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division. with just over a week before the. arrest a suspect in connection with a spate of. bombings targeting prominent critics. the week's top stories on the main headlines of today welcome to the weekly on r.t. international. and while the saudi arabia keeps changing its story in the case of a journalist. who was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey seems to be way ahead in the investigation of president says that he was murdered in a violent manner that was politically motivated. our security and intelligence service is still analyzing the info they have it's

already clear that the murder of jamal khashoggi. since this is a political assassination we also call for the inclusion of possible foreign accomplices. the saudi royal family has met with. the brothers to express their condolences to the journalists eldest son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who was suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father and with the saudi king and later in the week he left. saudi arabia for washington according to sources at the u.s. president this week condemned the cover up. but still stressed the economic importance of continued weapons sales to. cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. saudi arabia has been a really great ally they've been 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. thousands and thousands of jobs

they've been funding go a lot of things. changing explanations are being met with much criticism from the west but key european powers are refusing to console multibillion dollar sales for saudi arabia so far germany is the only exception. i agree with all those who say that exports which are already limited must not take place in the concept. and i don't have to react to every single statement lida makes so i won't answer that question. if you are interested in the issues related to this event come but this is not suppressed. 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 get some context on that front says one of the biggest sellers of defense and on this

equipment in the world and saudi arabia is one of its biggest clients despite the fact that president has tried to play down the trade relations between the two countries the figure is light between two thousand and eight and two thousand and seventeen deals with more than twelve billion dollars was struck 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 if it's about the obligations are going to take them by the previous government which correspond to the demands of international national law especially considering the un resolution on the head of the government now my duty is to take care of legal security and to comply with international obligations and it. 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 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 rolled out 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 the begin the united kingdom which is the second biggest supplier of 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 this

all she said is that he would speak to the king of saudi arabia no concrete information or whether they would be sanctions against the country it seems when they were in germany is the only country it's going alone and putting its neck out in suspending and canceling these contracts with georgia because my bridge defense spokes person for the france party says there's way too much money. involved and no crimes will stop europe from supplying weapons to rio. we know that there are 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 and i think that just buying time by saying that they would wait for further and furious it's sad but the european union and especially our french president mr munder michael he's backing one of the

worse it can tree which is we're doing one of the worst war in the world. with donald trump trying to keep his multibillion dollar deals with the saudis afloat of course in line with his america first mantra auntie's and without gas deal takes a look at his wider foreign policy ambitions. 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 globalists is a person that wants to float to do well frankly not caring about our country so much you know what i am a nationalist ok. 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 inches 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 and national policy of treating the whole world as. the 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 but they won't do it without her approval they do nothing

without her approval 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 to all 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 by sanctions that's globalism glow lism chance purposes to talk about globalism as the enemy but you if you look at. 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 u.s.

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 straight face that really he isn't catholic. during a summit on syria just on saturday it was decided by france germany russia and turkey that the ceasefire in italy province should be preserved and the region is the last militant stronghold in the entire country fearing a resumption of hostilities many of the three million civilians are currently live in it live i continue to flee on a daily basis. we

were living in a camp life was difficult there was no aid no bread no water everything was scarce the situation was terribly bad well look here is barely any shelter in winter and in summer you would suffer from the heat that was our life. well. particularly concerned about the possibility of escalation. of violence in that there are up to three million people living in this province. there would simply result in a humanitarian disaster. we have all known for a very long time that this. continues to be the war conflict that we see very very

long and yet there doesn't appear to be sufficient political convergence to bring this conflict to an end so i truly hope that we will now see the end of this conflict so that humanitarian aid can finally reach all the people of syria who are sold desperately longing for peace if anything needs are just going to grow in the coming months and years and we. continue our effort at the same level as in the past few years and during the summit the leaders discussed humanitarian aid constitutional reform and free elections the four sides called for syrians to take center stage in their country's peace process and stressed the importance of preserving syrian sovereignty on a slightly lighter note despite the sticking points it seemed there was some good chemistry between the leaders.

call it. the real significant meeting is that it was held at all and in this format of russia and turkey germany coming together for the first time in this format was there also a parroting the u.s. position. very fact that she and my crone attended does give us some hope for the

longer they will participate in the recovery period once key and russia have settled issue as a result of the neat thing russia and turkey have drawn closer together. that the future of syria would have to be decided by the syrian people alone so he has come off to the show and. has no future leader. shoes whether flung at speakers all banged on podiums make the occasional appearance in politics and now after the e.u. rejected italy's proposed new budget it was the turn of one italian m.e.p. to put his foot or rather put his shootdown.

it is the first time the european commission has rejected any member state's budget proposal the bloc gave three weeks to revise its spending plans and the old courthouse breaks down the dispute it. brussels is sharpening its knife in preparation for a new battle with rome for the first time the e.u. has flat out rejected a member states budget demanding a resubmission. for the first as a commission is obliged to a. country that it was off budget to be blunt. but we seen no alternative to it all and to do so it is in. the interest of whole. the e.u. claims that italy's debt situation is out of control and that solving these government needs to tighten its purse strings and fulfill its obligations the euro

skeptics say it doesn't have anything to do with money since there are other states with bloated budgets that have never felt such a heavy hand from brussels this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels. you tell me an economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy distributing needs we won't change one comma in this document the reason to. be going through that that we are in. the. on. the future. spain belgium portugal and slovenia have all been in violation of the e.u. agreements in the past and for years france has broken the three percent deficit threshold imposed on it by the e.u. as for debt it's been in the red since two thousand and two and only this year the

second largest european economy received a carefully worded letter in response asking all very politely to reduce its debts . we thank you for sending the fronts twenty nineteen draft budget that we received on october fifteenth we would like to ask you for more details the commission's preliminary assessment also indicates that the growth rate for france does not respect the reference rate of debt reduction in twenty nineteen so italy refused to be taken to heel by this double standard. except the e.u. commissioner in charge of budgets didn't seem to find the stunt very funny even connecting the italian shushan and against to a potential quick path to fascism the episode of the made in italy shoe is grotesque at first you smile and we trivialize it because it's ridiculous but then we start getting used to this kind of muted symbolic violence and one day we wake up with fascism stay alert democracy is

a fragile treasure all the draft budget would have seen over five hundred million dollars worth of cuts to defense spending while putting more money towards social welfare and tax cuts not exactly a sound way to revive fascism and certainly not a good way to be a shoo in with the new donald quarter r.t. and the plenty more still to come here on the weekly on r.t. international including the f.b.i. arrested a suspect in connection with a string of pipe bombs sent to top democrats that story and so much more in just. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only really. i

don't see it. will be very critical. to sit down. coming up with a lot of statements saying that the arab states of the gulf should take care of the middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's a lot of incoherence there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think. it's not going to change the status of america's polls if you.

are with us today for the weekly. president a fresh batch of threats directed at russia and china just days after he announced the u.s. would withdraw from a cold war era nuclear treaty american president also repeated his. saying that moscow was in breach of the. right here the agreement should have been done years ago so people come here for money that anybody else. will build it up until they come to this when they then told me. that by the way not only. that i must go when it's insists it has not violated the nuclear treaty saying it's washington that's not been hearing to it nevertheless russia still sees the i.n.f. accord as vital and says it should be preserved under the agreement signed back in

one thousand nine hundred eighty seven all shorthand mid range nuclear and conventional missiles were eliminated with the exception of those launched at sea a move to ditch the i.n.f. does not sit well with america's european allies as they fear the continent's security will be severely undermined. the announcement by the u.s. that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f. agreement has been an important pillar of our european security architecture for thirty years for us in europe it's of great importance we call on the u.s. to consider the possible consequences if u.s. and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of course is crucial for europe's and global security the problem is as others have pointed out in particular this is a problem i think for europeans that this treaty was designed to prevent or

reduce the risk of nuclear weapons being used by the nuclear threshold being lowered and not should we say long range heavy nuclear weapons being used against the united states and the soviet union or today russia but that with the shorter range weapons it would be europe western europe that would become the nuclear battlefield and there's some concern i think a great deal of concern amongst all european leaders except the united kingdom who yesterday have stated that they support the american position predictably enough there is concern that this reduces the prospects for nuclear disarmament increases risks for western europe and its people. shortly after trump announced america's imminent pullout the u.s. national security adviser john bolton flew here to moscow to discuss the new security reality on monday he held talks with top russian security officials and on tuesday bolton and met with president clinton and although the subject at hand was

certainly no laughing matter was still some room for a little humor. as far as i remember there is an eagle on the us national emblem and there are thirteen hours in one foot and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did you eagle eat all the olives and leave just the arrows. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with you on behalf of president and hopefully i'll have some answers for you but i didn't bring any more oil and. that's what i thought. during the talks john bolton insisted the i.n.f. treaty was outdated and should be revised to include china he went on to accuse moscow of violating its terms something flatly denied by russia which actually sees it the other way around there russia says the treaty is still vital to international stability international affairs commentator jonathan steele told us america's withdrawal plans actually have less to do with russia and much more to do

with china. many commentators think that this is the american decision is linked more to china of than to russia because the chinese are not part of the treaties they've been developing their missile capabilities and there are military capabilities in southeast asia in the south china sea and the americans want to be able to confront. the treaty which we're talking about prevents the americans of course deploying missiles not just in europe but you know asia as well and the americans want to get out of it so they can start putting missiles there. america was rocked by a spate of attempted possible bombings this week with thirteen packages intercepted by the f.b.i. among the intended recipients were prominent u.s. democrats and critics including former president barack obama hillary clinton and the c.n.n. channel on friday the f.b.i. arrested a suspect who appears to be a dedicated supporter and he also reportedly may have mental health issues the

fifty six year old from florida was arrested after his fingerprints and d.n.a. were found on the parcels he already has a criminal record previously convicted eight times including for car theft if found guilty of the attempted possible bombings he could get fifty eight years in prison . now looks at how the incident has created further discord in u.s. political life. we have to unify we have to come together and send one very clear strong and mistake a bull message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america unity one would argue is a red state found in the united states of america right now and with midterms it's less than two weeks before the midterm vote so that isn't helping at all basically both camps the conservatives and the democrats they have been trying to spin the

whole situation in their own favor now we don't know trump talked a lot about this he's tweeted blaming the media for spearheading the hades he said that they are hateful beyond description that was in tweed but that was not the only thing that he had to say as part of a larger national effort to bridge our divides and bring people together to media also has a responsibility just said a civil tone had to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories have to do and i'm not one who sees equal blame spread all around our president cannot escape special scrutiny he is at the head of the hate parade and way too often clearly reading prepared remarks at a rally he seemed not to give a damn we have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the city's

directions of one individual to score political points against me and the republican party to us. so trump on the red corner mainstream media in the blue corner so to speak and the c.n.n. by no means were the only ones ganging up on trump everybody jumped on him in fact not just him his daughter ivanka trump came under fire as she was attacked for supporting her father from did also get in. it's fair share of hate because many many journalists and pundits have blamed him for cultivating of this culture of hatred it looks like the democrats have it's a bit of a blessing for them in an old and twisted way that this thing happened especially when no one thankfully know nobody was killed or even injured so they are trying to spin it in such a way that donald trump is to blame while donald trump and his camp are trying to spin it in

a completely different way and well one thing to know for certain is that as mid-terms draw closer this isn't going to change it's going to just get worse it tended bombings highlight how polarized the u.s. has become the head of mid-term elections in just over a week this is confirmed by a new survey which found that eighty percent of americans think the country is greatly divided also almost forty percent of those polled believe the situation will get worse the poll also revealed that among the most contentious political issues are donald trump's presidency economic inequality and race relations we spoke with lawyer and political activist a christian man who told us there needs to be a concerted effort to bring people together. both sides have to tone it down both the president and the media and other political sectors have to come together and understand that we can now continue sending these inflammatory comments on t.v. and on social media because there are people who take it personally and then they

think that they have a way to respond and this is one example and now is the republican side that has this crazy follower and we also had this democratic extreme left follower a few few months ago when he had congressman scott lee so i think that we have to be very careful because this is becoming a real problem not the weekly for this hour here on r.t. international though it's been a busy week for your headlines so more to come in about twenty five minutes oh. to see with. my. eyes.