this year facebook coming under fire over the cambridge analytical scoundrel where millions of facebook users had their accounts accessed and used for. political reasons by the company and so what came out of all of that is facebook founder mark zuckerberg really apologizing and promising that his

company would try to do better we have a responsibility to protect your data and if we can't then we don't does. so. why this latest news about this breach and interesting to see where the social media goes from here. the white house has just announced that president trump has appointed an f.b.i. investigation into claims of sexual misconduct against his supreme court nominee company it follows calls from a senior republican senator on the judiciary committee which has voted to move ahead with that conference nomination his candid with monty tells the u.s. senate judiciary committee has been conducting confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh nominated to be a supreme court justice by donald trump today we saw essentially what happened they took a vote to take the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the floor of the u.s.

senate now as the vote was preparing we saw kind of a last minute proposal from republican senator jeff flake he proposed essentially that a final vote on the floor of the senate wouldn't take place until the f.b.i. had been able to do an investigation i do think that we can. have a short pause and make sure that the f.b.i. can investigate that i understand it is that some of us would have to and i'm prepared to do it make a request to the white house to ask the f.b.i. to do that investigation it would be short. and limited in scope to the current allegations that have been made i would like to support the motion for that investigation now the hearings this morning were certainly contentious there was certainly quite a bit of tension in the room as the senate judiciary committee continued its hearings regarding brett kavanaugh and his nomination let's take an overview of

some of what went on in the final hours of the senate judiciary committee's hearings rather than working with a democratic coalition. not to participate in this process indeed before yesterday they had never even asked judge kavanaugh a single question of these over go sions 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 like he's some sort of an imposter or some sort of a person who just can't do this job he can do the two of them a 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 is 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 we then heard some very heated political bickering with both sides are getting rather fired up now the nomination of brett kavanaugh has certainly divided the united states of america both sides there he fired up about it and it appears that next week we will have a final vote in the u.s. senate regarding his confirmation as a supreme court justice in the united states the highest court in the land but it has been quite contentious protests all around capitol hill lots of accusations on both sides lots of anger but the last days of the hemings exposing deep political divides in the commission a top us t.v. has deepened times republican senator lindsey graham is being blackmailed by russia open because he backed into what you want to do is destroy this guy's life hold this seat open this is the most an ethical. sham since i've been in

politics if you really wanted to know the truth you sure as hell would have done what you've done to this guy lindsey graham is so obviously being blackmailed by russia because asians are different than testimony under oath from a credible woman thirty five years time is an argument against an assault of a fifteen year old girl what may slightly surprise mishap of that though is that the senator is known for having one of the most extreme anti russian stances they're trying to break the backs of democracies they're doing worse things in other countries they're trying to get us to fight among ourselves and here's what we should do we should tell the russians in no uncertain terms you interfered in our elections we don't care why we're going to hate you and hate you hard in russia . it's not a normal country. more news after this short break. the

u.s. is trying to control the european banking system remember they imposed back to every single european bank had a record of every single customer every single transaction especially one through the u.s. dollar and the u.s. pows their u.s. dollar base had germany all over the world now european nations e.u. nations are saying no we're not going to be a part of the some clarity more because we need the box we need the money we're not we don't believe in your propaganda we don't think that your sanctions on iran have

merit for any reason so we're just going to bypass them because we. welcome back to the program the kremlin has reacted to news reports that britain security services have identified a third suspect in the case it's sent to me pascoe says that moscow wants to see facts not press speculation or unofficial investigations. on the developments. rumors upon theories on top of speculation 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 result some kind of investigations by some kind of . nobody can figure out which pieces of. which are true various investigations that are underway by journalists. this raises questions concerning the results of the investigations we do not know how. they are based and so on its 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. joint investigation. 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 discovered 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 the database on the internet to find his. name that's all the proof that they offered that occasion 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 you referred to by betting cat where used to study and they have serious questions about building cats narrative one hundred percent he graduated in two thousand and one back then i was a commander of the squadron there is very little information on him but he's or gregory yes it's rubbish 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 police and so on they were not hours i think this story was planted seventeen years when 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 fair rule

a coaster ride of rumors and speculation inconsistent seas and revelations and judging by what we've seen so far one shouldn't expect this ride to end anytime soon. yvonne is in germany on his first state visit as president and protesters have already showed up on the streets of berlin at a news conference when the chancellor merkel at one called closer economic ties. 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. 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 there are still major issues

between 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 this. can unite against one person in particular. well at 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 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 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 in germany you have no relation whatsoever to democracy and you should know that your current actions are no different to those in the nazi period. president you're 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 queue who are german citizens and they want them released president wants. 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 that 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 sorry 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 or this state visit was all about bridge building some of that has been done but it's clear that there's still well 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 it's low ebb. as a roundup of the news for now i'll be back at the top of the but first here on r.t. international it's politicking with larry king. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round if the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. billion really need. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. high court drama and a surprise accusation from trump at the u.n. putting china in the crosshairs we'll cover it all on this edition politic.

welcome to politicking on larry king another accusation of sexual conduct against donald trump's and battled supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh the latest being added to two other allegations which have plagued kavanaugh and the g.o.p. putting the judge's confirmation in question will begin there with trent copeland our good friend a criminal defense attorney and legal analyst he joins us here in studio and. then to do says julie sweat make townley this happen one nine hundred eighty eighty one what do you make of this trial i think it's an explosive allegation i think it's one more piece to the puzzle in terms of whether an. not the confirmation process of judicial candidate brett kavanaugh should go forward i mean look the fact of the matter is that there are three allegations now or right we've got christine please afford she says that she you know was assaulted sexually assaulted

by brett kavanaugh she was forced down on a bed his hands over her mouth is good friend michael judge watch this we've got the classmate at yale who says that you know in a drunken state he you know pulled out his genitalia and put it in her face we've got this new woman now who says that she was was was gang raped and that brett kavanaugh and his friend again michael judge was present now it's not clear that declaration that she says they participated in it but she does say they were there and they were present i think will have to drill down on that but the key question here larry is that with this new allegation this new person jus indicate she unlike the first two has indicated through a declaration under penalty of perjury that what she's saying is true and let's keep that in context because the reality is this she is she's worked for the government she has a sick.