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so. for just twelve euros fifty per month. headline news president putin makes the u.s. national security adviser in moscow tensions over american plans to quit a nuclear arms treaty has been briefing reporters will be live with our correspondent who was there. saudi royal family the relatives of killed journalist jamal khashoggi despite being suspects in the ongoing investigation but says the turkish president says the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul was planned well in advance. the british man sues the u.s. army after being exposed to toxic chemicals while working as a contractor with a military base we speak to the whistleblower. just a buddy who's going just on medical shakes it is the biggest. whatever just
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look you. will see someone else. there live news twenty four seven this is r.t. international i'm calling brian moscow this choose day the twenty third of october where it's now nine pm let's bring you right up to speed with often happening in this city within the past hour u.s. national security adviser john bolton's held a news briefing in moscow indicating that the u.s. is still going ahead with pulling out of a key nuclear treaty or playing down fears that little spark an arms race it follows his meeting earlier with president putin despite the tension surrounding the two countries right now they still manage to lighten the mood. you know as far as i remember there is an eagle on the us national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one foot and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did your eagle eat all the
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olives and leave just the arrows. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with you on behalf of president and hopefully for him but i didn't bring any more all of . them that's what i thought. the two eventually got down to the serious business at hand correspondent was out that he was briefing held by john bolton in the past hour either in or so as we stand right now the u.s. and russia any further forward. than it certainly looks like both russia and the united states have done their best to move forward on this very controversial issue and in fact john bolton came here to a media venue in central moscow not far from the kremlin not for an hour and a half long conversation with the russian president vladimir putin and this media to appease chit chat with the press it was dominated with the subject of the because it is the key treaty that everybody's right now looking at and whether or
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not the united states will pull out of it and what implications it will have and well according to john bolton the united states are going to proceed with looking forward to abandon it and he named two reasons for that one is that well basically he believes that russia is violating the treaty the united states believe that russia is violating the treaty and also. china and other potentially dangerous countries according to him in this treaty but moving forward on this with russia is very difficult he's saying and here's why. with respect to the question of russian compliance as i said it is the american position that russia's violation it is russia's position that they're not. so one has to ask how do you convince the russians to come back into compliance with obligations they don't think they're violating. so according to john bolton russia already has some
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missiles that violate the treaty in europe and that is one of the reasons the united states won out and this is the key misunderstanding between russia and the united states because russia does not believe it is in any wrongdoing that it isn't any wrongdoing and that it's not just the united states that abiding to the deal russia according to most schools is to work also according to john bolton he gave an example of the all of this i am deede treaty treaty the un to missile defense that kind of was a big thing back in the beginning of the two thousand of the two thousands and according to him everybody viewed that treaty as corn is still one to international stability and when the united states abandon their nothing really happened. i think it's also important to avoid some of the rhetoric of people who are comfortable with the treaty and what what it what the implications of us was rolled so if you take away the cornerstone the entire construct of international stability collapses
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it was not true was not true then it will not be true now with the withdraw from history. and again this is something that the united states and russia do not see eye to eye on because since then russia has been raising this concern with peter the saying that that decision of the united states has crippled international stability and now with the two of you the united states abandoning the i.n.f. well europe has already voiced lots of concerns many countries said that this treaties cornerstone that it is key to european stability and they don't want to be part of any well over any doubt if if russia and the united states decide to duke it out between. each other europe doesn't want to be part of it so that's why they want so far the united states in the deal. memo to his commander in chief before he said that they had enough money to be able to build more bombs than anyone else all right it was thought of in central moscow thanks for that. well with us now is
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robert who's the author of a book looking at trump's policy thinking is president and its impact on journalism and democracy welcome to the program. john bolton in the past hour compared to the u.s. leaving the i.n.f. treaty with when the u.s. left the anti-ballistic missile treaty quite some time ago suggesting both the world still turning what's the problem but are the two comparable. well ray now this is really american instigation of international relations i mean i think when we saw this this removal from from before it was it was a different world i mean there was a lot of discussion about international collaboration to fight terror even in that conversation and there was still a movement though from the united states and start to move away from what they considered to be international control of u.s. policies but now their rhetoric has become much stronger in america first rhetoric
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of trump's administration is much much stronger than america first of those days so this is another signal to the world that america's pulling back and wanting to move into. in america first agenda where there isn't direct connections to other stipulations that the american people say that the maybe they didn't create and that they don't want a lot of people are going to be thinking that still no further forward forty eight hours on from donald trump underlining that that leaving that treaty john bolton said in his news conference that the united states is convinced that russia breached that dale russia is absolutely adamant that it has and how do you find a way forward from that. well i think it's the u.s. policy too to find holes where maybe there are holes in to make those holes wider through again disperse and media talks and ways to convince the international
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system that there that they're right you know we're we're hours away from away from this and you know bolton might actually be right when this happened before the world continued to turn but but the world starts to become more dangerous as places like the united states start to pull away from international agreements where we've decided to hold each other accountable and holding each other accountable doesn't necessarily mean you know we're going to pull out of out of an agreement with that much conversation so this is this is starting to you know truly people are saying starting to turn into another cold war but this is also the continuation of a cold war that maybe didn't really stop in the minds of many conservative americans and for a lot of people it just felt that it's been a bit dormant now the one thing that gets leveled at this treaty and john bolton on the line this was that the treaty was just about the united states what was then the soviet union that it doesn't include and things like china and iran now it's
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a treaty that you think could be saved by bringing all those parties on board that the whether a nuclear concerns or is that just way too complex to even contemplate. yeah i think we're past that point i mean i think you know it's a trump ministration that's looking for a way to sometimes and somehow just insult from russian involvement or signals of russian involvement in u.s. affairs i think we're i think we're far away in to this treaty has become tainted by by that by that rhetoric and sort of coming together again would have to undergo you know immense conversation and take some time and you know if if for some bizarre reason trump flips on this sometimes that happens you know that might happen but unless that happens i think this is probably another one of the done deals of trump saying we're doing it and for the most part it's done. with no treaty in place if this one is now biting the dust and if the a.b.m.
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treaty pulled out of fifteen years ago also what's going to happen next is it's going to shift the balance of power in europe likely to see more missiles being stationed in it. well you know i mean i think. that relies on a lot of other other situations you know we have we have some instability happening with saudi arabia and a lot of the news that's coming out of genuine ricky's involvement knowledge and knowing what's what's going on in a lot of discussion about what that means for for relationships with iran you know i think at this point the main concern is why you know what are the real reasons for pulling out of out of so what does this mean for for america going forward in trying to be a peaceful nation that brings people together i think it will create a lot of tension a lot of discussion at international levels but i do think the world will continue
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to turn it just might start to start to look a little bit more dangerous how is it anything that other international organizations could help mediate him because you've got two extremely powerful countries that in many ways a setting that weighs about what they're doing who is there any organization that can actually take that on. well again it depends on what the organization is and how it's viewed by the trumpet ministration and unfortunately i think the white house at this point is dictating a lot of these discussions and the directions of where discussions go and so there it depends on what trump and what the white house and his officials deem as being credible is that you sions and i think we're at a stage right now where american politics are that there aren't very many international organizations or deliberations currently that have that sort of legitimization to come to the table until something changes in us society and politics and deems it worthy enough to go back to the international table and say
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yeah we'll take your advice on this idea or that one it know who knows what's going to bring us to that point but at this point. you know the u.s. is becoming much more closed society internationally and we've seen that happening for a bit over the last couple of years and this is just another symptom of that movement ok good to talk to you get your thoughts on this rubble of the trump presidency journalism and democracy really appreciate your time thanks. thanks the turkish president says saudi dissident journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in a vicious manner in a pre-planned operation because he was killed in the saudi concha that in istanbul of the beginning of october they had denied any knowledge of the incident for more than two weeks coming up and got more details earlier from correspondent. most people thought that president erred was and will shed light on the details probably even groundbreaking details that could have been revealed by investigators and
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a stab hole well he didn't instead his speech was more of a political message in which he basically made it clear that turkey skull footed that mr khashoggi these death was a preplanned political murder. jim and. the evidence that we have so far indicates that your molecules shot jews was slain in a vicious violent murder did all those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level who brought to justice and will get the punishment they deserve incident was not a momentary resource but rather of the result of a planned operation right to recover we didn't see the whole thing you said the punishment the people who carried out this deserved are we any closer to knowing who he thinks who thinks the should go to you is behind it he mentioned the people erred towards saying you are responsible for this three people in the cause that. group of fifteen people were set from saudi arabia although mr aired fell
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short of directly blaming the saudi royal family for this. still though he was clearly eager to put pressure on saudi arabia he made an outright bad to hold the perpetrators responsible for this and also came up with a list of direct questions for the saudi government who gave instructions to those people to come to istanbul why were the consulate premises not open to examination on that day or the following day we need an answer to this it's clear now it was a murder where is the body why do we still not have it if the information that the body was given to a local operative who is he is not an ordinary person saudi arabia needs to reveal his identity so right now saudi arabia's earlier version that jamal khashoggi was killed as a result of some sort of brawl or a fist fight would really do after such comments made by mr. picking up on this
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story before it all kicked off to a lot of people around the world the name jamal khashoggi was not particularly well known remind us who he is why all this trouble around him jamal khashoggi is a journalist noted for his criticism of the tea. well family he was flood to the us and was a columnist for washington post but in order to get married he had to go to the consulate bowl to get some documents saw and a second visit to the cause that happened on october the second that was when the tragedy happened.
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so i just want to point out once again that's days passed since the actual murder happened on a tobar second before the saudi officials admit it happened within the walls of their called so much is going on in. reaction has been around the world to this big story all i can tell you that the international community hasn't really been active in trying to hold saudi arabia to their accountability their reaction was pretty much vague cautious or slow even if you want but perhaps the most outstanding evolution of the assessment of what's going on was that of donald trump's let's have a look like the frova. terrible the disgusting
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about that if that were the case so we're going to have to see we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment but here to be able to get to the bottom fairly soon have to be very severe have it bad very bad. but we'll see what happens you consider very very i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't for the shirley view or investigation but it's. i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would have been. the ground for it i am not satisfied with what i'm going back to president aired towards choose day speech apparently this was not only a direct message to the saudi government but also to the international community to keep putting more pressure on saudi arabia so well be watching what the international leaders are going to do now and also the saudi officials as well as
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the saudi royal families met with son and brother to express their condolences the journalist was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father with the saudi king there are reports the son is not allowed to travel outside the kingdom either meanwhile dozens of top business executives have pulled out of a high profile economic forum in saudi arabia as international pressure continues to mount on riyadh over the journalist murder however crown prince mohammed didn't bring up the no shows all the murder case in fact he didn't say a word as he briefly made an appearance of a conference on his supporters swarmed him for a selfie opportunity. form a turkish m.p. edge of a baggage told us that there are still many questions to be answered because the probe is still very much ongoing. karaoke means to find out what really happened all we want to justice and that's what the whole world wants and needs because an innocent man was killed and there are reports that he might even be mylan to kill
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and we don't even know where is remains are so there are many questions that need to be answered and present you are asked the saudi kingdom for full cooperation do you see it mr trump even president of the united states has been confused if you follow his statements first he was backing them hundred percent now he has questions tesla peggle of germany has announced that they will not sell any military equipment to saudi arabia until those issues are this is a question about justice global justice human rights. a british man who's taking on the u.s. military over claims that he was exposed to a joint danger of chemical has received his latest test results back david paterson says he has a high levels of cadmium in his body a carcinogen which can damage the central nervous system the first hearing in the case is reportedly due to take place later this week. i have no received
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or medication for stress or high blood pressure and other on going to use i want to know that i am not ill i do not have some ticking bomb inside my body b. my colleagues are still working on site they really cannot see anything the have higher blood cadmium level than i did it goes and through the body through risk retract the numbers and to your other parts of your body it could take a month a year it could take up to five years but be in a house the journey is very watery where there's a small part or a lot of like we worked on the floor for two weeks without any protection. in may last year david who was a contractor was inspecting equipment at the base in germany he says boxes were covered in a white dust but no warning was given as to the nature of the powder staffer also working with no protective gear it wasn't until a year later that the u.s.
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army told him that it was kept him they would file the lawsuit after he was sacked for complaining about the incident the army says it's now changed how it handles equipment. we know we won't earn your trust if we don't perform better so will the contractor has redoubled efforts and safety training and proper methods for receiving processing handling and cleaning items there are possibly contaminated with cadmium only a year later to be fighting though this is had been a problem ongoing with the u.s. army going back to two thousand and eight when i asked about who's going to assist on medical checks and is that they just simulants it whatever just look at not is not my problem go see someone else it was like i hope that it will be the last one to another to another until i eventually had to go to my own doctors find themself and pay for all my own medical expenses we breathed this cadmium in and we don't know what's happening to us it will happen when allowed and hope mine will be no
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one no one seems to give no one is to responsibility no one is assisting us the managers have said we are helping them and put them through a medical they have done nothing we have had to fight just about blood tested everyone is ducking and diving no one is teaching responsibility. the u.k. government says it's winning its fight against this information and fake news in response to a special parliamentary report but the committee behind the document says britain isn't doing enough to battle foreign influence campaigns and meddling reporting from westminster is on us to see if you're going to. the british government's detailed response into this latest dissin from mission and fake news interim report that was published by the digital culture media and sport committee released back in july has now published its response to that and that has left m.p.'s here in westminster quite disappointed so if we try to break it all down
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a little bit we have this parliamentary select committee that has been working on an inquiry and fixed news for almost two years now and the chairman of this committee has consistently pushed for more action when it comes to speak news seeing it as a threat to democracy and specifically in the u.k. and particularly a threat from russia and this committee has try to dig up proof of any involvement and interference from russia when it comes to elections specifically the last general election in the u.k. as well as the bracks that referendum but now that the government has had the time to analyze that the recommendations that this committee has published they said there is no russian interference let's take a look in november twenty seventh teen the prime minister accused russia of meddling in elections and planting fake news in an attempt to weaponize the information and so discord in the west we want to reiterate that the government has not seen evidence of successful use of this information by foreign actors including
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russia to influence u.k. democratic processes we recommend that the government makes a statement about how many investigations are currently being carried out into russian interference in u.k. politics there has been no evidence to date any successful foreign interference well moreover the british government was not just underwhelmed when it came to the russia league ations but according to the committee they had actually outright accepted only three out of the dozens of recommendations that were made in this fifth interim report being presented by this committee and. it has to be said that one thing they did these two parties agree upon was the difference that the term think news has become redundant and really lost its meaning in this day and age nonetheless this committee is refusing to give up they are going to keep working on this topic and have said that they're planning to publish the final report on this issue to wards the end of this year. in germany tens of thousands of now signed
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a petition against a website where students are encouraged to report politically biased teachers the online portal neutral schools was first launched by the anti immigration alternative for germany party. it was designed to assess whether teachers are breaking neutrality rules by revealing their political tendencies but critics say that it echoes one of the country's darkest chapters explains. the pressure to perform in the classroom about the. talking about students. now the constant gemini teachers cookies are now being reported on by students anonymously beyond the immigrant's all tend to fit in the party type of similar to what they call let's go to the trouble to make tons of fun. because we found that quite a lot of to choose obviously not all teachers but quite a lot of teachers. tend to convey
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a bias against all parties. to their pupils and students school should be a neutral place. ok if you wanted to you could and should not be a bias against one party or another according to the f.d.a. example since those are different things to be educate criticizing a couple wearing t. shirts with the tea party slogans or encouraging children to take part in the protests to prove that point to the largest opposition party in the band the stark raving publishing concerns of disgruntled students claiming. conservatives these may affect a great a student who like me needs very good grades is better off not expressing himself politically in school in germany a student with conservative views is muzzled since its launch the portal has received a huge response from teachers but it's an unexpected one because some want to be
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that listed voluntarily we will inform our students when members and officials of your party run racist anti-semitic or anti-democratic activities that endanger our peaceful coexistence and society we would be honored if you could put our names on their list of denunciations the countries justice minister has condemned the practice comparing it to the methods of the notorious the secret police in a scam to me the party says it's merely advocating jamie's preexisting neutrality bill but others say it made mention of putting the ball but the side of the classroom really a place for politics well they don't seem to think say we don't want to bomb any teacher we want to create trouble we don't want to make life horrible for them but we want the schools to be in your cool place i don't think a political party should be launching such an online portal i think that they don't want to just speak openly about nazi history of german and they want to stop that
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they want their version of political history to be taught in classroom throughout germany that's how it looks from moscow so far this tuesday thanks for choosing our say farewell news this hour i'll be back here to update you off the latest watching the holes. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. of the time
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