weapons watchdog. moments after eleven am on sunday here in moscow this is r.t. international the timing is perfect for the top stories of the week the day russia's undefeated m.m.a. fighter michael meadows has defended his u.f.c. lightweight title ultimately beating irish superstar mcgregor aussie's sport correspondent reports from the russian hometown. it's important to know that most of these legal did not sleep tonight and they were waiting for the slide. out celebrating the maybe it has been not only a sleepless night but probably

a sleepless leap because the broadcast from last august started at five o'clock in the morning and many packed the cinema which was the main venue for broadcasting this event as early as two at three am in the morning. when it comes to the fight itself it was absolutely incredible how calm and collected. are going to have had been through that fight and he won absolutely deserve victory in the fourth round after a choke on going to mcgregor it was the most anticipated fight probably in the u.f.c. twenty five year long history a lot of controversy before the fight a lot of control over c. after the fight apparently a scuffle between members of steam and mcgregor steam happened right after the bell right after claimed a clear victory but interestingly enough he walked off the ring before even

being able to raise the belt above he said as a clean deserved winner that speaks volumes about you know the heat and the control of the cia around that fight. beginning to topple because like you can what do you think about these guys.

i wrote earlier we. come here to send a message like location location i'm going to come for you where you want doesn't matter if there are only three americans both of you. will get the money that sony told them are going to seek your life that is. more than five put it more than men even means personally. so brett kavanaugh has been sworn in as a us supreme court judge by one of the now or worst margins in the country's history while hundreds of people protested on capitol hill that is after the f.b.i. failed to find convincing evidence that company all committed sexual assault of senators who took the floor represented a deep polarization in the whole country. when the history of the senate is written

. this chapter will be a flashing warning light of what to avoid. truly. judge kavanagh's confirmation is a low moment. for the. country. i just. don't see how we can put somebody on the supreme court. thinks that the president is about the law the very least we should expect for. i do not believe. he puts his thumb on the scale of justice in all ways towards corporate interests i knew him as an honest and dedicated public servant i was proud to be. exceptionally. i do not see an open mind i do not see

fairness i see a partisan ideologues who will do backflips to rule in favor of large corporations powerful. confirming. to the supreme court. and undermine the court's legitimacy and continue to diminish the american people's trust in it. however i thought police arrested more than one hundred fifty demonstrators on the steps of the u.s. capitol in washington on saturday the some protesters continually stole the voting by shouting from the senate gallery and the chair u.s. president mike pence had to ask for or at least a dozen times. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery.

sergeant at arms. sergeant in arms will restore order in the. restore order in the. democrats conducted themselves by likening the actions to a rule and my call to discuss the issue with. america's evening news host she thinks that calvin almost called formation highlights the deep splits in america right ahead of november's midterm election. break with a pullback and said no facts matter we actually need to see what we have hard evidence on that might hurt long term the women's movement here in the united states as many women were supporting the supporting the accuser just because they

felt like accusers had not been heard recently in the united states this is one year to the day of the need to move men happening on the other hand in the end people have needed to make sure that there was evidence and i think that's the reason why you saw so many g.o.p. senators who were might have been wavering actually go on and push the confirmation for do you think we can equate support for. support for trump himself they're going to try to whether that's true or not it's up to everybody i don't think this issue has won people over to cross over the lines and either before or against president trump it just shows how deeply divided america is right now and that's very interesting four weeks out from a midterm election for president trump everything right now is for or against president trump so there's no sort of i like him but i don't support a policy and it is truly a very partisan divided country and unfortunately as has come out recently a lot of the issues that came out this over the cabinet has been because of the media and the dishonest media here in the united states that we're showing on both sides putting out allegations that kind of show they had more of an agenda than just reporting the facts. earlier this week russia found itself confronted over the

alleged activities of his military intelligence service the g.r.u. a number of western countries and international organizations called out moscow for dirty cyber tricks targeting various groups including the international chemical weapons watchdog breaking down the details artie's daniel. election interference troll factories this information man hacking we've heard most of it before but the latest charge sheet against russia is all encompassing and endless there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals if they flouts international law in this way russia's indiscriminate campaign of cyber attacks the violations of several u.s. criminal laws they will be exposed russia must stop reckless and irresponsible behavior of russian government needs to know they want to fully condemn this attack it will be exposed and it will be consequences it seems every accusation of malign

activity over the last four years from the downing of m.h. seven team to the water doping scandal has come back all at once united under a common name and symbol before it was often vague russian hackers agents or just putin but apparently we can now name the entity responsible for everything all along the g r u russian military intelligence even specific names and faces have been linked with the alleged crimes seven individuals were indicted by the u.s. with four of them also accused the involvement in the netherlands o.p.c. w hack and three war already featured in robert mueller is continuing russia meddling probe. this group of just sixteen people is certainly kept busy according to the latest allegations how can the malaysia airlines probe the o.p.c. w solsbury poising investigation and you don't get agencies from canada to brazil

the u.s. election you name it the hand of the g.r.u. is never far away and according to some the allegations are irrefutable proof of russia's guilt in all other incidents here you have evidence of the russian military launching a cyber attack on the very organization the international organization in the netherlands set up to investigate those novacek attacks and why would you do that if you were the guilty party and as we've seen before there's no need to me tell you real standards of evidence remember when the n.s.a. was accused of spying on charts of the merkel back in twenty fifteen well the german federal prosecutor in the system had a legal burden of proof to be met to prove this low such luxury what rushes in the dock they're almost certain and high confidence from u.k. security services are enough to beat the drum for new sanctions and anyway the soviet era k.g.b. is long gone the image of public enemy number one is long overdue for an overhaul

and this is the perfect opportunity to consolidate the perfect storm chemical weapons got a lecture meddling it's got doping it's got every other thing you can think of that the russians are guilty of and i think this cloud of accusations is its own purpose even the normal rational people would say well why would they be saying these things unless they had some purpose and might i think it by throwing out individual names for example this sort of concretized as if somehow it makes it look like there really is evidence behind how hard is it for western intelligence services to get the names and job descriptions of various officials in the g.r.u. or any other government agency so i think that's what they're doing but it makes it sound like there's something behind it we may not know the whole truth all which side is hiding something but it's image a narrative which is important and the russians you know you bogeyman is becoming firmly embedded in public mindset. it's not just the russian military that's having

accusations flying at it apparently russian trolls are now turning fans against the classic star wars films believe that or not we will give you details on that a bit later in the program. but although u.s. special representative zalmay khalilzad is on a trip to the middle east to coordinate and lead u.s. efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiating table however it doesn't look like they are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the group is exerting on the ground there watty was granted access to one taliban commander and we raised the subject. of the americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to cooperate against islamic state the americans are bombing us while we fight eyesore. the latest suggestion of direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the u.s. state department was on friday. this is ministration has made it clear that it is

prepared to engage with and participate in the goshi asians with both the taliban and the afghan government under the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans and this never wanted this and the leadership of the taliban never gave permission to any member to negotiate on their behalf u.s. defense secretary james mattis had a meet and greet with the afghan president in kabul they finally decided to play nice in a bid to get the taliban down to talks but just one day before their words of peace washington dropped a big f. thirty five b. bomb on the taliban looks like the peace process is getting off on the right foot especially when the u.s. has for years led up to this moment promising both talk and terror i want to reinforce to the child been that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement to the taliban when their choices are to reconcile living

a relevance. to have the taliban and willing to come to the negotiating table there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish so it's no surprise the taliban is reluctant to trust promises of peace and why would they seek it anyway in the past several months the taliban has made substantial territorial gains their spring offensive took coalition forces completely off guard seizing regions all over afghanistan over one hundred soldiers and police officers were killed in just one week of the offensive and that's not even counting last week's un report covering civilian casualties in battles between the coalition and taliban forces. and as you've. seen. over the last. i'm. going to get over. that. that in the.

americas two thousand one invasion of afghanistan hoped to oust the taliban from power but what materialized it was a seventeen year long war the longest conflict in u.s. history and now fast approaching are monumental peace talks to be held in moscow between the taliban and the afghan government we can confirm that we will attend the moscow conference we are waiting for a date and then agenda then we will decide what can be achieved from the conference if successful these talks could mark a step forward in a conflict that currently has no end in sight donald quarter r.t. so we are in the midst of running down the top stories of the day and over the week your weekly returns in just a moment. so

it seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to see. is the answer. and in the game. but we're totally underwhelmed by the last. so much so that my oldest questioned if it is worth going to the cinema to see any more disney star wars so it did nothing to make me change my mind. it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn. india and russia have signed a five billion dollar deal with moscow to deliver five s. four hundred missile defense systems.

the s four hundred is russia's most anti missile defense system it is one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons the system has a range of at least four hundred kilometers and a current reportedly shoot down eighty targets at the same time and india is not by any stretch of the imagination the only country that wants to get its hands on the s four hundred for instance china and turkey have also signed a deal for this russian system and a qatar saudi arabia and iraq of all expressed interest as well on a broader scope though the u.s. has actually threatened sanctions against any country buying weapons in general

from russia reporting from new delhi equal to an off. it's not just india expanding its defensive capabilities against it its regional rivals like pakistan or china for example it is also india sending a very strong political message because every time any country really shows interest or indeed by russian weapon and advanced russian weapon washington while it falls flat with washington for example when china bought the very same and a missile defense system which india has now ports and some fighter jets to go with russia it was slapped with sanctions and now india is defying this potential threat even though washington for example one pentagon general has said that while indeed sanctions are on the table it is ultimately up to donald trump eventually it will be donald trump's core whether or not to punish india for what it's doing and india

is no exception in terms of the pressure being exerted on them and at the end of the day it will all depend on how resilient o'kelly exhaust in the face of this pressure i wouldn't venture to predict with a hundred percent certainty how india will act but judging by the talks with them surely some obstacles a lawyer bill to rise but still the colleagues national policy is independent when it comes to making decisions on purchasing foreign military equipment and if i was to list everything that the two leaders of all discussed from nuclear corp to agriculture to space and so on and so forth could easily take the rest of the day and also a very warm very cordial atmosphere between the leaders. so

really it's interesting while russia and india are doing business it's fair to say that the ball is in washington's court. we've got reaction in new delhi where some say that you need a lateral approach is unwelcome. what we're saying telling the u.s. is we are independent but we want to partner with you. on the basis of mutual benefit it should not be a one sided thing we demand and we simply comply and trump should. realize that because it is going to be a boomerang effect or it does kind of strategic blows in this regard with us see is not just us today i mean it has a lot of clouds i think long term bottom along with the those who are in the position to see the ups and downs of future of the countries you have been there for so many decades i'm not saying that you should not look for new partners but good bye and good friends have to be will be looking at their spending their

relationship one country trying to move over to the other countries with good ideas mean more to be that good for the. situation in the movement geopolitical situation and that's the weekly for this hour here on r.t. international but what a busy week it has been for your top worldwide news headlines hope you can join us in about twenty five minutes we. make this manufactured dream sentenced to public will. when the running close to some project themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real news room.

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come up with a stick a good show and so here again some significance are going to. roll. off for the deprived political decision on this machine i can use out of this is a good good. skill to do it to someplace easy to do to even up to when it was muddled such potential. this cruise of it turns out it. says rep this crew for to open it up was sick and then if we did who. died at c.c. sympathetic to the pussy according to father emanuel nothing happened. but why then was he shipped out of cameroon when he could have been posted to another diocese in the country. under. the millennium his new superior explains to him in the news. that he doesn't know

we're filming. a mission to. kill in this case but it is. also the news. isn't as if the movie is the quote you can swallow you see. this. little girl all. it goes into soon on to this earth also really good. so the community of st john ship father emmanuel off to bloody is so he wouldn't be anywhere near any kids. but when we leave the priory to posters catch our eye if tetris on thousands or and. a theater inside the priory. tell you then that the painting drops. to create this old oak it up. out of all of us and we all start at that source a bit though this isn't all. done because all from the sit still is up as

a. bit of other stuff that's here. if a tornado is off a bit but it is me that a minute i was the one feeling document throughout it is awful to bust. and after all these to ing and fro ing in the world of st john we had a few questions for the head. the community. on the case and for two in cameroon but also on the other documents in our hands. the st john public relations director emailed us. dear sir we are prudent about the televised press especially when sensitive subjects are concerned after long reflection we prefer to decline your request for an interview regarding the departure of the brothers from the cathedral imber to a we had every reason to believe that these rumors were ungrounded the same conclusion of the local police and just as obviously reached because they pressed no charges after their invest.