president hawkish national security advisor john bolton in moscow as the u.s. say it's dropping a landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia. also toil and trouble a spell ball in ny did new york as a coven of witches perform a hexing ritual on supreme court judge brett kavanaugh the event is met with protesters condemning the black magic. and hundreds rally in the u.k. to protest rocking the british government press as a head with the controversial gastric struction process softer a seven year suspension. the state's really doing something that people don't want

and the reason why is because there are fifty six all currently oil and gas executives when you take up i may have financial interests. in mexico city two pm in hanoi ten in the morning here in moscow this monday october twenty second a warm welcome to r.t. international our top story donald trump national security advisor john bolton's in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister the visit comes after president trump announced he was taking the u.s. odds of a nuclear arms treaty with russia while also vowing to develop new weapons tension has been growing between moscow and washington over the past for some time. the arms race is getting out of control when we did not initiate this turn of events as

you know it was not we just pulled out of the antiballistic missile treaty with the good because we only respond to the threats that confronted us we're moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure their capabilities or may not find a match we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have it would usually lead to for american targets x. the agreement will give an immediate and reciprocal response. could be expected loss reaction including from europe who's been quick to raise the alarm in brussels germany also their foreign minister stating the withdrawal on their minds european security. the announcement by the us that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.m.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 us to consider the possible consequences. you know we have to go back three decades to

when the treaty was signed in one thousand nine hundred seven between the then soviet union and the united states under the agreement all mid-range nuclear. missiles were eliminated apart from those launched from this see here so we reached this point. this is how you sort out a major nuclear crisis and make the world a bit more of a safer place and ninety seven the u.s. and soviet leaders got together and banned ground launched intermediate range ballistic missiles and this is an example of how leaders can perhaps make the world more dangerous russia has violated the agreement they've been violating it for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. and we're

not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stated in the agreement and we bonded to agreement but russia has not fortunately honored the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're going to pull out while donald trump does have someone to learn from i have concluded the a.b.m. treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways. to protect our people from future terrorists or rogue state missile attacks the united states of america. is withdrawing from this almost thirty year old treaty. at the turn of the century george w. bush pulled out of a nine hundred seventy two pact designed to put the brakes on both countries from constantly outdoing each other's nuclear forces freed from the shackles of the treaty washington announced the deployment of a missile defense system in europe and there's no better symbol of our desire to

work for peace and security than working on a missile defense system a missile defense system that would provide. security for europe for russia having new nukes right on its doorstep posed a new security threat plans to expand certain elements of the missile defense system to europe cannot help but disturb us who needs the next step would be in this case inevitable arms race the us missile shield started operating in romania twenty six staying some elements were also deployed in poland for a long russia's western borders were pretty much taken care of moscow began to respond by modernizing its weapons to match and then you became the possession of such weapons provides major advantages and wolfen to phenomenal speed make them on stilts people from missile and head systems washington wasn't happy at all

russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations ickes ations came in one after another the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning adverse reason and in the west in particular not to mess with russia computer graphics of missiles flying over mountains and heading over ocean. and he says he's not bluffing and so we got to the point when another nuclear safeguard that the dust is the world now up for another arms race it might well be a question of when not if the security architecture of the european. writ large space is a very important thing and the problem is that security architecture is broken 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 we don't need this class of weapons 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 since president trump has been in power it appears withdrawing from landmark agreements has been one of his priorities. i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the transpacific partnership from the paris. climate court with rolf with the draw with the draw this is just the latest the treaties that the president united states has been withdrawing from it's hard to say whether or not. president trump has some longer range to go shooting strategy or this is just is latest food also this is really difficult to predict with this president. griff your coffin nails on some

revenge oil that's what a cold one of which is a new york used to place a hex on us supreme court justice brett kavanaugh this past weekend he was recently appointed of course to the lifetime position after facing sexual misconduct allegations well the event itself was met with protesters condemning the sorcery ball a catholic priest an exorcist attempted to come to the dark magic by saying a mosque for one was spellbound. so we're here in brooklyn where a group of pagan witches have gathered to place a hacks on the newly confirmed supreme court justice brett kavanaugh now in the statements for the event essentially they said that black magic is a mechanism for exacting justice by women who have been wronged by men just like

him now the ceremony is taking place it is a cult story behind me. now here in liberal brooklyn witchcraft wicca might just be considered be another hobby or fascination but in some parts of the country it's no laughing matter there are schools around the country where the harry potter books are forbidden from the. school library because christian parents are offended by the witchcraft content and there's been cases where satanists and we can practitioners have gone to court demanding their religious freedom needless to say tonight ceremony did not sit well with a number of trump supporters it is a scary time right now i mean there's a list of things going on now you've got witches that are placing a head on brett kavanaugh now a catholic priest who's been trained in rome as a bonafide exorcist says he will be conducting a mass to protect brett kavanaugh from the witches he says that witchcraft is not a matter of free speech conjuring up personified evil does not fall under free

speech satanic cults often commit crimes they murder and sexually abuse everyone in their cult we decided to talk to some of the people attending the ceremony or gathered outside the bookstore and see how they feel about cursing kavanagh do you think the ceremony tonight will actually impact brett kavanaugh you know a one night but it will make everybody feel like they've accomplished something and you know people need to feel like they've accomplished something possibly could backfire and help brett kavanaugh he's a leader so yes i mean they've had trouble three times three now it's so tempting to be doing the little pretty well for guys but heck sometimes i'm hopeless i i don't i don't want him to die it is why i'm so i be paralyzed the rest of his life so we can talk or something so you're coming out to counter the the witch ceremony it's not an act countering is sincere in the love of god so we just want to say instead of like curses we want to achieve these blessings and we want to show to love of god because we're not about hate because that's what that's about we're

showing that we're actually about love i encourage everyone to also go out and register to vote magic is one thing but you know. the polls are another so we'll brett kavanaugh us ten you're on the u.s. supreme court be impacted by tonight's ceremony or is he going to be protected by that catholic mass conducted by an exorcist or is this all just a bunch of silly superstition that means absolutely no. thing well like with most spiritual matters there's no way to be absolutely sure but what we can be sure of is that americans are increasingly becoming divided caleb mop and r.t. new york. until trucking advocates in northwest england have been demonstrating at a sign two of the controversial six trucks in method is set to resume on monday after a seven year nationwide. son in lancashire is the first to be given the green light to restart operations that

were suspended in twenty. environmental costs campaigners have warned of a dangerous lead to earthquakes to be caused by the drilling process involved in fighting last year a number of activists were arrested during a peaceful demonstration we spoke to one. spent three weeks in prison for cracking protests we managed to shut down operations this cracking site every day of the month for a whole month of july last year it may take them over a year to take me to call. for the action i did i did a piece production i climbed on top of a lorry that was it was delivering meant i stayed up all night nori for eighty four hours three and a half days ago that we stopped a convoy of seven the reason carrying the main training supports for the drilling rig it was a deterrent sentence and they were hoping that by putting activists in prison they would. direct action protests against the french industry but richard roberts is

one of three campaigners charged last september with public nuisance offenses he was sentenced to sixteen months in jail for blocking access to a fracking site now the trio where they first environmental activists to being jailed in the cane almost ninety years on appeal judged the ruling as excessive and extraordinary and replace the prison terms with conditional discharges. well the judge behind the original sentencing may also be facing disciplinary action because a recent revelation shows he could have a close connection to the energy industry several members of his family reportedly work for an oil and gas corporation that's prompted calls for the u.k. justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again sees the energy lobby goes well beyond this one case this. is clearly

an industry that nobody wants. communities around the u.k. every finding out the case and it was protests every local council around this country was rejected sometimes you know in the city but always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and yet west says i've returned to the station employees in the street and that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeping in suppose they were waving out there when they sow to keep it up may stay up people stay out there for as long as you can there are just fifty x. all current oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests and got snow be the one. to worshippers in southern india are defying a court order to allow women into a major shrine on sunday a group of women tried to enter a temple encouraged but were blocked by religious conservatives in the midst of the

chaos there's been a five day long prayer ritual at the site. i . as long as the temple is here we have to follow this tradition. so we'll ensure that anybody who wants to go to the people will go without any obstruction nor struction will be tolerated i mean. just bashing the says i'm not a devotee i'm just here to do my job just let me go she faces stone and that's when

she's forced to return back. and. this is. just going there without. the sponsors. the latest developments on the case of journalist jamal khashoggi next saudi arabia finally admitted died during a visit to a consulate in istanbul some extraordinary claims being made we've got the details in ninety seconds.

it's seemed wrong. but i will just. let me. get to stamp out this thing because that's ok and it gains from it because the trail. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i did the war planning for the principal force provider command in the united states military for four years i've worked on this region for years i do not understand this saudi arabia is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world still today and yet we call here on that we lie when we say that we outright blatantly lie when we say that and moreover we know we're lucky.

eighteen minutes into the program welcome back in another extraordinary development in the case of slain journalist jim. saudi arabia's foreign minister say the outspoken columnist was murdered by a rogue operation its consulate in istanbul it was a tremendous mistake he also said they did not know the whereabouts of these remains. pujols who did this to the scope of their authority there obviously was a tremendous mistake made and what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover up that is unacceptable in the government these things unfortunately happen

we want to make sure that those who are responsible are punished or careless timeline things a little bit on friday riyadh finally admitted that the journalist died in a fistfight inside the consulate he was last seen there alive on the second of this month the saudi response came after weeks of denials and mounting international pressure the saudi king and crown prince mohammed bin both. to express their condolences on sunday the turkish president then vowed to reveal all the truth behind the killing. 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. well the u.k. france germany have issued a joint statement condemning the death calling for a probe the german chancellor is also among those urging further action against ria . firstly we are outraged by this

case we made it clear yesterday secondly there is a need for details and those responsible are still not being held accountable thirdly i agree with all those who say that arms exports which are already limited must not take place in the current circumstances and fourthly further reactions should be internationally coordinated i feel certain that the crown prince was involved in it he directed it and that's why i think we cannot continue to have relations with. the arms sales or the only thing the saudis will listen to find it very surprising that somebody six thousand miles away can be certain about an event that happened six thousand miles away with no access to information or intelligence with this is a judgment call on the part of senator. this is not based in fact we see comments coming out of germany france and britain condemning in the strongest terms germany's want to suspend arms sales even voices inside the u.s. president all republican party are calling for sanctions and not buying what the saudis are selling. now with the u.s.

midterm elections near their state of texas has find itself at the political coal face once again talking us through courage and voters as a lot of the state's democratic party in hot water here. never before have the u.s. midterm elections gotten so much attention and they're now just weeks away this november election is more important than any midterm in our lifetime they have to know that going out for the midterms is very important almost like going out for the twenty twenty election that's coming up we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. such hype in the states is usually only reserved for presidential elections or black friday maybe but this time around we're seeing politicians grappling over every last voter and the great state of texas is no exception texas is traditionally a staunch republican state but this year the democrats are stepping up efforts to paint it blue our mission of the texas democratic party is clear fire up the base

permanent infrastructure and of course when elections that means aggressive communications and smart messaging their aggressive communication includes an extensive line of mirch attack me gifts and the occasional puppy genius until now the texas democratic party are being accused of encouraging under age and now in u.s. citizens to vote after they sent out forms with the boxes saying i'm over eighteen an american pretext for voter convenience and the governor of texas is calling this a big deal this is being investigated if true there will be serious consequences but those serious consequences likely won't fall in the party but those who receive their letters democrats say every mailing had a warning explaining that voting requirements must be met aka you must be a u.s. citizen but was the last time you actually read all of the terms of agreement in fine print most would say never you just click agree and hope you didn't just sign away your firstborn so it's no wonder people got confused and phones have been

ringing off the hook sense the spokesman for the texas secretary of state said in the run up to that deadline they received a pretty large volume of code someone non-citizens who are wondering whether them a woman that had been some change and they were now in fact able to vote and what about those who didn't bother to check in with the authorities and just decided to wing it well they could find themselves in a whole world of trouble. the texas democrat party unintentionally or otherwise is offering voter registration to non citizens without some form of official intervention confused known citizens rather than the texas dems who end up paying the consequences of this not generally speaking in the election form you're required to check a box and to sign your name if you do both of these things you have committed fraud and you're prosecutable and certainly subject to expulsion from the united states not being a citizen there is

a suspicion you know that many people voted legally because we have a very easy and lax voting laws in this country and we have so many non-citizens living here people who are otherwise you know which will to vote. we believe many of these people do vote because they have a deep seated interest for years the republican party has required or would like to see a requirement of people signing and applying a signature or having some some kind of i.d. to prove who they are so that it marries against registration every country in the world does this and the democrats fight it tooth and nail because. they feel that that this sort of activity will drive down their vote. i thought our stories like this monday morning here in moscow but next on the program the sec doing the claims on flip flop remarks from saudi over the death of a dissident journalist in their turkish consulate it's crosstalk you're watching martin and you're.

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make this manufacture consent to step into the public wealth. when the right wing plus is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. you know middle of the room sick. room. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is

building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one in one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle its official now jim died in the saudi consulate in turkey on october second the person

or persons responsible for his death is yet to be determined but one thing is certain this tragic story is far from over. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark marks he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have to he's a political analyst with make international and we have these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia. in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it glenn in the future we're going to do a review of your book but we're going to stick with this story here mark who are the winners who are the losers here and where do you think this is going to go.