most of the world the public which for those those i'm sure i'll see you there. now the hits for the trumpet ministration as defense secretary james marcus announces he's stepping down as the day off the u.s. president surprises that allies by saying he's withdrawing troops from syria. a top journalist from one of germany's most respected publications the big only is a exposed for breaking news for years he's been stripped of several awards for his investigations including c.n.n. journalist of the year twenty four team. president putin gives moscow's strong from the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis and breaks it much more than a year into q. and a with the media. many western politicians experts and even ordinary

people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do international journalists even press the russian leader about potential plans for a global takeover but thankfully everyone sees the funny side. it's nine am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me good to have you with us the top story the trumpet ministration has taken another hit defense secretary james mattis has announced he's stepping down. because you have a right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position james mattis has served in the military for over forty years and has been defense secretary from the start of trump's presidency he supported trance calls to strengthen the military

but was known to disagree with trump on many points including the president's surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. times decision seems to have been the last straw it also seems to have driven a wedge through the us as well with the media and to stop us mint think is criticizing the move and the ordinary american strongly supporting it with more on that. promise announcement withdrawing the usa from syria has got the media up in arms the republicans and the democrats are livid they say that the usa is losing out i believe it is a catastrophic mistake the job's not over dangerous premature jeopardize america's mission inferior and her allies makes our country an even bigger laughingstock than it already is that gift it benefits iran the only reason they're not dancing in the end to run in isis camps is they just don't believe in density media's outrage does

not match public opinion polls show that eighty six percent of americans say that u.s. military force should only be used as an last resort now that opinion used to be very common on the opposite side of the political spectrum remember the peace marchers the antiwar movement this is what bernie sanders had to say my main concern terms of the middle east is to make certain that the united states does not get involved in perpetual war in the quagmire of iraq and syria trump made the same announcement last year but forces swiftly moved in to change his mind russian president vladimir putin who sent forces to support the syrian government against the terrorists a big game changer in the conflict he says he's a bit skeptical of trucks announcement would be stupid to you concerning the us withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the us has been presence in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing the troops they are still there now because of the presence of american troops needed in syria or do you think so let's not forget

that the presence there is illegitimate it was not agreed either with the un security council nor with the syrian government if the us plans to his. that is the right decision while politicians and media from both sides of the political spectrum is voicing outrage trump's move is at least complying with international law now let's see if he sticks to his guns this time. r.t. new york former u.s. congressman ron paul thinks diplomacy diplomacy must be implemented in this case. prompt although he has his ups and downs i think that he has taken a good position he said he wanted to get out of out of syria and he said in the campaign he said. isis is not a threat there and it is time to come home and i just wanted to be complete yes move the troops out are couple thousand troops but i want to make sure that you know the cia's out in the special forces are out and that we don't use sanctions

and that we move in that direction where we just have hands off and deal with diplomacy and getting along with people but in that philosophy that i just spoke it also means though for in a way our problem is if we dominate militarize a country then we finance all that and if we converted into friendship then we send them millions of dollars because we still hoeing you so we still should be concerned it's great to do troops are leaving and as i mentioned as we began that i wanted to be more inclusive you know i would not say we're going to remove two thousand troops because we've been in a many many countries we continue to be in countries but we start off with our cia agents and we start off with special forces we start off with interfering with sanctions and we just. we don't need any of that if we're noninterventionist and we just want friendship and trade you don't spend that money because it gets us into trouble. russia's alleged online meddling has made headlines loans they get

but this time most go contra people aims the new york times reports that a group of democrats and secret fulls fund projects to help a nominee win an election in the u.s. state of alabama last year i employ in tactics allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns. investigate. for years the public you me were barash by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily he told us of malicious programs of evil software soulless slaves puton an existential threat to america take the alabama election a year ago russian bartz the media reported interfered medaled corrupted on behalf of republican candidates roy moore so surprise a tougher supporting more they both have

a deep love of country the countries russia but still rather. choose for you it's pretty alarming when a guys lives in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian that everywhere year later is moving closer into the oval office one might wonder why on earth russia would bother with a massive dissin from asian campaign in alabama of all places to first salad value of a thought on his juicy a target room or himself was clueless about it i had no idea why this was happening so as is republican tradition he blamed the democrats for setting him up the democrats as a source are tradition change the subject and insulted him maybe more should check with putin who shares his views on depriving people of their civil rights here is

where it gets really good the new york times did some digging and found a report titled the alabama project and figured out those weren't putin's bots at all they were faked dressed up to look like russian bots. we orchestrated and a labrat false flag operation that planted the idea that the more campaign was amplified on social media by a russian but that i've seen some dirty stuff in politics all over the world but this this is platinum tea and this on this deplorable and dirty tricks turns out it was all of fake psyop orchestrated by a group of i.t. experts who wanted to help the democrat win by cheating by lying and by defrauding millions of voters in an attempt to frame the republican as being helped

by russia the guy who allegedly financed all of this is billionaire reid hoffman who founder of linked in and apparently a guy with a really faulty moral compass often comes with the money my experience now here is the kicker and lighty is telling people shouldn't worry it's only one hundred thousand dollars peanuts when it comes to elections whatever world the democrats live in a hundred grand is change. joe trippi a season's democratic operative said it was impossible that one hundred thousand dollar operation had an impact on the race journalists no longer report the news they report their opinions same new york times when talking about how alleged the fake russian facebook accounts spend the same money hundred thousand dollars on advertising on

a national campaign the disclosure adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the russian influence campaign so when a democratic in all good cool spending a hundred grand on this information on lies framing and defaming someone it's just one hundred grand pocket change and if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune crime against america and go on i've always been suspicious that the russian meredith was flimsy and was probably made up simply because that's the kind of saying that the democratic party does they make things up in order to create the basis for an attack on the right wing and on the conservatives this is in the character of the democratic party and in the lack of character i should say and it's it's

a criminal element that has taken over the democratic party the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. vention and deception in germany where a top journalist from the respected to speak a nice paper has been sacked for making up stories for years donald corso has the details. when it comes to trustworthy journalism the mainstream media might tell you there's no alternative. meet one of their poster boys of honesty class for lotus work for one of germany's

most respected newsmagazines der spiegel he was even named c.n.n. journalist of the year back in two thousand and fourteen for a story about prison inmate care the report takes to put it to an interesting approach to a major social problem. klos you look who paints pictures in the reader's mind that i'm full like a few well an acting career might have been better suited for real odious because the paragon of modern journalism seems to have faked his way through his seven year career of the sixty articles we know der spiegel published reloading us admitted fourteen contained fake news and a story about a young syrian boy he made up quotes and locations the tale of a guantanamo bay prison or a complete fabrication it was only after his colleague revealed his doubts over a story they were working on together about the us mexican border that the truth

came out the. first there were just like little mistakes that i paid attention to things that seemed suspicious a vigilante group that doesn't allow you to take pictures of them but they tell you unbelievable stuff even admit to their crimes like that they detained mexicans and crossed the mexican border with weapons were no went through the ringer with his managers trying to bring his doubts forward imagine challenging the legitimacy of an award winning western journalist praised by c.n.n. itself and if you're thinking this is a glitch in the mainstream media think again all these outlets have parted with journalists after they fabricated stories some more award winning journalists but awards in journalism are a whole other matter take journalist. he faked his own death with the help of the ukrainian secret service attempting to pin the blame on russia for an assassination it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime that tanko with killed due to

his professional activities he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia you know it was really it was one of the biggest fake news stories of the year but he was even given the time award for journalistic bravery if the mainstream. media insists you should question less you might want to take a second to question more donald corder r.t. . from russia's economy and education to possible nuclear war and world domination president putin fielded a wide array of questions from journalists during his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media we've gathered these some of the key moments from the event for you.

as. the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with concrete steps that we will let them not say later that we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with them but merely to seek your balance to ensure a security. concern in the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the us has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing their troops the only certain but they are still there now first question what is the presence of american troops needed in syria you pushed you quite don't think so but let's not forget that presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it will be there with the u.n. security council human and law with the syrian leadership if the u.s. plans to withdraw the masses the right decision. will block just tell me this

who set the blockade between the on the us and the rest of ukraine that's going to russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have been forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own they shoot at those they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die though we provide humanitarian support for those living that but only not to let those people starve to death but. i'm sure you will be because she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a lie however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack russia. if it was not script they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold workers growth at any cost. in my view. relations are at

a stalemate it is in the interests of both of our countries to get out of this stalemate are we interested in me stalling our relations with the u.k. yes we are and so is the u.k. . many western politicians experts and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do i just want to know if you really want this was a real and you have your foreign policy. concerning ruling the world we know where the headquarters are located of those who want to do this and it's not in moscow you can connect this to defense spending the u.s. spends over seven hundred billion dollars on all russia only forty six million of them in about all do you really think that our aim is to rule the world or the us that this is just a cliché that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problem but in the. ok that was in it is when will you marry in the school and home. you know

these are two different questions are you married. yes so he is married and wants me to suffer the same. first of all do they cannot and then that's what they said my flash was bothering with the russian flag cannot bother anyone but i want to refer to kipling who said when everyone is then the great game is finished the at the breaks there will be a meeting whenever i'm all done for you this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us in the year how's your health. do while you would not see me off. despite spending several hours with hundreds of journalists a lot of my peers in wasn't quite finished a teenage russian girl who is registered blind and hopes to be a top reporter herself now the country's leader afterwards.

hello how are you. i would like to ask you some questions did you always dream of becoming president or before you wanted to be for example an astronaut. honestly i never dreamed of becoming president and i had no intention . probably at first it was very difficult can you describe your first days as president. yes it wasn't easy these were very different years for the country as a whole through a balancing with survival that was a very difficult situation with the economy and security as well. what was your most memorable day as president. it is very difficult to say but we just talked about this has to be. the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup. yes this wish

was a secret but i can share it with you i wish all our wishes will come true. of course . you are very handsome. thank you very much. so to come julian assange to get some company in the ecuadorian embassy for the first time in six months we tell you he came to call right after the show play.

china much bigger economic power much more wall inter. i think. you have to live with that. and there's lots of advantages that the europeans jethro as well as america. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back as migrants continue to make their way to europe a huge fire has raised to the ground a makeshift refugee camp in morocco north africa many lost all of their belongings

in the blaze which they were sure was started deliberately it's the third time the camp has been struck by fire the region has become a stepping off point for migrants heading to europe and. spanish this the on the north african coast many put their lives on the line with the dream of reaching madrid. is some good news she knew how to get to the dream even study i also want to get a job and make some money and go back tomorrow couldn't. lose.

the ambulance took me to hospital with a broken arm where a doctor took care of. that hell exists a border guards catch illegal migrants at the ferry they beat them up. there is no work no education nothing i want to live like europeans our life in america is just suffering. the same on the street in the cold when the locals insult us we cannot turn to the police as they might deported. what can be accepted said julian assange is welcome visitors to the ecuadorian embassy in london for the first time inhofe a year to german and pays met with the whistleblower to express their solidarity and hopes of finding a legal solution to the situation and

a sad check and picks up the story. m.p.'s from the german bund to stop and its committee on foreign affairs who authored a letter in support of the q leaks founder julian assange signed by dozens of m.p. . he's been visiting him here at the ecuadorian embassy in the british capital they are demanding that the u.k. provide assurances that the songs would be able to leave this embassy without being extradited to the u.s. we see the next step in this ever lasting case is the responsibility the united kingdom united kingdom has to take the measures now. to thank you solution which is in the frame of international law and not in the frame off the u.s. at new station who is against international law and against actually the u.s. will i mean against the first amendment they are taking measures like the

protection of journalists and freedom of speech and the freedom of press so we have to actually protect them from themselves not to a violate the first amendment julian assange just father also visited him here on thursday saying he did not find his son in the best of conditions but declining as you would expect of a fusion. of strangers. who are patients. from on the street to this is toshi. to a communication snow job for. most french. the m.p.'s visiting from berlin have demanded that the international community listen up to the united nations ruling that has now quite a long time ago found that julian assange has detention is arbitrary united kingdom

government tried to appeal the un decision and but they lost and still they are not exceptions and. accepting this un decision and this has to be stopped they have to i mean it's a. member of the united nations have a seat in the security council. and in my point of view you get united kingdom is dead to accept and respect the international law and international rights of someone over who likes to you know harsh ecuadorian officials have letelier been increasingly indicating that the wiki leaks founder has out steve is welcome behind these walls well as sancia spent the last sixteen years here fearing that if you leave the premises he will be extradited to the us and prosecuted for his work as we cue weeks publisher that released information that washington would rather have kept under wraps reporting from london and stay with r.t.

. meanwhile a journalist who has been a long time media partner for wiki leaks has won a freedom of information act appeal the ruling requires the london metropolitan police to turn over any correspondence they may have between u.k. and u.s. authorities regarding regarding three journalists a us court ordered google to disclose the journalist's e-mails and i peer dresses back in two thousand and twelve as part of an investigation into wiki leaks the journalists lawyers told the hong spoke to r.t. about the ruling. tribunal decision is a very important decision for journalists the key point that it's clarifies is that a journalist can use freedom of information legislation which in the u.k. entitles access to documents held by public bodies that journalists can use that to obtain personal information about individuals where they have those individuals consent and that was being argued by the metropolitan police not to be correct they

were suggesting that the individuals themselves had to make their own requests under data protection they're just lesion so the metropolitan police has been required by the tribe you know to confirm or deny whether it holds the requested information within twenty eight days and they then have to go on to provide any information that they hold all they have to explain using our freedom of information laws why they are not able to provide it. thank you for joining us this hour we're back again at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines i'll see that. when lawmakers is manufactured and sentenced to the public will. when the roman closest project themselves. in the final

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soul the sighing all peaked my interest so i went. into. my ask somebody what is this is serious going to stick at they tell me this is they believe in waiting illegal fishing oh my god will that's kind of interesting. kyra. well you know. good because we were called pirates for so long. really. the world is changing our tactics i change things.