we're watching closely watching the hawks. at his state of the nation address president putin reveals russia's successful new nuclear powered underwater drone bringing video of that test. will our u.s. partners have to be our mission straight forward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone any actions we take to retaliate that is to say in defense. and also stresses that russia doesn't pose a threat but can defend itself if necessary he also reiterated that washington must be honest with moscow and not use trumped up. also this hour a former acting director of the f.b.i. who claimed to have lied under oath in the past is used in the media as a credible source alleging a slew of incendiary claims against donald trump. the president said he did not

believe that north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles and to which the president replied i don't care i believe. the sensitive deal kept under wraps as house democrats and the u.s. investigation into alleged secret plans the white house is ready to transfer nuclear power technology to saudi arabia. thanks for joining us live on r.t. international and. welcome to the program. the russian defense ministry has unveiled new footage of a successfully tested underwater drone code named poseidon is the video of those tests on the new weapon system news they've been successfully came mediately after vladimir putin gave his annual state of the nation address the president said in

his speech the drone is expected to be. all operation by this spring. the president stated the brand new precise enable system was designed if necessary to counter the u.s. navy forces and washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense program really see it was thought that the russian systems on manned and underwater vehicles are small and difficult to locate and intercept but here putin also provided an update on a new hypersonic missile known as ican which she says is a work in progress here's what the russian leader had to say about those weapons earlier. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range the 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. that we're going to do 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 be engineered and another sixteen ships of that category will be deployed by twenty twenty seven of the remarks came during the president's annual state of the nation address and largely focused on domestic challenges on the country's economic development but he also brought up foreign policy concerns saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with its international partners auntie's it a trunk of 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. arsenals while other countries not being put in that position here's what else we heard from mr putin on that. well our u.s. partners had to be honest and straightforward with us they should not have used trumped up accusations and allegations to unilaterally withdraw from it like they did in two thousand and two which they did in an honest way when they pulled out of

the i.b.m. treaty i felt it was done the wrong way but at least they did it in a straightforward manner but how do they act in fact they violate everything and find excuses to put the blame on someone moreover they mobilize their allies who are 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 us 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 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 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 all the rewards when someone attacks it anything that russia would choose to do will all the 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. and nato responded to president putin's remarks branding them an unacceptable threat the military bloc also said it will take all the information into the address into consideration we spoke about the recent developments with the former german intelligence officer and an m.p. from germany's the left party. i would say there's a. what i observed from the nato side in the in the last year is that they want to have a pretext for their own politics for their own. or arms race for their own. programs i can see mainly that. what the russia is doing has is mainly a reaction to to the nato expansion to the leaving off the i.n.f. treaty it's very clear that the united states has never given up the idea of actual

nuclear dominance basely ability to use first strike nuclear capitation and. by having this capability do not necessarily point to it to who does not immediately imply that they would like to show but. maybe just a tremendous kind of bargaining chip in all negotiations even sure how count will 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 as it was what i wished before we discussed the state of the nation speech earlier with host of artie's wilds of products on a boyko thinks the west is missing the point of the speech. remember that famous

phrase by john f. kennedy ask no it was the country can do for you but rather what you can do for the country 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 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 we heard from former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul he says russia has been pushed into greasing such weapons the u.s.

moved to scrap the treaty. 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 that i think the. acceleration of the animosity between these two countries came by us is canceling out of i and half 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 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

a more aggressive policy toward iran than the europeans do because i work on the assumption that has been taught traditionally in our state 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. so the headlines a full director of the f.b.i. has provoked a fossil of control of sea by claiming both the 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. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think 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 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 for the u.s. justice department for mccabe last year just before he was to retire saying he'd lloyd multiple times under oath about the call it seemed made to the media claims though the solution was politically motivated or senior correspondent laura guys

the 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

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. it was very almost as if he was justifying a trial did seem like mccain was being credible and here's a pretty incredible allegation that he's making about trump or 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 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 the

timing just as trump and kim jong prepare for another summit. i was going to into all things and i shall be back with more news just after this short break. is america ready for a real anti-war candidate clearly the political establishment and media criticism of presidential candidates and anyone else who questions foreign policy war that is swift and unrelenting fighting for peace has never been so good. for the downside of globalization the troggs asked strong ten years ago or so. now if it was called deep globalization i'm sure they caused it but that's what's going on a lot of dollars

a. would. be put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be rich. but you going to be close this is what the three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. or should. the program of u.s. house of representatives has reduced the report indicating that the white house may be planning to transfer sensitive nuclear power technology to saudi arabia the democratic led committee is now launching an investigation. i thought details.

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 summer what was said in the report can be heard here these reports 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 the transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could be a to produce nuclear weapons that country b. to 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. reviews commitment to democracy and does the administration believe that democracy is a barrier against extremism. we

so used. to speeding 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 us 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 its goal commentates a new book well suspects that the white house has iran and its science if it really is funneling nuclear technology to the saudis. the idea that they would arm mohamed and solomon with nuclear weapons just strikes me as something out of a science fiction movie it's like dr strangelove it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology and this is all part of the the

. plan and george questioners 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 it's this is really a horrendous thing and i'm so glad that whistle blowers in the white house gave this information to congress. the media freedom representative from the european security organization the i.c.m. says he's following the situation regarding facebook suspension of several auntie linked news pages just a few days ago facebook broke the number of media's pages german based company which produces online shows one of which is in the now who's videos have been viewed tens of millions of times the move coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming it was deliberately trying to hide its ties to the russian

government facebook also claim that there are rules under which any community should tell who is sponsoring them. people connected with beaches shouldn't be misled by out who's behind them justice if stepped up enforcement of coordinated and now thanks to 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 replied to my fic media saying it needed to make clear that they're affiliated with the buffett c.e.o. then tweeted that they are now waiting to hear if they'll be allowed back on the platform. still hasn't contacted altie about the pages pensions facebook spoken to russia's top news agency it says it's in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences and it wants administrator to disclose information about their location and funding sources however a screenshot taken from in the now is 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 over its suspension of those on t. links 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 jay. believes facebook 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 an 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 those are the headlines for the south join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from time used to surprising us all why not if you think.

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a congressional oversight report citing national security and ethics officials who tried to deflect the proposal from a company called i p three international the company has been led by typical carter a of former military and national security officials including former reagan national security advisor n.s.a. during the iran contra affair robert mcfarlane president trumps first an essay the famously short tenured michael flynn has ties to ip three and reportedly pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plant technology to saudi arabia other trump officials including the deputy n.s.a. recruited by mr flynn allegedly seconded the call after mr trump fired mr flynt another company with a noted interest in selling nuclear power to saudi arabia is westinghouse electric whose parent company brookfield asset management offered a financial lifeline to mr trump's son in law jared questioner. and meanwhile saudi crown.