which. led to his annual state of the nation address of president putin reveals russia has successfully tested a new nuclear powered underwater we'll bring you unique. and straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone and the actions we take to retaliate that is to say in defense. that's a mere putin stresses that russia doesn't pose a threat that can defend itself if necessary he also reiterated that washington must be honest with moscow and not use quote trumped up. a full not acting director of the f.b.i. who has claimed to have blinded safe in the past is used in the media as

a credible source and a slew of in century claims that trump the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe. the sensitive deal kept under wraps as house democrats in the u.s. launch an investigation into secret plans the white house is ready to trump the nuclear powered tech to saudi arabia. you're watching aussie international welcome to the program. the russian defense ministry has unveiled new footage of a successfully tested underwater drone named poseidon here's the video with those tests on the new weapon system news they had been successful came immediately off

to vladimir putin gave his annual state of the nation address the president said in his speech that the drone is expected to be in full operation by spring. the president stating the brand new poseidon naval system was designed if necessary to counter u.s. navy forces and washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense primarily out sea is thoughts that the russian system and underwater vehicle so small and difficult to locate and intercept resumé putin also provided an update on a new hypersonic missile known as circle in which he says is a work in progress here's what the russian leader had to say about the weapons. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range put it best nick and also 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 it's going to go we're going to do today i can also provide official information and more perspective on the hypersonic missiles on 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 engineered and another sixteen ships of that category will be deployed by twenty twenty seven. the remark came during the president's state of the nation address by the may appear ten largely focused on domestic challenges in the country's economic development but he brought up fallen foreign policy concerns today saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with its international partners t.s.a.

lipitor and her 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 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 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 or retaliate. 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. 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. we discussed the state of the nation speech with host of artie's worlds apart. 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 see more of the industry how the country can support the innovation and i think russians are really concerned about building themselves from the bottom up sure there are sanctions foreign policy but russians believe that they first and foremost have to address the. they're all chronic problems and

that's why he only spoke about foreign policy 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. a former director of the f.b.i. andrew mckay has provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming both in a new book and to the media that the us president is in the kremlin's pocket do you still believe the president could be a russian now so. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation the president is 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 he thought that might be possible the u.s. justice department fired on tree mccabe last year just before he was set to retire saying he'd lied multiple times and about comments he'd made the media he claimed he came to say that the station was politically motivated our senior correspondent takes up the story sensation sells the fact of life the bigger the dirtier the ruling cheer 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 didn't meaning you could be constitutionally removed from office discussion of the twenty fifth amendment was it 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 tempted the cuckoo 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'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 go . from it 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 was very almost as if he was justifying a trial did system that is making that trump a 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 eked 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 will be met with fire fury more than that in two thousand and seventeen russia joined deano on sanctions against north korea meaning moscow. to saw a threat the facts fly in the face of sensation mr mccabe it seems is back to

old habits fear allied to spice things up get the book selling and then the timing of the timing just as trump and kim jong prepare for another summit. we're back with more world news after a short break. i think the number. they've matter to us is over one trillion dollars. more than ten white collar crime every day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old bridge eight percent of the world market rose thirty percent somewhat

one hundred to five hundred three per second per second and if we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's will be two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overall. the only number you need to remember one one is you know for the mid one and only boom but. welcome back. the u.s. house of representatives house released a report indicating that the white house may be planning to transfer sensitive nuclear power technology to saudi arabia

a democratic led committee is now launching an investigation kadam open house the details on that. well it's a report from the house oversight committee that's the congressional committee that overlooks the activities of various areas of government and it essentially shows that according to certain whistleblowers who are involved and other sources there was talk of transferring rather sensitive nuclear technology to the kingdom of saudi arabia and enabling them to divel. nuclear power some of this some of what was said in the report can be heard here these reports also indicate that saudi arabia is refusing to agree to prohibit an enriching uranium and processing plutonium similar to those agreed to by other countries in the region however experts worry that transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could be a to produce nuclear weapons that country b. two the proliferation of nuclear arms according to the report donald trump actually

directly engaged the deal was supportive of these efforts now one of the nuclear power companies involved i p three has defended the idea of transferring nuclear technology and nuclear energy technology to saudi arabia this is a statement from i p three it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena it's important to note that while it appears here there was open talk of giving saudi arabia nuclear energy technology that the united states has long had sanctions against the islamic republic of iran for simply trying to pursue nuclear technology and nuclear energy peaceful nuclear energy themselves now when confronted about a kind of double standard when it comes to saudi arabia and iran the response of the u.s. state department showed a rather strong lack of clarity how do you characterize saudi arabia's commitment

to democracy and has the administration believe that democracy is a barrier against extremism. we so used. at this meeting. we were able to make significant progress it's important to note that donald trump recently defended the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia but didn't defend it on the basis of human rights or on the basis of even stopping terrorism but pointed to the fact that u.s. weapons sales to saudi arabia are a big source of revenue and that potentially other countries would get in on those weapons sales if the united states pulled out this is some of what trump said defending the us saudi relationship so america first told me it's all about america

first we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia and china and everybody else have a it's all about for me very simple it's america versus critics of the u.s. saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . but let's now bring in pickle commentator and author lou rockwell good to have you with us now why do you think the white house is secretly pushing to transfer sensitive u.s. nuclear technology to saudi arabia and bypassing congress. well it's an attack on

iran they want to have saudi arabia have a nuclear weapon so that they can be threatened or maybe used against iran so israel won't have to use its nuclear weapons and it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology to a patella tarried state like saudi arabia which is not a democracy. and just it's a terrible thing and it's similar to what trump announced that he's going to make sure that every country in the world legalize his homosexuality well i'm glad that people go to jail for that in this country but who made him god emperor of the world that he would be able to do this to every other country and of course again it's aiming at iran and this is all part of the. plan and george question is involved in this too to destroy iran and they they hate iran iran is not promoting terrorism iran is not all the things they say it is it's

a peaceful country it's got a very small military and out of date military and they're not a threat to anybody but the course other powers in the middle east are a threat to every of everybody else in the middle east now they want to make such a arabia one of those powers a terrible thing that the u.s. is the neighboring saudi ribbon emerge of the people of yemen now they want to enable it to murder maybe with a nuclear weapons the people of iran if this is really a horrendous thing and i'm so glad that whistleblowers in the white house give this information to congress and he talks about iran there and at the same time the white house is pressuring the saudis big rival iran over its nuclear program so what ramifications could that be because of this. well they just you know that iran is not allowed to have they hate the guts of iran they're not allowed to have nuclear power for medical reasons or for energy reasons but they want saudi arabia to have many of these plants being proposed by this company ip three run by an ex

general as these military industrial complex operation frequently are they want war all over the world that promote. many many terrible policies and we're supposed to think that they should be making billions of dollars in enabling saudi arabia to make nuclear weapons this is you know it's just horrendous and wish. this were trump loike that they could call shower and stop doing this sort of thing let's take a quick listen to what the iranian foreign minister had to say about the revelations and then we'll come back to you in a second. day by day it becomes clearer to the world what was always clear to us neither human rights nor a nuclear program have been the real concern of the u.s. first dismembered journalist now illicit sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia fully exposed us he procrustes. so do you think he has

a point that it makes us cool fifteen nuclearize ation ring a little hollow perhaps. oh yeah of course he's exactly right and we have to remember that saudi rebels not run actually by a king who is very elderly man and pretty much out of it but by vomit been solved. rating and pointed out. probably murdered to show he had to show you in order this is of the not very stable and yet. questioner and trump and the rest of the people want them to have nuclear weapons. you know it's not it's not that saudi ribbon needs energy immediately because of all the oil they have. they were they don't want any they don't want and they refused to have any conditions placed on their nuclear power plants like not producing plutonium they want to produce plutonium so they can produce nuclear weapons just like israel has done so excuse me there are plenty of nuclear weapons in that part of the world pakistan and

israel are more to who shouldn't be having them and now they want they would have saudi arabia join the club of murder it's. seemed to me just unbelievably horrible and unbelievably reckless and unbelievably alarming we appreciate your filth on the topic political commentator and author. you. add to our top stories we can sense and confirm the successful test of a new missile system which is being regarded as a threat by nato where we can cross now to my guest independent british m.e.p. stephen wolf good to have you on the program now nato accuses the russian president of threatening u.s. allies with new weapon systems and mr putin says it's only for washington to calculate the cost of their actions namely with the withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty how do you see it. but i think what it is as you've seen in your previous

guest is there is a geopolitical. war going on in terms of economics in terms of the way that the military has been armed on either side and we've seen from the united states they seem to have huge concerns towards russia huge concerns towards around huge concerns towards china in terms of trade and by pulling out of previous agreements between russia and the united states it leaves the argument that we can now militarize the world we will provide nuclear technology to saudi arabia and then we'll criticize russia for actually having the creativity to create is own strong army and i think this is a bigger picture that we're looking a cross between the way that the west is conceiving the east well let's talk about cooperation between these countries because that's something that the russian

president did call for so why then is nato seeming in on only the part they interpret as a threat. i think this also is what i feel in the european parliament i always remember the first session that i had in strasburg where i literally heard not only members of the eastern bloc countries who are joining european union claim that we should have sanctions against russia. but others that argue that we should be militarily stronger against russia and their concerns is they feel that russia is interfering in either their politics or threatening their nations now that it is up to putin to prove or disprove whether that is actually the case but that's generally the feeling in the european union my organ of about is i don't think this is the case i think we should be utilizing all our best options to be able to engage russia with the european union and the united states to have trade to have the ability for peoples to come to each of the countries and work with each other

and stop this war mongering this idea that we have two big enemies on either side of this border between russia and the european union both say in the address mr putin said russia will not knock on a closed door how should we read that do you think he thinks things russia's relative isolation in this twenty first century. i think it is an acceptance that unfortunately whether you're in the united states and the allies those in nato and the european union they have put sanctions on the not willing to listen to anything that's coming from the ambassadors in their country from russia or indeed from putin and his own government and i think this is not only sad but actually ultimately it's dangerous for his not to be able to negotiate or talk to another country that is important in the global sphere so i suspect to belief is that

russia will work closely with its allies in china those in india and other countries true crime create frameworks of economic trade to have technology connections with each other but also to increase their amount of investment in protecting themselves what they can now legitimately feel is a threat from those on the west and i don't want to see that but i can understand why he thinks that well thank you for your thoughts on the address today and my guest independent british and we pay steven well thank you. thank you. that's a roundup of the global news to date this hour we'll bring you more top stories in around fifty minutes time.

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