conciliation talks with the world around afghanistan changing would come to be able to escape its bloody cycle. that was. it. was. packages containing suspected explosive devices are sent to the leading democrats including hillary clinton and barack obama as well as to c.n.n. what's being described as an act of terror the former u.s. secretary of state has expressed her concern over the incident it is a troubling time it's in. and it's a time of. deep. divisions. europe transatlantic allies canada and the u.s.

to appear on the willing to reconsider weapon sales to saudi arabia and the wake of the killing of the kingdom's dissident journalist jamal khashoggi. i'm glad to be putin's raise concerns over the future of nuclear weapons treaties with the us saying if they are abandoned it would result in nothing but a new arms race. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me the. top story this hour the associated press is reporting that u.s. congresswoman maxine waters has received a suspicious package resembling both sent to other top democrats and a major news organization on wednesday at least seven suspected explosive devices were sent to targets including hillary clinton and barack obama the new york mayor called. 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 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 even young we evacuated the lights were turned out and as we got out in the end team 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 is. and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together now this fits in

with a pattern of escalating 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 you know the 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 the u.s. president has vowed to get the both of them off 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 mistaken will message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. donald trump though he is facing a major backlash himself following the bomb threats from all giving bits he has helped to create a toke think political atmosphere and he's partly to blame c.n.n. in particular issued a highly critical statements earlier. there is a total and complete lack of understanding at the white house about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media the president and especially the white house press secretary should understand their votes matter thus far they have shown no comprehension of that there's also been a fresh wave of condemnation of trump from celebrities in hollywood american t.v.

rights have done he has even gone so far as to compare the president and his supporters to isis terrorists george soros is son has not pulled any punches either he's written an article for the new york times accusing trump of encouraging extremism and intolerance and calling for a new political discourse rejecting the demonization of opponents thomas whalen a social scientist both in university in massachusetts gave us his thoughts on the issue. because. we don't have all the facts in front of us this is all just idle speculation so i think we should take a. step back at this point the term life is just around the corner and there's a lot of. republicans are going to first take a look at the polling information or they comment i think democrats to look at their own polling and realize that among their own base voters that's

a very popular from so that's why your school in front of the strong. man he's faced accusations he was involved in the murder of saudi journalist has made his first public comments on the issue the country's crown prince claimed it was a crime with no justification. crime was really painful to all saudis . and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a 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 and turkey we are denied any knowledge of the incident for over two weeks then said he was killed in a fist fight though turkey insists the journalist was viciously murdered in a pre-planned operation he or pm powers are still refusing to cancel multibillion

dollar arms sales to saudi arabia except germany which wants others to follow suit 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're not interested in the issues related to this event don't come but this is not a press conference. it's not a press conference to react to the german chancellor. i mean all that has nothing to do with this event nothing. nothing so i want let's put some context on that front 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 that present has tried to play down those 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 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 that's worth two billion dollars it's about the obligations on the taken by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national law especially considering the un resolution which i am the head of the government and my duty is to take the legal security that we 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 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 the holding saudi arabia to account for the killing of journalist it is only acceptable in 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 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 this today the prime minister's questions well she

said she would speak to the king of saudi arabia no concrete information whether they 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. georgia because i'm on the verge defense spokesperson for the france on barb. anythings no crimes will stop europe supplying arms to riyadh. we know that there are many violations of human rights. but above all in yemen and it's not dying when you're more for just words it's time for action which means blocking saudi arabia to doing that off a 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 will wait

for further and curious it's sad but the european union and especially our french president mr munder michael is backing one of the worst country which is really doing one of the worst war in the world. meanwhile the u.s. remains the biggest exporter of alms to saudi arabia while condemning the cover up of georgie's murder donald trump stressed to be cannot make importance of continued weapon sales to riyadh cover up was one of the worst in the history of coverups. saudi arabia bit of really great oh i think 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. which i'm trying to keep his billion dollar deals with the saudis

afloat in line with his america's first mantra my downstairs takes a look at his foreign policy agenda. donald trump can be called any number of things good or 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's oman's you know 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 globalism is what 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 prove. 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 that'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 don't buy sanctions that's globalism glue lism suits chumps purposes to talk about globalism is 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. a group of investigative journalists from the gray zone project claimed they have found a link between an influential u.s. funded think tank and facebook's recent purge of alternative media sources sociologist jeb sprog claims that during a security conference in berlin he spoke to jamie fly a senior fellow at the german marshall fund about the crackdown or during that conversation spark alleges that fly let slip that facebook's purge was not actually about spam prevention as the social media giant claims. russia china and

other foreign states take advantage of 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 following the conference progress an article with journalist max blumenthal detailing the conversation we spoke to max blumenthal about the claims this is part and parcel of a campaign run by national security hardliners under the guise of civil society groups like the german marshall fund in the atlantic council to impose their control over social media platforms that really represent the digital commons and one of the all places where alternative media sites can get around the mainstream media and disseminate their material. earlier this month facebook and twitter

deleted the accounts of hundreds of uses him their cues to spam ing and inauthentic behavior a number of popular pages dedicated to exposing police brutality and u.s. foreign policy abuses were among those removed from the explosion in fall again believes we'll continue to see alternative media being targeted based on the comments from jamie fly this is just the beginning that we will witness a vast expansion of the purging of social media accounts of alternative websites and users who express dissident views on facebook and twitter and other social media outlets and there's very little that can be done about it given that these are private platforms that are not government regulated not subjected to first amendment protections. but i mean thirteen has responded to u.s. plans to quit a key told war era nuclear weapons treaty warning that the entire structure of

international arms control is being destroyed it comes after years of washington accusing russia of violating the i.n.f. treaty something moscow's 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 vladimir 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. to europe 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 we say the united states to 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 the historic treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven

between the then soviet union and the u.s. under the agreement all shorten mid range nuclear and conventional missiles were eliminated apart from those who launched it see. a number of countries across the world have already condemned the u.s. moving clued in germany austria and france we've spoken to form a tally in foreign minister franco for teenage and he warns that trumps decision poses a real danger. italy should be really conservative about the possible the siege and to be taken by president trump on i.m.f. debt could be a decision their dream going in stability and so service of a concert i hope that our prime minister will come third to president putin the italia concert about such as does he anyway there would be less security there would be more instability there would be

a vicious circle two wars more political regime and seems no border today is already threatened by asking magic threats what exactly we don't need to have i would say a bad b. d. probably for a show a common strategy that would be a step back very that it's not only italy should but also korea france germany has this press obviously their concerns and they would say negative opinion about the possibility dead america will really think about i am at. a u.s. senator is demanding an investigation into a string of political assassinations in yemen which were allegedly carried out by u.s. mercenaries on behalf of the united arab emirates elizabeth warren has questioned

the legality of the soldiers' activities in the war torn country and wants to know whether officials in washington knew what was going on. i'm also disturbed by the possibility that the u.s. government may have endorsed or tacitly allowed current or former service members to engage in this kind of militarized contract killing abroad this spy be appearing a black ability of the u.s. law to their targeted legal actions the call comes after buzz feed published an article detailing the alleged activities of the spear operations group the new site also released drone first it purportedly showing one of its operations in which its soldiers attempted to kill the leader of an islamist party that the u.a.e. views as a terrorist group the report claims some of the mercenaries are admitted their involvement in the or first thing they were part of a targeted assassination program paid for by the u.a.e. medea benjamin of the antiwar group code pink gave us her thoughts on the legality

of their actions. with think that hiring people to go and murder people overseas would obviously be against the law but there's a gray area because us people are allowed to go practice it paid in foreign military if it's an allied military and so they are pretending that these americans were part of and were it 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. it fit an oil leak this going on for fourteen years in the gulf of mexico could become america's was

devil and viral mental disaster it was in two thousand and four when hurricane ivan slammed into florida's gulf coast so they really damaging an offshore drilling operation just off louisiana however the company in charge managed to cover up the incident for a whole six years as. thanks thanks. thanks. flying over the gulf of mexico our research spots of oil coated gas bubbling up miles long slick people are not the only ones who call the now polluted waters hole and for the indigenous animals there are countless birds and wildlife the stakes

are high life or death time is rather. i suppose the big difference is that deep water horizon there was a big explosion and people got killed instantly and and then the loss of oil was released extremely rapidly in the case at the time look. first the original incident was and you see. it was in the context of her and her and both the company and the american regulators managed to keep the entire incident pretty quiet and it's one of those no accidents which is. bought over the cool for years with this man you said it was a daily of oil being leaked into the coast it adds up to being the same kind of

food as the roads and. back in twenty fifteen the company in question said that there was no evidence to suggest an ongoing leak or any significant environmental damage it hasn't given any further explanation since generalist all of a take all the again says even routine oil spill edges results in huge damage. the gulf is currently producing something something like twenty percent of america's oil is rather a highly rated maxence refiners breaking out every few days there is a rate of oil spill each with routines pollutants in the hundreds of thousands of pounds per year to just remove all new york. and this entire gulf coast is high and industrial used and it is bound to be unique in concert amounts of modes and also its environmental impacts impact other industries which are also tourism and fisheries and show finish this tens of thousands of miles of oil pipelines

transects in this entire region and if you've got a pipeline then you were burned two hundred leaks so i think i thought all the latest headlines at the top of the alistair that. joined me everything on the alex salmond show i'll be speaking to yes of the world of politics all this i will show business i'll see that.