right. the biggest fight in new york state history sees russia some people are among the many other retain his title against ireland's conor mcgregor but about and in chaos and a mass brawl we report from tributes hometown. with angry protests and disruptions of the confirmation vote brett kavanaugh is sworn in as a u.s. supreme court justice laying bare deep divisions not only within the senate but the whole country confirmation is

a low moment for the senate. for the court. the country exceptionally qualified to judge. and among the stories making the week that was the west hit out at russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service exposing an alleged campaign of global cyber attacks . welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the latest headline news and the top stories from the past week. russia's undefeated m.m.a. fighter not among their mug me above has defended his u.f.c. lightweight title beating arlen's conor mcgregor but the event was marred by a mass brawl at the end r.t. sports correspondent alex he had a shift key 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 how the money out of it 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 slice. it was pretty loud out there have to say out in the street 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 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 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 victory but interestingly enough he walked off the ring before even being able to raise the belt above he said as a clear and deserved winner that speaks volumes about you know the heat and the control of the cia around that fight. leyline.

you go there you topple did you like chicken or do you think about this day. i am. going to. iraq earlier we need. to send a message like location location and then i come will you will you want doesn't matter. very much follows you. will get the money that saw me and called them again she can join the live chat is for me more than fight for the title more than maybe even the local means personally. so no one slept tonight but you

can expect that nobody will sleep here even today the party is on right now just on the yes yes. let yourself do the reporting from a couch i live in dagestan republic near monk a male the apologize after the fight saying he didn't show his best side by starting the brawl the incident is being investigated and could see action with the possibility of the champion being stripped of his title mcgregor though didn't appear to hold a grudge he posed as a tweet saying good not 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 that's as hundreds of people protested on capitol hill at his nomination to desex will assault allegations against him senators who took to the floor to state their feelings demonstrated the clear divide in the country. when the history of the

senate is written this chapter will be a flashing red warning light of what to avoid. truly. judge kavanagh's confirmation is a low moment for the senate. for the court. for 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 the very least we should expect a nominee for our highest court to be honest. i do not believe judge kavanagh has met this standard he puts his thumb on the scale of justice in all ways 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 and it's the nomination of this exceptionally. i do not see an open mind

i do not see fairness i see a partisan ideologues who will do traditional backflips to rule in favor of large corporations the powerful and the elite confirming brett kavanaugh to the supreme court before the road and undermined the court's legitimacy and continued to diminish the american people's trust in it. was time 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 over a dozen times. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery.

sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. the sergeant at arms will. stored in the good. 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 america's evening news host she thinks countless confirmation highlights the deep split in america ahead of november's midterm elections with a 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 move men happening on the other hand in the end people who needed to make sure 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 trouble 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 and with the bitter dispute over kavanagh that's been

dividing the u.s. some have chosen to cash in. the dream court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh cavanagh judge cab and dr christine black before it could cuse this cavanagh of sexually assaulting her when the two were both in high so. i drank beer apart from almost everyone do i like you. i still like you. 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 waging a campaign of dirty cyber tricks are to stand hawkins breaks down the details election interference and troll factories this information about hacking we've heard most of it before but the latest charge sheets against russia is all encompassing and endless there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals if they flout 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 by wants 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 seventy to the water

doping scandal has come back all at once you know i said under a calm. a 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 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 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 no 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 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. and it's not just about alleged malign activities by russia's secret services last trolls have apparently now turned their

sights on hollywood and namely the star wars franchise their picture and go picks 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 trawls boughts well surely there is something still sacred in western culture are 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 sits sorry the russians had a great disturbance in the force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out into something besides just to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand on line 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 fans got even more disgruntled when they said they found their own tweets 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 done 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. mark a very disturbing it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn room. at general elections underway in bosnia and herzegovina i have all the details and other stories from the week after a short break. when

i was still seemed wrong. lol just don't call. me ol yet to say proud disdain comes after. and indeed it was betrayed. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . unfortunately the united nations security council when he's approached to yemen is only to listen to the speech of envoys it affords every month or two months and then they're presented with weeks of their own i mean that meant to be sent into the security council would make their statements which are always ready to.

welcome back to the weekly u.s. special envoy for afghanistan. is on a visit to the middle east in a bid to quote bring the taliban to the negotiating table however they don't seem especially willing to accept the offer r.t. was granted access to a taliban commander and asked him about the proposal. 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 a bombing us while we fight i saw the latest suggestion of direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the u.s.

state department last friday. this is ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage with and participate in the go she is 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 tied 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 for 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. see.

there were already. but you know. america's two thousand and 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're waiting for a date and an agenda then we would assume 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. . scottish national party leader nicolas sturgeon has revealed she will announce her plans over a fresh independence vote as soon as theresa may finally figures out it breaks

a deal with the e.u. but anybody who likes it or not the future you key relationships is the context in which scotland would decide that question of independence could be later this month it could be november it could be december but that's what i mean just to be crystal clear about the end of this phase of the. september poll suggest if it goes as planned more scots now back in the pendants than just a part of the u.k. it comes amid growing concerns over the brics it terms and where that would leave scotland earlier may insisted that now is not the time to discuss another independence vote as the focus should be on working together told you it was complex. that's our snapshot of just some of the top headlines from the last seven days for further details on those stories and many more at our website r.t. dot com as always thanks for tuning it.

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