reconciliation talks with the world around afghanistan changing will the country be able to escape its bloody cycle. packages containing suspected explosive devices are sent to hillary clinton barack obama a number of other prominent democrats as well as c.n.n. and what's described as an act of terror the former u.s. secretary of state has expressed her concerns over the incident. it is a troubling time this. it's a. deep. division europe and its transatlantic allies canada and the u.s. appear unwilling to reconsider weapons sales to saudi arabia in the wake of the

killing of the kingdom's journalist. and raise concerns over the future of nuclear weapons treaties with the us saying if there abandoned it would result in nothing but a new arms race. welcome to all things a national life from moscow i am here in the russian capital and i know hawkins thanks for joining us this hour straight to our top headline for this hour at least seven suspicious packages have been sent to politicians as well as a major news organization in the u.s. it was revealed that the packages contained explosive devices in new york call the incidents 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 cnn's 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 made it. out we evacuated the lights were turned out and as we got out in the end he might 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 got data and all of our security systems that we put a loaded gun by my bad. information is continuing to surface 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 now the president has vowed to get to the bottom of the incident saying there's 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 mistake

message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america but it's going to media commentary to law and believes the timing of these attacks is no coincidence. the term our lab sharon's what twelve days thirteen days of november the sixth the term allowed sharon's right now we're looking to see will the house of representatives in the congress shift back to the democrats this is a very important time because look look what is c.n.n. governor cuomo his 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 on. and you hear this particular way of saying that this is because of the regular way the the language of hate that not so veiled and we know exactly what this is we know exactly what they're talking about this is trump there they should just right i'm talking about trump. now the man who's faced accusations he was involved in the murder of the saudi dissident journalist jamal khashoggi 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 that is. 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 and turkey really denied any knowledge of the incident for over two weeks then. was killed in a fistfight. the journalist was viciously murdered in a pre-planned operation key european powers are refusing to cancel multibillion dollar arms sales to saudi arabia except germany which wants other countries to follow its example however the french president when asked about his intentions refused to answer the question. 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 a press conference. and it's not a press conference to react to the german chancellor. all that has nothing to do with this event nothing. nothing so i want let's put some

context on that france is one of the biggest sellers of defense on 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 figure is 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. to have a discussion about that nor a discussion about suspending 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 could. a deal with saudi arabia that's worth two billion dollars if the obligations are going to take them by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national especially considering the un resolution if i am the head of the government now my duty is to take legal security that will not

have 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 justin trudeau has said that these are more concerned about the cancellation fee which is around one billion dollars if they decide not to go ahead with that contract then rolled out the holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable and think 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 the arabia just behind me us with heels worth around fifteen billion

dollars now the idea of sanctions was following 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 to resign may was questioned about the. prime minister's questions when she said. looking over saudi arabia the new concrete insulation would be sanctions against the country it seems that they were germany is the only country it's going alone and putting its neck out in suspending and canceling these contracts. of its defense spokesman for the front party 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 time anymore for just words it's time for action which means blocking

saudi arabia to doing that old fool war that is killing thousands and hundreds of thousands of people and millions of children are starving there is no such thing as european diplomacy there won't be further and griese and i think that just buying time by saying that they will wait for further and curious it's sad but the european union and especially our french president mr munder michael he's backing one of the worst country which is really doing one of the worst war in the world. meanwhile the us remains the biggest exporter of alms to saudi arabia while condemning the coverup of murder donald trump stressed the economic importance of continued weapons sales to riyadh. cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. 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 was trying trying to keep his billion dollar deals with the saudis afloat in line with his america fast mantra but i guess the if 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 globalist 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 or approve they do nothing without proof and by the way us 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 local rebels to the teeth or financing the opposition or by sanctions that's globalism glue lism suits trumps purpose is 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. so 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 shrewd face that really isn't catholic. it's been alleged that a leading u.s. foreign policy hardliner has appeared to claim some credit for a recent facebook purge of alternative media sources the claim was made by jeb spragg a so shortages that the university of california santa barbara in an article he

penned with journalist max blumenthal's sprague alleges that jamie fly of the german marshall fund suggested to him at a security conference that he was part of a pushback against alleged fake news the authors of the article believe flies comments show that facebook's purge was not about spam prevention as it claimed but cracking down on subversive views russia china and other foreign states take advantage of our open political system they can invent stories that get repeated and spread through different sites so we're just starting to push back just this last week facebook began starting to take down sites so this is just the beginning . earlier this month facebook and twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users who they accused of spamming and in authentic behavior a number of popular alternative media outlets dedicated to exposing police brutality and u.s. foreign policy abuses were also among those removed would be flying he was alleged

of taken some credit for the purge is an influential foreign policy figure currently serves as a senior fellow of the german marshall fund which claims to promote the strengthening of transatlantic corp he was previously an adviser to the george w. bush administration and also a foreign policy consultant for senator marco rubio during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign. go live now to mark's broom of the investigative journalist who coauthored that article mark thanks for joining us today on r.t. to what extent do you think this facebook was political i mean how influential are these think tanks in the digital sphere. well jamie fly who you describe pretty accurately as one of the most hard line neo cons in washington. is someone who has been heavily involved not just through the german marshall fund which is funded by the u.s.

government and western governments but through a subdivision of the marshall fund called the alliance for securing democracy in ginning up the fear of russian bots and he's been out there in public alongside a former adviser to the hillary clinton campaign laura rosenberg are doing a lot of interviews urging the government to take down what he considers to be russian influence accounts and what we saw take place what we've seen taken place since the defeat of hillary clinton and the victory of donald trump is an effort to identify not just russian backed media but alternative media as part of a russian influence campaign including through groups like the alliance for securing democracy where which fly overseas and so fly is actually called for scrubbing the internet of what he calls for interviews so his comments to jeb sprague my co-author were really not out of character for him and these were very candid comments and it does suggest that what we saw take place on facebook with

the takedown of legitimate alternative media sites like the freethought project and anti media was a politically motivated purge driven by these russia gate neo conservative hardliners jump spread use the woods we do you think it may have been the case he was talking about the united states as a whole rather than his think tank specifically. you know it could be that that jamie fly was referring to it in a general sense but then his prediction that this is just the beginning suggested for a knowledge of future purges but we have to understand the role that his organization the alliance for securing democracy under the auspices of the german marshall fund is playing in hyping up the fear of russian bots and then going around and urging not just governments but social media platforms to cleanse themselves of these digital evil doers beyond that i pointed to

a specific initiative which emerged suddenly it's out of the blue i'm sure artie's covered it after donald trump's victory called proper not and this anonymous shadowy initiative produced a mccarthyite blacklist of something like eighty alternative media sites accusing them all of being russian influence accounts but very few of them had any connection to the russian government i mean we're talking about counterpunch as well as some of the sites that were removed this month like the freethought project so this anonymous shadowy blacklist appears to have been used as a guide for facebook and that shows to me another connection between you know politically motivated campaign driven by national security hardliners funded by western governments and the purges we're seeing on social media platforms like facebook and twitter which are obviously coordinated interesting to see if the social media poses do consider the future as well with all of us going to

journalists thanks for your take on the story here today. well calls being in the u.s. for an investigation into the alleged activities of american muscle or ease any given we'll have more on that story after the short break. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. wanted. to do like to be close it's like the before katrina more people. interested

in the walls of our. city. international a u.s. democratic senator has demanded an investigation into whether u.s. must regroup was hired by the united arab emirates to assassinate political opponents in yemen. i'm also disturbed by the possibility that the u.s.

government may have indorsed or tacitly allow current or former service members to engage in this kind of militarized contract killing abroad despite the apparent apply could be wary of the u.s. law to their targeted lethal actions or the call comes after digital publication buzz feed released dramatic drone footage allegedly showing an operation to assassinate the leader of an islamist party allied to saudi arabia according to the report the attack was conducted by the speer operations group and its founders admitted their involvement to the media outlets claimed that there was a targeted assassination program in yemen and it was sanctioned by the u.a.e. let's now cross live to move there benjamin a co-founder of group code pink thanks for joining us medea good to have you on the program today do you think the activities of these american mercenaries if confirmed of course violate u.s. law. well it depends it's

a gray area you would think they're hiring people to go and murder people received would obviously be against the law but there's a gray area because u.s. people are allowed to go practice at the in foreign military if it's an allied military and so they are pretending that means americans were part of the emirate military to give them cover but i think this is a thin layer of cover if you take that as what it is which is just a justification it really is individuals being hired by a private company to commit assassination and there are a number of us laws that would make that illegal certainly gives a new angle on things that i mean if there is an investigation and if this is convert confirmed to be true do you think this could have implications you know in the wider plan for private security in the united states and abroad as well.

unfortunately the us has been a leader in the privatization of the military we have seen that with private companies being used to support the drone operations we see it in the use of private companies to maintain the equipment and certainly things like feeding logistics for our military or receives but this is gone a step too far they are they are allowed as foreign companies to provide to act as guards at security and these other kinds of support positions but not to act as combatants and that is what it seems to have been taking place in yemen so yes it will be interesting to see how far this goes going to because the state department is supposed to regulate the companies that provide the military services to foreign nations abroad etc do you think it was likely that

it wasn't aware of these operations or this particular operation in yemen could this really be the case that this was. some sort of rogue operation or a one off. we don't know that's why it's so important that senator warren is asking whether the state department was aware of this whether this was something sanctioned by the state department or not and this will help determine the legality of this but just on the face value of it i think it's a harmful thing that u.s. soldiers who have been trained in afghanistan and iraq and certainly there are tens of thousands of these special operations people who are with groups like the navy seals now many of them unemployed could be looking for and finding a very lucrative job by going overseas and assassinating people and who knows you know where these targets were picked this was picked by the emirates these were people with the al east la

a party that is criticize bating in the government in fact they got over twenty percent of the vote in the last elections so how could it be possibly be legal that they could be allowed to take this private security firm whether or not it was sanctioned by the state department to just be picking off people that somebody in the emirates decided they were terrorists so we will see i think it's very important to know whether the state department indeed knew about this or not sure it'll be interesting to see if the recent escalation and if there is of course what it doesn't cover madame benjamin code pink co-founder thanks we'll take that i am a story thank you. putin has responded to u.s. plans to quit cold war era nuclear weapons treaty if you want the entire structure of international arms control is being destroyed this comes after years of

washington accusing russia of violating the on off 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 is 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 us 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 a putin this is something that 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 tipped 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.