u.s. president took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly iran sitting in the general assembly words were simply laughable however what is happening in the middle east and beyond is anything but funny. in a fiery address to the u.n. general assembly russia's foreign minister rails against the political blackmail economic pressure. governments are using to maintain global dominance. dramatic emotionally charged. into the claims of. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. dutch police.

arresting seven men reportedly trying to obtain suicide vests guns and bomb making equipment. this is r t international glad to have you with us all right russia's foreign minister concluded his participation at the un general assembly on friday with a blistering attack on western foreign policy sergey lavrov condemned what he called the parochial self serving ambitions of a small group of countries and said those states are undermining the organization and its principles. john you know there's. a number of western states a seeking to preserve the self-proclaimed status of the global leaders and prevent a natural transition to a multi-polar world order to that when they spend the means including political

blackmail economic pressure and brute force diplomacy a culture of negotiation and compromise have been replaced by a unilateral restrictions like un security council you know the truth we heard a lot from the russian side on friday before their departure it was. as big press conference and spokeswoman marie as a harvest exclusive interview to r.t. as well the press conference began with a bit of surrogate humor so there is a policy new policy now of the land expression in south africa that the that they're implementing is a parliamentary process people could lose their farms without compensation and there's talk that russia is trying to take the get the fuel and some of those described. no this thing would be easier. meddling risk up along the election

if there's. no time for this is too far too far but wait on iran we heard once again that moscow will continue to do everything to preserve the so-called a rainy and nuclear deal but more importantly the americans were told on their home soil that the major european players will continue to do so as well no matter what minister lavrov also spoke about iran's isolation and that led to a rather awkward exchange at the press conference and you were saying stabilize yemen iraq syria and iran it seems as if to bring peace to these countries you have to completely eradicate it renewed influence there how realistic is that it's not for me to judge you but it seems. to me you can't look at a country with such history civilization and people inside its borders like in the sink you cannot the beauty of the stick and expecting them to stay within their own

borders why would you support such expansionism and particularly the united states as you know that's the. this is what you just said you just said no get on can't i said you can look the limits. i mean you can not put their own that's on borders and prevent iran through the influence outside its borders saudi arabia is also so influenced laycock that exhorts us influence that's what those. of even brought donald trump's claim that iran was the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism according to the russian top diplomat this claim is absolute law is this year at last nobody was asking sergei lavrov about russia's alleged attempts to interfere and the u.s. election campaigns but he was asked about the claims that china was doing the same thing in response the russian foreign minister said that it's been proved many

times that it is washington that keeps making such attempts around the world time and again. earlier i also mentioned my exclusive interview with the foreign ministry spokeswoman marie harf she agreed to share her thoughts on some of the other highlights of this week here at the united nations h.q. in new york for many years korea was in medieval and this country and. the leaders of this country and the country itself and the people of this country it was mentioned as the world's hugest problem and evil was the world which was used to describe the country and now yeah and now i think that you heard mr. think several times north korea so what happened to the city. not north korea has changed nothing like that happen but united states changed their

position then their policy toward north korea probably the they can use a similar approach to iran and the things will go better our political scientist car they are told us that he believes that america's belligerence on the world stage is harmful to western interests base earned their spectacled that we witnessed at the united nations by the u.s. officials this week that there's a little room for optimism i'm afraid that we are on a slippery road toward greater attention and wars unless they were so visuals agreed that the present course of action is strong for the patient on and as mr lover of quite rightly said they're creating an artificial crisis not a crisis of necessity but of choice and we saw the disastrous iraq war and the examples of us intervention is them. fired on the us and western interests as

a whole and then to repeat their grave mistakes tension between us and iran is building in the persian gulf region there needs to be preventive diplomacy the dire warning issued by mr lavrov today hopefully will be listened by decision makers in london paris and of course washington as. president trump has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against his supreme court nominee brad cavanagh this follows calls from a republican senator on the judiciary committee which has voted to move ahead with brett kavanaugh his nomination on the condition that the agency looks into the claims kilmartin with more. 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 i would like to support the motion for that investigation i've explained many times the mother if the investigation is not necessary there was certainly quite a bit of tension in the room and it feels like alice in wonderland around here rather than working with us my democratic colleagues chose not to participate in this process and yet again and again the refrain has been the same. way to say they were very disappointed that we are here today voting on this nomination 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 is the beginning. of a process. that will tear this country apart 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 very 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. qualified to do the job you might not disagree with his

decision making but the fact is he should not be ruled on the basis of an allegation from thirty six years ago which remains unproven he's entitled to be considered innocent until proven guilty that's an absolutely fundamental tenet for all in america and in this country and if he was to nod to the place on the basis of this allegation alone i would be deeply concerned especially when in all other respects he's completely qualified. for the scandal surrounding judge kavanaugh has triggered a severe partisan feud in the us republican senator lindsey graham's comments in front of the senate judiciary committee hearing on thursday captured the current level of animosity in washington in a bitter tirade he accused the democrats of the cynical attempt to deal with the most nominations 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

and if you really wanted to know the truth you sure as hell wouldn't done what you've done to this guy. senator graham's staunch defense of bread kavanagh has drawn criticism as well one american comedian chelsea handler has even claimed that senator graham is being blackmailed by russia what may slightly surprising though is that the senator is known for having one of the most extreme anti russian stances. they're trying to break the bad of democracies they're doing worse things in other countries and 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 hit you and hate you hard in russia. it's not a normal country. media and a legal analyst to weigh in on the blackmail claim he told us that it's just absurd . the idea is so specious. they're suggesting that

that the russians had this man through blackmail they blackmailed senator graham one of the most staunch heretofore in some cases the russian senator to speak on behalf of the president trumps nominee who is a republican as he is this this is not the way blackmail works as easy as blackmail imagine me blackmailing you to say something or do something that you're going to do anyway it doesn't make any sense this is an example of how people in our country here the so-called elite the intelligentsia the the conyers shandy howley weird the the i guess the liberal if you well at your tame and arm of american entertainment factions all of a sudden they feel impelled then compelled and able to comment on issues they know

nothing about. 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 are trying to penske except the stores this is been a long standing investigation after eight and eventually the police swooped in and miscreants which they say were planning to carry out a terror attack at a high level of vent to mark somalis the number of victims and casualties that the prosecutor in the netherlands this morning has been outlining some of the material this group are 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 are. stand 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 at 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 still 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

stopping. 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. facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over its apparent inability to keep its users personal information secure it comes in response to a major security breach in which over fifty million users accounts may have been compromised. 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 you know when i clicked on to now logged out of my account of their country mental 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 now 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 scandal 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 deserve to serve you so a bad year or a round of for facebook won't be helped by this latest news about this breach and interesting to see where the social media goes from here. security researcher scott helm says the hike could in fact have been much worse and that facebook should keep working to bolster its security. we see data breaches in the news almost every week now affecting household names and companies all around the world so it seems that data breaches have become part of modern life facebook has an awful lot of

infrastructure an awful lot of users to protect. fifty million users impacted by this pos the additional forty million they've taken extra measures to protect only a few percent of facebook's tell it all user base this is a very large breach and it could have been a lot worse i think that any effort they can put into bettering their stance on security is always good in terms of how effective that will be we can only really wait and see what the outcome is as we progress into the future. the kremlin has reacted to new reports that britain's security services have identified a third suspect in the square ball poisoning case its spokesperson dmitri passed off so that moscow wants to see facts not press speculation or unofficial investigations or his but i've got comets. 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 it hasn't seen any case files. for months or the whole discussion is built around. some kind of result some kind of investigations by some kind of. nobody can know which pieces of evidence of which are true various investigations that 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 looks like who lived and. be able to join the investigation. they have to have the initial let's hear a. joint investigation. legal issue material on the source.

we jointly cooperate. speculates the latest that a third russian agent has been identified suspected of carrying out reconnaissance that the script out so the other theory that surface that did the rounds in the media this week is about one of the two original suspects risk but share of belling cat which calls itself an investigative outfit then is widely seen as and 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 respond bashir of then used that leaked database on the internet to find his name that's all the proof that they offered dedicate 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 me a likeness on photographs was insufficient proof but there you go we it managed to reach the head of the military academy you referred to by betting cat which used to study and they have serious questions about bending cats narrative. since he graduated in two thousand and one back then i was a commander of the squadron there is very little information on him or his or gregory yes it's rubbish there enough to serve who would graduate such an academy would be sent in a task like this are graduates or field officers and it's not even special services who would be trained to perform tasks like this even so it's rubbish that a g.r.u. officer would be sent to. 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 of 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. french authorities have launched an investigation against a black rapper who has been accused of inciting violence and racial hatred that is after he posted a video showing a white man being tortured shot and then hanged from a tree and calling for white babies to be killed you tube has removed the track which is called hang the whites the rapper himself conrad says it's nothing but a work of fiction he says he was simply reversing historical roles and trying to promote awareness of the suffering of black people that they have endured for centuries but an outrage at the video reached the top. the french interior minister

strongly condemned the rapper he also called for further legal action and he was backed by politicians from all parties we put the issue of whether there needs to be limits on artistic expression for debate. all violence in this way is to be 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 along in the more true your have been lying in the more tree we should calm down all violence like this all violent lyrics like this this kid is only adding to say forty downloads we got 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 last out of order in my book just well let's say 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's seems to be a big disproportionate difference with the way he's being 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. make an excuse for that if he

has used a seat and change the priority of it good however but by the same token condemn both. turkey is the leader wretch of the one is in germany on his first state visit as president anti turkey protesters have already showed up on the streets of berlin at a news conference with chancellor merkel and one called for 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 think 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 burley and ankara president only 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 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 juan 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 and cast our minds 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 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 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 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 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 there's 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 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. 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. well this state visit was all about bridge building some of his being tone but it's clear that they 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 us all just yet at times it looked like we were making progress eight of the times it looked like nothing's changed in the relationship and its low ebb. israeli soldiers shot and killed seven palestinians including two children during another round of protests along the perimeter fence in the occupied and blockaded gaza strip on friday hundreds more demonstrators were injured. in the. rally was part of the great march of return protest campaign which began in

march and refugees are calling for the right to return to territory now in israel that their relatives were displaced from in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight nine hundred sixty seven over the past six months palestinian health officials say more than one hundred eighty protesters have been killed and more than eighteen thousand wounded one israeli soldier has been killed during the demonstrations the i.d.f. defended its actions on friday claiming that bombs and grenades had been thrown at soldiers it says that it did what was necessary to protect israeli civilians are in the dozen for me i'll be back with headlines in thirty minutes some of this is our two international.