when they actually are not so. good that they did the diet they speed and that was about the truth so yeah i'm not it's early. days that i had the d. about deep in the last and all of the new film and all the siad. and with the. in the stories that shaped the week donald trump takes center stage at the united nations general assembly in new york making one bold claim after another also ahead . i recall saying that the boy who assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court wifey my name i've been told all the time we destroyed an emotional divisive hearing in the u.s.

senate's more than twenty million viewers are riveted by testimony of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh professor christine ford who accuses him of attempted rape in the one nine hundred eighty s. . plus in paris locals say they're dealing with lives have been turned into a night after a special safe rooms for drug addicts are established we hear there are. this is simply to see the boy to see to believe this but what. does he feel like to see this. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly are to international hello and welcome to 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 global issues like nuclear disarmament there was one person who certainly still live show. president of the united states of america. china's market distortions. and the way they deal. nations are as usual. the rest of the world i don't like it nobody should like it. will become totally dependent on russian energy if it does not immediately change.

the world should resist socialism. and the misery. that is bringing the. u.n. human rights council. has become a grave embarrassment no supported recognition to the international criminal court the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction no legitimacy and no if. 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 however the north korean foreign minister. 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 he i will go back and forth and then we fell in love ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great letters to him even. during the continuing sanctions deepen 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 u.s. we have no confidence in our national security and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves or indeed not so long ago washington and pyongyang appeared to be on the brink of war now the u.s. secretary of state claims both countries are at the dawn of a new day a tranquil recount of the past the bend full twelve months. 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 know 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 their way with he will truly regret fire as a fury 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 to have received two letters from him much personal correspondence magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters eight letters. one i showed one of the letters just to prime minister a b. he said this is actually a groundbreaking letter like any other president donald trump would love to be remembered as a global peace me it took him a year and a half from his inauguration to zero in on his desired legacy a true br. it through and 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 begun 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 to 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 i think it would be better to support korean efforts rather than impose further restrictions on the country or extra rock'n from lawyers for daimler tries ation on peace in korea believes that the spite the obvious progress unless there is compromise relations may stall. 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 of said but there needs to be a give and take on either side. in an emotionally charged hearing donald trump's supreme court nominee on the woman who accuses him of attempted rape thirty six years ago testified before the u.s. 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 and 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 olds. we need we you know we're well. i believe that if i came forward if my single voice would be drowned out by have a chorus of powerful supporters this is a circus well 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 outs of the agency contacted a second woman who said that he exposed himself to her during a party also in the one nine hundred eighty s. when he was a student at university though president trump called the initial accuser a credible witness and ordered the probe he insists that his pick is the best choice for the job well more than twenty million people choose in for the hearing that the vibe of not only the senate but america as a whole our washington correspondents and your account brings 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 this 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 in kitchen or 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. a related theme sexual misconduct allegations of course the editor of a prestigious magazine whose job even though he wasn't even the person accused. no formally of the new york review books clinton's he was pressured to quit after publishing in a say by a former canadian radio host who this charge then later acquitted of sexual assault . i feel forced to resign in fact it is a capitulation to social media and university presses 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. it came up and i looked up the ramifications off 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 wrong 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 and 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 internet pretty soon bruno 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 gomez has an absolute free speech right to express his opinions were acknowledged how things. 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 go republican some of us may have found the souls who should have been the occasion the few improvements forced resignation now the writer of the article was indeed accused of sexual harassment but the editor in bloom a 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 we spoke to a criminal defense attorney who say's the media is there to offer more voices on the subject but fear 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 in that need to movement and importantly there is a big sense of public opinion occurring where an allegation means a conviction. there's been a huge surge in the official death toll of five is seven point four among the true earthquake and tsunami that hit in the newseum more than. thirty people are now confirmed dead and officials say that number is expected to rise into the thousands well the indonesians disaster management agency run two point four million people

have been affected by the disaster rescuers are searching the rubble for survivors on the island of still away say they're trying to reach at least fifty people buried under the ruins of a hotel which collapsed in power lose city hundreds more were injured in the area at least seventeen thousand people have been made homeless the bodies that have been recovered are now being buried in mass graves the full extent of the disastrous to long known as roads have been blocked by london slides and communications cuts to outlying towns. we're back with more of the week's news in ninety second. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured to send to the public. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the merry go round be the one percent. you know. the middle of the room six.

we start back in fronts where in a bid to try and stop the spread of disease authorities and par assert increasing the number of special safe houses for drug addicts but residents who live nearby say it's turning their lives into a nightmare charlotte dubinsky investigates. behind these and gates stands the sour district the fixer in france's first illegal venue especially for addicts the idea was to give addicts a safe space to get clean 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 the lives into a nightmare and despite gangs diety 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. have the law. office into what you have been. giving the fed if. this is the way the boy didn't see the gifts 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 this street who was a week to witnessed an addict getting their fix.

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 addict 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. terms of violence and aggressive behavior 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 erm significant evidence showing that it isn't topping 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 to 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 what do you can ski r.t. paris. right turning attention to afghanistan now where hundreds of locals who previously worked in the country for the german army block the entrance to a military base demanding help from berlin they say their work has put their lives in danger but it seems their requests for asylum are falling on deaf ears. just not. just. on the you know.

just. i was working at the front line with them i was working on a son. together german senior mentors with the german generals when i started my duty dad told me. we would help you if you for some problems. you know. knowledge we have this german war in afghanistan in our war here so from german officers. to relook at us to the safe place.

we received direct and direct threats. sixty days ago by the militants tortured and. his face smashed on. the other hand on family. should show them that we are really in danger we are not here for picnic we are not here for our time we are here to show them that we are really in danger we have really a big problem. with our fans. working on. while commenting to r.t. but german ministry of defense reiterated to fund a no risk to the majority of lichens that service with the german army would be taken into a country in the asylum request procedure. the

cream of global motor sports have the sended once more on russia for the latest round of the formula one championship all ice on the black sea resort of sochi today as race sixteen of the f one season revs off at the city's auto droom. this will start on pole after finishing ahead of his mercedes teammate reigning champion on current competition leader lewis hamilton in qualifying.

president putin is a keen follower and is expected in the stands for sunday's race and our very own sports correspondent alexy on a ship stay will be there to bring us all the octane fuel the excitement from seoul chief throughout the day. actor and activist stephen bowl wins great american pilgrimage continues next them this time his sights are set on reaching the east coast with a kaiser and so it's bound to be a lively journey seen in thirty. leagues .

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rio with all the drama happening in our country i'm hitting the road to have some fun. meet every day americans who are following. what's america our ancestors suffered and see how things got so crazy i was naked. he did the right thing to hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pilgrimage. today marks the beginning of the final leg of the pilgrimage as a reunited steven to max are shipping up to boston and boy have we missed max's ramblings as as miles davis. asked him about.