i. was. at his annual state of the nation address president putin reveals russia has successfully tested a new nuclear powered underwater drone and we'll bring you unique video of the test also in the president's speech. well all u.s. partners have to be honest and straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone and the actions we take to retaliate that is to say in defense. 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 accusations. a former acting director of the f.b.i.

who is claimed to have lied in the past is used in the media as a credible source. of in century claims that. the president said he did not believe the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles and states to which the president replied i don't care i believe. it's a sensitive deal kept under wraps as house democrats in the u.s. north china investigation into alleged secret plans the white house is ready to transfer nuclear power to saudi arabia. from the russian capital you're watching us he international the russian defense ministry has unveiled new footage of a successfully tested underwater drone named poseidon. here's the video of 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 and press 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 surface in creating a global missile defense primarily out sea it's thought that the russian system. and the water vehicles is small and difficult to locate and intercept resume putin will say provided an update on a new hypersonic missile known as the cone which he says is a work in progress here's what the russians need to have to say about the weapons they are. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range vest 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. of their most came during the president's annual state of the nation address that they may appear to be largely focused on domestic challenges in the country's economic development but both foreign policy concerns today saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with this

international partners. 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. announcement 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 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 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 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. nato responded to president putin's for marks printing them as an unacceptable threat the military bloc or says has it will take all the information in the address into consideration we spoke about the recent developments with the former german intelligence officer and an m.p. from germany that. i would say there's a sort of what i observed from the nato side in the in the last year. or i'm sorries for their own. programs i can see mainly that.

what the russia is doing has is mainly a reaction to the nato expansion to the leaving of the i.m.f. treaty it's very clear that the united states has never given up the idea of a two uclear dominance with the ability to use. nuclear capitation. by having this capability not necessarily point to who does not immediately imply that they would like to show but. just the tremendous kind of bargaining chip in all negotiations even should 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 of balanced should teach a course it was wallace before. we discuss the state of the nation speech

with host of r.t.s. worlds apart exxon a break a think the west is missing the point. remember that famous phrase by john f. kennedy ask not what the country can do for your but rather what you can do for the country while this was a total opposite it was all about what the country can defy 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 russians are really concerned about building themselves from the bottom up share their sanctions foreign policy has still at it but the russians believe that they feel. first and foremost have to address their own 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 we has from full b. us presidential candidates one pool he says russia's been pushed into creating such weapons by the us me to scrap iron after e t. i think it's a reasonable massy you know i have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose i think the issue of acceleration of the animosity between these two countries came by us is canceling out of i and a half feet out of the treaty and that opened up the door for this so i think it's reasonable for defensive purposes to do this as far as i'm concerned it was just totally unnecessary getting out of that treaty because it's bound to accelerate. the conflict and yet i've always wanted to argue the case that there's no reason in the world why two countries like russia and i say you can't get along together and

we were doing pretty well right after the downfall of the soviet system and it was a lot of strain there's still a lot of trading and it's not unanimous you know i think we have more a more aggressive policy towards been taught traditionally and i say this is that the goal is to have peace by trading and dealing with people and not by force of arms and telling people intimidating putting on sanctions that i think is detrimental we spend the most money on weaponry i don't feel intimidated if somebody is going to attack is that we can make mistakes and we do spend a lot of money but we also know that compared to what the other countries are spending and what we spend it's there's no it's not a. close close guess because we spend more than probably the next ten countries all put together so i think i think we're a lot safer then the people in washington and the people who build our weapons

claim we are because even if it's not for the fact of aggression and starting a war i think people when they make profits building weapons there are likely to promote problems. that film acting director of the f.b.i. make a has provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming in a new beck 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 is that 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 under mccabe last year just before he was set to retire saying

he'd lied multiple times and about comments he'd made to the media he claims though that there is it was politically motivated our senior correspondent takes 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 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 in the 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 cause 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 that 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 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 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 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 of the timing just as trump and kim jong un prepare for another summer. the u.s. house of representatives has 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 artie's kellett more penthouse more. well it's a report from the house oversight committee and 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 develop 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 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 a lawsuit 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 and 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 ip 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 would you characterize your abuse commitment to democracy and is 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 china and everybody else have a it's all about for me very simple it's america first 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 . that's now bringing north and historian gerald torne for more on this story charles welcome to the program. now why would it be in the u.s. interest to help saudi arabia develop nuclear technology. well number one as is well known by now there are very close financial targets between the trump family and the saudi ruling elite is no accident that after mr trump became president one of his first trips was to saudi arabia evidence is now emerging about saudi contributions to his presidential campaign that may not have been a book or in two thousand and sixteen as well know that his son in law an advisor jeric listeners also very close to the same sources who have helped the bailout his flailing financial empire second of all you may recall the meeting that took place

in warsaw poland just a few days ago were u.s. vice president michael pence and is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu gather with their arab allies including saudi arabia to work out what mr netanyahu said and did lead tweet would be a quote war unquote against iran and developing nuclear energy in saudi arabia has to be seen quite suspiciously as further a further way to put pressure on iran and i might also say that the defacto ruler of saudi arabia m.b.'s mohammad been someone was just in pakistan which is a major nuclear proliferate war and that is a very ominous dangerous and suspicious that these two roll powers have been huddling together presumably with iran in the crosshairs when it has some reaction because iran has voiced this objections let's first listen to what the country's

foreign minister had to say. they were a day it becomes clearer to the world would was only ways clear to us neither human rights nor a nuclear program have been the real concern of the u.s. first and dismembered john and i asked now in a sad sad if nuclear technology to saudi arabia will expose us he prosy. so we just had that call that hypocrisy and does he have a point there. or clearly he does i should also mention the key advisor to mr trump is the multimillionaire thomas barrack who happens to be of lebanese to serve he's a major real estate speculate or and just the other day he denounced his home country the united states comparing it invidiously to saudi arabia which as you know has been accused of killing the washington post journalist and saudi national

jamal khashoggi mr barrett suggested that his own country is newly adopted country united states has done quite worse things then trumped up a journalist with the old saw in one's council which apparently took place in turkey just months ago so this is a major scandal that is emerging and i dare say that the opposition democratic party will be investigating in order to weaken mr truck well in u.s. congressman a saying this plan would violate u.s. north against the transfer of nuclear technology that could be used to support a weapons program so if the white house is found to have broken this nor what could be the consequences of that. this is difficult to say i mean first of all as you know the republican party controls the senate that is the party of mr trump and they are very reluctant to take any sort of moves that would be deemed to be

hostile to mr trump given mr trump stranglehold over the republican party base however i do think that there is a drip drip drip impact that is to say the number of scandal that are targeting an envelop in midst a truck or proliferating and i think in the long run this will help to weaken and serve to we get his presidency and the reports from the house oversight committee also ones that the nuclear transfer to the saudis could actually feather destabilize an already unstable middle east so how big of a rescue is that. it's a major a summit keep in mind as well that if you read the tea leaves very carefully you may notice that there is rumbling discontent within saudi arabia similarly saudi arabia has relationship with its patron and washington is not all that it appears to be in light of the fact that this saudi regime is increasingly being attacked

and assaulted by the emerging democratic party opposition and with this rumbling discontent in saudi arabia combined with the fact that the regime is wasting millions if not billions of taxpayer dollars on these kinds of nuclear programs which by the way or is pouring money into the pockets of the military industrial complex in the united states of america this rumbling distance it can only begin to soar and get stronger with each passing day presenting a clear and present danger to the health of the saudi regime we appreciate your thoughts on this story author and historian carol thank you for joining us. now the media freedom representative from the european security organization. says he's following the situation regarding facebook's suspension of several r.t.

linked news pages a few days ago facebook blocks a number of moffitt media's pages the german based company which produces online shows one of them which is in the now his videos have been viewed tens of millions of times the move coincided with the c.n.n. reports claiming muffet was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian government facebook also claimed that there are rules under which any community should tell here with sponsoring them. people connected with bridges shouldn't be misled by out who's behind them just as if stepped in force might of carbonated an authentic behavior and financially motivated spam over the past year will continue improving so people can get more information about the page and they follow facebook later replied to moffitt media saying it needed to make clear they are affiliated with r.t. my fixie then tweeted that they are now waiting to hear if they'll be allowed back on the site although it still hasn't contacted r.t.

about the page suspensions facebook spoken to russia's tast news agency it says is in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences and that it wants administrators to disclose information about their location and funding sources however the screenshot taken from in the else page one of the accounts that was blocked shows that the location data was actually provided. the president of the international federation of journalists has also hit out at facebook every suspension of those r.t. linked pages. closing a facebook account or any internet link from the media without prior warning can be considered as an act of censorship opposed by the i have j. . talk show hosts to me to believe space that has no legitimate reason to block news pages this is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in silicon valley deciding who gets freedom of

speech based on completely random rules that are public and they make up on the fly that that's what so this is actual censorship happening so if you're going to take away someone's rights you have to have a transparent process to do that you can't just do it willy nilly with a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in the middle of the night in silicon valley deciding who gets to have freedom of speech or not and that's what's happening right here and by the way it's happening in conjunction with the government which makes it doubly horrible but it's not really being reported correctly in the united states because corporate media is in bed with the same people. top u.s. officials thing to pay it's be on the same page when it comes to america's military strategies on syria on wednesday there are claims that u.s. forces would be withdrawing from syria if iraq by april the fest the pentagon has refused to confirm that deadline sparking instead of an orderly exit we support the

unity and territorial integrity of syria. and we've been clear. that the only path. and series a political solution. president trump announced in december that he would be with during the u.s. military from syria after a five year mission as part of an international coalition to fight terrorism in the region but it's despite the imminent attack fits washington's envoy to syria has signaled that may not be the end of america's ambitions there which means we're not . at all in favor of the regime coming back in because the regime does not promote stability of promotion stability. mideast analyst joshua landis says the.