thank you. because i don't think. russia responds to western accusations it's been carrying out dirty cyber activities boarding it's an orchestrated propaganda campaign we're bringing you a rundown on thursday's war of words. america holds its breath awaiting the outcome in the brights common a case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct with lopez and the unexpected effects the scandal could have on the looming with an election and. maybe an escalating trade war u.s. vice president mike pence claims that china is trying to walk a straight a replacement but trump to beijing and is that all oil imports from the.

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with minichiello great to have me with is this hour now on top story moscow has responded to the string of accusations by the west on alleged cyber attacks calling the claims a directed propaganda campaign against russia now soft a number of countries on the international organizations said that russian military personnel were behind attempted cyber attacks on everyone from the international chemical weapons watchdog to russia's own news agency there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals the russian government needs to know russia's discriminant campaign exposed by wants to fully condemned. this reckless behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow. and here's how events unfolded on

thursday the u.s. the netherlands around britain almost similar taney asli accuse russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service of a string of cyber attacks artie's daniel hawkins has more. 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 as it is 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 a meeting of the o.p.c. w coming up next week which russia and the west have clashed on before given no

piece of w powers to attribute blame for chemical incidents. of course being one of the alleged victims of hacking attempt to your you offices moscow 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 amid the don't trust the cyber spies who all the while i speak western politicians logic will even quote backward russia and its is an invalid country with a mobile device specific as a spy i will firstly these allegations show what's seen as a clear pattern of global marline activity a phrase used before by someone of that officials as well it's the first time the majority of these attacks all of them rather have been linked not to sort of face

this russian hackers or semi named groups or vague kremlin agents these are tied concretely to the geo you the russian military intelligence that's the allegation being made here the accusations also united into one sort of front to. 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. the british authorities again saying that after the script how poisoning case the foreign office was targeted but the porton down approach 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 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 couldn't do it themselves in such a way it remains to be seen how the governments of the countries involved will

react will it be potential for more sanctions talk of sanctions perhaps counter measures well that will come in the coming days and weeks with those who rushes envoy in the u.k. he notes that evidence from the british side is 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 or the soudan seventeen for 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 that 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're ready to sit down and talk. the u.s. has also indicted seven people it claims on g r u agents four of them were expelled from the netherlands according to day's announcement kind of more pain has more on what washington said in a 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 serina 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 or nuclear energy company in pennsylvania now three of the people lifted listed in the indictment seven total but three out of those seven have actually been named in previous indictments from the u.s. department of justice as a result of the bob muller 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. and surprisingly the story has hijacked western headlines given it contains the latest. russia. and hacking but from a british intelligence officer animists shawn advise is to be careful with mainstream media claims about cyber attacks. ever since the whole russia gate juggernaut started in america in the wake of the donald trump election assertions of the major

repeatedly on many different fronts and because they can never be proven one way or the other they then just become the the the media narrative and therefore the political narrative we have a situation now where people just trust the media they are worried about what the spies might be feeding into the media process and i think that has particular accelerated since the lies that took us into the iraq war in two thousand and three were exposed whatever is being said today if anything comes out it will probably disprove it but it be years in the future and we need to know the truth now. as are less than five weeks before america goes to the polls in the mid-term election and it seems that continuing arguments around trump supremum court nominee brett kavanaugh are having an influence after the f.b.i. provided the results of a probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the judge republicans seem satisfied but the democrats are sounding the alarm. it looks to be

a product of an incomplete investigation that was limited perhaps by the white house i don't know i disagree with senator grassley statement that there was no hint of misconduct meanwhile an october poll shows republican supporters now see the november vote as very important and significant increase now almost equalling the view democrats have about the election so america can takes 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 took continuous efforts to destroy supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who was accused

of sexual assault but this strategy doesn't seem to be working for them 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 get hurt. who they are running 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 is now so we'll just have to wait to see if these predictions do come true in november hundreds have been arrested during a city in protest at u.s. senate offices against supremes court nominee bush covena. was

was was to see the senate office buildings be honest and sign this protest is that one of the buildings filthy atria when they refused to leave police made nearly three hundred arrests one of those taken into custody was a popular and merican stand up comedian and machina the scandal surrounding sexual assault against kawin the has proven safe polarizing that some republican senators have even been cornered and tackled and it appears those incidents have more in common than meets the eye i don't own course i takes a closer look. since brett kavanaugh is 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. mr mcconnell he knows me will be working very hard. to argue with me in the margins like a settlement policy goes from here back home a bit like this that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on kavanagh a.s.a.p. he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an elevator i was actually i was like oh no i don't leave me i didn't tell anybody and you're telling all we need got they don't matter what you want to talk to you don't tell me that my son doesn't sound like the lift to the extremes a days they feel like is the opportunity produced people to come out and express themselves to try to stop joan and they'll take advantage of it. the economic standoff between beijing and washington is escalating with both sides slapping

hefty import tariffs on each other the u.s. vice president's mike pence says now even claims china's goal is to help oust trump china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections china wants a different american president after trump brought in a first wave of tariffs on chinese goods beijing also it with restrictions on u.s. imports it also filed an official complaint with the world trade organization washington then followed up with more than two hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs against china in a crucial was highly ation china has announced it's stopping all american oil imports one of the country's top crude carriers admits business has quote totally stops beijing had been the second largest importer of us oil jeffrey l.

but at its oil director of the american institute for economic research thinks that washington will lose this trade war. do us is definitely to lose because if you look at what's happening then china right now they're actually lowering terrorists on many goods or. from imports from other countries besides the rest like actually lowering tariffs so it's actually a good thing for chinese consumers and it's good it's great to help the chinese economy and china is seeking to become. independent in terms of its fuel needs from the u.s. going forward this is a presumption widely shared all over china and they're definitely going to achieve it because the u.s. does not have a monopoly on oil exports so they're going to get away with that and it's actually in the end really going to hurt u.s. exports. ahead of the christmas shopping rush retail giant amazon has

announced its hiking its minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour in a bid to attract new work has last almost two dollars above the average according to the bureau of labor statistics and was a nice to hire lots of people in a short period of time and the question is how many people want to do that kind of work fifteen dollars an hour will help we listen to our critics thought hard about what we wanted to do and decided we want to lead president trump has previously attacked amazon over its tax setup and criticized its low paying homage to the u.s. postal service which delivers it is possible senator bernie sanders who joins the criticism say as other companies should now follow the lead of amazon's boss jeff bezos want to congratulate mr based on doing exactly the right thing yes raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars and i will further up the base of those who have indicated his support for raising the national minimum wage.

well earlier we spoke with r.t. easily can post of redacted tonight two things amazon's real 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 brit came about because workers organize 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 better than nothing but it is a 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. president putin is in india for a two day visit is expected that the indian prime minister narendra modi will discuss broadening nuclear tiny's with russia bidding to build another nuclear power plant in the country in addition to the one already under construction moreover the two leaders are to sign a multi-billion dollar contracts for the delivery of the russian s four hundred a defense system though the prospects of india purchasing it has ruffled feathers in washington just like it did with other countries artie's explains why. for russia selling its weapons is not exactly business as usual in the strict sense of the word has inadvertently expanded into the realm of geopolitics because the united states gets visibly upset when anyone shows interest in buying brushes arms

even made it official that preventing russia from exporting its weapons is part of their game we will continue to vigorously implement sanctions and urge all countries to curtail relationships with russia's defense and intelligence sectors both of which are linked to malign activities worldwide retribution for disobedience was swift with china it recently bought some of russia's most advanced fighter jets and answer most all defense systems and washington through beijing in the same basket with moscow slapping it with sanctions stirring fury in china but well china is at least a geopolitical rival of washington and turkey isn't it's a valued nato member but still one ankara showed interest in buying russia's as four hundred systems well the united states made it clear it does not want them there you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are

against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds it would trigger a cancerous action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world the list of countries washington has tried to convince against buying russia's weapons goes on but with india everything hints that it won't be just words and almost a godfather style of a threat the pentagon has warned that it has its sanction machinery in first gear if india decides to follow through with the purchase of russia's missile defense system we would still have. very significant concerns if india pursued major new platforms and systems i can't sit here and tell you that they would be exempt that we would use that waiver that would be the decision of the president if you're faced with a major new platform capability that india has acquired from russia the united states has essentially backtracked on the previous promise to defend india from the

sad sanctions that's why they expected arms deal is such a bald move for india done of reporting from new delhi r.t. . animal welfare activism under the banner meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in france the country is witnessing a spike in attacks on slaughterhouses we spoke to one french butcher who says the windows of the shop were smashed by. the incident happened around three in the morning i came down and saw that the door had been hit in three places they also painted the store species it was here on the other medium. is what i bought i took pictures mediately the police arrived i will show you where you want to go you know there is the picture of the damaged door. these are the marks on the other million new york it is where it says species isms

and these are the rocks they used to smash the glass. well this case is one of many including splattering shops selling meat with fake blood setting slaughter houses on fire and the facing a with the graffiti the incidents have even prompted worried as to send a letter to the french president among all mccrone in a bid to prevent more violence. this is a civil war this gang go on mr president should our workers take up arms to defend themselves and their businesses. and i believe these people should be punished as one of the attacked large corporations that oversee the only attacks small businesses because it's easy the people who continue it why does everybody have us not eating vegetables only because these activists who you would never see one has their own preferences and we must respect oil the choices mostly galatea motors meanwhile but as have already gained some support from officials with the head of

the republican party saying two hundred thousand euro in compensation will be paid out to those affected we spoke to animal rights activists in bonn adel who has mixed feelings about the recent wave of incidents. these activists think that animal rights must be protected similarly to human rights so it's not surprising that the attack slaughter houses and butchers shops if the law authorizes immoral acts they may think what they do is justified in terms of morality anything that may stop the killing of animals for meat is acceptable but i am not sure whether illegal actions are the best way to promote animal rights the question we should ask ourselves is whether it is an effective way to raise awareness about animal suffering and animal rights if it's a good strategy then we should do it. thanks for choosing r.t. international we're going to be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines join us then if you count.

the stock market trading at all time highs the debt load peak everywhere as they had to two hundred fifty three hundred fifty five hundred percent debt to g.d.p. this is the planet on the verge of a major way to nami of just. the idea of freedom of speech is under threat speaking your mind can blind you into serious trouble now you are presumed guilty and must prove your innocence the herd moves and the sovereign individual to scouting to silence speech has been redefined as purchasing. quite frankly i think just in this is in libya have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have a new digital mysie over the presidency that has the vote of the libyan people

people who have aspirations like freedom and they do have aspirations like living in dignity it quite frankly to deny them the right to vote with the pretext that oh it's not time yet 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. readings and sell you so much like recent supreme court nominee testimonies there's been a whole lot of spoiled brat and title mint on display in washington d.c. this week particularly over iraq. on wednesday we saw u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe take his ball and go home to the international

court of justice or i.c.j. order of the united states to ease certain sanctions the united states has put on iran since walking away from the nuclear deal earlier this year iran and argued that the i.c.j. the united nation's highest court that certain sanctions imposed against them by the trump regime has adversely affected the importation of humanitarian goods and products and that coupled with backing out of the nuclear deal by a late supply there a treaty between the two countries and while the court didn't accept all of iran's arguments they did in a preliminary ruling find that the united states must remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from sanctions that affect humanitarian goods and services and lead us assurances that sanctions won't hurt humanitarian aid or not adequate but rather than reexamine the impact of these sanctions or at the very least start some form of dialogue with iran over them secretary of state decided to

put sanctions over people and announce to the world the united states is terminating the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran this is the this decision is frankly thirty nine years overdue well that's one way of dealing with a situation you know rather than follow the rule of law.