president putin and the u.s. national security advisor hold talks in moscow as america's plans to pull out of a key nuclear missile treaty threaten to trigger an arms control crisis. trump issues his toughest statement yet on the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi saudi arabia's istanbul consulate. it was carried out poorly as a cover up was one of the worst in the history of years. and a british man sues the u.s. army after being exposed to toxic chemicals while working as a contract that the military base we speak to the whistleblower. letting us abide to school just on medical checks is

a major city winds as well of just. a little. life worldwide to this is r.t. international i'm calling the newsroom in moscow is now one am here let's bring you up to date on what's been happening here in the past few hours the u.s. national security adviser has told reporters in moscow that the u.s. is still going ahead with pulling out of a key nuclear treaty or playing down fee is that it will spark an arms race john bolton earlier held a meeting with president putin but despite the tension surrounding the two countries right now they did still manage to lighten the mood. 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 olives and leave just the arrows. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with

you on behalf of president and hopefully i'll have some answers for you but i didn't bring any more although. that's what i thought. all right well the two did eventually get down to the serious business at hand and they even discussed prospects of another meeting between presidents trump and putin in the coming months correspondent john bolton's news briefing earlier in moscow. well it certainly looks like the united states and russia did as much as they could to resolve their differences when it comes to the i.n.f. treaty in the course of the past couple of days in front john bolton came here to this media venue in central moscow not far from the kremlin just after a nine hour and a half long conversation with president putin and he revealed john bolton i mean revealed to main factors as to why the united states still looks to abandon the deal one he says that russia has already deployed in europe some missiles that

a band under the deal and two with the united states see this treaty as outdated and he says that the deal should include other nations like for example china and also john bolton talks about the key difference between russia and the united states when it comes to the understanding of the agreement 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 violated 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 well the way russia sees the situation is kind of vice versa mosco has accused washington of minor violations when it comes to the ion of treaty and has said that it is in turn abiding to withstand it also russia views of the deal as key to international stability addressing that john bolton combat the situation too when the united states pulled out of the antiballistic

missile defense treaty back in two thousand and two back then he said that deal was due to us absolutely crucial to international stability but apparently when the united states abandoned it nothing happened 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 with her over it take. way the cornerstone the entire construct of international stability collapses it was not true it was not true then it will not be true now with withdraw from history and this is yet another point where russia and the united states just don't see eye to eye on since two thousand and one russia has been raising security concerns over the challenges the world is facing because the united states once decided to abandon the a.m.d. treaty now with the new deal in charm school says europe doesn't want any more escalation we've heard a lot of reaction coming out of the e.u.

overwhelmingly speaking about how the i.n.f. treaty is key to the european stability and security so whatever happens next if europe doesn't want to be part of the united states and russia to get out. alive now to david lindorff investigative journalist and founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening david welcome back to r.t. over the past forty eight hours of this visit we've had the kremlin say well if you know happy with the i.n.f. treaty as it is let's try and work something out but one thing that isn't any further forward as things are right now is the united states saying russia breaks the treaty russia saying no we have saluted and is there any way out of that impasse. well first thing let's say that it's not clear that the president has the authority to back out of a treaty that was passed by two thirds of the senate i think that remains to be determined. you know he may say he has that power but it is vested

also in the senate to approve treaties and to into treaty so it's not like the iran deal that was never approved by the senate just a presidential deal so that's going to be an interesting. fight i suspect among senators. the second thing is that you know that what i heard bolton say at that press conference was that. you know there was no consequences when the u.s. when the bush administration bush cheney administration pulled out of the a.b.m. treaty and in fact there was a huge consequence russia found maybe a a.b.m. missiles being put in remaining and threatening it with the threat of a for strike that they might not be able to retaliate against and so russia responded as i read by developing these cyprus on a cruise missiles which are what has the u.s.

upset so there has been a huge consequence of the risk decision to pull out of the one thousand nine hundred seventy two nuclear treaty that had been negotiated by richard nixon hardly someone who would be accused of being soft on the soviet union so so bolton is wrong and and then the third thing i would say is that bolton has been arguing for pulling out of in our for for years and he's written about it is early and i saw it as two thousand and eleven so to say that russia is violating the treaty as the reason for pulling out is. is somewhat dishonest since it's something that will miss been pushing for long before any of the supposedly elations when w.'s talked to reporters earlier it was all about the train the alleged the russian election meddling came up as well that with those u.s. midterms in view let's just say what john boehner had to say about it at his news

briefing show a while ago it's the effort alone to interfere american action in our elections that are actionable. the fact was that the outcome would have been exactly the same by all the evidence we have and if there were evidence to the contrary we would have heard it fine now what the meddling did create was distrust and animosity within the united states and particularly it made it almost impossible for two years for the united states and russia to make progress diplomatically so that's a huge loss to both countries but particularly to russia. so david is how you see where you are that the meddling the any thing that actually did coles if anything is to sow discord within the united states. you know i think it so discord more between russia and the united states the charges and countercharges then within the u.s. the u.s. has had discord for some time. i don't think that russia played much of

a role has played much of a role in creating more discord within and among americans. but but then i would also say you know bolton is is not referring to all the meddling that the u.s. has done not just around the world but specifically in russia notably during the yeltsin campaign for a second term and i think that you know what would be the logical thing to do is say that since the u.s. has a history of meddling in russian elections and also in the ukraine which had a major impact on russia. that they should have negotiations to reach some kind of agreement not to meddle in each other selections ok all right for now in philadelphia that's kind of down as david lindorff thanks very much for your time the safe thing thanks for having me. thanks donald trump appears to have toughened

his stance on saudi arabia over the killing of journalists in the kingdom's and stumble consulate speaking in the oval office on tuesday the us needed to limit his hostages would yet but stop short of committing to punish riyadh. the original concept. it was carried out poorly and the cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups first a. bad deal should have never been thought of. somebody really messed up. and they had the worst cover up ever. and we're shouldst it is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble. right let's expand on all this now with correspondent kind of open trumps initial reaction was guarded when all this had the headlines a couple of weeks ago but he's not mincing his words now easy certainly those are

harsh words from donald trump now will recall that prior to this he was actually emphasizing the importance of u.s. sales of weapons to saudi arabia now we're also hearing harsh words from mike pompei oh speaking at the state department he raised the possibility of sanctions on saudi arabia this is might pompei oh. we've identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other saudi ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show us death we are taking appropriate actions which include revoking pieces entering vsa lookouts and other measures now there's certainly been an evolution in the words of donald trump regarding saudi arabia over the course of the last two weeks let's review how donald trump's position seems to have changed. sounds to me like the. terrible and disgusting 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 he'll be able to get to the bottom fairly soon well it'll have to be very severe i mean it's bad. but we'll see what happens if you consider or. do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't finished our review or investigation but it's. i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would have now there's also been a harsh reaction from around the world we've seen a lot of top business executives pull out of a key economic forum in saudi arabia furthermore we've now seen u.s. treasury secretary steven illusion he met with the crown prince of saudi arabia the heir to the throne and their meeting seemed to emphasize the importance of partnership strategically between the usa and saudi arabia so the world is watching

to see what will happen next will there actually be a follow up on actions to back up these newly harsh words from u.s. officials regarding the actions of saudi arabia or are they just words they need to ok for now kind of open in new york thanks for that update. jamal khashoggi who was a staunch critic of the saudi royal family had fled the gulf kingdom for the united states where he worked as a columnist for the washington post he was killed when he visited the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul on the second of october when he was obtaining marriage documents.

as outrage over the murder grows the saudi royal family has gone into damage control they met with shoji son and brother on tuesday to express their condolences to journalists son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father the saudi king was also named while the turkish president has promised to bring all of those responsible to justice. judgment because you didn't the evidence that we have so far indicates that jamal khashoggi was slain in a vicious violent murder over those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level will be brought to justice and will get the punishment they deserve incident was not a momentary resort but rather of the result of a planned operation to form

a turkish government minister told us that there are so many questions to be answered because the probe is very much ongoing turkey needs 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 and we don't even know where is remains are so there are many questions that need to be answered and pres no one asked the saudi kingdom for full cooperation you see 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 questioned chancellor merkel of germany has announced that they will not sell any military equipment to saudi arabia until this issue dissolved this is a question about justice global justice human rights. british man who's taking on

the u.s. military over claims he was exposed to a dangerous chemical has received his latest test results back they patterson says he has high levels of cadmium in his body a carcinogen which can damage the central nervous system the first hearing in the case reportedly is due to take place later this week i know received or medication or stress or high blood pressure and other ongoing so 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 needed it goes and through the body it's riskier it's right then it was into your other parts of your body it could take a month a year it could take up to five years but being a part of the journey is very worrying whether it's a small part or a large part like we worked on the floor for two weeks without any protection in

may last year david there 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 working with no protective gear it wasn't until a year later that the u.s. army told him that it was kept me and david fall 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 on safety training and proper methods for receiving processing handling and cleaning i tense there are possibly contaminated with cadmium only a year later to be fighting though this is had been a problem ongoing with a us army going back to two thousand and eight when i asked about who's going to assist on medical checks anything they just sent me away and said whatever just it

it's not there no i was not my problem go see someone else it was like a hot potato being passed from one to another to another until i eventually had to go to my own doctor's final myself and pay for all my own medical expenses we breathed this cadmium in and we don't know what's happening to us it'll happen when allowed to and how bad it will be no one no one seems to give no one is taking 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 to have a blood tested everyone is ducking and diving and no one is taking responsibility you know without pay for moscow the british government claimed it's winning the fight against fake news but not everyone is convinced we'll get off of that for you after the break.

good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something want to be. considered to be close to see what it looks like screen them or can people get. interested falls in the water. six.

about again the u.k. government says it's winning the fight against this information and fake news in a response to a special parliamentary report but the committee behind the documents says britain is not doing enough to battle foreign influence campaigns and meddling reporting from westminster is honest to say a chicken or. 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 a little bit we have this parliamentary select committee that has been working on

an inquiry and feek 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 a 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's 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 their 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 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 success through foreign interference well moreover the british government was not just underwhelmed when it came to the russia legations 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 defense 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 as the end of this year. violence and the shock incident at

a metro station in rome choose the evening's champions league football match between a us room and c.s.k. moscow one russian families reportedly stabbed in a fight outside the stadium while a collapsing escalator in the metro left at least thirty people injured i got more details earlier from our sports correspondent alexia. it's a really bad night for c.s.k. moscow in rome this time not only their team lost three nil to. big defeat but also to very bad incidence for the fans first of all the fight outside the study only because stadium the stadium. there were reports that one of the c.s.k. moscow friends was stabbed two were severely injured in the fight over the russian embassy in italy late denounced this information they denied the stabbing incident but acknowledged the fight was also a separate incident far more serious that i should say in a more. subway station is on the way to the stadium about one hundred fans were going down an escalator when it malfunctioned sped it in the normal speed downwards

and at the end of the escalator there was something of a stampede interesting enough the mayor of rome pin the blame onto the russian fans but there are many conflicting eyewitness reports even people including the people who were on that escalator saying that the escalated just. because they said and went down injuring all those fans the last time these two teams met in the champions league was in twenty fourteen there was trouble then as well is there an indication that maybe the italian police were prepared for this it is really strange but it seems that they were not if we go back to twenty fourteen there was a major scuffle outside the the stadium. was a major scuffle inside the stadium at this time they have a history with c.s.k. moscow and it seems that they were not adequately prepared they did stop the fight with water cannons but the fight still happened so you have to ask all the questions to the roman police. they could also former president rafael correia believes there's a good chance that whistleblower julian assange may be turned over to the united states came after u.s. lawmakers wrote

a letter to ecuador's current leader lennon merino demanding that he hand over the wiki leaks co-founder if he wanted to avoid hurting the country's relations. we are very concerned with julian assange just continued presence at your embassy in london and he's received a record tour in citizenship last year it is clear that mr sands remains a dangerous criminal and a threat to global security and he should be brought to justice. we feel that it will be very difficult for the united states to advance our bilateral relationship until mr sanchez handed over to the proper authorities there is an agreement between the. american government we were vice president my has several months ago and they are really. turned over as you have to remember that no science. citizenship. is proven to. do so because he said all is well it seems to me. i got it or

a constitution for intimately because of the behavior of this government it leaves absolutely some meat that to the american government we want to turn over such american government. a sound has been holed up in ecuador's london embassy since two thousand and twelve where he's been granted political asylum he became an ecuadorian citizen last year but since then his relations with the country's current government have worsened last friday a sound file the lawsuit against ecuador for violating his human rights he's been restricted from seeing his lawyers and communicating with the outside world and even be given some new tough housekeeping rules which former president korea calls humiliating these rulers are really ashamed you know they try to humiliate as ours and they they are human so. i think my point because they are. these rules are really against human rights and they're trying to isolate.

and to push him to our embassy. ok that's the way it looks from moscow this hour and i guarantee to update you in about thirty five minutes or so after we meet a community in north dakota where the discovery of shale oil is up next for to. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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