i don't think. russia responds to western accusations it's been carrying out dirty cyber entities calling it an orchestrated propaganda campaign we'll bring you a rundown of the first day's war of words. america holds its breath awaiting the outcome in the brett kavanaugh case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct will take a look at an unexpected effects this scandal could have on the looming midterm elections. and amid an escalating trade war u.s. vice president mike pence claims china is trying to orchestrate a replacement for donald trump after beijing poil imports from america.

for joining us this hour this is our. moscow has responded to the string of accusations made by the west about alleged cyber attacks calling the claims directed propaganda campaign against russia and this is after a number of countries and international organizations said that russian military personnel were behind the cyber attacks on groups from the international chemical weapons what stock through to russia news agency there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals the russian government needs to know russia's indiscriminate campaign exposed by wants to fully. this reckless behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow. well here's how events unfolded on thursday the united states the netherlands and britain almost simple taney slee accused russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service of

a string of cyber attacks earlier i spoke about this with r.t. correspondent daniel hoare kids. russian reaction what's been said you have a firm response from moscow with counter-accusations towards netherlands and the u.k. branding all this story effectively stoking russophobia anti russian propaganda and what the president described as spying mania across the globe moscow's question the timing of all this these incidents in the netherlands at least alleged to have happened several months ago now the expulsion of those people allegedly or the diplomatic passports but said to be do you agents military intelligence agents the information that had just come out now though the photographs the full information the statement of cetera and moscow or the foreign ministry russia has said that these has served as a distraction from other events such as the meeting of p.c. w coming up next week which russia and the west of clashed on before given the w powers to attribute blame for chemical incidents. of course being one of the

alleged victims of hacking attempt to your you offices. also say music revelations distract from new evidence that the russian energy released on the mh seventeen boeing that was downed in twenty fourteen over ukraine they said that this doesn't lead to anything constructive and simply leads to discrimination if you will against russia this is what they had to say. on the backdrop of recent years highly exaggerated western paranoia unquote didn't russia cyber spies who all the while as but what's them politicians logic will even quote back would russia and its is an involved country with a mobile device specific as a spy. so i've seen claims of cyber attacks against russia before is there anything different about these well firstly these allegations show what's seen as a clear pattern of global marline activity a phrase used before by someone of that official as well it's the first time the

majority of these attacks or all of them rather have been linked not to sort of face this russian hackers. or sort of semi semi named groups or vague kremlin agents these are tied concretely to the g.r.u. the russian of military intelligence that's the allegation being made here. the accusations also united into one sort of front the other statements have been issued pretty much at the same time or the very within a very short space of time here by multiple actors the us the netherlands the u.k. u.k. and that's official stating that the agents tried to hack the mh seventeen investigation through a hotel in malaysia a grand jury in pennsylvania indicting seven people who their lives to be g.o.u. agents hacking the us primaries elections the british authorities again saying that after the script poll poisoning case the foreign office was targeted but the porton down the road was also targeted they've all come together an issue these statements

showing a sort of united front against what they see as russian aggression this is what devon williamson the u.k. defense secretary had to say. this is not the actions of a great power this is the actions of the pariah state and will continue working with our allies to isolate them and make them understand they cannot continue to themselves in such a way relations of course haven't been easy between russia and the west over the past months and years this will lead to much more media speculation to this vicious cycle getting in continuing of accusations counter-accusations counter claims that cetera really will not make things any easier in the form of a relationship and of course no doubt this will be global news tomorrow as well in the days and weeks to come that remains to be seen how the governments of the countries involved will react with potential for more sanctions talk of sanctions perhaps counter measures well that will come in the coming days and weeks we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. who notes that evidence from the british side is still lacking. we believe that

this kind of statement reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear this kind of a legations for quite a now quite a time and in this are to sell been seventeen for a former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. a lover of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down on the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of that they launched a reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite

a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled and all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not. basically given so we're going to ask the british side to give more information on that and we're going to repeat our call if you have some information please share this information and we are ready to sit down and talk. the united states has also indicted seven people it claims r g r u agents four of them are expelled from the netherlands according to this morning's hearing. on the scale of morton has more on what washington said in this string of cyber accusations against russia. so we've got the department of justice of the united states charging seven russians now the crimes listed are hacking money laundering wire fraud and identity theft and it's being alleged in the indictment

that not only did they commit these crimes but they did it on behalf of russia's g.r.u. let's take a listen real quick to the indictment these seven defendants are charged with a pervasive campaign of hacking stealing private and sensitive information and publicizing that information to retaliate against russia's detractors and sway public opinion in russia's favor now the allegations go on to say that essentially they began to hacking individuals in response to them calling for russia's athletes to be banned from the olympics after the doping scandal it's alleged that they took information and publicized on the internet that u.s. tennis stars serena and venus williams had been using prohibited medicine and the same thing about olympic champion simone biles now it's also been alleged that they targeted a nuclear power nuclear energy company in pennsylvania now three of the people

lifted listed in the indictment seven total but three out of those seven had actually been named in previous indictments from the u.s. department of justice as a result of the bob mueller investigation yes we haven't seen any evidence yet this is simply an indictment being handed down by the u.s. department of justice no evidence yet presented. is now less than five weeks to go until america heads to the polls for the midterm elections and it seems the continuing all given surround donald trump supremes cool nominee brit cover no one having an influence of to the f.b.i. provided the results of a probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the judge republican seemed satisfied but the democrats sound to me a low. it looks to be a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited perhaps by the wife i don't know i disagree with senator grassley statements that there was no

hint of misconduct. meanwhile in october a poll showed that republican supporters now see the november vote as being very important to a significant increase now almost equalling the view the democrats have of the election context a look at whether there's a correlation. it just might be the first time that the ruling party retains congress after midterms and now midterms are just about a month away in november and a new poll shows that eighty percent of americans from both parties see it as very important now in july the poll showed a ten percent gap between republicans and democrats but democrats unanimously to continue its efforts to destroy supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault but this strategy doesn't seem to be working for that trump hammered democrats for this at his rally in west virginia you see what's

going on you see this horrible horrible radical group of democrats you see it happening right now they don't. hurt. who they have to run over in order to get power some have noted that all conservatives not just republicans are taking kavanagh's side saying that this liberal scandal has united the right against democrats and apparently this scandal has reminded them that liberals hate them more than they hate the president saying that they are that deplorable so now so we'll just have to wait to see if these predictions do come true in november. the scandal has sparked such a styria in the country the republicans of even being abused by protesters over the case but it seems those actions may have been no coincidence don't call to takes a look. since brett kavanaugh his controversial supreme court nomination we've seen a number of political confrontations in the u.s.

by concerned citizens who have been looking to give their elected representatives and earful certainly this image. what. are you going to. be about the minute like that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on kavanagh asap he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an elevator i'm going to. leave me i didn't tell anyone and you're telling all we need they don't matter what you want to talk to you don't tell me that my husband doesn't down or don't want me don't think those are your only. things. pretty awkward elevator moment there's also republican senator david purdue who ran for the restroom after he was confronted by

the asian games project we ran into how can you not talk to women who have been assaulted how can you ignore our pleas the thing is though these are not random incidents they were all organized by the very same ngo the so-called center for popular democracy and its sister organization and harassing politicians isn't the only thing in their arsenal they've also organized a number of mass protests. that protest alone resulted in over one hundred arrests but liberal organizations aren't only taking direct action against their political opponents the man justice engages in similar activism making dramatic political advertisements he normally does. and to the u.s. supreme court accusing cavanagh of sexual assault when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth we can't let breast cancer not decide on our right

straight generation enough is enough. wondering how they pay for all that well these organizations all have one thing in common they're funded by the controversial billionaire george soros styling himself as a so-called philanthropist soros has given millions to liberal causes are around the globe and democrats at home in the us. meet. his organization has already given over two million dollars to these ladies alone and hundreds of thousands more to the fund that helped make anti carbon are commercials it depends on what the end game here is if the end game is to block a judge well then then maybe not but if the issue here is to spread democracy like george soros as money is supposed to do that that might be that might be working out in in their favor i think this is really

a pro trump trump situation unfortunately this isn't about accusations that were made and it's not about if a person is guilty or not of any sort of misbehavior this this really has come down to do we want to see donald trump as as a second term president or do we want to see donald trump fail and block any of his policies and initiatives. ok let's return to our top story now claims international claims that russia's military intelligence carried out cyber attacks against a wide ranging group of organizations let's bring in a guest now expect to see u.s. senate candidate from maryland solve in georgia on the line now good to have it all then. we heard the claims coming from several countries at the same time it seems kind of ridiculous to think that this wasn't coordinated the allegations coming

from more than one why do you think they would gather on this in making these claims against russian military intelligence all the countries involved have something in common which is they're massive welfare states that have a huge special interests that are there manipulating the elections who are doing whatever they can to get money out of the government out of taxpayers in the in the united states we're talking about teachers unions the military welfare complex you know all these organizations that are trying to get and steal taxpayer money by any means necessary so there's no surprise that they're going to do a coordinated attack because they want us to stop looking at their obvious manipulation and instead start fixating on some surreptitious possible maybe not manipulation. so we have russian intelligence accused of attacking a whole range of targets they've been extremely busy o.p.c. w. want even the m. a seventeen investigation now if these claims are true of course people around the

world will be extremely concerned easy realistic. the question is do they have the manpower probably but the question isn't so much is it possible the question is what would be the motivation and if for example the government of the united states is in a position to be giving special favor to russian interests that's a problem for the states that means the united states government is too big too powerful too generous with taxpayer money that's the problem that we're dealing with over here you know could russia have done such a coordinated attack i don't mean they probably had the manpower for something like that but the problem is the government should not be big enough for that to make any strategic sense if we want people to stop trying to influence what happens inside of the united states government we need to make it smaller and tiny so that no one tries to influence it probably side. it feels like that and maybe one year

ago never heard of the jail you never heard about it on the news suddenly all accusations these days seem to focus on russian military intelligence the why do you think it's become kind of in vogue now the bug amount of choice the western governments i don't think there's any big secret to that i mean you have the midterm elections in the united states and this is a time where most special interest groups whether we're talking about public school teachers union the largest welfare group in the world whether we're talking about defense contractors the second largest welfare group in the world this is the time when they try to influence elections this is the time when they try to get special favors and this is the time when they're going to do the most damage to american democracy of so of course this is the time where they're going to point to somebody else this is the time we're going to say don't look at us don't look at what we're doing don't look at our shady this look at the russians often good to speak to appreciate your time and you still smile guest on the vora candidate full the u.s. senate in maryland my thanks. facial break more news coming your way see in

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presidential elections china wants a different american president after brought in a first wave of tariffs on chinese goods beijing and said with distractions on u.s. imports it also filed an official complaint with the world trade organization washington followed that with more than two hundred billion dollars with the tariffs against china in a crucial retaliation china announced it was stopping all american oil imports or the country's top crude carriers admitted that business is quote totally stopped beijing has been the second largest importer of u.s. oil jeffrey albert tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research thanks washington will lose this trade war. the u.s. is definitely in to lose because if you look at what's happening in them china right now they're actually lowering terrorists on many goods or. from imports from other countries besides the rest like actually lowering tariffs that's actually a good thing for trying these consumers and it's it's going to help the chinese

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attacked amazon over its tax setup and criticized its slow pavements to the u.s. postal service which delivers the company's parcels senator bernie sanders who joined the criticism says other companies should now follow the lead of amazon's boss jeff bezos. want to graduate was visual was doing exactly the right thing yes raise the minimum wage to fifty dollars an hour he. was the visuals he was indicating his support for raising the national minimum wage i spoke to auntie's lee campos to be directed tonight he thinks that amazon's only aim was to attract good publicity. i don't know if sanders still has some complaints i certainly hope he does it is not something that amazon just willingly did it with big came about because workers organized their work together they spoke up about their situation and i think that's great i think it's great for these

employees to have fifteen dollars an hour but the truth is we as a people are now waiting for the crumbs of of corporate america we're waiting to see what little pieces they'll dish out to us and that two billion that he gives to charity is it's better than nothing but it is disgusting scenario in a world that has abundance a world that could feed everyone that could house everyone and we're supposed to celebrate that you know jeff bezos gave what to him is a couple of dollars to help these people that are exploited in our system. ok that brings you right up to date thanks staying with ati my colleague nikki allen all behave at the very latest for you at the top of the hour. quite frankly i think only just in the season to be have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have

a new digital you see over the presidency that has the votes of the libyan people people who have aspirations like freedom and they do have aspirations like living in dignity and quite frankly to deny them the right to vote with the pretext that oh it's not time it or you don't have bread so you should not be asking for the vote you should vote for people who will provide the bread and who will provide the services. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and 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.

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a very high level and crucially the activist base as measured by the tonneau to rallies seems much more mobilized even than twenty fourteen today we asked some of the key players how the s.n.p. should approach breaks it either as an opportunity to promote independence or as an economic disaster to be avoided at all costs the far stalwart at this mena view tweet should emails and your messages. now we've had a great if not in some cases surprised response to alex's interview with it being a copy last week although granny says i've just caught up with this episode and have to say that i've amazed i've agreed with edwina currie on many points although i loath such are courteous head and shoulders above the carpet stories checker says most politicians give me high blood pressure will i know how you feel but today in your shoes simple honest facts were offered to the civility during the eggs epidemic i was busy at work but today got the answers for me to be no cattle says i

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referendum on the u.k.'s membership of the are you still saying the spray bullets are brave leave your appeal issue in this broader sense is a big opportunity to push forward the independence cause absolutely so no one stray from the end of the independence of the european union particularly the prison bruce who actually used the power in the influence of the european union for them to do. in the who exactly the who case for a scottish independence if you have breaks it you do it how flood of semen catalonia as well just what the real attitude is of the e.u. leadership towards any country within a steet wanting independence i mean the we in which they backed up the spanish government for its illegally deputy i thing is not a good omen for the e.u. being put to only pru independence or even staying neutral so your policy would be pro after the european fee trade association will go to see the final deal to see

what the options are but certainly i think the illogical position as things stand at the moment for scotland for an independent scotland would be to be a member of efta and the european economic area so that gives you the benefit of being in the european market with the don't side of being in the customs union a or an agricultural policy or the fishing policy no with a nice easy solution to this is still all one we all good and all bad but i think on balance that's a good way forward they wouldn't as the unionist parties would say would not cause problems on the scottish english bottle was so hard the government were working to stop a a normal irish style backstop for scotland then the european negotiations. stance is an independent scotland if the welcome before phnom separately there wouldn't be difficulties and trade between scotland england well i think you'd need to be a deal between scotland and england in terms over uki single market but the.