angry protests in barcelona with clashes between police and separatists just two days before the first anniversary of the region's independence referendum. and after a fractious and emotionally charged committee hearing donald trump orders an f.b.i. investigation into claims of sexual assault against a supreme court nominee. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right russia's foreign minister wrapped up his participation at the un general assembly on friday with a searing 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 are. reports now from new york. the number of western states is seeking to preserve the self-proclaimed 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 such activities lead to devaluation of international law sergey lavrov saved all here in russia had 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paid dearly for the self-serving ambitions of these countries diplomacy a culture of negotiation and compromise have been replaced by unilateral restrictions like un security council approval such actions are not just illegal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 a circular 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. linguist got the law in the elections. no time for this you know and so too far too far but what if. somebody asked to issue orders from that sure that was the president. so the question is not part of the. 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 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 yeah who knows what kind of twists and turns another year will bring about franco in new york we asked a former u.s. diplomat jim john trance what he thought about the russian foreign minister's remarks. 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 our correspondent it is the u.s. president who has grabbed most of the attention so far at this year's u.n. general assembly here's how donald trump's appearance went down with diplomats there.

less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america. didn't expect that reaction but that so. many will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately

change 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. and its not diplomatic and may find it funny. they were laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun. u.s. president gave plenty of attention to the north korea issue at the un headquarters donald trump took the opportunity to praise washington's progress with pyongyang however when north korea's turn came to take the stage for foreign minister left a very different impression. so i mean i'm gone from. the continuing sanctions deepen our mistrust of the us the us heavily relies on coercive measures

that are lethal to trust building without any trust in the us we have no confidence in our national security and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves and with the leave the foreign minister said today is to the extent that there's step forward progress and probable risk in washington not in pyongyang to be numerous unilateral measures concessions to the united states and then again virtually nothing in return so the foreign minister said today it's step by step just recently quote we will not disarm the list confidence building measures are taken first by. two old rivalries have been reignited at the u.n. and general assembly as well after the israeli prime minister announced he had knowledge of a secret iranian atomic warehouse tehran then lashed out saying rather it was israel which was the only country in the middle east with undeclared nuclear weapons here's our correspondent what i've got here 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 the disclosing for the first time that iran has another secret facility into iran. a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material. for me secret nuclear weapons program with this now traditional back and forth you will never have to wait long for a sponsor you know arts and crafts show will ever obfuscates that israel is the only regime in our region with a secret an 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 nuclear 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 and 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 nuclear warheads were assembled in a covert six story deep underground complex there is 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 know these are after one hundred bumps i don't. know a medic 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. 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 mr netanyahu instead are coming to the u.n. and that addressing this major issue that he is responsible for more than anybody else in the world he just zero is 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 him and for all the good reasons. catalonia has one year anniversary of its independence vote is looming and clashes have erupted in barcelona as a pro independence protest turned violent on saturday at least twenty four people have been injured and six arrests were made.

riot police used force to push back a crowd as protesters responded by throwing paint and powder demonstrators started to gather on friday night to counter protest another group marching in support of the security forces and monday marks one year since the separatist regions controversial referendum on independence from spain which sparked the worst political crisis in the country in decades madrid declared the vote illegal and the national police and civil guard were heavily criticized for a violent crackdown on catalonia in two thousand and seventeen journalist martin

roberts in madrid believes tensions have not faded one year on. when push came to shove last year pro independence politicians in the parliament unilaterally declared independence the international community either rejected the us or ignored it completely so that's one thing you have the legacy of the last that the unilateral rooms last year did not work it looks so unlikely to work again in the near future and that has divided the independence movement the main be no clear road map for the independence movements of the moments but tensions are still running high they were running high last year memories are still very fresh the council on society still very divided the wounds having been hailed us still to come on r.t. international the tweets that have cost you on musk and his company tesla of twenty million dollars a piece in a costly deal with regulators revealed in the past half hour actually a little bit longer than that details among our stories after the break you're watching international.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten hours prime tempi each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers

overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. and welcome back to zante international now more than four hundred people are known to have died and around five hundred others injured after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami in indonesia on friday but the vice president fears the number of deaths could reach several thousand waves up to three meters tall hit apollo on the island of the way sea where a beach festival was taking place after several strong and shallow quakes rocked the region the indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning but that was removed just thirty four minutes later. they have

defended their decision explaining it was based on the data that they had available to them at the time now the earthquake caused a major power cut that has hampered communication for rescue teams thousands of homes along with hospitals and hotels collapsed while the local prisons walls were also destroyed by the force of the waves with almost six hundred inmates attempting to flee for their lives. u.s. president has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into claims of sexual assault leveled against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh it comes after the senate judiciary committee approved the judge's nomination on condition that the agency is given a week to examine allegations but the point that process has triggered a major partisan feud in washington. 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 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 now in a very weak arm of the trump white house is 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 and 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 united states the u.n. envoy has called for regime change in venezuela during a street protest outside un's headquarters in new york. was. all right venezuela has come in for some extra attention from donald trump over the past week as he announced sanctions against the president's inner circle over corruption allegations nicolas maduro is accused of causing hyperinflation and presiding over human rights violations trump said that millions of people have been turned into refugees and washington it could use its military to oust madeira if

need be. it's over he aimed at franklin could be toppled very quickly by the military and the military has said today that i just want to see a good as well great yeah sure on the day. and the lessons are all in every out but you know a place where all that israel is a mess and it's got to be cleaned up and people have to be taken care of the united states has the longest the longest history of any country in the entire globe meddling with other people's. affairs and when and when the u.s. i'm going to get here early talks about capitalism and he try and trump talks about our socialism it's very hypocritical us as long headed out for them as well before with little chavez now with manure oh and it has a lot to do with the fact that it's an independent socialist state in the united states this is hyper capitalist they've had no problem with they have no problem with the gators around the world especially those that that embrace capitalism that

grace us imperialism and you know function as their you know quasi allies the u.s. will resort to any alliance they know that they will play upon the geopolitical and vast amount many united states citizens and will do these things to try to to try to foment you know some kind of made up scenario to instigate a war. tech giant tesla's the chief executive ilan mosque has agreed to pay a twenty million dollars fine and stepped down as the firm's chairman after reaching a settlement with the u.s. securities and exchange commission separately tesla will also have to pay a twenty million dollars fine and appoint two new independent directors to its board the entrepreneur had been charged with fraud over a series of tweets about taking in the electric car manufacturer private causing tesla share price to surge on the seventh of august musk announced that he was considering taking tesla private at a proposed price of four hundred twenty dollars per share adding that he had

secured enough funding to do so he also expressed high hopes for all existing shareholders to endorse his idea the f.c.c. though picked up on a peculiar and surprising link we'll age that must could have arrived at the price of four hundred twenty dollars by assuming a twenty percent premium of tesla's then existing share price and then rounding up to four hundred twenty because of the significance of that number in marijuana culture and his belief that his go for end would be amused by it tesla stock has been falling since early august when musk posted his tweet shares worth three hundred eighty dollars but on thursday the company's stock closed more than one hundred dollars down after the f.c.c. accused moscow of fraud. if the odds are probably in your favor you should make as many decisions as possible within the bounds of what is executable this is like being in the house in vegas probability is the most powerful force in the universe

which is why the house always wins be the house but in the case of mr musk he is obviously a very well known charismatic personality but there is some concern that he's a little bit erratic and some of the announcements that he's made either in relation to the firm or a recent tweet that he made about a cave diver. a somewhat erratic and not what you would expect from the sort of stable management that most companies require or that as a for me i will be back in let's say thirty five minutes with a full look at you know as you are watching our international i'm trying thomas but have you with us. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to get a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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