but i never thought in a million years i would see that. it's happened. to roughly. twelve euros fifty per month. and acts of terror how the mayor of new york describes a series of bomb scares involving suspicious packages sent to bill and hillary clinton barack obama. former secretary of state hillary clinton has responded that americans are living in a divisive time. it is a troubling time. and it's a time of. deep. division this year upon its

transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear unwilling to reconsider weapons sales to saudi arabia that's in the wake of the killing of the kingdom's journalist jamal khashoggi. and vladimir putin has raised concerns over the future of nuclear weapons treaties with the u.s. saying if there are abandoned it could result in nothing but a new arms race arms race. you're watching live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are today thanks for joining us on the program. at least seven suspicious packages have been sent to politicians on a major news organization in the u.s. it was revealed that the packages contained explosive devices in new york call the incident an act of terror. this is a very painful time. in our nation. it's a time when people are feeling a lot of hatred in the air in addition to new york city mayor bill de blasio we

have heard from the n.y.p.d. as counterterrorism chief and he has confirmed that four of the explosive devices that arrived in suspicious packages seem to have the same source the devices that were sent to barack obama and to the home of hillary and bill clinton the device that was detonated on monday at the home of billionaire george soros and the device that was found at c.n.n. headquarters all seem to have the exact same source they seem to have come from the same person the device was capable of going off these are pipe bomb like explosives now we're also hearing at that at this point in addition to the package containing the explosive there's also been a package containing suspicious white powder discovered at the c.n.n. headquarters explosive devices had to have projectiles and that's or. excuse me that sounds like a fire alarm here we'll keep you posted on that they didn't tell. me and back you laid it the lights were turned out and as we got out. the end of the month we both

still evacuated in addition to that we're hearing that at this point andrew cuomo new york city governor his office has had a package discovered at the office of maxine waters prominent democrat in california has been evacuated the office of debbie wasserman schultz former chair of the democratic national committee in florida has also been evacuated now hillary clinton has spoken up in response to today's events talking about divisiveness in u.s. politics this is hillary clinton but it is a troubling time isn't it. and it's a time of deep. division. and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together now this fits in with a pattern of escalating vote political. violence throughout the united states out there have been a number of elected officials both democrats and republicans who have received hateful threats you know we've seen shootings and other incidents now most recently

we heard from rand paul the wife of senator rand paul talking about how she has taken some extra precautions in light of all the threats that she and her husband have received that this is the wife of a u.s. senator from kentucky you know we've updated all of our security systems that we put a loaded gun by my bad. information is continuing to surface and we do know that the time warner building in columbus circle in new york city is still evacuated at this point and a lot of questions are being raised people are wondering what exactly is happening but as of now we do have this word from the n.y.p.d. as counterterrorism chief that at least four of the explosive devices probably have the same source in the meantime the u.s. president has vowed to get to the bottom of the incident saying this is no place for political violence in the country in these times we have to unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistaken bill message that

acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america political affairs and media commentary to lynelle believes the timing of these attacks is no coincidence. the term our lads what twelve days thirteen days of november the sixth the term allowed she ends right now back to the democrats this is a very important time because look look what is c.n.n. governor cuomo the office i believe hillary clinton eric holder i believe president obama george soros. you don't need columbo to figure out who the targets of these are today when you have the democratic mayor of new york the democratic governor of new york and you have those who are standing around speaking along with hillary

clinton later. and you hear this particular way of saying that this is because of the rhetoric the the language of the not so veiled we know exactly what this is and we know exactly what they're talking about this is trump they should just write i'm talking about trump. he's faced accusations he was involved in the mother of a saudi dissident john list. has made his first public comments on the issue the country's crown prince claimed it was a crime with no justification the crime was really painful to all saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime the cannot be justified and we know that many. are trying to. use this painful thing to create to drive

a wedge between saudi arabia in turkey. riya denied any knowledge of the incident for over two weeks then said he was killed in a fistfight there turkey insists the journalist was viciously murdered in a pre-planned operation key european powers are refusing to cancel multi-billion dollar arms sales to saudi arabia that's with the exception of germany which wants other countries to follow its example however the french president to when asked about his intentions refused to give a clear answer. i don't have to react to every single statement so i won't answer that question. if you are interested in the issues related to this event. but this is not impress. me it's not a press conference to react to all german chancellor. i mean all that has nothing to do with this event nothing and. nothing so i want let's get some context on that front says one of the biggest sellers of defense in all of this

equipment in the world and saudi arabia is one of its biggest clients despite the fact the president has tried to play down the trade relations between the two countries the figures don't lie between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen deals with more than twelve billion dollars was struck between the two countries but it seems that doesn't want to have a discussion about that nor a discussion about suspending those possible deals between the two countries and that seems to be a similar thing that we're hearing in spain where they have said that they will not deal with saudi arabia worth two billion dollars. by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national especially considering the un resolution if you meant that i am the head of the government now. legal security not permission to comply with international

obligations and it will be well it seems that that's a similar view that's being taken by the canadians now they have deals with saudi arabia that are worth almost twelve billion dollars and the prime minister there justin trudeau has said that he's more concerned about the cancellation fee which is around one billion dollars if they decide not to go ahead with that contract then roll that than holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalists . it is only acceptable and only thinkable that someone could have murdered a journalist on foreign soil like this i do not want to leave canadians holding a billion dollar bill because we're trying to move forward on doing the right thing seems not much also coming from beginning to that which is the second biggest supplier of arabia just behind me us with heels worth around fifteen billion

dollars now the idea of sanctions it was a muted by the foreign secretary jeremy hunt but no clear indication of what those sanctions could be over whether they'll be applied when the prime minister for reasons may was questioned about the. prime minister's questions when she said she would be ticking over saudi arabia the new concrete insulation where today would be sanctions against the country it seems with the worry germany is the only country it's going alone and putting its neck out in suspending and canceling these contracts. because one of its defense spokesperson for the front paws you thinks no crimes will stop europe supplying arms to riyadh. we know that there were many violations of human rights in saudi arabia but above all in yemen and it's not dying when you more for just words it's time for action which means blocking saudi arabia to doing that off to war that is killing thousands hundreds of

thousands of people and millions of children are starving there is no such thing as european diplomacy there won't be further inquiries and i think that just buying time by saying that they would wait for further and curious it's sad but the european union and especially our french president mr munder michel he's backing one of the worst country which is really doing one of the worst war in the world. i mean while the u.s. remains the biggest exporter of arms to saudi arabia while condemning the cover up of the total trump stressed the economic importance of continued weapon sales to really. cover up was one of the worst in the history of coverups. saudi arabia is a bit of a really great ally they say that one of the biggest investors maybe the biggest investor in our country. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of

investments and you know so many jobs so many jobs thousands and thousands of jobs they've been funding a lot of things. and with trump trying to keep his billion dollar deals with the saudis afloat in line with his america first mantra as the f. takes a closer look at his foreign policy agenda. donald trump can be called any number of things good bad it all depends on which side you're on interesting really enough though it's donald trump that keeps giving donald trump new titles a global. is a person that wants the globe to do well frankly not caring about our country somas you know what i am a nationalist. kind of obvious if you think about it what with all this talk of greatness walls and how special exceptional americans

are it's going to be only america first american people first america's interests above all else. now if i may mr president you seem to be confused about what those words mean it's right there in any dictionary globalism a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence a globalist is someone who treats the entire world as a playground making national decisions which affect the international community in simple terms google ism is when mr trump tells south korea meaning outside america that they can't lift sanctions their own sanctions on north korea

without his permission they will do without her broom they do nothing without her proven and by the way u.s. sanctions which basically force everyone to abide by them because of how the dollar works by definition a globalist venture you know what else is globalist war invading other countries the us currently. fighting in seven wards it's really really globalist as well. the united states military's one of the most globalist organizations in the world it has bases in roughly every third country one in three nations

has a u.s. military base in it that isn't nationalism that's good lobel ism i just want to see them as well straighten out regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military regime change we're placing or helping replace governments you just don't like by arming local rebels to the teeth or financing the opposition don't by sanctions that's globalism glue lism suits chumps purposes to talk about globalism as the enemy but if you look at the politics it's anything but nationalist trumps attitude to the world as an individual is that he should have complete sovereignty and that includes sovereignty abuse the sovereignty of others you know he wants america to be able to go and do business wherever they want he wants to be able to remove regimes that he doesn't like he wants to act truly globally but in the national interest as donald trump himself can save that he is

a fun fact the word globalism its modern meaning was first used to describe us imperialism after the second world war the way the united states which wasn't destroyed by the war like europe dominated in international trade pushing its products its ideology its politics on every what it could they called it american globalism. hearing mr trump who believes in returning america back to its glory days say that he isn't a globalist is like hearing the pope say with a straight face that really isn't catholic. mother putin has responded to u.s. plans to quote a key cold war era nuclear weapons treaty warning that the entire structure of international arms control is being destroyed as comes after years of washington accusing russia of violating the i.n.f. treaty something moscow has always denied. we're concerned over the

dissolution of the antiballistic missile treaty now the same thing can happen to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and the fate of these strategic goals reduction treaty is also not clear if all of that's destroyed nothing will remain in that area nothing will remain except an arms race with the russian president has somewhat confirmed what military experts have been warning for quite a while for now since the u.s. president warned that he wanted to leave the i.n.f. treaty because right now this document is viewed as a cornerstone of global stability i should say pretty much all over the world the united states do not see that way they believe at least according to trump's national security adviser john bolton just yesterday here in moscow he said well according to the united states the treaty is expendable they accused russia of violating it and they say that a lot more countries like for example china should be part of this right now

bilateral agreement between russia and the united states but according to glad i'm important this is something europe has to rely on when it comes to security and this is has been echoed by many european countries to have a listen to how the russian president formulated it. when it comes to europe the main question is if the u.s. pulls out of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty what will they do with these missiles if they bring them to europe we will have to have tit for tat measures and european countries should understand that they expose their territories to risk according to the russian president if europe allows the united states to deploy its shortened mid range nuclear missiles on their territory they could become target of a retaliation attack if it comes down to a military throw down the russian president also added that whatever steps washington takes russia will have to give a mirrored response so if say the united states decide. to bolster their military

capability russia will have to do the same also according to vladimir putin it apparently will be difficult to convince the united states to reconsider their decision to pull out of this deal because the pentagon has already budgeted for it they've already funded some research that will allow the expansion in these assured and mid range nuclear missiles which are banned under the treaty but still the russian president has tried to remain optimistic there are still doors open and he plans to discuss this with his american counterpart donald trump in november in paris as you go were saying that historic treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven between the then soviet union and the u.s. under that agreement all short and mid range nuclear and conventional missile also were eliminated apart from those launch that see a number of countries across the world have already condemned the u.s.

move that includes germany austria and france we spoke to former italian foreign minister for uncalled for a teeny you want to trump decision poses a real danger. each only should be really concerned about the possible seizure to be taken by president trump on i.m.f. debt could be a decision their dream going instability and saw service of a concert i hope that our prime minister will come third to president putin the entire concert about such as decision anyway there will be less security there will be more instability there will be a vicious circle two wars more slowly for a show and seems new order today is already threatened by asking metric threats what exactly we don't need to have i would say

a back he'd be trolling for a show common strategy that would be a step back very that it's not only italy should but also korea france germany that this press absolutely their concerns and they would say negative opinion about the possibility dead america will really think about ins. and we also heard expert analysis from the director of the world around stockholm international peace research institute dan smith he told my colleague andrew farmer the foundations of international arms controls will now have to be rebuilt. i think that what we're seeing is that an architecture of arms control that was put together around the end of the cold war that consisted of the i.n.f. treaty the conventional forces in europe treaty from capping numbers of heavy

weapons non-nuclear weapons on both sides the presidential nuclear initiatives and the strategic arms reduction treaty building on foundations of the a.b.m. treaty that was an architecture which has given us peace and security of an unexpected mixture of all time for the last nearly three decades the a.b.m. treaty was abrogated by the us in two thousand and two russia effectively pulled out of the c.f.c. the conventional forces treaty in twenty six again now the u.s. is pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty and the strategic arms reduction treaty only last until twenty twenty one and currently there are no talks to prolong it so the architecture as a whole is in serious difficulty and that's where we should be directing attention towards rebuilding those achievements so when you hear the u.s. say it will increase its nuclear capacity unless quote other countries come to their senses. to say that sort of is a double edged sword

a sort of threat but also say a sort of come on let's talk about this. i think it may be meant that way but i do think that only some of the countries in which that's directed will surface of all see the threatening side rather than they kind of the more the more peaceful side to it. is feared an oil leak that's gone on for some fourteen years in the gulf of mexico could become america's worst ever environmental disaster back in two thousand and four hurricane ivan slammed into florida's gulf coast severely damaging an offshore drilling operation just off louisiana however the company in charge managed to cover up the incident for to. six years.

thanks. lying over the gulf of mexico. coated gas and bubbling in a miles long sled people are not the only ones who call the now polluted waters for the indigenous animals their countless birds and wildlife the stakes are high life or death time is rather. i suppose the big difference is that with deepwater horizon there was a big explosion and people got killed and so instantly hit head on and then the loss of oil was released extremely rapidly in the case of the time the plant. first the original incident didn't cruise and you'll see. it was in the context of

major her and her and both the company and the american regulators managed to keep the entire incident pretty quiet it's one of those no running accidents which is. really cool. but over the cool some fourteen years with this menu seven hundred marios a diary of oil being leaked into the coast it adds up to being the same kind of food as that was with roads and. back in twenty fifteen the company in question said that there was no evidence to suggest that ongoing leak or in fact any significant environmental damage it hasn't given any further explanation since then journalist all of it to kill again says even routine oil spill is resulting huge environmental damage. the gulf is currently producing something something like twenty percent of americans or rather a highly rated max through fires breaking out. with

routines pollutants in the hundreds of thousands of ground that you just threw in new york. and this entire gulf coast is highly industrial and it is bound. to months more to do so is environmental impacts impact other industries which are also tourism issues show foolish tens of thousands of miles of oil pipelines transect to this entire region and if you've got a pipeline. two hundred leaks. the supporters association of the football club c.s.k. moscow has announced it's going to sue authorities in rome that's after escalator on the city's metro system went into freefall injuring as many as twenty four people and the head of a champions league game in the city between c.s.k. the sub was authorities have yet to release any security footage which might show

what exactly caused the incident the italian authorities though including the deputy prime minister and the mayor of rome playing to russian fans might have caused it by jumping and dancing on the escalator the russian fans insist new video taken by witness doesn't show any one behaving out of the ordinary only captures of course what appears to be the moment the escalator starts to fail. now that comes out to a region in russia's far east is home to some of the world's most the most breathtaking natural wonders and also to one fearless dog who's not afraid of striking up unusual friendships.

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