headline stories on. union address president putin reveals russia. we'll bring you unique video of the tense also in the president's speech today. with all u.s. partners have to be honest and straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone or any actions we take. that is to say in defense. of red but. if necessary. washington must be honest with. you coming up on the program a former acting director of the f.b.i.

. oath in the past is used in the media as a credible source stating. claims. the president said he did not believe that north koreans had the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe. on the awards no self-respect journalist would ever want to when we report on the. news of the year. every year or tuning in from writes are on the globe this hour welcome to. my names you know neal good to have your company our top story the russian defense ministry failed to shove a success. tested underwater drone named poseidon here is the video.

tests on the weapon system news they had been successful came immediately after vladimir putin gave his annual state of the union state of the nation address excuse me the president said in his speech the drone could be in full operation by springtime well this brand new poseidon naval system was designed if necessary to counter u.s. navy forces on washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense primarily at sea it is thought about the russian systems underwater vehicles are small and difficult to locate an intercept president putin also provided on a new hypersonic missile which he ses is a work in progress called com here's what the russian leader had to say about the weapons around here. we conducted successful drills of

a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range you're going to divest nic and also poseidon and 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. to go and i did you today i can also provide official information and more perspective on the hypersonic missiles the speed of which is nine max with a range of over a thousand kilometers able to hit both maritime and ground targets in this regard i want to emphasize that for the protection of russian national interests the russian navy will be given seven new multi targets submarines in the nearest time possible five ships will also be engineers and another sixteen ships so that category will be deployed by twenty twenty seven. of those remarks coming during the president's annual state of the nation address a lot of largely focused on domestic challenges on the country's economic

development but he brought up foreign policy concerns too saying that moscow does not see confrontation with its international partners artie's any other tranquil reports. 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. night when the when all 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 and the actions we take are retaliate. that is to say in defense we never seek confrontation we do not want it 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 but. 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 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. has been reaction to the speech nato responded to president putin's remarks branding them on acceptable threats while the military bloc also said that it will take all the information in the address in to consideration former german intelligence officer runner up washington may have to rethink pulling out of the i n f treaty or we negotiate. the situation. very clear speechless never given the.

ability to. destroy a nuclear. by having this capability they're not necessarily point to tool does not immediately imply that they would like to show but they're. just a tremendous kind of bargaining chip in all negotiations the eventual outcome will be that you have to do you have americans have to come back to the negotiating table and to to reintroduce some kind of element. of a balanced should teach a course as it was wallace before call industry you are here with me going through that state of the nation speech was the host of artie's worlds apart x. on a white coat and i think the west is missing the point. remember that famous phrase

by john f. kennedy ask not what the country can do for you but rather what you can do for the country while this was a total opposite it was all about what the country can do for you and it was about how the country can support the families how the country can support the education how the country can support the industry how the country can support the innovation and i think the russians are really concerned about building themselves from the bottom up sure there are sanctions foreign policy has still it but the russians believe that they first and foremost have to address their own chronic problems and that's why he only spoke about foreign policy and weapons in the last half of the address he dedicated the first full hour to russia's domestic issues not only about political promises i think he really takes them seriously and. so let's get the thoughts now of german m.p. under a hunk from the left to party on the speech today some of the reaction to it and

really welcome us the russian president said the poseidon tests were successful the new zirkle mists will be revealed in due course what message do you think he's trying to send to the international community especially washington is it offensive approach. what i think all these signals. because. from the left wing party linka. we are against all these kind of. new weapons systems and new threats but i can see mainly that. while the russia is doing is mainly a reaction to to the nato expansion and to the leaving of the i.m.f. treaty and i think we have to find ways. to come back to

negotiations instead of having a new arms race and maybe a new series with nuclear weapons which would be a real threat tool all of us that we did get reaction as you might have heard from nato saying the russian president is threatening u.s. allies but really ignored their plans call for cooperation which was a running theme in this speech and why do you think one part was taken the other was not. a. i would say this is. from nato side in the last year or so that they want to have a pretext for their own politics for their own. race for their own. programs. and as far as the speech of

putin it's mainly. on the one hand. side for cooperation for you were negotiations on the other hand he says if it's not possible and if if we also threatened then we are able to to build weapons which really can have a big effect on the. nato headquarters so so i think we should we should look more for the first first part of this speech. and we should try to continue having negotiations which in the end will help the people much more than a new arms race and some of the speech at least the lateran when they were talking about the military the international aspect of it. saying that russia does not seek confrontation that its will react it will protect its own interests do you see

that statement do you see it borne by moscow as actions essentially backed up what he's saying. well i would say that from my point of view it's an off. of the russian foreign policy sort of the last year. on the one hand that it's. looking for for cooperation that it wants to be to be. taken seriously on the international level it wants to have some kind of. treating. us. on the other hand it's trying to send a message. in the sense the the

threats from the other side. for me it's not not surprise. in. the last years well we appreciate you giving us your state of the nation thoughts there by vladimir putin earlier this wednesday we've been speaking to german m.p. under a hundred go from the left party. thank you. moving on a former acting director of the f.b.i. under mccabe provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming both in a new book and in the media that the u.s. president is in the kremlin's pocket. do you still believe the president could be a russian asset. 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 it should be pointed out that the u.s. justice department fired on dimmock a blast year and just before he was set to retire saying he'd lied multiple times under oath about comments that he made to the media at the moment self he say's that the decision was polluted politically motivated a lot of aspects of the story the of picks it up. sensation sells the 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 coup 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 is 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. date 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 are 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 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 that trump would 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 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 were. with fire fury more than that in two thousand and seventeen russia join in

on sanctions against north korea meaning moscow two saw a threat the facts fly in the face of sensation mr mccabe it seems is back to old habits theory allied to spice things up get the book selling and then the timing the timing just as trump and. prepare for another summit. 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 about it short of devinsky house the rather dubious round of. bacon we need you folks the spread of this information we're all being told to be on our guard 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 else 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 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. but

this flag which the expert so expertly gave his opinion on is actually a local for i'm 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 greed is sort of hype there was never the object of our study then there are those who question the key ways to get fake news across as we found out from one local french channel sports anything wrong you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opposition to anti government strikes was more than half 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 vest protests core supporters in the midst of the yellow vest protests. are no in fact this is what the so i reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a year for fake news in france with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than one show it's even ski artsy paris. bernie

sanders is back and has officially thrown his hat into the ring for the twenty twenty us presidential election the veteran vermont senators are strongly mixed reaction online in the media while some praised the decision and expressed hope the self-styled democratic socialist would be able to win the white house others argue that in seventy seven years of age he's too old to be commander in chief or to his killer has the story. look who's back it's 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 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 it goads you don't saying he has a jewish heritage i think already 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 call gary gensler breached. financial officer of hillary campaign he described the party as fully under the control of hillary's campaign which seemed to confirm this is specious of the bernie camp the complain 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 arty host until his death last summer was working with m s n b c during the primary

he described how he 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 is 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 the russian winter can be tough but for certain motor sports enthusiasts syria it's the best time of the year our documentary come drift with me revs into gear and it's next. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution is here to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean i lived with video and they believe that i do split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the

events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

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a nurse field thought of began his drifting career on the streets now he's the only russian pilot who also drives a car like this in the summer too but his ego has been seriously upgraded examples . so those of crucial years are going to have been the last also if. you can reach in your the boss was going to sort. of i should sort. of all should sort pilots use the winter to prepare their cars for the summer meaning winter competitions are a chance to practice and this time the whole family has come along there was one gulp i suppose it was you steve i wasn't even if you were out so if so what was i believe in the reality that our. new department here are people who are living with you.