for just twelve euros fifty per month. not to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate the great britain we're going to pull out. president trump threatens to pull out of a nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the pact while moscow says should washington withdraw it would be a major blow to global security. and to the stories that shaped the week grieving friends and relatives of their final goodbyes to the twenty think times of the polish shooting and bomb attack in crimea one of the worst such a must because history. plus saudi arabia finally admits that missing

journalist jamal khashoggi died in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul after almost three weeks of denying any involvement. it's the week to hear a lot international with me in india today this is all round up of our top stories from the last seven days on the latest up to date news welcome to the program. and first one from today with a number of new developments germany's foreign minister has hit out at donald trump's latest announcement that the u.s. is threatening to ditch a decade's old nuclear pact requiring washington and moscow to eliminate their short and medium range atomic missiles. the announcement by the u.s. that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been an important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on the u.s.

to consider the possible consequences russia's responded to trying to statement warning that such moves could lead to retaliate three measures. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by using blackmail especially over an issue that has value for both international and nuclear arms security as well as for maintaining world stability. the united states move will be discussed in moscow on monday when u.s. national security advisor john bolton will meet with russia's foreign minister according to reports bolton has already arrived in the russian capital for them it putin spokes person dimitri peskov says moscow will demand an explanation over the threat to pull out of the missile pact earlier. discussed with cover know what america's withdrawal with mean for the world. mr bolton isn't the only critic of the deal america's doing it right and russia is not living up to the end of the

bargain that's how christ and donald trump mr bolton's boss explained why he's saying so-called i.m.f. treaty russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate. we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear that one set of state in the agreement and we bonded over it but russia is not fortunately to the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're going to pull out although donald trump didn't specify what exactly russia was violating but in the previous years washington blamed russia for deploying what they called an illegal type of cruise missile and then general their attempts to upgrade its nuclear arsenal now going back to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty it was signed some thirty years ago and kevin that was the end of the cold war so

that's why this particular agreement is closely associated with the relief everyone around the planet had when these things were happening and it pretty much outlawed nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges between five hundred kilometers and five thousand five hundred kilometers now this is why how much it's vital for the international community cannot be underestimated so it would seem to be a must have thirty years ago was changed today should there will be worried now this thing looks like it's being scrapped kevin the concern is obvious a potential new round of the arms race if you don't think that's serious enough donald trump was already hinting that he's ready to kick start the production of such missiles something else that you might be worried about is the language that both sides have been using. when talking about this the arms race just getting out of control when we did not finish this turn of events as you know it was not we

just pulled out of the antiballistic missile treaty russia has developed been developing a stabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations and what we've got to be sure we respond to the threats that confronted us we're moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure their capabilities were mean and we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. for american in the next. we will give an immediate and reciprocal response. well donald trump isn't really a stranger to saying no to these kind of international agreements you can remember the one climate change the nuclear deal but it's been widely thought that the reason donald trump is doing this in many cases this is just his own agenda or simply because these kind of arrangements were made by his predecessors so let's

take a look at some of the comments donald trump made before about other deals we bonded in the agreement but russia has not unfortunately did the agreement so we're going to terminate everybody we're going to pull out i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the transpacific partnership from the paris. climate accord with withdraw withdraw i am fighting every day for the great people of this country so as you were saying. to moscow tonight but all the important discussions with the senior russian officials are happening on monday. let's not bring in ted say a former u.s. diplomats and senior. policy consultant with the british american security information council ted thanks very much for coming on to the program to discuss this now both the u.s.

and russia they're accusing each other over the treaty is it right in your opinion just to get such a major pac's like this without any real attempt to keep it on track. well there was a mention before in one of the clips that you showed before we came on here that the security architecture of the european. writ large space is a very important thing and i couldn't agree more and neither could president trump the problem is that security architecture is broken nato is an anachronism it's a very heavily armed alliance against no one it's specifically not designed to be an alliance against the russian federation and if you put that to a vote around the table that nato they would deny that it is an alliance against the russian federation so why you might ask in the twenty first century is this heavily nuclear armed alliance in existence at all and the answer is because the various security institutions that make up the european security architecture in

this day and age are broken they don't work anymore they need a fundamental rethinking in this move by president trump i see something very similar to what he did with nafta when he basically just abrogated a three way trade treaty with mexico and canada and said we need to start over which he then did and he's recently concluded a successful replacement treaty with canada and mexico that he believes gives better advantages in trade to all three parties i see backing out of the i.n.f. treaty at this point not to be in response to anything the russian federation has done but rather to be to really look at security architecture and to bring in to the fold of intermediate range nuclear forces the people's republic of china which is conspicuously absent for the present i.n.f. treaty ted i mean yes to. you're looking at the security treaties and you know you've made a really good point that nevertheless that. has been in place between two all its

enemies oh most of the tensions are high between the two countries at the moment how safe is the will going to be if this is just dates without anything else being in place. well the whole point that president trump has in withdrawing from things is to find something better that works for everyone he's shown that you listed a couple of the examples where it may seem that he's just walked out of the iranian nuclear pact but what he's trying to do is force a better deal for everyone involved in the middle east and not to have incentives for people to cheat and build nuclear arms that would destabilize the whole region well again now after he's gone ahead negotiated a new agreement and it's going to be better off for all three parties involved i see president trump here looking to include a more global view of intermediate range nuclear forces because most nuclear missiles around the world these days are intermediate nuclear forces but the only two parties that are banned from having them are the russian federation and the

united states of america i see in president trump's move his intention to make a wider agreement on this class of weapons and i wouldn't see him backing off from from starting new negotiations very soon if he can make this point to the russian federation's government that this isn't antagonistic this isn't militaristic this is something and instead intended to benefit all of us we should not be in an antagonistic relationship with the russian federation either the u.s. or nato at this point in the twenty first century you can't blame the international community for looking at the way that trump has talked about this treaty and ditching it as i'm typing this to kenya because the rhetoric that he's used is slightly confrontational isn't it you can't you can't ignore all of that. no of course not but this is donald trump we're talking about this is someone who wakes up in the morning looking for ways to be unpresidential he's much less concerned

with form than he has with substance and many people find this disconcerting those of us in the us who have seen him successfully get two supreme court associate justices approved by the senate will recognize that he's not terribly interested in seeming conciliatory he's interested in getting what he needs what he believes needs to be done done and i see that same sort of trump is i'm at work here as it was with nafta as it was with trans-pacific trade as it is here now with intermediate nuclear forces ok so if we look at this treaty that is in place at the moment still is in place at the moment before it gets states. you know that they're all attention i said this early they're all tensions high tensions between between the two nations why is it not possible to retain this treaty while negotiations made to create a new one because that could take the is couldn't it. well it could do but it

didn't take him long to replace nafta took in fact a matter of a couple of months now i'm not saying it would be that easy to come to a medium range nuclear agreement that includes the people's republic of china but. the point about the us us nato if you will as an alliance on the one hand and the russian federation on the other because that's the parties involved with the intermediate nuclear forces treaty right now we're talking about europe writ large as a theater for this class of weapon it's not a global treaty at all so why don't we just do away with it and find other ways to get along better that don't involve voluntarily you know eliminating classes of weapons we don't need this class of weapons there shouldn't be a western front for russian security there shouldn't be an eastern front for european nato these things shouldn't exist at this point in the twenty first century i believe that that is president from starting point i think you're going to see some initiatives from him in the near future on the economic and military

fronts that will prove what i'm talking about he doesn't believe that we should be antagonists much less enemies but it's creating shockwave this isn't if you look at the position of europe you know that kind of stuck in in the middle come out and said she is worried about this well what in your opinion what do you think europe with ealing right now why are they unhappy about this and not an announcement. there on happy about everything the president trump does and he doesn't care and they know it and i think that there's a lot of leaders in europe it's bothered nato a couple of times recently what he's told them if they say they're going to spend two percent of their g.d.p. on defense then they should. probably spend two different percent of their g.d.p. on defense he's actually holding people to their commitments and he's wildly unpopular for that reason alone alone now i would take what the european leaders are saying about withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty with a very large grain of salt because among other things none of them is paying their

way defensively we're not talking about removing you know german arms we're not talking about the french stopping doing something that they have been doing militarily the fact is they've all been dependent on the us for their defense conventional and nuclear for a very long time so this is something that's properly and will be negotiated between two parties which is the united states of america one here in the russian federation on the other if nato wants to involve itself in that better make sure they're going to be constructive about it ok ted seafoam a u.s. diplomat and senior policy consultant with the british american security information council thank you so much for coming on to r.t. . thank you. and the latest development on the killing of the dissident journalist in istanbul riyadh's top diplomat has said he does not know any more about the circumstances or the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi body meanwhile turkey turns to have evidence pointing to an assassination and has vowed

to reveal some details on tuesday. what we are looking for justice here and this will be revealed in all its naked truth not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth. this comes after western leaders condemned and questioned the latest explanation from saudi arabia demanding more details previously denied any accusations or knowledge about the missing journalist traces back to how jamal khashoggi disappearance and killing played out. for two weeks we were told to have left the saudi consulate unharmed only accusations and reports in turkey said otherwise but increased international pressure and around the clock media coverage and riyadh change its narrative on friday saudi officials confirmed in part what the world already knew the journalist died on october the second and the consulate but the kingdom and namely the crown

prince are innocent in all of this riyadh says the death was accidental the result of a quarrel between cars and quote suspects that escalated to a fistfight now those suspects then apparently work to cover up the murder and dispose of the body eight hundred saudi nationals have been arrested including two high ranking members in the gulf states and of course the investigation continues now this version of events fits rather nicely with a prediction donald trump made days ago sounds to me like this is. and the explanation that those responsible acted without riyadh's knowledge or approval seems good enough for trump it's a very very serious i do do i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would happen his comments really shouldn't come as a surprise given the fact that trump has been extremely reluctant from the get go to squarely blame saudi arabia he also repeated a number of times that even if involvement was proven he wouldn't wish to sacrifice

the billions of dollars worth of weapons sales to punish them saudi arabia has been a great ally but i would prefer that we go to retribution canceling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of that order we got it and we got all of it every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on the military what the. things that create jobs like jobs there. for this country you heard the radio that some of these team will be pardoned fifteen people eighteen people will be punished by these saudi arabi i had made just to say but i'm sure the president would just pull out to the skies though for punishment and this kind of justice in the stand the president

except see it and that's the power of an loaf one hundred ten billion dollars one hundred ten billion dollars can buy any troops kinsale any lie as of yet no evidence has been released to support the saudi's version of events and much of the world isn't buying the new narrative it's god it doesn't we're talking about the terrible events in saudi arabia we're still nothing to be clarified and where of course we demand to know what happened. the emerging circumstances of his death a deeply troubling that for the european union like its partners insists on the need for continued thora credible and transparent investigation shutting proper clarity on the circumstance of the killing and ensuring full accountability of all those responsible for it the middle eastern actor of campaigns at amnesty international slammed the saudi story as untrustworthy all reporters without borders have called for constant and powerful pressure on riyadh to establish the truth and australia has now joined others and no longer attending an investment

summit set for later this month and saudi arabia saying it wouldn't be appropriate given the circumstances even some u.s. lawmakers are making their skepticism of the report known in dissonance with the president's stance i feel certain that the crown prince was involved and that he directed this and that's why i think we cannot continue to have relations with him would cut off arms sales as the only thing the saudis will listen to he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that and we've got to suspend military sales we have to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanctions on any of those that were directly involved in this murder possible that without the massive international pressure campaign we've seen over the past two weeks the saudis would have stuck to their original story now riyadh it will be hoping that it's an admission will be enough to appease the world and we all move on not sending a representative to the conference in saudi arabia is one thing it's symbolic it

sends a message but actually cutting off arms sales and actually imposing tough sanctions and cutting off regulations that takes it to a higher level and i don't think you're going to see that you know you'll see some sanctions against individuals from the united states but you're not going to see complete shutdown of relations with the saudis. or russian tragedy in the week just gone. stay brought horror to crimea in southern russia twenty people were killed and dozens more injured when a student at the college set off an explosive does a device and indiscriminately opened fire our senior correspondent has more on how the atrocity unfolded. it's a quiet place a small seaside town kind of place where the neighborhoods everyone knows everyone

it is one of the last places in the world where you would expect a school or college shooting. up. dressed in black and carrying a bag of ammo vladislav surkov the suspected shooter began to turn his plan for mass murder into reality. but the. first he detonated an improvised explosive device profit almost. of our style of. the little opinion vs a deception still clung. to live on the scene down one. down the beach a direction yeah presto bali but also on the bomb fields is a was with lethal shrapnel was set and treated in the cafeteria on the first floor

exactly at lunchtime when it would be packed with faculty and students to give them up and give the most healing that some may tell you both tell you so much. about he'll slip up in my school bought. me a couple of love bunches the it. soon enough become a seven the two of them the much older phone i did the sicilian. 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 they tried to run to hide they did desperate things find you only should he decide. to go to fiddle with a. good e.q. . in that chaos heroes when they come out.

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himself in the library on the second floor fifteen minutes but his victims are in the hundreds every child left dead a family was torn apart by every teacher killed generations of graduates left stunned friends they teaches neighbors and countryman all shocked and it. is a good question because it's a new an innocent person sentenced to prison for the. time. to. thank you mr. or. you know. the north. in which

you put. it. it's also fair to say that no amount of readiness in the world would prepare any sort of school for an explosion that size in the cafeteria or. through the corridor but even. confusion panic fear. set aside self-preservation in order to help risking life and leave. once again even in acts of. evil there is space for good. at the top of the hour with.

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the welcome to worlds apart situated between russia and china then the goal is the world's most landlocked country and yet according to my guest today this isn't a strategic weakness but rather a competitive advantage how has mongolia managed to overcome its geographical limitations and can if used this experience to punch above its weight in the geopolitical dream of to discuss that i'm now joined by them dean saul but tara uncle is minister of foreign affairs and this is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for the nutrition now we are recording this interview on the sidelines of the valdai forum and many of the discussions here today are about ukraine and how it's being sandwiched between russia and the west lead to a conflict mongolia also finds itself within two great powers russia and china and yes from what i understand it is a source of development rather than discord how do you explain that well. we're developing. balanced relationship with our neighbors and that's our priority.

with russia and china we have. strategic partnership and really it is a trust beast's confidence relationship the most important thing is really the fact that you give priority to this relationship you because your relationship on your strengths of course we're different countries that means we have differences it doesn't mean that we do not have differences but it's very important to menage those differences and to capitalize on your strengths but from what i understand it took a sometime to arrive at that perspective because you said in one of the interviews that before mongolian used to view its landmark status as an imitation what allows for that change of perspective and this new vision of being landlocked in having the access they see as something that you can actually gain from here you know.