in the focus. though you have put. in a damning speech at the u.n. russia's foreign minister lambast the political blackmail economic pressure and brute force he says western governments are using to preserve their global dominance. angry protests in barcelona with clashes between police and the law and separatists just two days before the first anniversary of the region's independence referendum . after

a fractious and emotionally charged committee hearing donald trump orders an f.b.i. investigation into claims of sexual assault against supreme court nominees. are broadcasting live and direct from our studios most of this is our national it's really glad to have you with us by 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 principals who are trying to go reports now from new york. the number of western states is seeking to preserve the 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 a war and up 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paid dearly for the self-serving ambitions of these countries diplomacy a culture of negotiation and compromise have been replaced by unilateral restrictions like un security council approval such actions are not just illegal but also just ineffective like that long serious statement the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 appreciation 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 gap if you will and some of those described. the law in the elections. no time for that 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 for the. what do you think of the future 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 that 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 trump think 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 we asked former u.s. diplomat john truss 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 all right as we heard from our correspondent illiad trying to before it's the u.s. president who has grabbed most of the attention so far at this year's u.n. general assembly here is 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. if they weren't laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun. the president gave plenty of attention to the north korea issue at the un headquarters and donald trump took the opportunity to praise washington's progress with however when north korea's turn came to take the stage they call their foreign minister left a very different impression. so i mean on. 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 a d.v.r. foreign minister said today is to the extent that there is no forward progress and probably risks 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. all the rivalries have been reignited at the u.n. general assembly as well after the israeli prime minister announced he had knowledge of a secret iranian atomic warehouse to iran lashed out saying rather it was israel which was the only country in the middle east with undeclared nuclear weapons here's our correspondent but i've got to 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 new call most awful 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 nine hundred 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 his 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 there was not very well to have to bomb anyone know if he said i have two hundred bumps 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 and the israeli prime minister can continue to loeb about thinly veiled threats that would give a geiger counter a seizure while standing in front of his nuclear weapons elaborate 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 the sad and tragic

absence of any movement toward a middle east peace process. and mr nathaniel instead of 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 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 him and for all the good reasons. catalonia has one year anniversary of its independence a vote is looming and the clashes have erupted in barcelona as a pro independence protests turned violent on saturday at least twenty four people have been injured and six arrests were made.

the. riot police used force to push back a crowd as protesters responded by throwing paint and powder demonstrators started gathering on friday night to counter protest another group marching in support of the security forces 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 the 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 bit a year on. and 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 reuss last year did not work it looks so unlikely to work again in the near future and that has divided the independence movement the may be no clear road map for the independence movements of the moments but tensions of still remain high they were running high last year memories are still very fresh at the council on society still very divided the wounds haven't been hailed us. more than four hundred people are known to have died in around five hundred others injured after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami in indonesia on friday but the vice president fears that the number of deaths could it reach several thousand waves up to three meters tall hit on the island of civil way see where a beach festival. taken place after several strong and shallow quakes rocked the region indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning but it was removed just thirty four minutes later now they have defended their decision explaining it was based on the data that they had available

to them at the time of the quake caused a major power cut that has hampered communication for rescue teams thousands of homes along with hospitals and hotels collapsed as well while the local prison walls were also destroyed by the force of the waves with almost six hundred inmates attempting to flee for their lives. tekken giant tesla's chief executive ilan musk 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 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 tweet about taking of the electric car manufacturer of private cars in tesla's 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 also expressed high hopes for all existing shareholders to endorse his idea yes the c.e.o. picked up on a very peculiar and surprising link with ledge 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 muska posted his tweet shares were well about three hundred eighty dollars but on thursday the company's stock closed more than one hundred dollars down after the f.c.c. accused mosque 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 and vegas probability is the most powerful force in the universe

which is why the house always wins be the house in the case of mr musk he is obviously a very well known charismatic personality but there is a 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. somewhat erratic and not what you would expect from a least sort of stable management that most companies require. 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 the allegations but the appointment 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're 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 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. united states u.n. envoy has called for regime change in venezuela during a street protest outside the u.n. headquarters in new york. 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 trungpa said millions of people have been turned into refugees and washington could use its military to oust majority if need be. it's

over hema that frightening could be tumbled very quickly by the military or the military decides to do that i just want to see a good as well great yeah sure on the day. and a less than strolling every out there 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 us i'm going to be here only talks about capitalism and eats and trump talks about socialism it's very hypocritical us as long have it 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 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 us 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 do to try to foment you know some kind of made up scenario to instigate a war. european union is one thing italy over it's a new draft budget as experts fear the new populist government could be on a path to financial collapse but the italian economy minister hailed the plan as a budget for the people of italy. i think. that. the budget plan opens the door to a people's budget eliminating poverty means there are many citizens entrepreneurs and people who would below the poverty line who will pay less tax. besides cutting taxes the plan will look to lower the retirement age boost welfare and invest in

key infrastructure the target is two point four percent of gross domestic product over the next three years which is three times higher than the last administration the e.u. deficit ceiling is three percent so italy won't be in violation of the block financial rules but it is spreading fear that italy could face a similar economic crisis as greece did with rome's debt to brussels set to increase the budgets or plans will not raise employment but will cause trouble to the savings of the italians this budget is not for the people it is against the people. all right financial expert charlie boyle says banks needed to have the law book thrown at them or countries will continue falling into debt but are considering eighty years particularly from lord especially only financial services sector go one group who want to know the rules for another i mean if you look at the greek crisis where green bailout was totally different to the banks total

hypocrisy by the end of the financial services countries which were all against three countries that are going to dance or some go into debt and the primary reason they are going to debt was because of the banking sector in the first place so there's a real problem when it's not the source of the law against the financial services sector and unless that happens the problems that we continue to face i'm not going to be resolved. by that does it for me i will be back in thirty five minutes with a full of news you are watching r t international going to have with us. live. unfortunately craney and government destroys that conclave don't know maybe they don't understand this but they destroyed the country they lost not only crimea but they lost their

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