the. headlines are to international state of the nation address president putin reveals russia's successfully. powered underwater drone bring you video of that program. when all u.s. partners have to be honest and straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone any actions we take or retaliate that is to say in defense. stresses that russia doesn't pose a threat but can defend itself if necessary and also reiterated that washington must be honest with moscow and not. before acting director of the f.b.i. claimed. in the past is used in the media as a credible source alleging a slew of incendiary claims president 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 putin. thanks for joining us here live at r.t. international from moscow. you're very welcome with us on the program this. the russian defense ministry has confirmed it's unleashed a successful test of an underwater drone named for side and here's the video of those tests on the new weapons system use that they had been successful came immediately after 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 this spring. the president stated the brand new enable system was

designed if necessary to counter the u.s. and their naval forces and washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense system primarily at sea it's thought that the russian systems on manned and underwater vehicles are small and difficult to locate and intercept that improves it also provided an update on a new hypersonic missile known as econ which he says is a work in progress here's what the russian leader had to say about the weapons earlier today. we conducted successful drills of a nuclear powered cruise missile with unlimited range vest nic and also pursue 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 good good good i'm going to get you 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 the remarks came during the president's annual state of the nation address in a largely focused on domestic challenges on the country's economic developments but he also brought up foreign policy concerns as well saying that moscow doesn't seek confrontation with its international partners or trying to 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. 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 if 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 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 and. 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 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. nato responded to president putin's remarks branding them unacceptable threat the military bloc also said it will take all the information in the address into consideration we spoke about the recent developments with a former german intelligence officer and an m.p. from germany's the left party. i would say that the. what i observed from the nato side and in the last year is that they want to have a pretext for their own politics for their own. arms race for their own. programs i can see mainly that. whether russia is doing as is mainly a reaction 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 actually uclear dominance basically ability to use first strikes nuclear

capitation and. by having this capability they're not necessarily going to tool 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 can it be that you have to do you know americans have to come back to the negotiating table and to to reintroduce some kind of element. of. balanced should teach a course as it was wallace before we discuss the state of the nation speech earlier with host of auntie's worlds apart son of boko thinks the west is missing the point of putting his worth. 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 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. former acting director of the f.b.i. . has provoked a forest full of control claiming in a new book to the media to the u.s.

president is in the kremlin's pocket. do you still believe the president could be a russian are so. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think the president 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 he thought that might be possible the u.s. justice department for the last year just before you were to retire saying he lloyd multiple times under oath about comments he made to the media he claims though the decision was politically motivated our senior correspondent the road goes the if 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 he. 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

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 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 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. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. international do join us again in just a few moments for more global news. 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 globalization crowd sassed strong ten years ago or. now is so what's called globalization i'm sure they caused it but that's what's going on along with the dollar as a. national u.s. national security adviser has issued an ominous threat to the leader of nicaragua over the recent jailing of opposition activists tweeting at president daniel ortega . reference to a recent speech. our number not only in well founded nicaragua and who has what bolton statement came off the three prominent figures in last year's anti-government riots

in the karada was sentenced to more than two hundred years in prison unrest started last april after the government introduced reforms raising taxes and slashing pensions more than three hundred twenty people were killed in the riots the government eventually backed down scrapping reforms back in november u.s. national security advisor john bolton described the country as part of a troika of tyranny in south america along with venezuela and cuba. this troika of tyranny this triangle of chair stretching from havana to caracas to managua is the cause of immense human suffering. one of the other members of the so-called troika venezuela is in the grip of a full blown political crisis united states and most western powers now recognize self-proclaimed leader one boy door as the country's interim president the actual president nicolas maduro has kept the support of the military and is accused washington of trying to bring about an illegal. well we're now joined live by ken

stone from the coalition to stop the war thanks for joining us so good to have you on today do you think these new statements quite aggressive rhetoric here coming from the u.s. on the crowd were could eventually lead to what we're seeing now in venezuela a full blown you know political and constitutional crisis. indeed you know i do because the united states is playing with the same playbook as they you in venezuela and as they used against the former yugoslavia i guess libya against iraq against syria in that under the guise of humanitarian intervention. the united states is actively can. what's a brazenly an aggression against these sovereign countries and meddling in their internal affairs but in picking on venezuela for example i think that the u.s. is also picking a fight with russia and china and iran and other comparable countries in latin

america not to mention the people of the world this this weekend on saturday and sunday there will be demonstrations in seventy cities across the globe in support of the legitimate government of nicolas maduro of venezuela and against the attempted coup operation in that country how likely do you think regime change is i mean in his latest tweet john bolton claim that the venezuelan military to the u.n. has recognized one door as the president we have a series of a you countries south american countries as well recognizing him do you think that is likely to happen in the coming days and weeks. well the bolton tweet about this alleged defection at the u.n. is part of the playbook first the first part of the playbook is you demonize the leader the second one is you deal in general made or you try to deal egypt make the government and that's what this tweet is about that the third step is economic

sanctions to strangle the country and its people which has already been brought into effect and all that is followed by military action so yes the it looks like the u.s. is heading for an attempted coup perhaps a military invasion or supporting a military invasion of venezuela but i don't think that they'll succeed the united states there's not have the support of the world on this contrary to what they would have you believe the african union doesn't support it the united nations recognizes. legitimate government of maduro the organization of american states recognizes dural as the president of venezuela at the u.n. not a few days ago i think it was on the sixteenth of this month fifty countries lined up beside the representative of venezuela representing the bulk of humanity the overwhelming bulk of humanity in support of the legitimate government of venezuela

so i don't think the u.s. has a lot of a lot to go on here it's blatantly illegal to do what they're doing you know to meddle in the affairs of a country of a sovereign country and try to bring about a change in government only the people of venezuela have the right to do that and they had an election last year which mr why dole did not participate in and in which mr my bureau was the victor with about fifty seven percent of the vote which is a lot more than what mr trump god or mr trudeau got or mr macro got so in my opinion they haven't got a leg to stand on. and the us regime change operation in venezuela will go the same way as they were a gene change in syria it will say oh. ken stone hamilton coalition to stop the war thanks for joining us here on r.t. good to get your take on that story. the chancellor of

austria has said he will continue to support the north stream two gas pipeline being built between russia and europe despite objections from the us so i think i was speaking after a meeting with donald trump in the white house. buying gas from the united states would not be a problem for us but as long as russia's price is better than that of the united states russia is more attractive for us as a partner in this issue i believe that is a full businessmen can understand that we have different interests in the charter kurt said trump reiterated his concerns about an old stream too which is the second phase of a pipeline network along the baltic sea but washington's threatened to sanction european firms working on the eleven billion dollar project claiming it could be used by russia as a political tool the austrian oil and gas company has invested more than five hundred thirty million euros in the pipeline and we can now bring in rasmussen

executive vice president of the eurasia center thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today one of the other things charts of the kurds medicine he seems to have no intention of backing down on north stream to do you think donald trump was expecting such a uncompromising starts from the austrian leader i think he was hoping for but should have expected it no mr curd. a very strong supporter of north korea all along. and o.m.b. which is one of their main company who's a partner with them in order for him to area and he's the absolutely right i mean. this is about. energy security energy supply policy in europe not in the united states in europe and to buy l. and g. from the us is you're going to increase not just the price for energy about thirty percent but you're going to then cause manufacturing will be lose their

competitiveness and it's going to impact the rest of the economic situation across not just in austria but across europe but yeah he was hoping for something but but i think mr kurtz is a very independent and strong leader and as strong as well you know he's really coming on strong and representing europe well i think the u.s. is clueless made quite a few applied some pressure shall we say gates companies involved in all of stream today warning of consequences if they continue to do so i mean how much leverage do you think motions and does have to have against the project well they're obviously going to try to. you know threaten the sanctions but if. you know perhaps there's ways there's mechanisms to work around the sanctions. but then they'll threaten some more i think this whole thing in the. what what the u.s. is actually doing is it pushing away their own allies it's further alienating the

u.s. and i and i just don't think our our policy leaders are waking up and seeing what they're doing and basically destroying the partnerships that we have with the and it's not just nordstrom to i mean there's there's distances across on trade policy as well as the iran nuclear deal the g. scipio a and just the whole backing out of international agreement is a huge area and i think europe would like to come to an agreement but they want to be listened to and they want their needs to be realized and in the distance is most just very far apart right now and and nordstrom too is going to go through and i think chancellor merkel is very strong on that and i think mr kurtz is a very good echo his position i'm i'm fairly certain he was strong on that as well what about trump's claim that the countries involved in oil is shooting to are going to come the so-called captives of russia i mean the u.s.

and europe off idolise nato members the transatlantic partnership is strong that's not the case with the russian e.u. relationship is there any truth here that europe will be held hostage to russia's geopolitical bidding should this project go ahead absolutely not i mean look russia's been supplying. gas to energy to europe since they are this since. the soviet union existed before russia actually read you reinvent your benefit were they to themselves i mean so the soviet union and now russia have been a reliable energy supplier absolutely do they do they want to have business positive business relationships absolutely are they going to undermine that by trying to cut political deal i don't think so the only time we've had a disruption is one we had issues with ukraine siphoning off gas. at the only time so i don't think. you know one of the things they're concerned about

a reduction in in transit across ukraine because ukraine want to transit fees i don't think you're going to see that i think what this is about european energy security and i and i think. russia is a very trusted partner in supplying energy and i do not i think the excuse is the use of us are making are just one of their arm twisting and strong arm tactics well rasmussen executive vice president of the eurasia center thanks for joining us good to get your take today thank you. on that day's other headlines for the south from the team and myself thanks for staying with us join us again five am local time for the latest global news up. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think they've got it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte is the

genius of this place especially the american era this is it we've come to a point around which element is gone so we always are on the margins something. called the culture. we're starting last with. will begin to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly that the i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than that it may be completely different but the end of this. twenty forty you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lloyd i mean you know liz put me in the. school in the middle of the fall the ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty forty and. 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. led. greetings sally you take those whether it's an intergalactic alien invasion of earth or an asteroid the size of texas bearing down on our planet we're not watchers because this week our brand name and cheap. u.s. president donald trump officially put the u.s. space for the launch pad yes on tuesday president trump formally signed space policy directive number four which orders the pentagon to establish these space forces these six branch of the united states military in order to secure an

extended american dominance of the space domain because like the great southern border wall somewhere somehow our president truly believes that what us citizens truly want what we truly crave is more ways for the united states to spend our hard earned tax dollars on things that we don't actually need but they're not mr president because if we've learned anything from the boating history of our lovely united states congress when it comes to the pentagon it's a very hands off style of governing so your great space force were more than likely become a reality which should scare the hell out of us given the current state of the war on terror which stephanie saval the co-director of the cost of war project of brown university observer this week has now reached eighty different countries around.