when nixon. i mean the minute you presented to the security council would make these statements which are always if you do. was. it. was. the biggest fight in the u.f.c. histories these russians have been gods of retaining his title against islands called the mcgregor with about ten think chaos and a month's roll with reports from happy hometown. with angry protests on disruptions of the confirmation vote brett kavanaugh nice morning as the u.s. supreme court justice playing bad deep divisions not only within the senate that

the whole country. confirmation was a low moment for the senate. for the for. the country exceptionally qualified church. and among the week's top stories the west hit sounds at russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service exposing an alleged campaign of global cyber attacks . and the very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international great to have you with us this hour our top story russia's undefeated m.m.a. fights ahead big numa goal madoff has defended his u.f.c. lightweight title beating ireland's corner mcgregor but the event was mauled by a mass brawl at the end marty's sport correspondent and like serious s.q.

reports from the russian champs hometown. absolute scenes in my house because the ocean yet to see plunging in a little while this guy says happy going to 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 they were waiting for the slice. it was pretty loud i 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 parked 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. i had of 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 and just 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 a c. a round that fight. leyline. you

know will they be toppled like chicken or do you think it will these days. i am. going to. reveal a little we. hear so much like location location and then i come for you where you want doesn't matter that there are only three light bulbs you. will get the money that sony called the book and she can go live that. will mean

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 be reporting from a couch i live in dagestan republic now marigold my dove apologized afterward saying he didn't show his best side by starting the brawl the incident is being investigated and could see disciplinary action with the possibility of the champion being stripped of his title mcgregor though didn't appear to hold a grudge cheap posted a tweet saying good knock looking forward to the way about. cavanagh has been sworn in as a u.s. supreme court justice by one of the narrowest of margins in the country's history

but as hundreds of people protested on capitol hill his nomination after sexual assault allegations against him senators who took the floor to state their feelings appeared to underline the divide in that 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. country. i just. don't see how we can put somebody on the supreme court. thinks that the president is about the up to very least we should expect a nominee for her highness for. this. i do not believe judge kavanaugh has met the standard he puts his thumb on the scales of justice in all ways where the bias

towards corporate interests i knew him as an honest and dedicated public servant i was proud to be in the white house as president trump announced the nomination this exceptionally qualified. i do not see an open mind i do not see fairness i see a partisan ideologues who will do judicial backflips to rule in favor of large corporations the powerful and the elite confirming brett kavanaugh off to the supreme court before the road and undermine the court's legitimacy and continue to diminish the american people's trust in it. i got these arrested more than one hundred fifty demonstrators on the steps of the u.s. capitol in washington on saturday some protesters continually spoke of votes and by shouting from the senate gallery the chair u.s. vice president my friends that's why i asked for

a dozen times. was no sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. sergeant in arms will restore order in the good. order in the. past announced time democrats conducted themselves by likening that actions to molt rule my colleague now harvey discussed the issue with scottie nell hughes r.t. america's evening news host she thinks confidence confirmation highlights the deep splits in america at its 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 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 self 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 for 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 although the disputes have a cover now has left the us basically divided some have been finding a way to make the best of it. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh cavanagh judge job and dr christine bloody forty who uses cavanagh of sexually assaulting her when the two were both and. i drank the record for almost everyone do i like you. i still like you.

early this week russia found itself confronted over the alleged activities of its military intelligence service the g.r.u. a number of western countries and international organizations called out moscow for waging a campaign of dirty side the tricks artie's daniel hawkins breaks down the details . 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 flowers 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 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 is no need to meet any real standards of evidence remember when the n.s.a. was accused of spying on charts of the merkel back in twenty fifteen or the german federal prosecutor in the system 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 in 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 to pass a ledge to malign activities by russian secret surfaces moskos trolls have apparently now turns their sights on hollywood particularly the star wars franchise any of us trying to explains 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 star wars 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 fairness 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 have a great disturbance in the force as millions of voices suddenly cried out into the sun his sons 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 variants 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 rolled one but were totally underwhelmed by the last gen dime so much so that my oldest questioned if it is worth going to the cinema to see any more disney star was solid did nothing to make me change my mind. if.

it wasn't disney not even the director it was the bare. preliminary results of voting in bosnia and herzegovina where i was so that serbian nationalists can zip milorad dodik has won with fifty six percent in sunday's presidential election he will fill the serbs seat in the country's three member presidency his main opponent mullard in a van it received forty four percent is considered progress and opposes a membership in nato more than three million people were eligible to vote in just a few hours before the polls closed it turned out it was present almost forty percent the vote has widely been seen as a test of whether bosnia will move towards more integration with europe here's a look at the complex cultural and political landscape in the country. let's go living in the small nation of bosnia herzegovina young unemployed and hoping for

change. so you drag yourself to voting. 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 you. delve into the complexities of its institutional set up. there with me nothing is ever simple but 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. if you 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 a nato bombing campaign. in the process bosnia and herzegovina declared independence in one thousand nine hundred five not sure it was stopped the newly formed country visions lingered on gave rise to this heading the political system. split into two autonomous regions as the largest federation of bosniaks croats and then what's known as the serb republic. has its own government the parliament and police have been looking this chaos 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 factor by make one head of state they rotate what is known as the really chairperson told you it was complex. u.s.

special envoy for afghanistan zalman it is on a visit to the middle east in a bid to quote bring the taliban back 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 also 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 are 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's last friday this is the 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 and if the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans and has 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 let 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 for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile them live in a relevance toward the have the taliban 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 think. that's. going to. go to the right. that. the. americans 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 we will turn the moscow conference we're waiting for a do it 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. . scottish national party leader nicholas sturgeon has revealed she will announce a plan to have a fresh independent voters that is to reason may finally focus out of gregg's that deal with the e.u. . that anybody likes it or not the future. relationship 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 that's what i mean just to be crystal clear about the end of this phase of negotiations

a september poll suggests if brics it goes as planned most scots now back independence than to stay part of the u.k. it comes amid growing concerns over the brig's 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 on the braggs it talks well over one hundred thousand pro independence protesters hit the streets of the scottish capital long saturday demanding a fresh vote demonstrators called on leaders to set a date for a new referendum after the previous votes now really backed to stay part of the u.k. doesn't shock me from the radical independence campaign told us the momentum is now with those who want to split from london. i mean very close and probably are on the fifty fifty mark however clearly the momentum is with those who support independence and the huge demonstration there is about one hundred fifty thousand

people who took part shows what cain to his base there exists to promote the cause of independence in the country if scotland votes to the meet in say the e.u. . for example ends up with a new deal scenario then there must be a definition because that would likely say probably the deepest constitutional crisis in modern history and therefore there's a real one yes i think on the tory government and somewhere just this question they're not doing that they're not going to do that and therefore the pressure is going to build the scottish ness so salvos ted kennedy i really did. say everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know every crowd. american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.'s to see uncle steve. boyd buzz this is my buddy max famous financial guru and will ease a little bit different i'm honest. though no one knows about last but not least my

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