president putin reveals russia. that. also ahead. straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone or any action. in defense. of the nation address stressing that russia's actions in the international. defensive . confrontation with its partners he also reiterated that washington must speak with russian. the president

said he did not believe the north koreans have the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe also coming up on the program. claims. to be a russian. on the awards. so when we were poor. celebrating the fake news. of the world this is our. company i'm in and we begin with breaking news the russian defense ministry. presented new images of

a successfully tested under water drone called poseidon that was announced and mediately after gave his annual state of the nation address the president mentioned it saying that the drone could be in full operation by spring it's been described as a planned modernization of military capabilities to contra hostile u.s. moves here is was president putin actually had to say about the weaponry. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range. and poseidon an underwater pilotless device with unlimited range we didn't say before but i can now announce that this spring we will launch the systems first nuclear submarine with a brand new naval system was designed to counter u.s. navy forces and washington's efforts in creating

a global missile defense primarily at ca again this is video just coming into us on the program it is thought that the russian systems underwater craft are small and difficult to locate in turkey it's. well speaking all not state of the union address that president putin was talking on the poseidon up but he also touched a lot of issues domestic policy first and foremost but also what is going on on foreign terms saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with its international partners breaking down on the talk of the day for us. i'll start with how the russian president got to the final part of his speech where he did on america and its allies plus how russia gets along with them he. he said that he was obliged

to bring this issue up after washington tore up the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the donald trump administration insisted on that after the idea first surfaced in washington last year mr putin called on the american leadership to be honest about the actual reasons why they were leaving the treaty and the russian president believes that these reasons are russia and america being obliged to limit their missile arsenals while other countries not being put in that position here's what else we heard from mr putin on that. will our u.s. partners had to be honest and straightforward with us they should not have used trumped up accusations and allegations to unilaterally withdraw from it like they did in two thousand and two which they did in an honest way when they pulled out of the i.b.m. treaty i felt it was done the wrong way but at least they did it in

a straightforward manner but how do they act in fact they violate everything and find excuses to put the blame on someone moreover they mobilize their allies going along with them so while addressing the lawmakers in some way mr putin address the american leadership as well and the gist was russia is not a threat for america and its allies but it could become one if these countries start being aggressive against moscow but i see which is the need. russia wants to have a proper friendly and equal relationship with the u.s. russia does not pose a threat to anyone or any actions we take or retaliate that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want to especially with a global power like the u.s. and this was the point when the russian president may even have sounded. definitely

serious the russian president began to talk what his country would be forced to do r. and d. an actual military deployment if the western military expansion continues. russia will be forced to produce weapons that can be used not only against those territories with direct threats originate from but also against the places where the decision makers are located we should let the us take into account the range and speed of our prospective weapons and then they can make a decision that might create an additional threat to our country however we kept hearing it time and again that the bear all the rewards when someone attacks it anything that russia would choose to do while all the b. in response to hostile actions and the russian president still believes that the way to sort out all the global issues the best way to do that is to make steps

towards each other positive steps. to trade with the report there will join me live in the studio as richard richard's a professor of russian and european politics at the u.k.'s university of kent welcome good to have you with us. just in terms of what you saw today i know that you you have the knowledge of previous state of the nation address here did you see much difference what did you take from it today yes this was a speech one and a half hours long one hour fifteen minutes was on domestic economic and social development and put in made this quite explicit beginning this speech he said will be about domestic issues economic and social development and then the last fifteen minutes was on defense and security policy which was quite deliberate balance as opposed to last year where two thirds on domestic but one third of m.p.'s of.

sizable chunk was a sizable chunk of the new developments he picked up on this year by saying that some of those things which he talked about last year some of these hypersonic weapons there's talk paedo which can go underwater new submarines new ships and so on in his last fifteen minutes but overwhelmingly it was about dealing and improving quality of life about he used the word dignity of citizens about the demographic issues which i think was hugely important because. like many western developed countries dealing with demographic issues and particularly russia because of the one nine hundred ninety s. the deficit of births in that time in a cyclical way so and how to encourage deal with you know to look after families in health care the also when the big issues at the moment is about those dumps and the dumps and poisons coming out of those so it was overwhelmingly a reaction to the gushing citizen especially after the grazing of the pension age

which the quote scandalous over the last summer yet rose a lot of questions didn't it those last ten fifteen minutes you can fit a lot into that can't you what message do you think was perhaps sent to the world or what will western observers be taking from it well one of the things was interesting the order in which he did it in the first thing when he started looking in foreign policy was the first mention was china and then india and some other countries and so on interestingly enough the european union was at the end of that long list and then he went to what he called his partner the united states and it was a tough speech it was quite clearly basically saying don't mess with us we'll just not all not point he claimed that russia will only ever act in a defensive pointed out a number of times i will never be an aggressor state let's just listen to gether to what was said i will get your tix after this. place you. russia wants to have a proper. and equal relationship with the u.s.

russia does not pose a threat to anyone any actions we take or retaliate that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want it especially with a global power like the us. was that more of a message than a statement so cycle of escalation to say look you're not going to win this russia has to begin with you know his statements he made was that gusher has to be a soviet independent power and he said other countries may not mind germany japan and others of u.k. possibly but it is a great power and in that sense it has to be respected as such and it has to be dealt with as such with a certain amount of you suspect and not constantly pressure the language developed the motives what was there anything said in the speech about where do you think a lot of this fifteenth address to congress actually sees russia on the global stage because some of some of the statements he said were quite interesting he said

that russia quote will not knock on a closed door how do you accept. relative isolation no deep into the twenty first century where is accepting that sanctions are going to be there for a long time that when people countries are going to talk to us as an equal then the actual will open the door but it's not going to be begging if you like for that door to be opened so i thought it was classic putinism if you like which was always the language was not of hostility but it was of sadness if you like that we can work together and as we know that he certainly did have hopes and i think the russian political class did that with selection that they could put the relationship on a new basis and of course that's not been possible as we saw the helsinki summit last july ended up with endless accusations of reaction interference and so on which. was completely taken out of context an exaggerated not even almost used as

a stick with which to beat to go. you could build a relationship giving us his take on a state of the union address richard professor of russian and european politics at the university of kent thank you very much for your time this hour and coming in to the studio thank you. to more world news this hour a former acting director of the f.b.i. under mccabe provoked a fire storm of controversy by claiming both in the new book and to the media about the us president is in the kremlin's pockets do you still believe the president could be a russian. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think the president as a threat is that what that means i think it's entirely possible i think that's one of the reasons why we opened the case against him we had good reason. to consider that the president might be a threat to national security did you suspect the president might actually be

working for russia we thought that might be possible well the u.s. justice department fired drew mccabe last year just before he was set to retire saying he'd lied multiple times about comments he'd made to the media he claims though that the decision was politically motivated or senior correspondent picks up the story. sensation selves it's a fact of life the bigger the dirtier the ruling shia your story the more people listen this book is dirty but we'll get to that first his revelations who could have believed that senior u.s. officials discussed seriously talked about declaring trump mentally or physically unfit to be president meaning he could be constitutionally removed from office discussion of the twenty fifth amendment was was simply rod raise the issue

and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort and the attempted coup some call this in the united states of all places insanity and was this an attempted bureaucratic i don't know this was a coup attempt there's no doubt about it but hey one man's coup is another's revolution and would you believe there's worse stuff in this book allegedly trump trusts putin more than his own intelligence agencies unbelievable the president said he did not believe that north koreans have the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles and united states intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses to which the president replied i don't care i believe putin

it's almost too crazy to be true come to think of it that is a pretty outlandish claim but hey folks buying it because you know one of the things that impressed me about mccabe in the interview was how careful he was about what he knew what he didn't know and what he had overheard he. it was very almost as if he was justifying a trial did seem like mccain was being credible and here's a pretty incredible allegation that he's making about trump a word trust putin's view on this over the us intelligence agencies well some people will believe anything especially if it tarnishes trump the more sensible bull look at the author andrew mccabe who may not be the most honest person in the world at all according to the justice department inspector general report was the

sensation here when he was the f.b.i. as deputy director leaked sensitive information to the press and then lied about it four times three of those under oath mccabe is rightly perceived already as a lying before with a major set of conflicts of interest mccabe is i think he's under criminal investigation already he's trying to sell this book now so the guy might be a liar ok it's given the benefit of the doubt trump trusting putin more than his intelligence guys which is strange because trump threatened north korea with biblical vengeance meaning he must have taken the threat seriously they will be met with fire fury more than that in two thousand and seventeen russia joined in on sanctions against north korea meaning moscow to saw

a threat facts fly in the face of sensation mr mccabe it seems is back to old habits theory a lie to spice things up get the book selling and then the timing the timing just as trump and kim jong prepare for another summit. more news in ninety seconds stick with us. the. country has gone into a nihilistic fever i think we've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the show is the genius of the south

american hero this is it we've come to a point which alan would have done something we always are on the margins something . called culture. oh. we're starting last with. movie going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the b. i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more of them it may be completely different but in this. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. twenty minutes into the program welcome back an award ceremony has been held in

fronts to celebrate some of the best pieces of journalism of the past year the best fake news stories that face charlotte do but see how as they rather dubious right up. they commute in folks the spread of this information we're all being told to be on all go out for it well here in france they like to go one step further let me introduce you to the book door. it's a mock awards show which looks to celebrate some of the ones this examples of fake news which are actually broadcast as real stories here in france where the winner is taking home a statuette of water elf but a goat and pinocchio first up let's take a look at the international category where a chilling tale of the russian media hunting tigers was broadcast of course do.

chefs. but it was completely fake news turns out these images were actually taken of president putin when he was visiting a reserve which protects the endangered siberian tiger or the fake news stories given are not included in this mysterious case of a subversive flag which was hoisted during a yellow best protest measure. on the mall. but this flag which the expert so expertly gave his opinion on is actually a local for ike from the northern pick out the region now in the general category here in france there was plenty of competition just like this a lot of media reported that we started and identified that there had been russian

meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal ah yes russian meddling again also croyde the mainstream media without doing much checking or even it seems actually reading the study by the lab even the hit turret the misinterpretation of their work we never said this the fact that the government spokesperson immediately exploded the. political ends created this sort of hype that was never the object of our study then there are all those super sneaky ways to get fake news across as we found out from one local french channel sports anything rome you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opposition to antigovernment strikes was more than hoff but it seems that this pie chart was artificially inflated and when all else fails you can always just to raise anything

that you don't like take a look at this sign in the yellow vests protests course a pull to in the midst of the yellow vest protests sec on no in fact this is what the so i reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a year for fake fronts with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than one show it's even ski see paris. bernie sanders is barack has officially thrown his hat into the ring for next year's us presidential election the veteran vermont senator's announcement has drawn a mixed reaction online and in the media while some praised the decision on expressed hope that the self-styled democratic socialist will be able to win the white house. seventy seven years of age he's too old to be commander in chief or to give up and takes on the story. look who's back into the veteran left winger who

put the phrase democratic socialism into the american political vocabulary he's got crazy hair and economic populism and he hit a chord with voters. america . a socialist country.

but from behind the scenes we saw that mainstream media and democratic party leaders were looking to put out the flames e-mails leaked from the party's governing body the d.n.c. show that they were working overtime to try and secure the nomination of hillary clinton if she performs the sprawling the bernie camp will go nuts and alleged misconduct there will probably complain regardless actually does he believe in a god he don't say yes the jewish heritage i think i read he's an atheist this could make several points difference with my peeps now polls show that sanders was actually more popular than hillary clinton and could have won in a final action against trump what that did not matter to a rigged democratic party machine headed by debbie wassermann schultz donna brazil her replacement revealed the inner workings of a rigged democratic presidential primary i called gary gensler the chief financial

officer of hillary campaign he described the party as fully under the control of hillary's campaign which seemed to confirm this is the bernie camp they can paint have the d.n.c. on life support given it money every month to me it's basic expenses while the campaign was using the party as a fundraising clearinghouse and the media was in on it as well and shelter was an archie host until his death last summer was working with m s n b c during the primary he described how. i was specifically told not to cover sanders campaign i go to bernie sanders house that afternoon in the interview in the backyard he's going to announce that he's running for president we're going to carry it live later on of the day it's five minutes to air and i get a phone call from phil griffin you're not covering this ultimately sanders ended up accepting the results and endorsing hillary clinton but this time around we have even heard from other democratic party candidates who accept and confirm that it

was indeed rigged against him do you agree with the notion that it was rigged yes this is a real problem but what we've got to do is democrats now it's we've got to hold this party accountable so with trump set to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty many democrats are lining up to be his opponent now sanders at this point in the game in what's already a pretty packed feel this time there's got to be many rank and file democrats who are asking themselves will they let it happen caleb oppen r.t. new york. let's get a short recount of our breaking news this hour the russian defense ministry veiled that you know if a new navy weapon system called. a nuclear powered underwater drone. said today it could be in full operation by spring telling the drone husband designed to country u.s. navy forces on washington's efforts in creating

a global missile defense primarily. see. you see those people but it's no good keep the slime to you or smear the focus on the best of you so he's. going to get what. you see in the bush not just because it's the most with more but you know. we're in the belief that. you know. you know change when you

don't then. you don't want. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. too great to be press it's like the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how.

how do you hard this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on all of us i'm bart chilton thank you for being on board we are glad to have you coming up this time we take a look at the business of television media and how it's changed and what to expect for the future we have with us the host of news with rick sanchez the also an enviable rick sanchez this is going to be a riot plus we spend some time playing with toys.