you. will state of the nation address president putin reveals russia has successfully tested a new nuclear powered underwater drone bring you video of the test for the program . when our u.s. partners have to be honest and straightforward with russia does not pose a threat to anyone and the actions we take or retaliate that is to say in defense. is that russia doesn't pose a threat but can defend itself if necessary he also reiterated the washington must be honest with moscow. and a former acting director of the f.b.i. claimed had lied under oath in the past is used in the media as

a credible source alleging a slew of incendiary claims trump. the president said he did not believe that north koreans had the capability to hit us here with missiles and to which the president replied i don't care i believe couldn't. live with me. welcome to the program the russian defense ministry has unveiled new footage of a successfully tested underwater drone named poseidon is the video of those tests on the new weapon system use 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 peroration by the. spring. the

president stated the brand new pursuit unable to stand was designed if necessary to counter u.s. naval forces as well as washington's efforts in creating a global missile defense system primarily at sea it's thought that the russian systems unmanned underwater vehicles are small and difficult to locate and intercept a lot of putin also provide an update on a new hypersonic missile known as call which he says is a work in progress is what the russian leader had to say about the weapons earlier . 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 that we get it today i can also provide official information and more perspective on the hypersonic missiles are 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 state of the nation address lot of your putin largely focused on domestic challenges on the country's economic developments but he brought up foreign policy concerns as well saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with its international partners. has this report. 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 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. and then i responded to president putin as remarks riling them unacceptable threat the military bloc also said it will take all information and 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 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. program so i can see mainly that. whether russia is doing as is mainly a reaction tool 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 a two nuclear dominance basically ability to use cursed strikes 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 should how count it would 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 worlds apart x. on a bucko thinks the west is missing the point of the president's speech. remember that famous phrase by john f. kennedy ask know what was 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 we heard from former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul he says russia has been pushed into creating 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 i think the issue of acceleration of the animosity between the 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 and 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 united states 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. for acting director of the f.b.i.

. has provoked a fuss the with controversy but claiming both in new book and to the media that the u.s. president is in the kremlin's pocket. do you still believe the president could be a russian our so. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think the president as a threat is that what that means i think it's entirely possible i think that's one of the reasons why we opened the case against him we had good reason to consider that the president might be a threat to national security did you suspect the president might actually be working for russia we thought that might be possible if the u.s. justice department fired andrew mckay last year just before he was set to retire saying he lied multiple times under oath about comments he made to the media he claims though that the decision was politically motivated our senior correspondent for takes up the story. sensation selves it's the fact of life the

bigger the dirtier the ruling shia your story the more people listen this book is dirty but we'll get to that first his revelations who could have believed that senior u.s. officials discussed seriously talked about declaring trump mentally or physically unfit to be president meaning he could be constitutionally removed from office discussion of the twenty fifth amendment was was simply rod raise the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort and the attempted coup some call this in the united states of all places insanity and was this an attempted bureaucratic 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 it'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 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 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 un prepare for another summer. that.

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 and democratic led committees now launching an investigation artie's kaleb orpen has 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 some of what was said in the report can be heard here these reports 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 would you characterize your reviews commitment to democracy and says the administration believes 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 it's a goal commentator well suspects that the white house has iran on its side so if it really is following nuclear technology to the saudis. the idea that they would arm

mohamed meant 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. plan and george kirschner 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 it's this is really a horrendous thing and i'm so glad that whistleblowers in the white house gave this information to congress. the u.s. national security advisor has issued an ominous threat to the leader of nicaragua over the recent jailing of all position activists so bolton tweeted that president dining will take his days are numbered in reference to a recent speech by don't trump. socialism and communism are numbered not

only in brands well. as of the belgian statement came off the three prominent figures in last year's anti-government riots in nicaragua sentenced to more than two hundred years in prison the rest 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 the reforms like in the u.s. national security advisor john bolton described the country as part of a troika of tyranny in south america alongside 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 that 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 door as the country's interim president the actual president nicolas maduro has kept the support of the military and accused washington of trying to bring about an illegal antiwar activist gave us his take on the latest threats from washington. 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 bolton tweet about this alleged defection at the u.n. is part of the playbook first the first part of the playbook as 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 this third step is economic sanctions to strangle the country and its people which has already been brought into effect and all that was followed by military action so yes. it looks like the

us is heading for an attempted coup perhaps a military invasion or supporting a military invasion of venezuela it's blatantly illegal to do what they are doing. to meddle in the affairs of a country sovereign country and try to bring about a change in government dozens of people have been killed in a fire which engulfed a residential block in the bangladeshi capital dhaka firefighters of retrieved forty five bodies from the ruins local media are saying at least sixty nine people are dead the blaze started on wednesday afternoon in the city's old quarter it's believed to have been caused by an exploding gas cylinder one of the destroyed buildings contained a chemical warehouse with flammable plastics fire crews rescuers are still working at the scene of the death toll is expected to rise further. and the media freedom representative from the european security organization the

other c says he's following the situation regarding facebook suspension of several linked news pages a few days ago facebook blocked a number of muffet media's pages a german based company which produces online shows one of which is in the now whose videos have been viewed tens of millions of times the move coincided with a c.n.n. report claiming muffet 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 connecting with pages shouldn't be misled by out who's behind them just as if stepped up enforcement of coordinated and now authentic behavior and financially motivated spam over the past year will continue improving so people can get more information about the page of the follow . facebook later applied to mafeking media saying it needed to make clear they're affiliated with r.t. my fics c.e.o. then tweeted that they're now waiting to hear if they'll be allowed back on the

platform still hasn't contacted altie about the page suspensions facebook's facebook has spoken to russia's tass news agency it says it's in the process of launching an update for pages with large audiences that it wants administrator to disclose information and location and funding sources however a screen shot taken from within hours page one of the accounts that was blocks 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 counts 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 host jimmy door 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 that loans for this hour just come up to five thirty am here in moscow join us again at six am for the latest global news headlines. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

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