u.f.c. lightweight champion rushes near miami of defense his title and his clash with irish superstar conor mcgregor report from his home town. with angry protests and disruptions of the confirmation vote brett kavanaugh is sworn in as a us supreme court justice playing buried deep divisions not only within the senate but the full country. confirmation is a low moment for the senate. the core. country

exceptionally close. and among the stories making the week that was the west hits out at russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service exposing an alleged campaign of cyber attacks around the world including on the international chemical weapons watchdog. welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the top stories from the past week. first russia's undefeated m.m.a. fighter other has defended his u.f.c. lightweight title beating irish superstar conor mcgregor r t sports car correspondent alex he had a shift reports from the russian champs hometown. absolute

scenes in my house because the ocean yet to keep learning you know little out of these guys says happy new money and a is still the champion of u.s.c. and these people are going absolutely bonkers right. but. it's important to know that most of these legal did not sleep tonight and they were waiting for the slight. i. was pretty loud out there have to say out in the streets celebrating for many it has been not only a sleepless night but probably a sleepless week because the broadcast from last vegas 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 or three am in the morning.

when it comes to the fight itself which 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 the corner mcgregor 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 off claimed a clear and just a 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. leyline.

beginning of the top will be like chicken what do you think it will these days. comeback for what we're going to. rebuild there we need. to send the message like location location i'm going to come for you where you want doesn't matter. very much mostly. to get the money that sony called a look at it she can go like that. for me more than fight for the title more than maybe even the local news person.

the no one slept tonight but you can expect that nobody will sleep here even today the party is on right now just on yes. let yourself do the reporting from a couch i live in dagestan republic and among them have apologized after the fight saying that starting the brawl was not his best side the incident is now being investigated and could see disapprove of disciplinary action being carried out mcgregor in turn didn't appear to bear a grudge he posted a short tweet saying good knock looking forward to the rematch. brett kavanaugh has been sworn in as a u.s. supreme court justice by one of the narrowest margins in the country's history while hundreds of people protested on capitol hill that's after the f.b.i. failed to find convincing evidence that cavanagh committed sexual assault 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 red warning light what to avoid. truly. judge kavanagh's confirmation is a low moment for the senate. or the court. of the country. i just. don't see how we can put somebody on the supreme court who thinks that the president is above the law to very least we should expect a nominee for our highest court people that. i do not believe judge cabinet has met the standard he puts his thumb on the scales of justice and always with a bias towards corporate interests i knew him as an honest and dedicated public servant i was proud to be at the white house as president trump announced the nomination of this exceptionally well with a. i do not see an open mind i do not see fairness i see

a partisan ideologues who will do traditional back clips to rule in favor of large corporations the powerful and the elite confirming brett kavanaugh to the supreme court before the road and undermine the court's legitimacy and continue to diminish the american people's trust in. god i thought police arrested more than one hundred fifty demonstrators on the steps of the u.s. capitol in washington on saturday. some protesters continually stalled the voting by shouting from the senate gallery and the chair u.s. vice president mike pence had to ask for order a dozen times. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery.

restore order and the. sharjah arms will restore order in the gallery. restore order in the gallery donald trump denounced how democrats conducted themselves by likening their actions to mob rule earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with scotty now hughes r t america's evening news host she thinks that capitalist confirmation highlights the deep split in america ahead of november's midterm elections. brail to pull back and say 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 movement

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 and so 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. but i don't think it is truly a very part of divided country and fortunately as has come out recently a lot of the issues that came out there over the cabin are have 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 its no terry 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 artist daniel hawkins breaks down the details election interference troll factories this information man hucking 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 fly out international law in this way russia's indiscriminate campaign of cyber attacks violations of several u.s. criminal laws they will be exposed russia must stop reckless and irresponsible behavior of russian government needs to. wants to fully condemn this attack took it will be exposed and there 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 all from vague russian hackers agents or just putin but apparently we can no mames 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 of involvement in the netherlands o.p.c. w hack and three war already feed should it 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.'s solsbury poising investigation and he 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 there almost certain 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 though a 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. but it's not just the russian military that's having accusations flying at it apparently russian trolls are now turning fans

against the last star wars film more on that later in the program. u.s. special representative zell miller is on a trip to the middle east to coordinate and leave u.s. efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiating table however it doesn't look like they're willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the group is exciting on the ground r.t. was granted access to a taliban commander and raised the subject. of a lot of americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to cooperate against islamic state the americans of bombing us while we fight. the latest suggestion of direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the u.s. state department last friday. this is the ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage with and participate in the go with both the taliban and the

afghan government and if the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans there's 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 taliban 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 if you. are. going to go to iraq. i don't. know 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 but we will attend the moscow conference we're 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. . still to come polls are open in bosnia and herzegovina which is holding its general election today that story and more after this short break.

unfortunately the united nations security council in his approach to yemen is going to turn this into the speech of envoys it affords every month or two months and then that is until tuesday when we expect the erroneous and i mean that imminent to present it to the security council would make these statements which are always ready to. seem wrong. but also we'll just don't all. get to shape out just the conflict that's occurring and it gains from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back not satisfied with allegedly disrupting the u.s. elections in two thousand and sixteen russian trolls have apparently now turned their sights on hollywood and the star wars franchise in particular artist the trunk opec's up the story. hey america they stole your election hey britain they stole your dream of a united europe democracy will never be the same because of russian memes thralls boughts well surely there is something still sacred in western culture off limits to the russians.

oh no the kremlin folks even got their hands on star wars russian trolls weaponized style was criticism as an instrument for information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change this was from a real study by a brave jet i call or i mean who claims there's been a force that was fighting to make the last jet i fail wow thirty seven pages remember how the movie got booed at when those need fans couldn't forgive the director for spoiler alert killing luke skywalker and forgive him for going against all the tropes so dearly cherished by the fandom remember how the star wars lovers army even campaign to fund a remake well now you know who did it the sith sorry the russians had a great disturbance in the force as millions of voices suddenly cried out into the

sun his son just to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand online messages for the director and his result was more than half of the hate tweets came from trolls some of them were russian. the director didn't just pay attention he shared the link to the study with his twitter followers. looking forward to reading it but what the top line describes is consistent with my experience online well some vans got even more disgruntled when they said they found their own tweet in the research it was a bad movie highly unlikely that it was a dry run for bots to practice we hated this film too loved rogue one but were totally underwhelmed by the last gen don so much so that my eldest 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. very disturbing it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn. polls are open in bosnia and herzegovina for the balkan states general election the vote is widely seen as a test on whether the country will move toward integration with the european union and nato or remain entrenched in war era ethnic rivalries more than three million people are eligible to vote today electing governing members of a political system that's been branded the most complex in the world. let's go living in the small nation of bosnia herzegovina young unemployed and hoping for change. so you drag yourself to voting. that you confronted with what is possibly the longest ballot ever. for

a country of just three and a half million this makes little sense to delve into the complexities of its institutional sets out. there with me nothing is ever simple and it comes to bosnia herzegovina the country with three of these three predominant religion i mean even the warning labels on the cigarette packets come in three languages. let's go back a couple of decades. a year after this june hit the airwaves yugoslavia collapsed following years of ethnic and political tensions. that led to years of war the deaths of over one hundred thousand people and nato bombing campaign. in the process and that's governor declared independence in one thousand nine

hundred five much of the. country visions lingered on gave rise to this side of the political system. split into two autonomous regions is the largest federation of. them what's known as the sort of republic each entity has its own government parliament and police have been looking this case this is a central government with a national parliament the rotating presidency you see there isn't just one head of state there are three. three. each of this it has its own elected president the trio affected by make one head of state they rotate what is known as the chad. told you it was complex. india and russia have signed a five billion dollar arms deal with moscow to deliver five s. four hundred air defense systems.

the s four hundred is russia's mobile anti-missile defense system it's one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons the system has a range of four hundred kilometers and can shoot down up to eighty targets at once and india is not the only country that wants it for instance china and turkey have also signed a deal for the russian system and cattle are saudi arabia and iraq have expressed interest on a broader scope though the u.s. has threatened sanctions against any country buying weapons in general from russia are down there for ports from new delhi. it's about just india expanding its defensive capabilities against its 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 using a russian weapon an advanced russian weapon washington while it falls flat with washington for example when china both the very same a missile defense system which india has now put on 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 cool 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 depend on how resilient kelley exult in the face of this pressure

and if i was to list everything that to two leaders of all discussed from nuclear corporation 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 believe is. good . 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. that's a snapshot of just some of the top headlines from the last seven days but for further details on those stories and many more head to our website r.t. dot com thanks for tuning in.

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