thank you could. see. you could look some people. believe. i. had learning this president now threatening to expand the united states nuclear arsenal until he says russia and china come to their senses are here in the agreement they should have been done years ago but still people. will build it up. trumpet earlier announce that the u.s. intends to leave a key nuclear arms agreement with russia provoking a mixed reaction from european allies and. in other news this hour saudi arabia admits the dissident journalist was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul but his international pressure grows washington stop short of repercussions saying

any talk of sanctions is premature. and the british prime minister moved the progress is being made on brakes it. condemn the intensified pressure being put on to resume i. am on monday here in moscow i want to welcome to news from r.t. international first for you within the past hour donald trump ramped up his nuclear weapons threat warning that the united states intends to build up its atomic asked until russia and china quote come to their senses he declared that washington is planning to pull out of a key nuclear arms treaty with russia right here to the agreement this should have been done years ago but still people come to this that we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up until they come to their senses when they then lol. these are all. by the way not only will we do which i

would love to do but right now they are not here to the agreement. the treaty is talking about there was signed back in nineteen eighty seven between the then soviet union and the united states now under the agreement all short and mid range nuclear and conventional missiles were eliminated apart from those launched from the sea the u.s. national security adviser john bolton and russia's foreign minister met a few hours ago for crunch talks in moscow he goes donald has more on that meeting . bombs and vies in fact has held the total of about six hours of talks five of them with the head of russia's security council in about an hour with the foreign minister himself as a result of these talks 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 while 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 to 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 at one john bolton meets with the russian president 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 of the european allies as they see it as a pillar of their stability and this is something that former ambassador of the united states to russia michael mcfaul has said and his words what i told by the president of france and i'll mccrone who said that the on

a treaty is key to european stability and he wasn't the only voice in this quiet 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 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 to believe that the u.s. and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. 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 set to have with its partners are set to determine whether washington will be indeed shooting its european allies in the need a last hour i heard from british security analyst and former army officer child shoe bridge who says the u.s.

is making a risky move by turning its back on international obligations problem is as others have pointed out in particular this is a problem i think for europeans that this treaty was designed to prevent or reduce the risk of nuclear weapons being used by the nuclear threshold being lowered and not should we say long range heavy nuclear weapons being used against the united states and the soviet union or today russia but that with the shorter range weapons it would be europe western europe that would become the nuclear battlefield and there's some concern i think a great deal of concern amongst all european leaders except the united kingdom who yesterday have stated that they support the american position predictably enough there is concern that this reduces the prospects for nuclear disarmament increases risks for western europe and its people and also because america is pulling out of this treaty amongst others it's sends a signal that america's word on its treaties can't be trusted and america is all

too prepared under donald trump to renee on its international obligations not only in the security fear but others as well. donald trump's son in law and advisor jared cushion has said that the white house is still in the fact finding phase as it looks into the murder of saudi dissident journalist. 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 at its consulate in istanbul and called it a tremendous mistake however washington isn't rushing with any repercussions but in a culture never explained. after weeks of denying it saudi arabia confirms jamal khashoggi was murdered inside its consul eight and estimable the vigils who did

this to us 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 happened 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 a 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 hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder is kate is culpable quarrel is

with kremlin overwhelming the 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 the. 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 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 military what they. think is that create 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 exports which are already limited must not take place in current circumstances and fourthly 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 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. political analyst and commentator house analogy thinks that if saudi arabia is responsible and gets away with it it sets a dangerous precedent we're going to see whether it's rogue on not clearly the or 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. 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 this 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 there was malice of forethought in the killing of the road or not there 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. the pentagon has defended its airstrike on a mosque in syria last friday saying that it was targeting islamic state militants inside reports though say dozens of civilians were killed in the attack india its sole province the syrian foreign ministry is now calling on international organizations to step in over the u.s. led coalition's ongoing campaign r.t. senior correspondent what i guess as the details the massacres 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 the mosque it was isis is fault because the islamists went to a mosque. such dashed 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 by 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 and did as 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 here we could go on and on with these examples but regardless the u.s. mission in syria was to destroy isis a great a good mission accomplished the president said so the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory to do

a good 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 assess that although all feasible precautions were taken unintended civilian casualties regrettably occurred security and political analyst i'm on a shabby things the u.s. led coalition's aims in syria are not limited to fighting terrorist. i think that 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 eyes that 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 they 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 year fight from the beginning. british prime minister's been enduring an all round grilling by m.p.'s as she tried to update parliament on the progress she says she's making in talks with brussels theresa may said the deal is now ninety five

percent complete but opposition m.p.'s have been slamming the idea of extending the ghost occasions with the e.u. p.m.'s been under serious pressure this past week from both those opposing breaks it and leave supporters as well as a signature going to reports from westminster. we're seeing quite a mulcher was times four to resubmit 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 faced with a no confidence vote and indeed all of this comes amidst major dissatisfaction with the way to resign may according to those who oppose her position has been handling brags that and in order for any kind of no confidence vote to be triggered we need to see forty eight letter 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 drawing 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 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 every word on bricks it was anticipated a mixture of denial and delusion the conservative party has spent the past two

years arguing with itself instead of negotiating a sensible deal with the prime minister returned to their homes to do commerce homes are to me to really to the extreme. actually two years of the government benches are holding the u.k. turn around sooner leading us all to the brink of a catastrophic nor deal the prime minister comes before us today with nothing but jargon and rhetoric the position we're in is that ninety five percent of withdrawal agreement as i said has been agreed the point is you know 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 worries when will she realize she completely lost control of the situation despite a recent me they're trying to save fifty cent explain 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 broad set that is actually going to be working for the u.k. and this tension and anxiety has also just within the last days build 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 that referendum but we do know of course that to recently 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 or discuss to resume a position with leading british academic on board government studies tom brooks he believes the only way out for to reason may is to change a stone some bricks it is drawn so many. 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 a deep breath admit 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 is a matter of statesmanship i think it's also affect the political suicide for her certainly as a tory. graveyard soil coffin nails and some revenge oil that's what a couple of witches in new york used to place a hex on the u.s.

supreme court justice brett kavanaugh this weekend he was recently appointed to the lifetime position of facing sexual misconduct allegations of a sorcery event was met by protesters condemning it while a catholic priest and an exorcist attempted to counter the dark magic by saying a mass auntie's kind of mopping though 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 kavanagh 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 he believes yes i mean he had. strategy times three now it's so tempting to be doing a little pretty well for guys but heck sometimes i'm hopeful. i don't i don't want to die i just want him 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 ads you get these blessings and we want to show the 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. city fracking advocates in northwest england have been demonstrating at a site where a controversial gas extraction method is set to resume on monday after a seventy a nationwide ban. the. site in lancashire was the first to be given the green light to restart operations were suspended in twenty eleven sides environmental costs campaign the support of the dangerously earthquake and the forced by the drilling process involved in fracking last year a number of activists were arrested during a peaceful demonstration both want to. spend three weeks in prison for fracking

protests we managed to shut down operations at this fracking site every day of the month for a whole month of july last year it took me to them over a year to take me to court. for the action i did i did a piece production i climbed on top of a lower. that was that was delivering crack you meant i stayed up all night nori for eighty four hours three and a half days together we stopped a convoy of seven lorries 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 trucking industry 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 the trail of the first environmental activists to be jailed in the u.k. and almost ninety years but a court of appeal has now found the ruling was excessive and replace the present

with conditional discharges. meanwhile the judge who initially decided to jail the trio is facing questions himself over ties to the energy sector several members of his family reportedly work for the an oil and gas corporation has prompted calls for the u.k. justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again says that the energy lobby's reach 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 counseled around this country was rejected sometimes you know there was always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and the west says overturned the station employees in the street that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeping in support they were waving out there

when they sow to keep it out me stay up people stay out there for them as you can there are just fifteen x. or car in the oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests it's the oil and gas will be the one it's. the us midterm elections near at hand the state of texas has found itself in the political epicenter of the crucial poll examining how encouraging voters has landed the state's democratic party and water is jacqueline booga. 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 it's 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 build permanent infrastructure and of course when elections that means a crest of communications and smart messaging their aggressive communication includes an extensive the. and of mirch attack means that gifts and the occasional poppy genius until now the texas democratic party are being accused of encouraging under age and now in u.s. distance 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 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 somewhere 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 are 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 id 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 with their vote. and do worship as in southern india defying a court order to and i women into a major shrine on.