i believe they were. i was. but the general assembly russia's foreign minister rails against the political blackmail economic pressure and brute force he says western governments use to maintain global dominance. i. was just three hours ago in barcelona protests taking over there was police use force against pro independence demonstrators in just two days before the first anniversary of the region's

independence referendum. emotionally charged committee hearing donald trump orders an f.b.i. investigation into claims of sexual assault leveled at his supreme court nominee. hello good afternoon watching out international live from moscow with me kevin zero in thirty minutes of news coming up for this saturday then starting this russia's foreign minister wrapping up his participation at the un general assembly on friday with an attack on western foreign policy condemned what he called the parochial self-serving ambitions of a small group of countries and said those states are undermining the organization of these principles are trying to report from new york. there's a problem of the number of western states the seeking to preserve the status of

global leaders and prevent a natural transition to a multi-polar world order to that means including political blackmail economic pressure and brute force so objectivity is lead to devaluation of international law surrogate saved all here in russia to say to the rest of the world for his final day in new york the foreign minister kept himself within the boundaries of diplomatic language however his criticism and told the war. 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paid dearly for the self-serving ambitions of these countries diplomacy a culture of negotiation and compromise have been replaced by unilateral restrictions like un security council approval such actions are not just illegal but also just ineffective like that long serious statement the press conference where covered the same global issues happened to be an event where the audience had

a giggle a few times so there is a policy a new policy of the land express creation in south africa that 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 gap if you will and some of those disgruntled oh no. no. we've got the law in the election. no time for this you know and so too far too far but what if. somebody asked to issue an order from that sure that was the president. so the question is not. what do you think of the future goal of the united nations. well the most awaited speaker and this building and also at the u.n. security council was still president trump this year his pick for the planet's

greatest evil was a rant but the rest of the world didn't fall for it and even america's allies in europe didn't. pointed that out once again and said moscow will continue working with china and the major players to do everything to preserve the so-called iran nuclear agreement when i spoke to the person in charge of dealing with the media at the russian foreign ministry she couldn't help talking about how it took president twelve months to make a complete u. turn and what it comes to his take on little rocket man kim according to marie is a harvard there's still loads of room for improvement for the u.s. administration for many years most of 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 the evil was the world which was used to describe the country and now yeah and now i think the you heard mr. thing several times korea so what happened to the city and i was not north korea has changed nothing like that happen but united states change their position then their policy toward north korea probably the they can use a similar approach to iran and the things will go better yeah who knows what kind of twists and turns another year will bring about. new york well we'll surely be following it meantime we asked former american diplomat what he thought about the russian foreign minister's remarks. i noticed. mr lover of tends to be very diplomatic very polite very gentlemanly in his expression but i did notice

a certain level of impatience today that he i think his patience has been tried one time too many yes we are talking about whether or not we will have we will continue down this road of the united states seeking. in a very sterile way and destructive way to hold on to this notion of global hegemony or whether there will be a peaceful and national natural transition to a more more multi-polar world so far we don't see the people making policy in washington willing to make that transition and i think that is something extremely dangerous and i think maybe that partly accounts for mr lover of sense of impatience as we heard from a correspondent it was the u.s. presidents who grabbed most of the attention at this year's u.n. general assembly has had donald trump's appearance went down with diplomats.

in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america hears so true i. didn't expect that reaction but that so. many will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediate. changed course. but all nations of the world should resist socialism. and the misery. that it brings i am the first president ever to challenge china on

trade. honesty and it's not diplomatic and may find it funny. if they weren't laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun. elsewhere the old rivalries were ignited at the un general assembly to after the israeli prime minister particular announced that he had knowledge of a secret writing an atomic warehouse to write immediately lashed out back out saying rather it was israel which was the only country the middle east with undeclared nuclear weapons is a senior correspondent of. the general assembly is never dull the drama threats ultimatums and i q's ations but few relationships are as heartfelt or as

emotional as radioactive as the one between israel and iran and i'm six disclosing for the first time. that iran has another secret facility in tehran. a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material. from iran secret nuclear weapons program with this now traditional back and forth you will never have to wait long for response no arts and crafts show will never of frisky that israel is only regime in our region with the secret undeclared nuclear weapons program including an actual atomic arsenal time for israel to fess up and open its illegal nuclear weapons program to international inspectors fair play to israel has a policy of nuclear ambiguity where it neither confirms law denies its nuclear weapon program and an arsenal of nukes yes no question for you does israel

have no clear capabilities and nuclear weapons yes or no. we've always said that we won't be the first to introduce who we have been introduced so here's what we actually know about israel's nuclear hobby it's one of only five nations not to have signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty the cia reported that israel had its first nuclear almost half a century ago well you know they got one nuclear weapon israel has what three hundred or more nobody knows exactly how many in one thousand eighty six former technician mordechai vanunu spilled the beans revealed the location and details of israel's secrets nuclear complex photographs of the control room and information about how a nuclear warheads were assembled in a covert six story deep underground complex there's troubles midst of

a new new was kidnapped in room by israeli agents and taken back home charges included treason espionage intent to impair national security he spent eighteen years in jail eleven of them in solitary confinement israel wasn't happy. not very well after everyone already said i have two hundred. i don't. know america i know you don't know anyone know there's a ron have a point should israel come out of the closet with its radioactive little secret perhaps but while no one knows for sure the israeli prime minister can continue to log about thinly veiled threats that would give a geiger counter a seizure while standing in front of his nuclear weapons in a bar or research center. human whoever threatens us with destruction puts themselves in similar danger and in any case will not achieve his goal. is an

absence of a sad and tragic absence of any movement toward a middle east peace process. and missed in the town yellow instead of coming to the u.n. and that this scene dismayed that he is responsible for more than anybody else in the world he just zeroes in and focuses on iran demonizes iran and that's not washing it with anyone in the world community today and we saw that there was a very muted reaction to all the good reasons. that a senate vote on long term controversial pick for the supreme court being postponed once again then after the judiciary committee decided to give the f.b.i. now one week to investigate the accusations of sexual assault leveled against brett kavanaugh something he strongly denies along the way the president himself has ordered some investigation into these claims it's yet another delay than in one of the most divisive confirmation hearings in american political history. filter

gallus from wonderland around here rather than working with us my democratic colleagues chose not to participate in this process and yet again and again their refrain has been the same delay delay delay i'm very disappointed that we are here today voting on this nomination this is supposed to be an independent equal branch of government we're no longer that we are in a very we are of the trump white house it's the beginning. of a process. that will tear this country apart the u.s. senate judiciary committee has been conducting confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh nominated to be a supreme court justice by donald trump 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 i've explained many times a mother if the investigation is not necessary 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. the scandal surrounding judge cavernous triggered a real 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 cues the democrats of a cynical attempt to derail his nomination 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 what it does and what you've done to this guy senator graham staunch defense of the way he's drawn criticism as well american comedian chelsea handler even

playing the grain is being blackmailed by moscow despite the photograms renowned for his anti russian stance in the senate 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 interfere in our elections we don't care why we're going to hit you and hit you hard and russia. is not a normal country major league told us the russian blackmail claim against senator graham is nothing but absurd the idea is so specious. they're suggesting that that the russians have this plan through blackmail they blackmail senator graham one of the most strong staunch heretofore thin some cases the russian senator to speak on behalf of the president drums 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 if 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 can you shanti hollyweird 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. catalonia as one year anniversary of his independence vote is looming clash is just a few hours ago big ones are up to the slogan or as a pro independence protests turned violent this sort of

a lunchtime in the pictures. much i was i. thank. you i was hoping on some of the pictures here right please can be see you using what looks like forced to push back crowds as protesters responded by throwing paint and powder those demonstrators started gathering on friday night to counter protest another group marching in support of the security forces monday as a major just marks one year since the separatist regions controversial referendum on independence from spain which sparked the worst political crisis in the country in decades declared that vote illegal of course on the national police and civil

guard were heavily criticized for violent crackdown in catalonia twenty seven tailless up speed on world where we are here on talk to a space based journalist martin roberts there martin thanks premier this seems a recent poll. suggests that the region seven point five million residents are roughly equally divided still on this is session question how does that tally with where they were last year and indeed one year old where is this move going. well it's very hard to see where it will go because when push came to shove last year pro independence politicians in the parliament unilaterally declared independence the international community either rejected that or ignored it completely so that's one thing you have a legacy of vast but the unilateral rooms last year did not work it looks likely to work again in the near future and that has divided the independence movement as you say polls show the slightly less than half of class along society currently supports independence so what we have here is

a very vocal minority as we can see from the pictures we've just seen. but. it's still a minority they don't have a consensus a councillor unlevel they don't have a consensus forcing his international level so the on more and more demonstrations and demands on related issues it's very difficult to see where this will go while you are talking there we're showing our viewers pictures of literally two three hours ago. it was really heated it looked like there was cause it could get quite violent even worse maybe into this evening i mean it has this kind of protest the level of anger called boss loader out here today in this weekend. i don't think so i mean obviously as i said there's no the maybe no clear road map for the independence movement of the moment pretensions are still running high they were running high last year memories are still very fresh. you know as i said the

council on society is still very divided the wounds haven't been healed us so i think all emotive occasions like the one we're turning up to the first anniversary i don't think this is surprise anybody at all what about the way the police have handled this today again we're still showing those pictures the police had come in for some criticism as i mentioned before how they've handled it you know a year ago is it being seen this is heavy handed their response so on or not. depends very much on who you ask. i mean personally well dependents people to the principal heavy handed dependents people will tell you that just a job in the country as a whole people are divided but not to the same extent in terms of i mean people were very you know i think most people were in fact horrified a year ago when you so you know the harrowing pictures of old ladies with bleeding heads. it's not quite as but again i think people think that you know perhaps some

book minority will think the police have been a bit heavy handed but the interesting thing is that. you know clearly the police of. you know they're keeping well they've acted against pro independence demonstrations which will tell you that the not some of the very interesting. to say half the population is still divided over whether or not this is a good idea is there any possibility of a legal referendum or is it just as as distant. well that's very distant because it would take a constitutional amendment we do have a new prime minister. with who has tried to take a more conciliatory approach than his predecessor mariano rajoy who was ousted in a confidence votes in june so i mean there's been measures such as allowing in prisons counsel on politicians to be moved to jails just a few in touch with the us the home of the relatives conceive and also. the

government agreed that they would provide you with one point seven billion euros in extra funding in return for the vote for the nationwide projects but as for the referendum again that would require a constitutional change the current son she only has about a quarter of the votes and pollens are very small minocin he would need two thirds even if he wanted. to change the constitution he just simply hasn't got the bottle . what's the update there from where you are. in this pretty shit. truck in those terrible events a daily only in indian easiest seems more than more than three hundred eighty people they think the figures going to go up to have died after a powerful quake triggered a tsunami in indonesia friday over five hundred other people were injured and dozens remain missing according to the country's disaster agency that they said they did expect those numbers to rise. again this takes you back to the great basin

army doesn't it in those awful pictures will thousands of homes along with hospitals and hotels collapse this town this weekend waves up to three meters high hit the waist the island where sadly a big festival was also taking place to add to the drama of the tragedy there the earthquake also caused a major power cut and that's hampered communication for rescue teams we'll keep you posted as we get more info in on that. facebook is facing a lawsuit over its apparent inability to keep its users personal information safe it comes in response to what was potentially the company's worst ever security breach fifteen million accounts may have been compromised. our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost fifty million accounts is clear the attackers exploited a vulnerability in facebook's code does allow them to take over people's accounts facebook admitting and choose day that their platform was breached fifty million accounts affected a further forty million also having their passwords changed so that's nineteen

million people in total and facebook releasing a statement saying that those accounts could have been used by people with the various tensions and that at this early stage of their investigation they don't know who these people are or where they're based who carried out this attack and naturally that's led to anger being expressed on other social media platforms i knew something was up last night when i saw in there has occurred in line at clicked on to now been logged out of my accountant and country mental my passport time to change it again they refused to protect those the monetize consumers clients should quit and possibly they should be put out of business now it's better tough year for facebook earlier this year they teamed up with the atlantic council the american think tank to combat what they said was fake news but that's led to accusations by many that they only cracking down on certain types of facebook pages

and that that is an infringement of free speech also earlier this year facebook coming under attack and under heavy criticism for their links with cambridge the little millions of facebook users data was accessed and used for political purposes by the company and that led to the founder of the company mark zuckerberg releasing a statement conceded that the company must do better we have a responsibility to protect your data and if we can't and we don't deserve to serve you. so it's been a tough year for facebook and what comes next is important if mr zucker back and his team want to rebuild trust in the social media giant twenty six minutes past four o'clock moscow time their top stories this hour going underground on air around the world next.

the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons so said dostoyevsky in the house of the dead i'm afshin rattansi and in this special edition of going underground we go inside one of britain's austerity hit prisons to arguably judge just how civilised britain is in twenty eighteen coming up in the show. prison staff and mental health experts respond to our exclusive interview with an inmate inside what he alleges to be the revolving doors of the tory government's prison system a few months ago going underground was contacted by an inmate who is currently serving a recall for a life sentence in

a prison in britain he has been in and out of prison for a number of crimes including violent ones he claims that despite voicing concerns to the authorities of rising levels of violence drug use and self harm he has been ignored he has since decided to risk speaking to the media the inmate has hidden his face so he cannot be identified and he speaks to us from a contraband immobile smuggled into prison here with this exclusive report is going underground deputy editor sebastian packer you're carney before cell in so i want to britain's prisons what you expect. as in right now. insurance insurance ships well they sure have sharks there's no new bills to ship if you can to. one of the reasons that michael's buddy chief executive a temperate over basis of us resigned was allegedly cheated the reports of the high levels of drug use what are you actually saying side your prison util foozle mouton

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