be thought through be be be fuel he thought through few be. in the stories that shape who we could take center stage in the united nations general assembly in new york making bold claim. also ahead. i recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court wifey my name has been totally and permanently destroyed an emotional and divisive hearing in the us senate it's more than twenty million

viewers are riveted by the testimony of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh professor christine ford who accuses him of attempted rape in the one nine hundred eighty s. . but in paris locals say they're dealing. into a nightmare for special safe rooms for drug addicts are established we hear there are concerns. this is simple when the boy did see this what. does it feel like to see this. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements well this is the weekly on r t international hello and welcome our top story world leaders on top diplomats have been in new york this week for the seventy third

united nations general assembly while they got to grips with world issues like nuclear disarmament there was one person who certainly stole the show. president of the united states of america. china's market distortions. and the way they deal. nations are as usual ripping off the rest of the world i don't like it nobody should lie to. germany will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change course.

nations of the world should resist socialism. and the misery. that is bringing the . u.n. human rights council. had become a grave embarrassment no supported recognition to the international criminal court the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction no legitimacy and no authority. god bless the nations of the world thank you very much well the u.s. leader gave plenty of attention to the north korea issue taking the opportunity to praise washington's progress with pyongyang however the north korean foreign minister didn't quite. we are doing great that was

a big big problem and you know the interesting when i did it and i was really being tough and so was seeing how we got back and forth and then we fell in love ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great letters. to me when no one married you got me the continuing sanctions deep in our mistrust of the u.s. the u.s. 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 well just twelve months ago washington and pyongyang appeared to be on the brink of war now the u.s. secretary of state claims both countries are on the dawn of a new day elite but franco looks now at how the talks will be remembered. it's only been a year and then boom donald trump's second u.n. general assembly just listen to it i would like to thank chairman kim for his

courage and for the steps he has taken a lot of very positive things are happening with chairman kim he likes me i like him we get along but most importantly i believe that chairman kim jong un wants peace and prosperity for north korea twelve months ago same building same holds same mr trump no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people then the depraved regime in north korea no north korea hasn't undergone any regime change surgery chairman kim is still in his chair but miraculously little rocket man is now an awesome guy rocket man shooting rockets all over the place and with me he's not get nowhere with this he will truly regret it five years. the likes of which nobody has seen before totally

destroy north korea rocket men mad men is on a suicide mission for himself that he did it to state that while today kim jong un whom is the president's most admired pen pal i'm sure you've heard about the beautiful letter so i've received two letters from jim and kim much personal correspondence magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters a letter that gave one i showed one of the letters just. to prime minister he said this is actually a groundbreaking letter like any other president donald trump would love to be remembered as a group global peace me it took him a year and a half from his inauguration to zero in on his desired legacy a true br. through in the korean crisis barak obama was having a harder time segmenting his place in history books but then the year when nuclear

deal came to the rescue and the mission find your perfect legacy was complete after nearly two years of intensive negotiations backed by strong sanctions become trees represented in this room achieved what decades of animosity and rhetoric did not and thanks to this deal we have seen real progress shortly after mr obama was gone the deal was left in tatters no matter how monumental it had been in the first place the worst sales i've ever seen in a good disaster is still one of the dumbest e-mails one of the worst deals ever it was the iran deal i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one donald trump waved goodbye to the green minutes he quit unilaterally without paying attention to pretty much what the rest of the world has to say about today's action sends a critical message the united states no longer makes empty threats when

i make promises i keep that donald trump may indeed keep all his promises as president but it does happen that rivals sometimes take over the white house after term one what if and a couple of years someone else will be representing the u.s. behind these new one general assembly walls in new york a million to train from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov say sanctions against north korea are dated now adding it would be better to support korean efforts rather than impose further restrictions on the country erik's rockin from lawyers for a de-militarized nation and peace in korea believes that the spite the obvious progress unless there is compromise from both sides relations may still. it's time to step back a little bit and not assume that the north koreans are just going to lay down their

weapons of trust for the united states because the u.s. has broken promises on numerous occasions over the decades as have the north koreans that trust has to be built up one step at a time and so this is a situation in which for the first time we have the two sides really dialogue going and it will be a chance to build trust through exchange and said look there needs to be a give and take on neither side. so another of the week's headlines stories in an emotionally charged hearing donald trump supreme court nominee on the woman who accuses him of attempted rape thirty six years ago testified before the senate judiciary committee on friday. i recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court i denied the allegation immediately categorically and unequivocal

i am here today not because i want to be i am terrified my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and threats i intend no wheel well to dr ford and her family the other night actually and my daughter lies or said their prayers and little lies all of ten years old. so do i actually we should pray for the woman. it's a lot of wisdom from a ten year old. we need we you know we're well. i believe that if i came forward my single voice would be drowned out by have a chorus of powerful supporters this is a circus following the testimonies the final vote on the nomination was postponed

to give the f.b.i. a week to investigate the claims made by carbonyls accusers the agency has contacted a second woman who said that he exposed himself to her during a party in the one nine hundred eighty s. when he was also a teenager president trump ordered the probe but still insists that his pick is the best choice for the. well more than twenty million people to choose in for the hearing that divided not only the senate but really americans are as a whole are washington correspondents american can bring us more. international issues like iran d.p. r. k. and actual wars like syria and yemen have taken a back seat and capitals hearings have been a dominating the news cycle for a couple of weeks now and we witnessed a series of twists and turns over the past month or so and all of america is tuned in to find out if cavanaugh did or did not sexually assault christine ford over thirty six years ago but all the suspense and media hype surrounding the case is

making it seem more like a soap opera than serious news having no was questioned for hours but it looks like the only thing that's clear from all of this is that both of their lives have been turned upside down well in this incredibly polarized climate of americans chose a side long before either of them spoke republican scheduled a hearing without talking to her or even inviting her to testify republicans also scheduled this hearing with dr ford with out having her allegations investigated by the f.b.i. if you wanted an f.b.i. investigation you could come to us what you want to do is destroy this guy's life hold the seat open and hope you're going to twenty twenty you said that not me the entire country is watching how we handle these allegations i hope the american people can see through this sham that you knew about it and you can help it you had

no intention of protecting daughter for in fact it would be super difficult to find anyone whose minds were changed after listening to the testimony as of now there seems to be a motion over substance or while a sexual misconduct allegations are proving a bari or to a job in the cover the case for the editor of a prestigious magazine they've cost him his job even though he wasn't even the one accused in the room nor formerly of the new york review of books claims he was pressured to quit after publishing an essay by a former canadian radio host. a later acquitted of sexual assault. i feel forced to resign in fact it is a capitulation to social media and university prices i have absolutely no doubt that the me too movement is a necessary corrective on male behavior but like all the well intentioned and good things that can be undesirable consequences come about by none looks at the

ramifications of the case the new york review of books is a staple of american intellectual culture was actually hailed as the premier literary intellectual magazine of the english language by esquire and lauded by the new york times it has prided itself in posing questions that americans debates about life and culture since the one nine hundred sixty s. but in the era of me to that attempted debate has fallen flat ian buruma never himself accused of sexual misconduct decides to give voice to someone who has been accused and he gets fired. my interest in running this piece as i said is the point of view of somebody who has been pilloried in public opinion and what somebody like that feels about it it was not run as a piece to exonerate him or to somehow miss ingate the nature of his behavior the article that got broom of fired was written by asian ghomeshi is a canadian radio host whose career was destroyed when he was accused of sexual

assault back in two thousand and sixteen now all the charges against him in twenty sixteen were dismissed in court due to lack of evidence however since then twenty different women have come forward and accused him now those accusations have not yet gone to court but jian ghomeshi never got his job back there are a lot of guys more hated than me now but i was the guy everyone hated first during the first two weeks i was suicidal i contemplated the methods by which i could kill myself i was terrified of being weak and terrified of falling asleep after the article was published there was a firestorm both in the media and on the in. pretty soon the rumor was no longer the editor now the new york review of books even one as far as to publish an apology for what they thought was a poor editorial decision while mr ghomeshi has an absolute free speech right to express his opinions were acknowledged in the presentation and editing of his story

over one hundred writers and contributors to the new york review were shocked about why their colleague had lost his job we find it very troubling that the public reaction to a single to cope republican some of us may have found the souls who should have been the occasion a few improvements forced resignation now the writer of the article was indeed accused of sexual harassment but the editor in bruno wasn't he simply made the decision to publish the article now there's no question that need to is giving victims a voice that is much needed but getting people fired for giving a voice to people whose guilt has not yet been proven is that what me too was supposed to bring about mop and r t new york but we spoke to a criminal defense attorney who say yes the media is there to offer more voices on the subject here there is a backlash effect occurring within journalism these days which essentially it's the

professional death sentence upon a mistake like that and the duty of the media the duty of this of this paper was to provide information it's to give an outlet to all of those voices in general journalists and editors i believe have a heightened sense of duty to not only act as stewards of the me to movement but that includes publishing and giving weight and light to all voices and all opinions along the spectrum so i do believe it's incumbent upon those participating in that industry to offer more voices to be heard rather than less to give more of an opportunity to be heard rather than editing and that need to movement. courtly there is a big sense of public opinion occurring where an allegation means a conviction more of the week's news in review in ninety seconds.

unfortunately cranial governments destroys that country they don't know maybe they don't understand this but they destroyed the country and they lost not only crimea but they lost their own people to regions ukrainians and russians they really have very deep roots and to cause these roads and to try just to show yourself that you are absolutely separate and different. from russians this is absolutely stupid the way this is the way to know where. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you're going to be the person this is

what before three of them or ten people. interested always in the water. there should. we return to europe and starting from square in a bid to try and stop the spread of the seas authorities in parser increasing the number of special safe followers is for drug addicts but those that live nearby see it's turning their lives into a. investigates behind these gates this hour. to shoot the fixture in france's first illegal venue especially for addicts the idea was to give addicts a safe space to get clear needles to prevent the spread of disease as well as to be able to seek help but since it opened almost two years ago people living and working on this street say it's turned their lives into

a nightmare and despite gangs dieties about the south to shoot many locals were too afraid to speak directly on camera so that if you see if you see the boy be to see if we can. set up on the back. of the city but. if if if. this is. we see the obvious but. if you. see. what locals claim the shooting gallery as it's been dubbed by the media makes the area for more dangerous and even though hundreds of addicts have made use of the facility many also is still choosing to shoot up right here on the street videos taken in recent weeks show drug deals. taking place in broad daylight

the last time on t.v. city this street who was a week to witnessed an addict getting their fix. the way. this is the sport where that video was shot and if you come with me now i want you to just get a sense of how close that object was to the drugs room that has been set up by the authorities here it's just over here it's a stone's throw away and instead of using the facility that was available they decided to get hot on the terms violent and aggressive by. havior is now being witnessed he almost daily. police statistics show that since the drugs room was opened more than one thousand eight hundred offenses have been reported for the possession of narcotics their consumption and theft despite the outcry from locals ermine significant evidence showing that it isn't having the desired effect and now

looking up to us for drug crimes along with. i think it would be necessary to have four rooms in paris suburbs including one to do with smoking crack on our balance treatment that needs health needs but if this pilot project is anything to go by these new versions just won't solve the problem in fact they could create even more so. r.t. paris. this week austria's ruling coalition was accused of trying to restrict media freedoms after a memo advising the country's police not to share information with certain media outlets was leaked our europe correspondent peter overnight picks up the story the austrian interior ministry has been left red faced it's after an internal memo was leaked in which they instruct the police how to handle the media essentially if

they don't write nice things about us give them nothing i would suggest a communication with these media should be limited to only the most necessary levels and that they should not be allowed to contain sweeties such as exclusive accompaniments the leak included some of the media organizations on the do not engage list editors raging with the ministry and interior minister but this is informational bla kid for bad media and sweets for the good ones our democracy does not have to be in darkness just because a minister feels too weak to withstand criticism and. appears unfit for the sensitive ministry the austrian interior ministry of justified the e-mail saying it had nothing to do directly with mystical saying that this was an attempt to try and establish a united front between the interior ministry and the police against a media that they say is biased against them this is their rights and the best way

to communicate both from a legal perspective and for the journalists themselves considering this is again certain media does not come out of thin air but austria's top officials have been unequivocal in expressing their anger at the news that this email existed governments and public institutions have a groove responsibility to protect free and independent journalism and any restriction of freedom of the pris is unacceptable freedom of expression media and press freedom of the cornerstones of our liberal democracy and of our constitutional state in austria any restriction of press freedom is unacceptable that can't be discrimination against individual media the austrian chancellor deemed this leak important enough to take time out from the un general assembly to comment on it it doesn't look like it's going away from the austrian press any time soon we'll have to wait to see if mr kurtz follows up on his words with actions.

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all. along welcome to all the parts the phrase geography is destiny is usually attributed to napoleon just before he took on russia the decision that ultimately cost him everything just centuries later that's not some is reviled by many in georgia in ukraine who filmed of russia's overbearing security poster prevents them from following their own path everybody's geography. and destiny be reconciled in the post office space well to discuss that i'm now joined by you know

a georgian politician and twice the country's former acting president and speaker of parliament it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time now some of your enemies call you the most pro russian politician in georgia something that i'm sure a town or even five years ago was a major of fans is that still in the fans you know and yes some people are calling me as a prussian politician because think this is not the right to finish and i am not pro russian and i am not pro western let's say so called joy politician because i think that everybody in the country of the political and should try to do what is a right for the country if was a country raised think east to have good relations with russia you should do that. but you don't mean that's good relations exclusively with russia. of course not of course to have good relations with russia doesn't mean not to have relations and

good relations with the neighbors always the united states all these european countries. russia is country with. very serious strengths in the region and we have lots of problems with the russian federation so it is a worry important from my point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems with the russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only in this way the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a day or so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i want to speak with russia i want to find solution was the russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i am sure that this is important for my country let me ask you specifically about friendly relations because the political relationship between the two countries is still very tenuous but this year we have witness.