a month or two months and then the representatives. i mean the minute to present it to the security council would make these statements which are always that if you do. the biggest fight in u.f.c. history sees russia said be it no government of retaining his title against ireland's call to mcgregor with about ten's in chaos and a mass brawl we were pulled from heavy hometown. with angry protests on disruptions of the confirmation vote to brett kavanaugh is sworn in as a us 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. in the country exceptionally qualified church. and among the week's top stories the west hits out at russia's g.r.u. military intelligence services exposing an alleged campaign of global slime work. very well welcome you watching the weekend here on r.t. international great to have you with us this hour our top story russia's undefeated m.m.a. fighter has. defended his u.f.c. lightweight title beating islands khana mcgregor but the event was marred by a man's brawl at the end r.t.e. sport correspondent alexy irish esky reports from the russian champs hometown.

absolute scenes in mechanical ocean you had to keep learning you know a little out of 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 and they were waiting for the slight. i. was pretty loud i 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 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 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 the cia around that fight. will air.

you know will they be toppled like chickens or do you think it will these. are what we're going to be sure i really believe. in the most likely location location i'm going to come for you where you want doesn't matter that there are only three. miles. to get the money that shoulda been called to look at it she told her you will be 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 the yes yes. like yourself you see reporting from a couch i live in dagestan republic in a gun we have to have apologized afterward saying he didn't share his best side by starting the ball the incident is being investigated and could see disciplinary action with the possibility of the champion being stripped off his title but didn't appear to hold a grudge chait posted a tweet saying good knock looking forward to the rematch. now brett kavanaugh has been sworn in as a u.s. supremes called justice by one of the narrowest of margins in the country's history that has hundreds of people protested on capitol hill at his nomination after

sexual assault allegations against him senators who took to the floor to state their feelings appeared to underline the divided the 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 court. for the country. i just. don't see how we can put somebody on the supreme court who thinks that the president is about the want to very least we should expect a nominee for her highness. but. i do not believe judge kavanaugh has met the standard he puts his thumb on the scales of justice is always the pious towards corporate interests i knew him as an honest and dedicated public servant i was

proud to be in the white house as president of the nomination of this exceptionally well with. i do not see an open mind i do not see fairness i see a partisan ideologues who will do the traditional back flips to rule in favor of large corporations the powerful and the elite the perming stretch out on to the supreme court before the vote and undermine the court's legitimacy and continue to diminish the american people's trust in it. i thought. police arrested more than one hundred fifty demonstrators on the steps of the u.s. toppling washington on sunday some protesters continually spoke of voting by sousing from a fax gallery on the shadow u.s. finds president mike pence had to ask for a dozen time. was. sergeant at arms will

restore order in the gallery. sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. the sergeant in arms will restore order in the gallery. will restore order in the gallery trump has denounced how democrats conducted themselves by likening their actions to mob rule my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with scotty no hughes r.t.a. america's evening news host she thinks confidence confirmation highlights the deep split in america ahead of november's midterm elections. braver 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 as 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 through do you think we can equate support patrol 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 there's no sort of i like him but i don't support a policy that is truly a very partisan divided country and unfortunately as it's come out recently a lot of the issues that came out this over the kavanaugh 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 under the old eyes a speech has a cabinet has left the u.s. basically divided some has been finding a way to make the best of it. the dream court nominee brett kavanaugh great cabinet cabin on church and dr christine lahti forty who uses cavanagh of sexually assaulting her when the two were both in. our drink your record for almost everyone do i like you. i still like you.

earlier this week russia's found is soft confronted over the alleged activities of its military intelligence service the g.r.u. and number of western countries and international organizations called out most go so waging a campaign of dirty cyber tricks on 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 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 the dopey agencies from canada to brazil the us 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 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 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 though 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 russian secret services moscow's trolls have apparently now turned their sights on hollywood and particularly the star wars franchise any picture and go 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 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 sitz sorry the russians had a great disturbance in the force as if millions of doses suddenly cried out into a sudden decide 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 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 don 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 skinny's. preliminary results of voting in bosnia and herzegovina show that serbian nationalist candidate milorad dog dick has won with fifty six percent in sunday's presidential election he will fill the seat of the country's remember presidency is main opponent large an advantage perceived forty four percent product is considered pro version and opposes membership in nato more than three million people were eligible to vote and just a few hours before the polls closed turnout was present almost forty percent the vote has widely been seen as a test of whether both nia 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

a change. son 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 delve into the complexities of its institutional set up. there with me nothing is ever simple when it comes to bosnia herzegovina a 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 to hit the airwaves you can slog collapsed following years of conflict in political tensions. that lead to years of war the deaths of over one hundred thousand people

and the nato bombing campaign. in the process bosnia and herzegovina declared independence in one thousand nine hundred five not sure it was stopped the new country visions lingered on gave rise to this heading the political system. split into two autonomous regions as the larger federation of bosniaks croats and then what's known as the serb republic. has its own government the parliament and police overlooking 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 affected by make one head of state they rotate what is known as the chairperson told you it was complex. u.s.

special envoy for afghanistan's our may. is a visit to the middle east in their 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. what 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 last friday. this is 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 live in a relevance. to 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 u.n. report covering civilian casualties in battles between the coalition and taliban forces. or they. are. going to to go. that. 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 but we will turn the moscow conference we're waiting for addict and an agenda then we would assume it 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 her plans of a fresh independence vote as soon as two reason may finally focus out of bragg's that deal would be you that anybody likes it or not the future in your key 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. well september poll suggests if greg said goes as planned most

scots now back independence then to stay part of the q.k. it comes amid growing concerns over the brags that terms and where that would leave scotland early i'm a insisted that now is not a time to discuss another independence vote as the focus should be on working together on the braggs it talks well over a fast one hundred thousand per independence protesters hit the streets of the scottish capital on saturday demanding a fresh vote demonstrators called on leaders to set a date for a new referendum laughter the previous vote narrowly passed this day part of the u.k. for jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign told us the momentum is now with those who want to split from london polls are mean very close and probably are on the fifty fifty mark however clearly the momentum is with those who support independence and the huge demonstrations but hundred fifty thousand people who took part shows what caned of activists be 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 definite in them 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 jess this question they're not doing that they're not going to do that and therefore the pressure is going to build the scottish and the in the scottish question. right i mean candidate jaya ball scenario has taken the lead in the first round of brazil's presidential election with more than ninety nine percent of the votes now counted. but. the supporters gathered outside of both the norris house to celebrate the results however the front runner failed to secure the presidency outlines and short of the required fifty percent vote he will face off

with fernando head down to the left wing workers' party candidate at the end of october also in our hands frequently raised eyebrows to say his controversial question. for the old. job or the problem. with the story is no good to do so very start would you do you think go too far with your guns most now says what everybody wants to say the does not have the courage to say that's why i'm voting for. number damon who i believe what he says and he's an honest person he's proud to also. he's made it this far because he is not corrupt he's like family because he is ethical is our only hope. for some are as rough and tumble remarks have exposed in deepens divisions and brazilian society ahead of the election thousands protested his candidacy in cities across the country. well those are the headlines for this hour we'll be back in thirty minutes

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle washington's ambassador to nato threatens to take out russian missile.