many of them came to. an investigative documentary. ghost war on r.t. . breaking news on r.t. international saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing in istanbul more than two weeks ago died in a fight in the saudi consulate. the russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections through social media. funerals are held in crimea for some of the twenty eight people shot and killed by a student at a technical college of survivors recall that tragic day. yesterday the separation of the only. one. the bones of.

the bali. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with breaking news this hour saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing at two and a half weeks ago in turkey died in a fight inside the consulate in istanbul the saudi state prosecutor made a statement on state t.v. now it is the first time the saudis have admitted to. a saudi national and u.s. resident is dead earlier officials claimed that he left the consulate alive turkey has accused a saudi hit squad of murdering the reporter but riyadh denies that the latest statement from the saudis says an intelligence official was fired over the incident

and eight hundred saudi nationals have now been detained now jamal khashoggi wrote opinion pieces for the washington post he was known as an outspoken critic of the saudi monarchy and repeatedly accused the leadership of violating press freedom and human rights. turkey claims to have a recording proving that was murdered earlier president trump denied that his secretary of state might pump has been given that recording go takes a closer look at the case. a quick look at the calendar back here was when jim was last seen alive days passed and only that was the point when the us president had this response to the question is mr her dead it certainly looks that way to me it's very sad certainly but we're waiting for the results. about three different investigations and we should be able to get to the bottom

fairly soon but i have to be very severe have it. but we'll see what happens here we are that rather obvious one for many took sixteen days even though a crystal ball wasn't exactly needed to know something atrocious had likely happened to the journalist but what exactly he calls for arab nations to allow freedom of the press freedom for which he apparently died fighting a turkish official tells c.n.n. that his body was cut into pieces after his death whether the alleged killers dismembered body here and spread it around the country plenty of t.v. attention and speculation zero public comments from this man for two and a half weeks just for your information jeff bezos own the newspaper mr hashad you wrote for the washington post believe it or not he's had nothing to say on the

probable death of his employee for now maybe he just didn't want to there's been a suspicious silence from a number of important people who you'd usually expect to roar when a journalist goes missing for so long or not that's suspicious when the fingers are being pointed at someone as special as those in charge of saudi arabia so those who do speak out sound rather well hear for yourself i just want to cool. the temper of those who screaming for the saudis look these people or allies there's clearly a downside here there's clearly an upside and i thought it was worth investing a little hope in the upside don't think on this issue that we've had to pull sanctions i just think in some of them the arms deal with everybody all of the pieces of this one quarter of the one hundred ninety billion dollars is huge and it

will make a lot of little below a lot of money coming to our coffers let's leave america where he lived and worked side for a bit but you must have a few strong words on journalist abuse or a likely murder our position. on this matter but you seem to the saudis are still closer to the space system so you can see this you accuse your freedom. that's it but bear in mind that some big leaders haven't said a thing and a mystery it seems riyadh would have to be renamed to let's say moscow to really turn into one big evil attention grabber with donald trump saying i have to be very severe i mean it's bad. but we'll see what happens tide could have

turned but just for contrast think of all the cases when russia has had a telling off for whatever's wrong with the world the rebuke comes momentarily did someone say two and a half weeks. u.s. justice department has filed a criminal charges against a russian national for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections russian embassy in washington says the claims are unfounded are to scale up and has more the u.s. department of justice has indicted a woman whose forty four year. as old accountant living in st petersburg now she is the first person to be indicted and it is alleged that she was meddling in the upcoming midterm congressional elections in the united states she's being charged by the u.s. department of justice with conspiracy to defraud the united states it's alleged that she had millions of dollars invested into social media activity that was intended to quote so division and discord in the u.s.

political system in july we heard from christopher ray he's the director of the f.b.i. and he says that no evidence of such a plot by russia actually had been discovered so far we haven't yet seen an effort to target specific election infrastructure at this point it's not alleged that any voting machines were targeted it's not alleged any voter registration records or any election infrastructure was in any way targeted now this comes in the aftermath of twitter releasing a collection of tweets it says came from russian trolls and quite a large number of tweets and the report itself actually admits that these tweets their influence was rather negligible they really didn't have much of an impact on the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen strangely enough you know these tweets are not only directed against hillary clinton but also directed against donald trump and in fact they were more effective when they were targeting trump so the allegation that there was some sort of russian conspiracy to get donald trump in the white house

doesn't exactly add up if that were the case why would these russian bots and trolls be working to hurt donald trump rather than help him and why would they be working for the benefit of hillary clinton the other point it's raised is it's alleged that these these tweets are associated with the internet research agency which is connected to a businessman who said to be connected to vladimir putin the russian president also alleged that this woman in question works with this businessman and he is connected with latimer putin it's quite a stretch it's not clearly a stab. just how the russian government is responsible for the activities of a private company the questions still remain they're alleging that she is friends with this man who owns the internet research agency and then he is friends with the russian president it's kind of a long chain of separation that they're making it's also important to note that we've heard donald trump speak up and dollars trump says the woman in question has absolutely nothing to do with his campaign she has been named in previous

indictments from the u.s. department of justice in the bob muller investigation regarding the twenty sixteen election she was named however at this point we're now seeing her named and charged in connection to alleged meddling in the twenty eight thousand elections which have not yet taken place which are coming up in november daniel mcadams executive director of the wrong paul peace institute institute for peace and prosperity believes the case raises worrying implications for freedom of speach. we don't have freedom of speech to talk about that whether we have freedom of speech to talk about very difficult issues i thought that's what a democracy that's what a free debate of ideas was about is it illegal for a russian to comment or to take out an ad or to discuss issues in american society is it illegal for other people to even write or comment about internal american affairs it's it strikes me as an absolutely bizarre almost a stall in this to view of the world that no one outside no private citizen outside

is allowed to comment on american internal topics it's some kind of insane mentality the heart of ocracy is so weak that even bringing up these issues can undermine the faith and democracy then our problem is a lot more serious than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads. three days of mourning are being held in crimea for the victims of wednesday's college massacre a student killed twenty people before turning the gun on himself now our senior correspondent does you have is in the city of carriage where a public ceremony for the victims has been held. thousands and thousands of locals of tunde up for this ceremony a final chance to say goodbye farewell to all those whose lives were cut short in this horrific massacre and just the stress most of the victims were teenagers aged sixteen to nineteen making their loss so much more acute so much more painful is

a lot of grief here people as well as top officials the governor to offer words of support to the families understand one bullet and felt so aggrieved so poorly that she needed medical attention a little earlier but the governor and others wish them strength to deal with this tragic loss nevertheless hoops and prayers here with those still in hospitals many people fighting for their lives in critical condition on life support battling severe injuries as i reported earlier there was nothing spontaneous about this massacre it was cold calculated and pre-planned. for you. it was here on the thirteenth of october that vladislav surkov the suspected shooter

began to turn his platen for mass murder into reality here we should have means with you this is. the community game you probably you can actually. hear you but i hope and you play to put it on couldn't be on a beach with one hundred fifty shotgun shells were only for the second part of his atrocity. four days later he waited until his mother left this house dressed in black and carrying a bag of ammo of less. for college on the other side of town. first he detonated an improvised explosive device. to put up with a second on a substantial police the bomb filled as it was with lethal shrapnel was set and treated in the cafeteria on the full us through exactly at lunchtime when it

would be packed with faculty and students. these was no crime of passion this was planned with cold calculation given the efforts needed to learn how to and to actually build a bomb with a time a detonator the aim was clear to kill and maim as many as possible as quickly as possible in the ensuing chaos. as panic and confusion took hold the gunman began his killing spree he started on the second floor making his way downstairs to the devastated cafeteria killing anyone he met stuff with students. right few. more shots more victims she was unit but it could e.q.

. the symbol of them you know but little do tend to build but they're most of them teenagers they try to run to hide they did desperate things. to mind as i knew. the mushy i didn't know you. had to say i'll go to someone and i get his rampage last the just fifteen minutes before he killed himself in the library on the second floor fifteen minutes but his victims are in the hundreds for every child. left dead the family was torn apart everything killed generations of graduates their start their friends their teachers and countryman all shocked and. since the early hours of the morning they've come here bringing more and more and more flowers candles

toys she is mourning a loss of tragedy that they can scarce comprehend what's worse a tragedy apparently without cause or reason. i want to go back to our breaking news story this hour a saudi arabia claims that very journalist who went missing in two and a half weeks ago in turkey died in a fight inside the consulate in istanbul it is the first time the saudis have admitted jamal khashoggi a saudi national and u.s. resident is actually dead we can now cross the live to our correspondent cohen in washington d.c. for stand thanks for being with us. can you go and just bring us up to date. yeah well so tonight the saudi government has announced it acknowledged that journalist john mohawk shoji the saudi national was killed and he was killed there saying while visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul they say he died during

a fistfight this is a very different narrative than we've heard from turkish officials and the international press which according to the turkish officials they said he died in basically a hit job saying that a fifteen member team from saudi arabia brought him in into the consulate and murdered him and dismembered his body and took his body parts out so this is a very different narrative from the saudi foreign ministry they are saying that there is an initial investigation from the government's general prosecutor that found that hush o.-g. was in discussions with people inside the consulate when a fight broke out and hush o.-g. was then killed the saudi government is saying that it's fired five top officials and has arrested eighteen other saudis as a result of the initial investigation those fired officials include crown prince

mohammed bin sultan mon's advisor saudi al kut tani and deputy intelligence chief major general ahmed awa siri so this is the first time the saudi officials have acknowledged that showed he was killed while he was inside the consulate on october second it's a case that has brought unprecedented scrutiny to the trumpet ministration here in washington and its relationship with saudi arabia. the turkish investigators concluded days ago that showed g. who writes for the washington post was killed and dismembered by the team dispatched to istanbul they've also claimed that there was audio and video recordings of. of the murder but they have not yet produced it even though the trumpet ministration has asked for them to do so so there is nothing confirmed until tonight what we have just learned from the saudis the

disappearance of the shoji has been has provoked major criticism of specifically crown prince mohammed bin some man who is in line to take the throne there's been major international pressure on the kingdom to explain what exactly happened to her and this comes here in washington it is late friday night so you know the timing is very interesting president trump has said this was a likely dead and warned saudi arabia that there would be very severe measures but he has also said that he doesn't want this this killing or death to interfere with arms deals with saudi arabia worth one hundred ten billion dollars so that is that is the latest jamal khashoggi is dead according to saudi arabia and we'll continue to follow the updates it's

a major breaking story that has been completely different than what we've heard from the turkish turkish press and turkish intelligence with which continues to leak gruesome details and you know create a massive international campaign we've seen protests outside of the white house here in washington d.c. against the trump administration's relationship with saudi arabia so it continues to develop all right arches down coal and we know that as a story develops you'll stay across it for us thanks for being with us here on our two international. all right you're watching our international we'll have more news after the break stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

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loved. or welcome back this is r.t. international now a former long serving f.b.i. agent who worked in the u.s. state of minnesota has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to media parties daniel hawkins picks up story corps. a veteran of the agency an impeccable service record three years from retirement now charged tried and found guilty for whistle blowing the only black asian to the f.b.i.'s minneapolis field office it's a real worry grew uneasy over his seventeen year career he says he saw discrimination racial profiling rule bending and abuse of power by the agency he felt the public needed to know i truly wanted to make a difference and never. tended to put a new one in danger the f.b.i. and court saw things differently tried under the espionage act he was branded

a traitor who put national security at risk he isn't the first whistleblower to face the wrath of author or tease edward snowden chelsea manning are two of the best known in recent years but this case was slightly different terry allbery was charged with the leak of just two documents to the media and retaining another focusing on methods used by the f.b.i. supporters claim the only damage caused was not to national security but the egos of all thora t's the u.s. attorney general has made things clear amongst the crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers the risk of exposing perceived wrongdoing and injustice is higher than ever we are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in department history crimes like the one committed by the defendant in this case will not be tolerated they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and punished and it seems for now whatever the motive alleged racism or spying law

breaking or corruption whistleblowers call bori will face the tough choice of trusting their conscience or risking everything. else live now to a column caravello who is a an associate professor of political science at bluefield state college in west virginia thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so the whistleblower has been sentenced to four years in prison do you think that this sentence is appropriate given the crimes that he's pleaded to. mr thomas when one. one. he have to carry these burdens to the point where they feel that it's no longer able to care. them. one takes on a job assuming that it is

a legitimate job that the principals are acting legally and within the spirit of the wall after seventeen years of doing. number one he is the sole african-american agent in minneapolis in a country that has. at least thirty percent african-americans now why is it. so wide century why doesn't. more havoc an american agent this is a silly thing that happens in universities and certain cooperation and states. in the upper classes the upper middle classes especially only whites. to advance african-americans of black to seventeen years be a loyal american thinking that this was a legitimate government agency the f.b.i.

the law enforcement investigators in the united states what is most of all very fun he finds that it is a visual is a period or acting with racist motives that they're using race and religion to target particular individuals and so he has to make the decision is he going to expose this or is he going to remain silent just seventeen years he decided to expose what you know now he has to take the ability for doing you brought up a good point about the racial divide in united states and the documents leaked by terry allbery revealed the agency's use of racial and religious profiling and the techniques to infiltrate activist groups and spy on journalists even do you think that he is paying the price he has pleaded guilty to these charges and will be serving time could these revelations actually force the f.b.i. to reform its practices. well there's always that

possibility but it's highly unlikely because the division along racial lines in the united states is one of the necessary. for the capital social economic structure the united states to exist so if you're going to get rid of racism entirely that means you're going to get rid of the existing social economic system in the united states and that's not what i please so what happened is that the f.b.i. will become more sophisticated at how it uses the racism. but what is happening with mr allbery with the trump administration is trying to do this in a chilling effect through the entire. throughout the entire federal bureaucracy that if you leak you are going to go to prison and you've got to go to prison for

a very long time. all right collen cattle associate professor of political science at bluefield state college in west virginia always a pleasure to have you sir thanks for being on mark international. by watching our two international will be back with more news there with. her mum. just. plain. dumb luck.

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follow in welcoming. considered peter lavelle the gruesome plot thickens there are reports the saudis now will admit died in their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of an intentional murder nonetheless declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for.