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the charges and say the room is a nonsense. and the israeli army conduct raids in ramallah setting checkpoints around the capital of palestine after two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting near the palestinian city. it's nine o'clock and you're watching international live from our studio here in moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program maria britton a russian national detained in the u.s. and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent has entered a guilty plea at

a washington d.c. court the judge says a butler could face a maximum of five years behind bars or could be deported adding though that this is outside of the court's jurisdiction and will be decided by other bodies now let's cross live to our t's. following this story what do we know at this point and what events have preceded today's guilty plea. well in the washington d.c. court room we saw maria come forward and enter a plea of guilty she put forward a statement of offense saying that she quote sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with americans having power and influence over u.s. politics now this is a change of plead to guilty now in the lead up to today's hearing we did hear from the russian foreign ministry this is what was said about the pressure that was placed on boots and in the lead up to today let's take a listen they really believe she's

a political prisoner and what's been happening with respect to put in that has nothing to do with justice or investigation of any kind but this is probably a form of political pressure and blackmail has been subjected to a whole range of methods of psychological pressure so will support whatever decision she makes that will lead to. now at this point we have understood that the prosecutors are asking for no more than five years and that it is possible there could be a downward motion she could simply be deported the judge did not rule any of that out there will not be a sentencing hearing set at this point because at this time she is currently still cooperating with investigators now the next hearing is scheduled for february twelfth so she has pled guilty to the charge of operating as an unregistered asian agent of of russia attempting to influence political leaders of the united states on behalf of the russian government however

a lot of the sensational charges that we've heard in the media like espionage and things to that effect none of that has been named she has pled guilty simply to acting as an unregistered lobbyist so people are waiting to see what happens next will she be sent back to russia you know will she have a sentence we know that the next hearing is a status hearing set for february twelfth ok thanks they have. been from washington d.c. reporting that. we discussed the issue with legal analyst jennifer pretend she notes there is a scanned evidence against but which raises deeply disturbing questions he's always been fascinated by the national rifle association which is a u.s. nonprofit even creating her own so this is a woman who was politically motivated but didn't know things and then joined that or was involved in the n.r.a. when she came to united states just based on what she had been like in since childhood what i'm seeing now is that the bottom line is that the government or here the united states the justice department are going to prosecutors are arguing

that this woman was an agent of russia based merely on her citizenship and alleged communications with somebody in the russian government even though she was never paid and there is very little evidence of direct collusion to undermine u.s. policy and that to me is very problematic just because she was an outspoken supporter of donald trump who as we know prosecutors have been trying to tie to russia and this him. geishas so it seems like a little bit of a stretch to say that this woman was was politically motivated to help undermine the u.s. government under our federal rules. russian doping scandals are back in the headlines austrian police are looking into claims russian biathletes violated anti doping rules that the twenty seven world championships my colleague andrew farber earlier spoke to elect c.e.o. chefs who gave us the details. now we know that on wednesday night the austrian police went into the hotel where the russian national biathlon team was staying in austria during the world cup actually it was the night before some of the athletes

accused were supposed to hit the track and participate in the world championships they put forward the accusations that at least four of the athletes and six members of the staff violated the anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen during the world championship in austria just a year ago. this is a very serious accusation because in austria it entails a criminal punishment so the athletes were pretty shocked judging by their reaction and i believe we can listen to some of those i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of is full i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian athletes really value their sporting curious so little that they do the things we're accused of. against me all the rumors are nonsense total nonsense i have always been true to myself to the biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to feel bad about i have to say alex on the log in one of the biggest stars of russian biathlon at the moment has

a very good point in the question he raised in that instagram post now he himself knows what doping like he was actually under disqualification up until twenty sixteen and after that he was never tested positive for doping again he actually reinforced his words in that post on instagram with a printout of all the doping tests he has taken since then in twenty sixteen seventeen including that championship in austria and although those tests were negative in terms of doping the russian sports ministry confirmed to us that they have received a formal accusation from the austrian thora he's on the matter but it gets a little confusing because the austrian side on their matter they say that they have notified the russian authorities before bringing in the official accusations into the hotel of the of the national team on wednesday night with regard to russia's anti doping a. what have they said well we are seeing this story happening in the times when the russian anti-doping agency looks to be reinstated by wide of the world

anti-doping agency that decision in september caused a lot of surprise among many nonetheless i actually had a chance to go to the russian anti-doping agency this morning and spoke exclusively to the head of russian and i don't think agency i believe we can listen to that. there's inspection yesterday was completed in full it was a thorough and serious check all the documents were thorough looked through the results good we're confident the checks will reveal no violations we will take the results seriously and will implement further measures to fight doping. so in regards to the latest scandal in austria mr gunness they had. said that he was cautiously optimistic he had still had some concerns about the story that needs to be investigated needs to be looked at but next week water is here in moscow he has every reason to be concerned it's a big meeting when they will enter the laboratory with urine samples which is the key condition for starters reinstatement and obviously will be all over that story on tuesday next week and we'll update our viewers with that michael guys thank you

from the court of arbitration believes the results of previous stepping tests for the athletes will stand in their favor. he says turn it into a bridge may be. it leads to. these preliminary in this. police. interim asian. it might be. the. interim. this interim. time but the. moment when. the. information barely knows to end. jury. who'd be so mean. to. have to go will see testifying about the company's alleged control of

information the issue of speech regulation has popped up for all media platforms one democrat has found himself and brawled in what could be an even bigger scandal by simply commenting on it with the details his donald quarter. if you're perhaps looking for new ways to put your foot in your mouth democratic congressman ted lew is the guru for you especially after his recent statement to c.n.n. regarding free speech i would love to be able to regulate the content of speech the first amendment prevents me from doing so conservatives immediately slammed lou in the media and on twitter they met his statement with skepticism with some of them accusing him of harboring secret tyrannical desires but according to him his statement was actually made in defense of the first amendment i would love to regulate your speech but thank goodness the first amendment prevents me botha's and

republicans from doing so get it i'm defending the first amendment perhaps the republicans just wanted an opportunity to grab their pitchforks but lose timing made everything worse came after google c.e.o. son dar pinchas testimony before congress amidst accusations that the company is censoring conservative voices and the accusations themselves they came along with bright parts leak of e-mails from google employees e-mails that allegedly outlined an entire conspiracy to censor the right wing news outlet for hate speech and you want to hold the news and look through broad don't come from hate speech e-mail said breitbart was quote on their radar and that google had a moral argument according to pinch i though google employees had no means of manipulating search results it's not possible for an individual employee groups of him plough you demanding plate or so it's just so you know we have

a robust framework including many steps in the process whether or not there are actually procedural problems that google the company embodies a much bigger problem one highlighted by a protester who came to the testimony in the monopoly man's clothes but lou didn't seem to think a monopoly. information was the problem he'd rather pin the blame on people who don't do positive things if you want positive search results do positive things if you don't want to research results don't do not do things and do so my colleagues across the aisle of you getting bad press articles and bad search results don't blame google or facebook or twitter consider blaming yourself so as lou continues to take criticism from the media and twitter it begs the question who's to blame for that lou google you donald quarter r.t. well another social media giants making headlines thousand after twitter told

a journalist had complained about receiving a death threat for its platform that no rules had been broken think you for your recent report we have reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no worley sion of the twitter rules against abusive behavior i'm so disgusted by twitter supports failure to take action against a death threat sent to me today i'm going to take a break from the platform for a while and protest if death threats are no violation of the twitter rules against abusive behavior what is. the journalist who complained it to attack claims it's normal such companies ignore those opposed to the establishment very clear get threat. so that was killed of course we know that as our bin laden was killed absolutely clear that death threats are a violation of twitter rules under abusive behavior i got a reply back to say no it's not in violation absolutely outrageous it's a death threat sent to a journalist via twitter is not abusive behavior the worth is this is the second

time this happened to me now i've got a death threat perhaps not quite as blatant as that by another american tweeter who had america first avatar saying that he wanted to see me would like to come and see me hope he beats me a threatening tweet again nothing happened and i think what this exposes is the double standards of twitter the twitter policing if you are a journalist with r.t. or write for r.t. write to russian media who are anti war against russia against american foreign policy but it is basic you send your fair game you can be sent desperate we won't do a thing. back in a couple of minutes after this break. russian today's not the soviet your. judgments against the soviet union that was on.

was obscene some of the limits. on the speech freedom of those three rights have been restored so much has been languished in communist russia only. idiots can believe it is away but no one wants it. in this economy who gets into debt deeper is the winner because everyone's going to fall simultaneously and with dad the biggest debt you're the winner that's it so absolutely right a guest from twenty two to thirty to thirty five to forty trillion dollars in debt that's the best way to grow the economy without down.

welcome back to the program in an effort to put a trade deal with china first sentence he may intervene in the controversial arrest in canada of a boss of huawei china's tech giant if i think it's good for the country if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever meet which is a very important thing what's good for national security i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary. always chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder. arrested earlier this month in canada she's accused of violating american sanctions on iran was banned by a canadian court tuesday but still faces extradition to the u.s. and if that happens she could potentially receive

a hefty prison sentence. beijing is demanding the release of its detained two canadian citizens in a move seen as retaliation one of those held appeared to be a businessman while the others a former diplomat america's considering whether to warn its citizens against travel to china and huawei rao international an independent china specialist and explains why trump is more and peace rhetoric on china now faces pressure from his neighbors . he said well if this. lady. helps a lot of states secure better deal with. being. a response from. the response you say well you've got to be careful. and all of the public is. in the

we should do this because this is due course so i think that countries are strange but. it is the one hundred certainty that it is a response to the president from rhetoric on the trade. i mean this race is over suspicion. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was ordered to increase the military presence in the west bank this comes just hours after attack where two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a bus stop near the palestinian city of ramallah it led to israeli forces to immediately impose strict checkpoint rules around the area local reporter has more . according to reports initial reports was that palestinians opened fire on israeli soldiers on a flying checkpoint near i'm

a little bit assume is that happen all roads were closed there's really no army has entered them a lot as the defacto capital of the palestinian authority and there are currently confrontations happening between palestinian youth and israeli forces the model has been completely closed off by the israeli army and there are also problems on the main roads between palestinians and israeli settlers settlers have been throwing rocks at palestinian cars so those real army has been over the past four nights conducting raids searching houses searching stores even taking camera footage from cameras throughout the area israel has put the blame on the palestinian authority and at the same time the palestinian authority is putting the blame on the israeli government. and it all comes amid deepening tensions between israel and palestine since donald trump you know lachie recognized him as the capital of israel twelve months ago that's led to palestinians in the gaza strip this year old rising mass protests known as the great march of return.

turkey's president has announced plans to deploy troops to northern syria to fight when he calls terrorist groups that. we will start an operation to free the east of the euphrates from the separatist terrorist organization in the coming days the target is not american soldiers but rather members of the terrorist organization active in this region. however i'm cross plans apparently don't sit well with turkey's a nato ally the u.s. the pentagon has issued a statement warning that unilateral military action in the area is of grave concern is out of the u.s. personnel may be present in the region and any such military action would be unacceptable for the turkish ambassador to the us told us now i saw days are numbered washington has no more legitimate reasons to go to back kurdish groups in syria. between the u.s.

and turkey there was. agreement for the two countries to. together controlled the area and cleared it off. people idea of i.p.g. . elements guarded by turkey as a terrorist group turkey has been very insistent that it clears that the us should end its support to the people of the right p.j. elements and the us will be. telling all alone and that the people by the by p.g. part of the syrian democratic forces fighting in the stomach state the president trump only a day or a few days ago made the statement that the mix that is about to disappears from. from syria that all its armors would be wrong which so it's not a good argument that they do still meet the shirt in the book that it forces.

the court by by p.g.p. by developments in syria it's another it's another bit of credible argument. but people have been killed and forty seven injured in turkey after a high speed train collided with a locomotive the crash occurred around six forty am local time in the capital ankara pictures from the scene show the extent of the damage imagine sitting down place and been working at the same high speed the train traffic from the city has been suspended. to russian strategic promise of taken to the skies over the caribbean as part of trails with the venezuelan air force the t one sixty s. known as the white swans due to the color and shooting span clocked at north and eight thousand kilometers and flights morea five picks up the story. two russians

trip to egypt bombers are invent as well and after a transatlantic flight and on now gettin ready for the next stage of their two nation mission in latin america they take off one after another long before sunrise to avoid the heat it's winter now here in venezuela but it's rarely cooler than thirty degrees celsius the russian white swarms have all weather capability but the burning surface of the runway can have undesirable effects. the jets head towards cuba two thousand four hundred kilometers north and then back again. the flight path is strictly about neutral waters in full accordance with

international laws after almost nine hours of flying both t.-u. one sixty's that. you would if they were there with today's flights where pre-planned and we are prepared for them back at home we need to train because at home we know everything and hear the local conditions and new for us traffic is very intense for example there is much civil aviation we also complete other tasks for example communication with command posts and control towers it's a great experience for both pilots and commanders that as well as defense minister appeared on the airfield to personally greet to pilots and stressed the importance of the russian military planes deployment in his country the super committee of our armed forces have improved the combat readiness we are constantly working to raise our game and ensure that we have a modern military capable of defending the country in t.

he one sixty bombers that is eyeing to strike strategic targets with nuclear or conventional weapons they can carry up to twelve missiles and the question we all wanted to ask was did you ever think that. only people of boys. r.t. that as well are. up to how great our thousands of protesters gathered in front of the country's parliament and put a past on wednesday evening that was. earlier lawmakers approved a controversial amendment labeling all proposed by mr branded the slave law by critics increases the amount of overtime an employer can demand of oil has some demonstrators waved european union. flags there were minor clashes with police.

i saw roundup of the news for now i'll be back in around thirty minutes with more headlines but do stay tuned for the alex cohen show which is up next here on national. media does i see. you there on the cheap first and then going through all the countries. but the idea is really there right it's going to do is come he said to me give them everything live in the past. leave this country because this is what we don't understand how we are in such a country. doesn't listen to the ones of the us in terms. of you know what is being

fundamental. mazumdar one of the similar similes. if the middle east of on board not the god can we believe again in the world with the phone without the computer without the plane. would come back to the three story you have to see. at least in the best. mood for. you. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful. are you going to go down in time to sit down again tom thank you yes yes.

thank you. thank you. and. welcome to the alex salmond show and what has been a momentous week for u.k. politics with the prime minister's breck's it proposition boarding in the commons and took on jobs under assault from the tory backbenchers to reason is one last top has been to appeal to the rest of europe to qatar more slug on her brakes deal and so and this week show alex test attitude of other europeans towards brics that he visits denmark a country which is joined to get a piece of community on the same day as the u.k. i want to share many of the same you are skeptics tendencies he interviews the top

social democratic politician and former defense minister nick cowdery to test had the danish political winds are blowing with regard to britain's brics it and alex also speaks to the iraqi represents a fatal islands in the danish problem and i'm combines european skepticism whether wish for independence for his own island spread first cheer treats mess just and emails and another great response to our show on pricks at last week first of all from sandy sandy says it's the breakup happens it will be to these incompetence that will make it happen less says ben sure yet on breaks it keep up the good work serial the thank you len and sovereign will swear she is for a government of national unity think johnson be a fine thing with caroline lucas as pm the begging says thank you alex salmond for keeping us informed you wouldn't. it is absolutely vital for folks like me to be able to recognize what is going on and what it might mean for us and finally stacy

he too has a view on what george can even said on the show last week and she says i'm the s.n.p. alienating the people of scotland with the pru european stance regardless of that was a new vote in the u.k. referendum on breaks that if we were part of the e.u. without the u.k. then we still would be independent a total. i don't know britain's brecht debates some of the more enthusiastic back to two years i get that many other countries were swiveling on their own membership of the european union while you may hold even a least odds on which countries might accompany britain at the exit door it was thought that many might follow where britain tried to both lead one of the favorites was denmark a privately independent country which famously rejected the maastricht treaty and refused to join the euro however and wonderful wonderful copenhagen alex find little or no enthusiasm for the decks.