penalty to be the reason the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. us senators demand an end to military support for saudi arabia in the long running war in yemen. a lot of men put in accusers ukraine's the president of introducing martial law to boost ratings ahead of the upcoming election and a says that the recent dispute in the church street was nothing but a provocation by q. he says be interrupted by

a muslim council to the phone kristie entree into. a sexual abuse survivor in the u.k. calls for a change in the law after the man who raped her is given access to her son born as a result of. our broadcasting live it direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international armstrong telling us to have you with. the u.s. senate has passed a resolution calling on the government to end its support for the saudi led intervention in yemen that's despite opposition from the white house parties came up and has more. well the vote was sixty three to thirty seven with support on both sides of the aisle the resolution called for the united states to end any cooperation with the saudi led attack on yemen now one of the voices speaking in

favor of the resolution was us senator bernie sanders of vermont we have been providing the bombs at the saudi led coalition is using we have been refueling their planes before they drop those bombs this is a vote. that says to the world we are going to end. the whole record humanitarian. that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children in yemen there was opposition to this resolution from the white house very strong we heard that there was a closed door session in congress mike pompei o the secretary of state addressed members of the u.s. senate and urged them not to pass this resolution this arguing that somehow this resolution would actually hurt the conditions of those living in yemen the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved

in yemen it would be a hell of a why it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essential he would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so they did not pass this resolution however today as we have seen they did

actually come forward and condemn saudi arabia's activities in yemen not much has changed in yemen a sense march however what has changed is there has been widespread outrage about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi secretary of defense james mattis came forward and essentially argued that while he was concerned about the plight of civilians in yemen this resolution was the wrong move security interests cannot be . dismissed even as we seek accountability for what president trump describes is the unacceptable and horrible crime of jamal who shows use mudda now we have heard the trumpet ministration is threatening to veto this resolution so people will be watching to see what happens next. for more now for more on this we can now cross live to anti-war activists medea benjamin thanks for being with us here on r t international. so if we get rate two of us has been supporting saudi operation in yemen since the start of the war in march two thousand and fifteen why is it

taken the senate this long to take a stand on issues. well that's a very good question something we've been asking them for the last three years there has not been much interest in. a war that has been killing poor people many thousands of miles overseas there's a very strong lobby in the united states that is anti iran so it's supportive of the saudis supportive of the israelis there's a strong what i call a pro-war lobby which is made up of the weapons industry and as long as the american people didn't pay attention the media didn't show us the results of the bombings the dead civilians the starving children congress was happy to go along enough to anything about it so. secretary of state mike pompei all said that the suffering in yemen grieves him but if the u.s. was not involved in yemen it would be. a hell of

a lot worse is there any truth to that saying. well it's absolutely ridiculous an absurd statement to make and fortunately i think there's now we see a move the majority of the senators don't believe that anymore and that is a sea change especially to have republicans who are parting with the administration on this and recognizing that when madison's something like that it really just doesn't make sense to them anyway so if we go back in time just not too long ago actually no such resolution was passed after the saudi bombing of a school bus in yemen in august in which forty children were killed by a us made bomb and yet we're now seeing all of this concern possibly maybe the murder of jamal khashoggi comes into play here what does this say about politicians priorities. well it's very sad when you put it in that light

because the saudi bombing has been responsible for the majority of the death and destruction in yemen and has led to this tremendous famine the largest outbreak of cholera in modern history and none of that seemed to move the elected officials in this country enough to do anything about it and it was the death of a washington post journalist a saudi but somebody who was known to people in the elite circles in washington d.c. that really led to the kind of vote that we're seeing today it opened up the pandora's box of what is this regime why would they do such an evil thing maybe they're not the great allies that we have made them out to be and so i think this is a result in one of the positive things the only positive thing that is coming out of this brutal murder of shoji and the resolution that the senate put out says that

well longer heads with the trumpet ministration basically which wants to continue its military support for the saudis some say that a president wants to keep his personal interests in mind as well so how do you see this playing out you have two equal branches of government. against each other. well first of all let's remember the vote today was just a procedural vote there still needs to be a vote which will probably happen on tuesday on the resolution itself so we're not sure exactly how that will play out we don't have a vote in the house yet and then yes the president is able to veto this so i think it's important to look at this in terms of the kind of movement that we've needed to have republicans who break with their own administration how this is going to lead to the administration trying to find ways to disengage in yemen we already see the administration saying they're no longer refueling planes in the air we already

see the administration saying that they want to see negotiations so just the lead up to this vote today has led to changes at least in symbolically in what the administration is saying so i think what we're going to see is of course this war is not going to wind down immediately but it will come to a close quicker than it would have had not we seen the kind of dissent in the senate that we saw today so let's go down the rabbit hole just a bit if you don't mind so if the u.s. were to end its arms supplies and military intelligence for the saudis in yemen how much impact would that actually have at this stage. i think it would have tremendous impact because the saudis have been relying on the united states let's recognize that all the weapons that they use we choir maintenance from the united states require the the kind of technical support that the u.s.

has been giving them it also has required the u.s. diplomatic support and i think now with the division in the republican party on this it creates an opening more of an opening for the united nations more of an opening for all of the different parties including the huge humanitarian community that has been trying to do something about this as the fighting in the port of huge data is getting worse and jeopardizing the humanitarian situation even further so this is all coming to a head and i think it does mean that there's going to have to be a diplomatic solution so the u.s. recently concluded a multibillion dollar arms deal with saudi arabia is that now in jeopardy considering that we're seeing some division in congress. well the u.s. has a series of sales with the saudis that have been ongoing there might be

a hold on the sales the senate and unfortunately does not want to stop all weapons sales to saudi arabia as some of us activists would like to see they want to use this to pressure the saudis to come to to find a negotiated solution to this problem and i think the administration and the congress would like to see the weapons sales continue because they all have a stake in that the congress gets money from the weapons industry the weapons industry provides jobs in their district so it's a much larger fight for those of us who want to see an end to weapons sales in general very interesting to hear your thoughts thanks for being with us antiwar activists medea benjamin always a pleasure to have you on our two international. thing right now already described as one of the worst humanitarian crises the situation continues to deteriorate

every day in yemen. president putin has accused ukraine's leadership of orchestrating a recent clash in the carriage straight to drum up anti russian sentiment and boost their own ratings. if the current kiev authorities successfully so anti russian sentiment because they have nothing else to so there's a feeling that whatever they do they will get away with it if they demand new borns

for breakfast they will get babies so what they'll say the government wants to eat . but important i was referring to the clash between russian and ukrainian vessels last sunday in which three ukrainian ships were seized he said kiev deliberately created the standoff as a pretext to introduce martial law ahead of two thousand one thousand election our correspondent but our guys they have has been following it very international reaction force central european powers france germany in particular seem to be less than enthusiastic about america's latest calls for more sanctions against russia germany in particular saying that it is still supporting the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to central europe i think it's a government has of course taken note of the criticism the north stream to ease first and foremost an economic project that's what we've always said but at the same time we've repeatedly indicated that it has however a political dimension to this follows on from various u.s.

officials calls to enforce and to strengthen sanctions against russia we certainly encourage all european allies tsu a card what additional sanctions could be implemented absent at this point it's not something germany and france have said they considering but these things i think can develop over time the u.s. president donald trump himself ostend whether he's going to condemn russia's actions in the u.s. well he spoke more critically of russia than he has in a long while but he said that he's going to wait for a full report from his advisors before condemning any russian action that will be very determinative maybe i won't have the meeting maybe i won't even have. the meeting i don't like that aggression i don't want that aggression at all absolutely and by the way europe shouldn't like that aggression and germany shouldn't like that aggression he's referring there of course to the pre-agreed meeting with

vladimir putin on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in argentina but we were also heard a lot of criticism in the press with calls and questions to donald trump and other leaders and why they aren't condemning russia hard enough we'll let. you are not happy about president trump issued an extremely mild rebuke to russia for firing on and seizing three ukrainian ships other storage supporters of ukraine be it nations that great britain canada for example have condemned russia or third parties such as and you think tanks the atlantic council one of their one of the pundits has been calling on nato to send warships to be as well to see through the street crossing perhaps unaware that such a move would be illegal as the season tunnel waters of russia and ukraine and requires the permission of both the third party which ships to enter the as of c.

the russians have offered their own version of what happened in the on sunday in the strait of kutch they say the the tech did the ukrainian vessels they had new choice but to use weapons to seize these vessels as they were behaving dangerously radically they hadn't followed any notification s.b.u. counter-espionage agents were on board they also say that this is a provocation meanwhile kiev claims warned russia about the presence of its vessels in the area and it called the seizure of its ships an act of aggression ukraine is demanding the immediate release of the twenty four crewmembers who are in custody in russia security analyst charles schumer says a kiev feels it has been given carte blanche by its western backers. you've got a country such as ukraine which is repeatedly sure said challenging its much more powerful neighbor and it's doing not because it's been given leeway to do so by

form a foremost united states and also of course but by the u.k. and others in the west and so for example you've seen provocative behavior being rewarded recently the united states for example announced that it would supply at attack weapons and other weapons to ukraine instead of trying to defuse the situation as are two international mourners after a short break. our .

eye. for. eye. or welcome back this is our international live from moscow a british woman who was raped as a child has expressed her outrage after local authorities tried to give the man who

assaulted her access to the son born as a result of the rape or he's an associate you're going to has more. an unusual case getting quite a bit of traction in the u.k. a victim of child sexual exploitation has a way to try and intimidate and come forward demanding a change in the laws following revelations that a man who had raped her as a teenager as a result of which she had a child was apparently reached out to by the local council inviting him to partake in the child's life the story is about miss. and it's not going to. be enough for them council to apply today on train till. now this man in question was actually put behind bars two years ago and is serving a thirty five year sentence for multiple sexual offenses involving nine girls

including this woman sammy woodhouse and we know that he was told by rather him counsel that he could seek visits with the child well just to be clear the man did not make such an application but this still became a good enough reason to trigger a call for a change in the legislation to protect others this is what a local m.p. had to say on this appalling examples of the little being set up by the to favor the perpetrator or to actively work against the rights of abuse survivors and the consideration they should be afforded the ministry of justice have said that they're investigating this case to see whether it was an error or potentially part of a wider problem we also know that the council have said that they were basically just following guidelines and rather them is really a place in the northern u.k. that had reached the headlines in the media previously back in twenty fourteen when an independent inquiry had found that as many as over fourteen hundred girls were

groomed and abused over sixteen years and that report had found that that was carried out predominantly by men of pakistani origin so it's indeed very likely that this latest case is going to again stir up lots of questions that need to be addressed there safeguarding is not more important but in the ninety's and in the northeast the youth which is that where we can at the time they are just a drain on public funds we do need prosecutions we do need parents to speak up and say yes or do. it was a victim in the english community the english families they will go and they will seek prosecution but within the asian community where it does happen and it's still rife groomers are protected by the own community because they are chained by our no . stigma so that's why there prosecutions are there lessons have been learned but they are not being acted upon. or t.

has received a surprising compliment from the u.s. establishment which has long been critical of this network a former undersecretary for u.s. homeland security get her take on one of our shows r.t. russia today has a weekly program called america's lawyer. the relenting theme of which to quote one of the openings is america's justice system is corrupt and broken i don't think there's anything in there that is a law but it is relenting only one sided view if you knew how to look at the other side you would see that russia at least is weighing in on both sides they're not on your side they're not on the other side they're on their own side it is too weak. and suzanne spaulding made those remarks during a national security forum in washington d.c. her views are very different to the usual accusations from u.s. politicians and of the western media that our t.v. is a source of false information russian government also created and spread fake news

and conspiracies across the vast social media landscape big news that's being spread by russia fake news has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia and of course or two which is heavily supported by. funded by the russian the russian government fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news. media and legal analyst lionel gave us his take on the story. the truth hurts the truth can be problematic don't be so truthful r t don't be so truthful or could you be a little bit more positive in their truth this is a dramatic difference from fake imaginary on real untrue fictional fictive are salves synthetic that was the old story now it's your tone true. could you be

a little less truthful could you could you could you perhaps baby spread the truth around a drug matic improvement in my humble opinion it can not harm the united states but it can devastate the government it can devastate aspects agencies law enforcement judicial system politicians presidents to congress all of the truth kid be horrible their truth especially if it exposes corruption oh absolutely but does it hurt america americans never. the former top defense official in the u.k. has claimed the country needs to quote rediscover the mentality that helped to win the cold war if we are to deal effectively with emerging threats like russia david richards served as chief of the defense staff we asked people on the streets for their reaction so they'll change this is the question or take. along

a most are saying you don't want any mentality like that and it said. that you can. pass rushers are. you going i mean i. assume. it is you know it to. question what is this a resume this is gods are pushing their mission and spending the controversial remarks from david richards came after a new report by the london based think tank policy exchange saying a new department should be created at the ministry of defense it would be similar to a structure that existed in the one nine hundred seventy s. at the height of the cold war the department would access enemy military capabilities and evaluate the u.k.'s ability to retaliate the idea has already been supported by defense secretary gavin williamson journalist john white thinks the government is doing all it can to divert attention from drugs. this is redolent of

up there to political establishment that is in deep and unremitting crisis over the keogh said has wrought but it's mishandling of rex it. but more importantly all the social pressures that harvard law where it's implementation over said it to you over the last three years it's the not the andrew test waste of british taxpayers' money at a time as i say when so many people at the fest of the entire fallacious or suffer the good info verty and their own up to christmas this is a ruling class that says holding on to the past like a journeyman onto a way for us because that is only have in order to sustain their position there are always enemies to be vanquished and countries too recently in russia is a traditional enemy of the british ruling class that it is by no means the traditional enemy of the british people did it to be at the very people who are

telling them that russia should be the enemy thirty three and a half minutes that's when i'll be back with another look you know you watch much international. why good a place called camp sundown to get for people that can't bloody decide and they're like so vampires. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside the skull gets flicker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles way down to the bone. there's no really. we're just not sure this is

going to start. with just manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and we don't want. to ignore middle room signals. going to the real news is really. mean i didn't find most unwelcome even even in the slightest and i never thought. and i've been going this instance the late ninety's there is no doubt that the

transformation of most good so far the city center and increasingly poser. it isn't an incredible achievement it's one it's a very expensive achievement mosco has become at least in the center a moon was it a livable place to use this kind of jargon in the long term effects of this of an improvement will take will take a long time to be measured because it is only just beginning. greetings and salutations. you know there once was a brilliant document called the constitution here in the united states but over the years it has been trampled and sullied by small minded bureaucrats self aggrandizing politicians and a fearful public willing to trade their liberty for imagined security and today

tragically i bring you yet another example of all of the above last february in brooklyn new york f.b.i. agents arrested thirty seven year old victor kingsley for a bombing committed back in two thousand and seventeen the took the life of a seventy three year old landlord in queens a new york times reported that according to an unsealed federal criminal complaint mr kingsley had intended to kill a police officer who arrested him three years prior and delivered a bomb to the duplex he believed the cop lived at but no officer actually lived there the complaint said the bomb made with materials mr kingsley purchased online exploded three days later when the landlord george re-opened it while visiting the property and while the f.b.i. apparently has plenty of evidence from kingsley's own computers that reveal searches many on youtube for bomb making materials and instructions including evidence of online purchases of a.