headline stories. states of the union address president. new. video but also in the president's speech. russia does not pose a threat to anyone and the actions we take. in defense. in the international arena are clearly if the president doesn't seek confrontation with partners. with russia.

the president said he did not believe that north korea had the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe a former. leader of the russian us it. so when we report our french. faith. to the world this is your r.t. international your company my name. we begin with breaking news this hour the russian defense ministry has presented new images of a successfully tested on. water drone called poseidon here is video all of

those tests on the new weapons system is just a few seconds long but it is exclusive footage news they had been successful came immediately after of love him or putin gave his i knew all the states of the nation address the president said in his speech that the drone could be in full operation by spring so that's within a number of months time it's been described by most school as a planned modernization of military capabilities to conjure hostile u.s. moves here's what both the russian defense minister russian leader and the say about poseidon ready. to do this we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range to boot events nick 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. was business. we successfully completed offshore tests of the pilotless underwater poseidon drones says its crew has passed the necessary training the main aim of this work is to provide military security for our country without increasing the current budget and without being involved in an arms race well the brand new naval system was designed to counter u.s. navy forces on washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense primarily at sea it's all about the russian systems on monday all underwater crofter small difficult to locate intercept poseidon is said to be several times cheaper than both the u.s. deployed missile defense and navy strike groups while posing a serious threat to them. let's go live to runner up runners and former german intelligence officer and a friend of the program to tie their honor as both the russian president and the

defense minister just said the poseidon tests were successful mr putin also saying that the weapon will be ready by spring time so within the coming months what message do you think this is trying to send to the international community especially washington. well first of all like to congratulate russia as the chief myth because to tiffany is a game changer in the situation you for that we put instance her through the through to the american i u s american nuclear posture review in between the lines and it's all it's all pretty disgusting think tank papers and . he has a very clear that the united states has never given up the idea of absolute nuclear dominance but the ability to use cursed strike nuclear and he kept petitions.

to it. by having this capability that not necessarily point to it who does not immediately imply that they would like to do so but they would have meant just a tremendous kind of bargaining chip in all negotiations now with the with their. modernization of the russian government has been achieving and is still in the process of achieving it is quite clear that the. kind of idea the americans have is now obsolete and i think this is basically a serious shock going should the military planning step this man how are they going to react reiner then to this belief. do you have reaction to this bitter bitter that eventually be apart from the plastering now going on into using russia as well

mango. apart from this blustering going aren't even sure how can it be that you have to do you know americans have to come back to the negotiating table and to to reintroduce some kind of element. of. balanced should teach a course it's as it was before it just from your knowledge of because it's very new to this of course but just from what you know of poseidon the system is said to nullify u.s. efforts in creating a global missile defense network is that so can washington avoid the system. push the world it's too early to say here about what i. know so far about bush hayden and what i heard from american reactions to it from scientific.

community those. are impossible to impossible to or to to contact. basically if the americans i mean it's basically a ploy to well the president could use. your time first dish it's my turn but you are going to recruit recruits dying because the americans would not have anything to stop do. as a retaliation force yes certainly a big achievement for the defense industry here in russia runnerup publicist and former german intelligence officer we thank you for your take this hour. well despite president putin's speech having a major domestic focus that are in a speech earlier today whedon's the foreign policy was. as we've just been hearing with given the current climate the russian leader look to underline that moscow is

not seeking confrontation of the said more than once the. brics the speech done in particular forceful. 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 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. would be well 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 just. 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 us russia does not pose a threat to anyone or any actions we take our retaliates region that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want to especially with a global power like the us and this was the point when the russian president may even have sounded aggressive definitely serious the russian president began to talk what his country would be forced to do an r. and d. and actual military deployment if the western military expansion continues and. russia will be forced to produce weapons that can be used not only against those territories where direct threats originate from but also against the places where the decision makers are located we should let the u.s. 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 only rewards when someone attacks it anything that russia would choose to do will only be 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. yeah let's talk about another ninety minutes let's get the take of chris bambery political analyst live on the program now chris we'll get into a few specifics in a bit what did you take away for what was that mean points do you think. well i think while of course we're concentrating on the whole issue of russia responding to the threats the police comes to the united states the first oh it was about domestic policies and putin was promising and increasing living standards for the population well you standards of course have been stagnating his increase in the

retirement age is unpopular and i think he was offering the russian people some some hope they're willing standards were going to go up but i also think that against a back road of the euro zone economy going towards recession chinese growth of american girl slowing increasing domestic demand is also an imperative in that situation to help the economy so i think the first thing to see is the the bulk of the speech was actually to the russian people are boat better days potentially ahead you know absolutely there was more than in previous years this year certainly the last ten fifteen minutes the foreign policy defense a lot was fits into that period chris and i'm not sure if you just saw us earlier we were speaking about i thought you underwater nuclear drone is also speaking about the average guard hypersonic glider as well and pride in able to to create things like that but no headlines i'm just seeing i've just been scaling through

headlines of threatening the u.s. with new weapons they're appearing in the media is that an example really of how a message can be twisted and used to misinform public perceptions because this is done as he's pointed out multiple times in reaction to the u.s. pulling out and trying to get the the weapons risk going up again he said that more than once i mean there's two elements here that was the section which in a previous package corresponded to where it sounded certainly confident maybe threatening when he talked about these new new new weapons and said that if pushed russia would retaliate but the bulk of the time he was saying he wanted to come back to the. table attacking america for tearing up this nuclear treaty and i think we know that while this is a strengthening of russia's arsenal are still that america has got overwhelming superiority and therefore my take on it is easy is unveiling these weapons in an

effort to see would we have these things while i was why don't you come back to negotiating table why do this and above all to see you have to stop this of fence of expansion of nato all into former u.s.s.r. territories this is the crucial question i think for for the whole russian lucia russia feels as if it's surrounded no by needs or an american bases and by the expansion of nato eastwards and the deployment of nato forces into the baltic states and into into east eastern europe and this is what i think the years is that what russia wants is to america to come back to the negotiating table and discuss this so my take on this is really if you like it's a plea to america to come back to the days or of negotiation and not take these unilateral actions of simply tearing up treaties which you could sense is anger about each did stress that the russia would only ever acted a defensive manner and never be an aggressor we can in fact listen to the exact

words. believe the president could be a russian are so. 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 chris we're giving our viewers a taste of our next story very just a snippet of you're going to be speaking about it but just to. put it was saying about conflict. he was essentially saying that russia is trying to distance itself let's try again just for a moment here let's listen but as you. 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. you. know it was wholeheartedly clumped as well chris that is supported that stands . oh and as i say i mean everyone in russia knows that economically and militarily there is a huge imbalance between the united states and russia and you have to be crazy to want to provoke a confrontation a nuclear confrontation or any military confrontation in the united states because of that and it seems to me that what putin was doing here was almost asking the united states work we have got these capabilities we're developing these weapons which you probably can't deal with the moment why not come back and actually you know you accuse us of being offensive in ukraine we see that we were we were the people on the receiving end of western expansion you can argue about that but it is

the view from our school that this was an attempt an earthquake color coded revolution in ukraine that had to be stopped the west was interfering into russia's own back yard in syria we're defending our our bashar assad whatever game you think of think of that these are not in marshall's views offensive actions note the expansion of nato and the moving of western forces into order to russia's border is seen as a direct direct provocation or of russia so i think everyone would be great for russia no one wants a military confrontation but people want to have people want to get back to the negotiating table and get back to discussions as has been done in the past very much sort of ok chris bambery live from london our political speakers live on the program great as ever thanks chris. thank you. all right to more world news where across this hour a former acting director of the f.b.i.

andrew mccabe provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming both in the new book and to the media that the u.s. president is in the kremlin's pocket 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 open 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. to this is that the u.s. justice department fired under mccabe last year just before he was set to retire saying he'd lied multiple times under oath about comments he'd made to the media he claims however that the decision was politically motivated or senior correspondent rough because the of 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 it's a pretty incredible allegation that he's making about trump a word trust putin's view on this over the u.s. 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 lie before with a major set of conflicts of interest you know 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 the 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 un prepare for another summit.

an award ceremony has been held in france to celebrate some of the best pieces of journalism of the past year the best fake news stories that is show devinsky has the rather g.b.'s. they could need you 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. 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 golden 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 on the fake news stories from the north included 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 i 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. political greedy this sort of hype there 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

you don't like take a look at this in the yellow best protests of course a poll to in the midst of the yellow vest protests. 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. all right time for breaking news international the russian defense ministry has unveiled this video of a new navy weapon system called. a nuclear powered underwater drone. so that they could be in full operation by spring successful the drill has been designed to country u.s. navy forces and washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense primarily. we're getting reaction to his state of the

union speech right throughout the day here on the program live from moscow this is our international. came here where you were before you came here whether you live. in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years were. eating for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about.

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hillary clinton destroyed the twenty sixteen presidential campaign of bernie sanders but in britain there was once a split in the labor party and in the labor vote it put margaret thatcher in power for a generation this was what tony benn meant it's a current labor leader jeremy corbyn said to one of the splits is a goodly forgotten ball edition of roy jenkins i feel very strongly about people who should our life depended on the working class movement your father was a miner he was in jail in the general strike you got into parliament as a labor member every office because of the labor party a cabinet minister appointed by labor prime minister and then you left the party that's a cancerous growth not personally but i think people will betray those who gave them power are the real threat and that threat arguably emerged again in the past forty eight hours so called red tories revealed that they were against jeremy corbyn becoming pm even though is leadership is seen labor make its biggest gain since ninety forty five but what apart from corbin's pro palestinian rights and

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