just. headline stories this hour with the u.s. saying it's dropping nuclear arms treaty with russia president hawkish national security advisor john bolton is in moscow for talks. toil and trouble. which is performing hexing ritual and supreme court judge the event is met with protesters. in the u.k. to protest fracking the british government is pressing ahead with the controversial gas extraction process after a seven year suspension. doing something the people and the reason why is

because. in u.k. government i may have financial interests. here in moscow monday october the twenty second hope you're having a good day wherever you're tuning in from i mean the no neil our top story dull trumps national security adviser john bolton in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister the visit comes after president trump announced he was taking the u.s. nuclear arms treaty with russia while also involving to develop new weapons tensions been growing between moscow and washington over the past for some time. the arms race just getting out of control when we did not snip 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 were moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure their capabilities were mean i'm sure we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have told you before american time is next the agreement will give an immediate and reciprocal response. while europe has been quick to raise the alarm with germany's foreign minister stating that would droll undermines 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. well the treaty was signed back in one thousand

nine hundred eighty seven between that and soviet union on the united states under the agreement all made range nuclear and conventional missiles were eliminated apart from those so. this is how you sort out a major nuclear crisis and make the world a bit more of a safer place ninety eighty seven the u.s. and soviet leaders got together and band 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 violated to get 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 and inevitable arms race the us missile shield started operating in romania twenty six staying some elements were also deployed in poland before long russia's western borders were pretty much taken care of moscow began to respond by modernizing its weapons to match the belittling of the humans and the position of such weapons provides major advantages and wolfen to phenomenal speed make them on still people from missile and defense 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 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 that and find other ways to get along better that don't involve voluntarily you know

eliminating classes of weapons. well since president trump has been in power it appears withdrawing from london 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 thanks lima to court with the growth with the draw with the draw this is just the latest in the trees that the president united states has been withdrawing from it's hard to say whether or not president trump has some longer range negotiating strategy or this is just his lead us also this is really difficult to predict with this president. graveyard soil coffin nails on some revenge oil that's what a coven of witches in new york used to place

a hex on us supreme court justice breath kavanaugh this past weekend he was recently appointed to the lifetime position after facing sexual misconduct allegations well the event was met with protesters condemning the sorcery while a catholic priest on exorcise the tempted to conjure the dark magic by saying a mosque killed my pen for a while on was spellbound. so we're here in brooklyn where a group of pagan witches have gathered to place a hex on the newly confirmed supreme court justice brett kavanaugh now in the statement for the event ascension 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 at this occult bookstore 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 wiccan 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 kavanaugh do you think the ceremony tonight will actually impact brett kavanaugh no one night but it will make everybody feel like they have accomplished something and you know people need to feel like they've accomplished something possibly could backfire and help brett kavanaugh so easily yes i mean he. trump three times three now it's so tempting to be doing a little pretty well for guys but heck sometimes i'm hopeful is i i don't i don't want 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 actually view 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 will brett kavanaugh us

ten year 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 it means absolutely nothing 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 another story we're closely following today on t. fracking advocates in northwest england being demonstrating on a science with a controversial gas extraction method is set to resume today monday after a seven year nationwide. the sign in lancashire is the first to be given the green light to restart operations that were suspended twenty besides environmental campaigners have warned of a dangerous thing to earthquakes believed to be caused by be drilling process involved

in fracking last year a number of activists were arrested during a peaceful demonstration we spoke to one of them. i spent three weeks in prison for cracking protests we managed to shut down operations at this cracking site every day of the month for a whole month of july last year it took me 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 that was delivering truck you meant i stayed on that nori for eighty four hours three now face that we stopped a convoy of seven 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 fracking industry. yeah who you just heard from there richard roberts he's one of three come painters charged last september with public nuisance offenses he was sentenced to sixteen months in jail

for blocking access to a fracking site now the three of those people they were the first environmental activists to be jailed in the u.k. in over eighty five years an appeals judge slammed the ruling as excessive and extraordinary and replace the prison terms with conditional discharges. another aspect to this story the judge behind the original sentencing could also be facing disciplinary action a recent revelation shows he may have a close connection to the energy industry several members of his family reportedly work for an oil gas but he has prompted calls for the u.k. just the secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again sais the energy lobby goes well beyond this one case this state. is clearly facing an industry that nobody wants. on communities around the u.k. every finding out the case and it was protests every local council around this

country was rejected sometimes you not 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. returned the station employees industry and that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeking into the pole they were waving out their window the south saying keep it up may stay up people stay out there for as long as you can they ride with fifty x. all current oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests it's got snow be they want this. right let's turn our attention to india where hindu worshipers in the side of the country are defining a court order to allow women into a major shrine on sunday a group of women tried to enter a temple in courage but were blocked by crowds of 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 stretching will be tolerated i mean you know. she's fashionable cobb says i'm not a devotee i'm just here to do my job just let me go then she faces stone and that's when she is forced to return back.

to support somebody. and give a little bit of that's going to we don't look at the sector that's my sister. the latest twist in the case of journalist jamal khashoggi coming up saudi arabia finally admitted he was murdered during a visit to its consulate in istanbul we've got that and plenty more besides coming up in ninety seconds flat.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic to follow only loosely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

just approaching eighty minutes into the program welcome back in another extraordinary development in the case of slain journalist jamal khashoggi so do you rebias foreign minister sees the art spoken columnist was murdered by a rogue operation of its consulate in istanbul adding it was a tremendous mistake and you 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 let's timeline things a little bit here 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 october the saudi response came after weeks of denials on mounting international pressure the saudi king and crown prince mohammed bin cell man have both phoned. to express their condolences while just yesterday the turkish president voted to reveal 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. also the u.k. france germany have issued a joint statement condemning the killing calling for a probe well the german chancellor is also among those urging further action to be taken against. firstly we are outraged by this case we made it clear yesterday secondly there is no need for details and those

responsible are still not being held accountable thirdly i agree with all those who say that experts 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 him i would cut off arms sales of 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 it in the strongest terms germany's wants to suspend the arms sales even voices inside the u.s. president only republican party are calling for sanctions and not buying what the saudis are selling. now with the u.s. midterm elections near our time and the state of texas has found itself at the

political epicenter of the crucial poll examining how encouraging voters has landed the state's democratic party in hot water. 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 as the clear fire of 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 means that 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 received 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 one of 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. thousands of mostly hung jury in migraine sufferers zoomed their journey through mexico there hoping to reach the u.s. border the spy vocal opposition from donald trump the president's house threaten to halt aid to honduras unquote. close the u.s. border with mexico if the march is not stopped the refugees arrived on mexico's

southern border on friday they say they're fleeing poverty and violence in their central american countries mexican authorities allowed dozens of women and children to enter the country however many migrants costs the border illegally. former u.s. secretary of state colin powell is chief of stuff is the guest on today sophie and co he's got some interesting thoughts on america under rons future relations you're watching art. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine.

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welcome to sophie and kill him sophie shevardnadze there seems to be no end to american involvement in the middle east. but as washington is still as powerful a player there as it wants to be today i talked to colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. white house just taking a tough stance on iraq is powerful advisors are threatening drastic american action against iran but with american troops spread across the world local powers coming together to decide the fate of their region can washington hope to continue

dictating the future of the middle east will the militant posturing of the white house lead to any real trouble and can it handle yet another unpredictable conflict . colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell welcome to the show it's great to have you with us again so lately all the important buildings in syria are being decided on car out moscow and tehran then yes which u.s. which once. was keen to intervene but mostly just watching the show right now is the current white house more conscious than the previous one or just less powerful i think both white houses obama's and trumps have been with regard to syria in particular cautious i think they're still being cautious in the trumpet ministration but i would remind you that there are some twelve installations of.