from. with the u.s. planning to drop out from a landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia president trump talk if a national security advisor has just wrapped up several high level meetings with russian officials in moscow a live report coming up. dissident journalists. murdered in the kingdom. but as international pressure grows washington stopped short of repercussions saying any talk of sanctions is premature. and the british prime minister moves to convince parliament that progress is being made on break said while some m.p.'s condemn the intensified pressure being put on to reason may.

have every worldwide news twenty four seven this is r.t. international my name is col embrace now ten pm monday night here in moscow and it's developments here that we start with donald trump's national security advisor john bolton has in the past couple of hours wrapped up the first round of talks this monday on his visit to moscow arrived in the russian capital as president trump announced that he'll be taking the u.s. out of a nuclear arms treaty with russia while also vowing to develop new weapons under that pact this treaty was signed back in one hundred eighty seven between the then soviet union and the u.s. under that agreement all shortened mid range nuclear conventional missiles were eliminated apart from those launched from the sea bolton is set to meet with the russian president on tuesday let's get you up to speed on where we are now correspondent been following monday's talks hi there any details on what john bolton the russian foreign minister had to say to each other. has held the total of

about six. of them with the head of russia's security council in about an hour with the foreign minister himself as a result of these two john bolton has said that now the united states have a better understanding of russia's position. on this i.n.f. treaty and but world still needs wants a more detailed understanding of that he also stressed that apparently the united states does not have the like a solid position on this and they are said to continue our conversations and discussions about the validity of the street both with its european partners and with countries in asia and in fact the even discussed other versions of this treaty . and do this one of course is set to expire in two thousand and twenty one so probably bigger things are said to come tomorrow as you've said when john bolton meets with the russian president. the announcement by the u.s.

that is going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been an important pillar of our you're a go just ask a lot of countries have been swift to respond to trump's move on the treaty can you just take us through some of that. well indeed reactions have been pouring in from all over the world japan has said that the united states should stay in the agreement china has said that while any unilateral action on behalf of the united states will have a multilateral chain reaction but indeed the biggest concerns are the european allies as they see it as a pillar of their stability and this is something that former advisor to form a excuse me i have to say the former ambassador of the united states to russia michael mcfaul has said and his words what i called by the president of france a mineral mccrone who said that the un a treaty is key to european stability and he wasn't the only voice in this quiet about the announcement by the us that is 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 they believe that the u.s. and. russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. it to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of course is crucial for europe's and global security. so right now it looks like time will determine and conversations that the united states to have with its partners are said to determine whether washington will be indeed shooting its european allies in the need. more to come to moscow tomorrow for now though if you go to our friends very much for updating us. let's get reaction now from professor peter cousin who's director of the nuclear studies institute at american university in

washington d.c. welcome to r.t. international. both the united states and russia blame each other for breaching this pact and dusty as it may have been is it worth ripping it up though or is it something that just couldn't be refreshing for today's world. well it's a dangerous situation in the world is very very dangerous to begin with u.s. relations with russia and china are probably the worst they've been since the cuban missile crisis and the united states goes ahead and tears up the iran nuclear deal against the opposition of all of the european countries and russia and china and now it proceeds to say tom says we're going to withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty. the cornerstone of our international peace and stability has been downplaying defusing controlling the nuclear arms race you have to remember that back in the one nine hundred eighty s.

this was out of control we had the euro missile crisis the u.s. was putting. cruise missiles pursing missiles into europe the russians are putting s.s. twenty's in on their side this is a very dangerous situation when i go to the atomic bomb museum in hiroshima year after year i find myself writing down the same statistic that by one thousand nine hundred five the world had reached the equivalent of one point four seven million hiroshima bombs one point four seven million our species was insane at that point we were hell bent on annihilation and then we talk walk that one back reagan and gorbachev at reykjavik came very very close to eliminating nuclear weapons completely. reagan balked over the stupid strategic defense initiative and that was too bad gorbachev did everything he could to convince them and come to the fallback

position the second prize went to the i.n.f. treaty and the i.n.f. treaty eliminated entire category of nuclear weapons this was a major step forward you have to remember that at that point you had about when europe we had about six to ten minutes warning time if attack was reported with into the continental ballistic missiles at least we have a half hour so we can take a little bit more serious consideration of what to do in response to you this is a dangerous situation in the early early there is going to say if you think it's going to go back to the dog period then we're going to see an exponential rate of new bombs being built on both sides if this treaty does. yes. that's a terrifying situation the bullets in the atomic scientists move the hands of the doomsday clock back to two minutes before midnight and january of two thousand and eighteen that's the closest we've been to doomsday since one thousand nine hundred

fifty four after the u.s. and soviet union tested their hydrogen bombs this is a serious situation. trump has already called said that he's not interested in extending the new start treaty when that expires in twenty twenty one putin has said he is interested in extending that but trump said he is not the man who's negotiating right now and talking to the russians is john bolton john bolton has never seen a war they didn't want to fight he's never seen a treaty that he likes he was a large part influential when george w. bush pulled out of the a.b.m. treaty in two thousand and one or in two thousand and two when the from they pulled out he calls for he's opposed to extending the new start treaty in two thousand and eleven even before the accusations about the russians cheating on the i.n.f. treaty he called for abrogating the i.m.f.

treaty the fact that bolton of all people is the one who's actually conducting these discussions is very very serious and we know the bolton strongly influenced trump's decision to abrogate the i.n.f. treaty but what do you think donald trump's final goal in this then is because at every opportunity gets he wants to talk about complete nuclear disarmament he said for the past few years whenever he gets the opportunity it's his big number one priority so what's the thinking here because president obama was convinced out of not dropping out of this treaty but donald trump is and yet he's the one ofa nuclear disarmament apparently. but you don't take calls for nuclear disarmament at face value from every side of every issue all the time from you know when the washington post is catalogued the fact that trump is now live more than five thousand times so as soon as it's lips are moving you have to know better than to believe what he says now trump has said

a lot of things he's applauded harry truman for the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki trumpet said what's the point of having nuclear weapons if we can't use them to a normal person a reasonable person that means let's get rid of our nuclear weapons to trump that means make them more usable if you look at the u.s. nuclear posture review of february of this year he calls for use expanding the situations in which he can use nuclear weapons and he calls for making smaller. nuclear weapons tactical nuclear weapons that will be more usable so trump is not the only opposed to nuclear weapons he wants to have the biggest arsenal they want to have the best arsenal but he's too stupid to understand is that if the us pulls out of this treaty now the advantage goes overwhelmingly to russia which can produce these weapons even though they say they're a want to. take the f. somebody else and it's estimated would take the united states up to a decade to be able to deploy these were at

a time but for now for us it was like thanks very much for the. pulled from son in law an advisor gerry cushion and said that the white house is still in the fact finding phase as it looks into the murder of saudi dissident journalist jamal khashoggi. do you trust the saudis to investigate themselves i mean we're getting facts in from multiple places and then once those facts come in the secretary of state will will will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe in and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible saudi arabia's foreign minister says the outspoken columnist was killed by a rogue operation that it's consulate in istanbul and called it a tremendous mistake however washington isn't rushing with any repercussions as medina cotton ever explains. after weeks of denying it saudi arabia confirms jamal khashoggi was murdered inside its consul eight and estimable the vigils who did this to outside the scope of their authority obviously was

a tremendous mistake made and what compounded the mistake was the attempt to try to cover up that is unacceptable and because from until these things unfortunately happen we want to make sure that those who are responsible are punished they vowed those responsible will be punished but will saudi arabia face anywhere precautions so do your abuse admission is a good first step but not enough it would be premature to comment on sanctions until we get further down the investigation doesn't look like it it's premature you might wonder why am murder case of such as counting proportions isn't immediately punished remember this creep poisoning well here is the reaction that emerged just hours after the initial reports is highly likely that russia was responsible to the polls russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder is kate is culpable quarrel is with putin's kremlin we think overwhelmingly you likely that it

was his decision and days later the diplomatic fallout was at a level rarely seen before saying sions expulsion of russian diplomats and more sanctions should be seen from time to time certain steps are being taken by the u.s. of the russia including sanctions on very contrived reasons without any evidence provided of russia allegedly using chemical weapons so there's no evidence what steps are being taken against russia and now we see a murder and what you know steps are being taken we need to sort out our single approach to cases like these but washington chimed in then so what's stopping them now. they are ordering military equipment everybody. in the world one of that order we got it and we are all of that 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 military and what the. thing is that created jobs like jobs and

others for this country while europe and even some american senators who believe arms sales and need to be stopped by some of firstly we're outraged by this case we made it clear secondly there is an urgent need for details and those responsible are still not being held accountable and thirdly i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in current circumstances and fourth point further reaction should be internationally coronated i feel certain that the crown prince was involved in it he directed this and that's why i think we cannot continue to have relations with him i would cut off arms sales it's the only thing the saudis will listen to but trump is adamant it's a big first step it's only a first step but it's a big first but i would prefer that we don't use as retribution cancelling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work which means six hundred thousand jobs the

turkish president to promise assume reveal all the ugly truth 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 the question is will this finally be enough to trigger a reaction from the white house a political analyst and commentator how sonali thinks that if saudi arabia is responsible and gets away with it it sets a dangerous precedent. going to see whether it's rogue on not clearly the four saudi arabia in turkey knew what was going on which by extension means that the government knew what was going on and the only reason that nothing's happening is because europe is currently the darling of the united states administration more specifically the trumpet ministration the british government decided that it was russia that it done its attack on the script immediately the fingers of the world

were pointing at russia over here there is actual evidence those were livid and that was malice of forethought in the killing of the road or not rope it was malice and it was connected directly to the government the problem is that this goes against humanity this goes against human rights and it's a very very bad precedent. pentagon has defended its as strike on a mosque in syria last friday saying it was targeting islamic state militants inside reports say dozens of civilians were killed in the attack india it's all province the syrian foreign ministry is now calling for international organizations to step in over the u.s. led coalition's ongoing campaign r.t. senior correspondent what i guess do you have has the details the mascot's wants the united nations to get involved to investigate these u.s. led coalition airstrikes sixty odd civilians dead reportedly worth an investigation no which the pentagon is already preempting it wasn't their fault see that all these civilians died when they bombed

a mosque it was isis is fault because the islamists went to a mosque. such dire misuse of the mosque is another example of their violation of the law of war and made the mosque a valid military target interesting reasoning the same logic if isis fighters get treated the civilian hospital the us is well within its rights to level it but this sort of trigger happy attitude is costing hundreds of lives in july us led coalition airstrikes on villages in did a sort of syria killed as many as fifty four people according to various human rights organizations dozens of them being women and children the pentagon men admitted that it may have carried out these airstrikes promised to investigate which they seem to do often nowadays you are some command is adamant it's as strikes clearly hit the intended target as a survivor pulled from the rubble after the powerful attack from the air syrians

are describing it as a massacre according to syrian monitoring group activists and rescue workers in march two thousand and seventeen at least forty six people were killed in another u.s. air strike on a mosque near aleppo during prayer time no less but it was packed with locals and fighters alike or if you go with the u.s. version they actually targeted a separate building fifteen meters away which doesn't make an awful lot of difference when it comes to the sort of bombs we're talking about if we could go on and on with these examples but regardless the u.s. mission in syria was to destroy isis a greater good mission accomplished the president said so the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we've done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis so why airstrikes

targeting isis as they say still killing scores of civilians why isn't the u.s. with. during from syria but rather occupying and fortifying vast tracts of the country solidifying their influence any number of reasons isis which they say is already defeated iran which they want to contain russia which they want to challenge or oil which they want to control and to for few civilians die along the way well that's just collateral the investigation assessed that although all feasible precautions were taken unintended civilian casualties regrettably occurred. security and political analyst oman a sharpie thinks that the u.s. led coalition's aims in syria are not limited to fighting terrorists i think the american operations are on one hand claiming to be fighting isis and on the other hand finding all kinds of you know maneuvers to let isis get away with it because

the presence of eyes is the continued presence of these small pockets of isis can be used by the americans and their coalition forces their western coalition as a pretext to remain in syria and remain in in control of parts of the country where they can put pressure on the syrian government and that is actually what's happening there and now there are acting in a way benefiting from the fact that media attention is elsewhere and bombing indiscriminately killing innocent civilians and thinking that they can get away with it here the syrian government stepped in and asked for a probe and i think this probe should be for all actions done in syria throughout the fight from the beginning. british prime ministers but enduring an all round grilling by the she try to update parliament on the progress she says she's making in talks with brussels theresa may said the deal now ninety five percent complete but opposition m.p.'s have been slamming the idea of extending negotiations with

brussels the p.m.'s been under serious pressure this past week from both those opposing bracks is and leave supporters as well as to see a check of the reports from westminster we're seeing quite a mulcher was times for theresa me during this week specifically seen as quite a crucial one for her premiership we do know that just throughout the last couple of weeks we have seen many reports suggesting that a potential revolt is brewing within the conservative party and speculation has been quite right that she could be feast with a no confidence vote and indeed all of this comes amidst major dissatisfaction with the way to resign me according to those who oppose her position has been. handling brock's it and in order for any kind of no confidence vote to be triggered we need to see forty eight letters sent in by conservative party members to the conservative party chairman and again rumor has been going around westminster that they are actually said to be just several letters away from reaching that number.

this week the reason why you will find the cheese drinking in the last chance saloon and the bad news for her is that the bar is already dry she's fast running out of throat if she cannot command the support of her cabinet her party or parliament more fundamental change will inevitably follow i cannot continue to support an administration that cannot function in what could be seen as quite a frenzy of damage control we've seen this weekend theresa may published an op ed where she tried to convince the british people that that she has things under control and that she will deliver the breck set that she has been promising despite all of this chaos that has been unraveling and people questioning whether or not she's been is she going to be able to do it we have also been seeing her addressing the house of commons trying to calm some anxieties there however how efficient that was is a bit of a question citizens every word on bricks it was anticipated

a mixture of failure didn't oil and dilution the prime minister says that ninety five percent of the deal is done but previously she told us nothing is agreed until everything is agreed which is it the prime minister returns to their homes to do commerce homes are totally humiliated the prime minister is humiliated and harm stung by the extreme but acts are tears. the extreme banks are tears of the government benches are holding the u.k. to ransom leading us all to the brink of a catastrophic nor deal the prime minister who comes before us today with nothing but jargon. and richard the position we're in is that ninety five percent of withdrawal agreement as i said has been agreed the point is none of this is finally agrees until the leaders look at the package and agree the whole package together hence the nothing is agreed until everything is agreed her car going to split three

ways. split at least seven and any solution she comes up with half a country will think she got two for the house and go forward when will she realize she completely lost control of the situation the majority of members of the public regardless of what they voted in the referendum actually now have a very simple message to all of us in this house is let's just get on with it and the despite a recent me they're trying to save fifty cent explained to m.p.'s that according to her as many as ninety five as much as ninety five percent of the withdrawal agreement has been reached it is clear that there is lots of tension anxiety and questions about whether or not she's going to be able to deliver a brags that is actually going to be working for the u.k. and you know this this tension and anxiety has also just within the last days spilled from within political chambers but also out onto the streets where we saw on saturday hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets of london

demanding a second brock's at referendum because they're. not happy with the way things stand now but we do know of course that theresa may has said time and time again that there would be no second referendum that the people has voted and the decision is what it is but the big question now is whether or not theresa means actually going to be able to continue to make those decisions on behalf of the british people given all of these latest developments. we discuss to resume his position with tom brooks who's a leading academic on british law government studies now he believes that the only way out for theresa may is to train just on some bricks it. she's drawn so many red lines about all the things that she interpreted the referendum meant at the start of the negotiations it's really boxster in that she's really has no negotiating room other than continuing to plead right now for brussels to change its view in order for there to be a deal because there's nothing it seems she's willing to give up which is a very bad position to be in for herself politically and it's also of course for i

think for the u.k. the only way out of it for her i think it would be to change some of her red lines citic it is myth that she's made some mistakes call for a coalition of national unity which should have been done eighteen months or more ago and request that extension but i think that in itself while the right thing to do as a matter of statesmanship i think is also affect the political suicide for her certainly as a tory. next up graveyard soil coffin nails and some revenge oil that's what a couple of witches in new york used to place a hex on us supreme court justice brett kavanaugh this past weekend he was recently appointed to the lifetime position off the facing sexual assault allegations of a sorcery event was met by protesters condemning it while the catholic priest in the exorcist attempted to counter the dark magic by saying a mass movement was. 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 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 is this a cult book store 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 kavanaugh do you think the ceremony tonight will actually impact brett kavanaugh i know it will not 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 people years yes i mean he. trouble three times three now it's

so tempting to be doing pretty well for guys but next time in the hope. i don't want him to die i just want him so i may be paralyzed the rest of his life so he can't offer something so you're coming out to counter the the witch ceremony it's not an act conjuring 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 is no way to be absolutely sure but what we can be sure of is that americans are increasingly becoming divided kaleb mop and r.t. new york and that's it for now don't have nightmares so i'll be next update off the

cross talk looks at what lies ahead following saudi arabia's admission over the death of jamal khashoggi. what politicians to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you want to be president. for something i want to be preached. to going to christ this is like the full story of the black people. i'm interested always in the why. aren't question.