for most of us. 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 question to trigger an arms control crisis. donald trump makes his toughest statement yet on the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in saudi arabia's istanbul consulate. it was carried out poorly in the cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. under british man sues the us army after being get exposed to toxic chemicals while working as

a contractor as a military base we speak to the whistleblower. when i was just a bunch to school just on medical checks. the gist of their lives as well i'm just not you might see someone. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me and caring for our top story this hour the u.s. national security adviser has told reporters in most go that the u.s. is that still going ahead with pulling out of a key nuclear treaty while playing down phase that 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 still managed 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 but. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with him on behalf of president and hopefully i'll have this mantra for you but i didn't bring any more all of. them that's what i thought. but eventually got down to the serious business at hand they even discussed prospects of another meeting between presidents trump and putin in the coming months correspondent a goshdarn of was at john bolton's news briefing 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has already deployed in europe some missiles that a band under the deal and to the united states see this treaty as outdated he says that the deal should include other nations like for example china and also john bolton talked about the key difference between russia and the united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 is in 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 what the way russia sees the situation is kind of vice versa moscow has accused washington of ma. violations when it comes to the island 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 compared the situation to 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 while what it's what the implications of us withdrawal you take away the cornerstone the entire construct of international stability collapses did was not true 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 challenges the world is facing because the

united states once decided to abandon the a.m.d. treaty now with the deal in charm school says europe doesn't want any more as collation we've heard a lot of reaction coming out of the e.u. overwhelmingly it's been 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. and investigative journalist david lindorff doesn't believe that withdrawing from the nuclear treaty will be a straightforward process for the u.s. . but 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 it's not like the iran deal that was never approved by the senate and it was just a presidential deal so that's going to be an interesting. fight i suspect among senators. the second thing is that what i heard bolton say

at that press conference was that 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 it was a huge consequence russia found a.b.m. missiles being put in rimini and threatening it with the threat of a first strike that they might not be able to retaliate against and so russia responded. as i read by developing the same person on a cruise missiles which are what has the u.s. upset so and so bolton is wrong on. what i'm trying to pass to have toughened his stance on saudi arabia over the killing of generalists jamal khashoggi in the kingdom's istanbul consulate speaking gave the oval office on tuesday the u.s. slated to live at his house just what i've seen yet but stopped short of committing to punish syria. there are very bored. original concept.

it was carried out poorly at 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 that the worst cover up ever. and where it should have stuck 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 well the. her harsh words from donald trump now at this point people are recalling how not too far in the past just a couple weeks back he was actually emphasizing the importance of arms sales to saudi arabia we've also heard mike pompei o u.s. secretary of state speaking up and talking about the possibility of sanctions against the kingdom saudi arabia we have 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 besides entering vsa lookouts and other measures the position of donald trump has certainly evolved during the past two weeks let's kind of review how the position of the u.s. president has changed sounded to me like babies this is road killers. 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 but i have to be very severe i mean it's bad. but we'll see what happens you consider very seriously i 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

happen now there's been a strong reaction around the world we've seen a lot of top executives pull out of the key economic forum that's taking place in saudi arabia however those who are participating did not comment on the incident furthermore we've seen steve minutiae in the u.s. secretary of treasury sit down and meet with the crown prince of saudi arabia and their meeting emphasize a strategic partnership between the usa and the kingdom of saudi arabia so at this point people are waiting to see what will happen next will the united states back up these critical words of saudi arabia with action trump as waffling around simply because he really doesn't want to sanction the saudis and also he has not he still my blamed the crown prince of saudi arabia m.b.'s for any of this he said this was today said this i think the strongest comment was they just botched the cover up but he never admitted that it might be connected to the crown prince so but there

are there is a move in congress to put some sanctions on and he seems to be. furring to congress of course he has veto in our system he has veto power over any sanctions and he also if you wanted to he could put probably put on some sanctions and so just unilaterally as an executive but the strong sanctions would have to come from congress but he does have a veto power over that jamal khashoggi he was a staunch critic of they started world family had fled the gulf kingdom for the key west where he worked as a columnist for the washington post he was killed after having been called into the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul on the second of october to collect marriage documents.

as outrage over the murder grows the saudi royal family has gone into damage control they met with kids saudis son and brother on tuesday to express their condolences but journalist son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who is suspected of all cars straightening the killing of his father the saudi king was also there meanwhile the turkish president promised to bring all of those responsible to justice. the evidence that we have so far indicates that jamal khashoggi was slain in

a vicious violent murder of all those responsible from the highest level to the lowest level will be brought to justice and will give the punishment they deserve incident was not a momentary resource but rather of the result of a planned operation well former cia analyst john kerry argues holders that jamal khashoggi hide its been seriously concern for his safety and the run up to his killing i've spoken to friends of his over the past couple of weeks and they all say the same thing they all say that he was deeply worried about his own security now he wanted to fill out whatever form he needed to fill out in order to marry this turkish woman he was engaged to here in washington but he was told by the saudi embassy in washington that he had to do it at the consulate in istanbul so they lured him to istanbul and killed him inside he knew something bad could happen he was he was right the interesting thing to me is that the saudis didn't think anybody would care or didn't think anybody would notice and we know now that. the

crown prince mohammed bin some man has expressed surprise that this is become an issue at all. a british man who is taking on the u.s. military over claims he was exposed to a dangerous chemical has received his latest test results back david paterson says he has high levels of cancer me and his body acoss religion which can damage the central nervous system the first hearing in the case reportedly is due to take place later this week i received or medication for stress or high blood pressure and other ongoing saying 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 into the they have higher blood cadmium level than i did it goes and through the body it's risky to

try to that it was and to your other parts of your body it could take a month or it could take up to five years but be in the journey is very watery whether it's a small part or a large part like we worked on the floor for two weeks without any protection and may last year david who was a contractor was inspecting equipment to the base in germany he says the boxes were covered in a wide dust but no warning was given us to the nature of the powder stuff we're working with no protective gear it wasn't until a year later that the u.s. army told him it was cancer mia david filed a 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 no. 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 not here not is 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 fight 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 will happen when all happen and how bad it will be no one no one seems to care 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 have a blood tested everyone is ducking and diving and no one is taking responsibility

still to come the british government has claimed is winning the fight against faith is that not everyone is convinced about that story and rauf the great. you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

make this manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room. welcome back the u.k. government says it's winning its fight against this information and fake news in their response to a special parliamentary report but the committee behind the document says bersin isn't doing enough to battle foreign influence campaigns ounds meddling on she's an association i can now brings us the details. 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 russian 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'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 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 fifty 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. the last 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 towards the end of this year. violence and a shocking incident at a metro station in rome march tuesday evenings champions league football match between him and c.s.k. mosco one russian found was reportedly stopped in a finds outside the stadium while a collapsing escalated in the metro left at least thirty people injured r.t. sports correspondent. joins colleen gray in the studio with the details. it's a really bad night for c.s.k. moscow in rome this time not only their team lost three nil to rome a big defeat but also to very bad incidents 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 fans was stabbed two were severely injured in the fight over the russian embassy in italy later 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 this 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. been 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 straight. but it seems

that they were not if we go back to twenty fourteen there was a major scuffle outside the stadium there 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. ecuador's former president rafael correia believes there's a good chance of chance that was the blower julian assange maybe send it to the united states i came after u.s. lawmakers wrote a letter to ecuador is currently live in marino demanding he hand over the wiki leaks co-founder if you 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 isn't agreement between the. american government we were. my sort of months ago and they are really. turning over you have to remember that no science. fiction. is proven. but you do so because he said all is well it seems to me. i got it or institution for intimately because of the hayward of the east. to the american government going to turn over. american government. a song has been holed up in ecuador's london embassy since twenty 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 was since last friday a song she followed him to use against ecuador for violating his human rights he's being restricted from seeing his lawyers and communicating with the outside world and even given housekeeping rules which former president korea calls humiliating. you know and try to him. they are human they so they think. they are. these rules are really against human rights and they're trying to isolate . our embassy thanks for choosing our teens on national this hour we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines with either.

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this unique edition of crossfire we review a new and very important book john mearsheimer the great delusion liberal dreams and international realities it's a real bombshell. cross

talking the great delusion liberal dreams and international realities i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark slaughter he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have. a political analyst we spoke nick international and we have wendy's and he is a professor at the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia and the crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok glenn let me go to you first here i'm really big fan of your summer's work he is a realist what does that mean. all in political theory we have to move to man theory the political realist i believe. to explain how states behave this sense of being dependent on external situations so there's no good state or bad state based on the international distribution of power so and this contrast with the liberal theory in which we look more at the internal characteristics of state so whether or not there are democratic if there is to have economic into the pen. if the human

rights assertion is a human right. such of these two theories which competes against each other to explain how the world works. as liberal gemini and he says it's doomed to fail mark you know this is this is in many ways maritimers magnum opus of what has now been several decades of his fear of critique of the us foreign policy basically since the end of the cold war and how it has emerged not only as as the hedge in modern terms of power but it has. i would say selectively use that power to try to reshape the world in its own image rather than say the more realist notion of balancing power centers and trying to present another hedge of mine from emerging regionally it has delved into in idea.