see. the capability. stressing that it poses no threat and is purely defensive but. to threaten to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own. confrontational step by a confrontational speech russia is not. a democrat led committee is questioning the nature of us. new report washington is poised to transfer sensitive nuclear technologies to riyadh and the continued white

house opposition to the iran nuclear program. a statue based on a photograph of a soldier kissing a stranger without commemorating the end of the second world war is vandalized with a spray painted me to debate the issues. whether she was in the moment or not and we do not. celebrate we're taking this looking at this from a land of a perspective that we just don't understand because we are now in such a divisive time. here in a very snowy moscow welcome to the program. the russian president vladimir putin has unveiled the capabilities of the country's latest missile system sending the western media. to hysteria over yet another russian threat putin insists though

that the new weapon is purely defensive and would only be used in that capacity however that did little to ease concerns from some quarters. he threatened to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the us bases intermediate range missiles in europe though quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president the during his annual state of the nation address the russian president announced that zook on a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed both from land and sea will undergo testing later this year ozzy's egoless donald has details. another day another excuse to panic for the mainstream media for them for the second year in a row the flavor of lattimer putins the state of the nation address is faster are

deadly are you sure. you another example products work on which you don't go in and you certainly be completed on schedule namely i would like to talk about the comm hypersonic missile good i'm going to get you and that's a big enough trigger to get everything from the tabloids to serious outlets it ing repeat by reliving the same game over and. it's still just what you hear in the concerns are not entirely unreasonable though the zircon mess is set to become a force to reckon with it's a silent assassin covering three kilometers in one second means zircon travels nine times faster than the speed of sound the target literally won't hear it coming there's no hiding from it either it can hit both the ground and see targets within a range of a thousand kilometers it can be launched from either submarines or from military

ships it is out of the box ready to use with the launch pads already in service yet the intimidating tech specs and to a bigger extent even the click bait headlines are obscuring the fundamental thing about the new weapon russia hopes it will rust away and fall apart and not a single shot will be fired huge and as the word you. use a should call russia the biggest threat to the but i can tell you that russia wants to have an equal and friendly relationship with the united states russia is not threatening anyone our actions in the security done solely as a response and the river defenses nature of. moscow says it won't throw the first punch it only ever wants the missiles and sorry. we discussed what the new high posts on a cruise missile might mean for global security with a number of experts. who say that it's because deterrence currently relies upon

missile systems or aircraft or different systems which are inherently detectable if america wants to launch for example missile strikes which destroyed russia's ability to respond by example talk to combine to control systems the submersible weapon systems would still be available to actually mounts are a target for a strike on the united states which means hopefully the other side would be deterred from using its weapons i think is a reasonable massy you know i'd have to tend to agree with the sentiments that putin has expressed because i saw no purpose that i think the issue as you know of acceleration of the animosity between the two countries came by us is cancer not of i and alfy out of the treaty and that opened up the door for this so i think it's reasonable for defensive purposes to do this 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. 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 that's amid concerns in washington over iran's nuclear program a democrat led committee has now launched an investigation into the matter so it's taking a much closer look our correspondent at that moment. if there is one thing that congress gets touchy about it's when the president tries to swerve around them this point we've got the house oversight committee looking into whether donald trump was trying to rush nuclear technology to saudi arabia these reports also indicate the saudi arabia is refusing to agree to prove bishan on enriching uranium and

processing plutonium similar to those agreed by other countries in the region. however experts worry that transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could allow saudi arabia to produce nuclear weapons that contribute to the proliferation of nuclear arms the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to prohibitions on process and would tell them and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prompt was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came through and have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets was necessary because of russia and china it is

a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who was on trump's inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barak's a gauge meant an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better aligned middle east and u.s. objectives and well known as are his more than four decades of respected relationships throughout the region the issue of nuclear power for saudi arabia has been discussed before but that refusal to agree to not enrich or reprocess has been a big stumbling block you might be noticing a little bit of a double standard here not only does the united states oppose the peaceful nuclear energy program of the islamic republic of iran it's actually imposed sanctions on the country for decades and this isn't the first time that the twenty treatment of the two countries has left the u.s. officials red faced in twenty seventeen a reporter asked about the usa criticizing iran's elections when saudi arabia is completely devoid of democracy here's how it

went to a said you refuse committing to democracy. does the administration believe that democracy is a barrier against extremism. we say is that. at this meeting. we were able to make significant progress prompt has been very upfront about the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia he says that weapons sales make lots of money for american military corporations 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 when it comes to the middle

east u.s. officials have long been known for a kind of double speak and contradictory policy but you can understand why some people might get a little unnerved when nukes are involved they will mop of the arts in new york. iranian a foreign minister zarif immediately condemned the leak news calling the u.s. move hypocrisy of political commentator lou rockwell suspects at the white house 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 us first a dismembered journalist now illicit sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia fully exposed us he procrustes the idea that they would arm mohamed meant zalman 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 to destroy iran and it's this is really

a horrendous thing and i'm so glad that was the blowers in the white house gave this information to congress. a statue based on a landmark photograph commemorating the end of world war two seems to fold and fall of the me too movement the sculpture in sarasota florida titled unconditional surrender depicts the moment in one thousand nine hundred five when a soldier kissed a stranger on the day that japan capitulated to the united states it was spray painted with the me to hash tag one day off to the man depicted in the work war veteran george mendonsa died at the age of nine of the war the woman in the photograph said that the sailor drunkenly grabbed her on times square and kissed her and some have suggested that thereby he committed a sexual assault now the meaty movement has a track record of reappraising things from the past critics say it sometimes goes too far for example by condemning everything from disney fairy tales and classic

songs to sitcoms and women's rights advocate receptus in an international law expert jennifer breed and what divided over the latest me to talk it. absolutely support the need to movement and thank. this statute does not have right to stand because we have a big knowledge from the woman and i believe there's actually an acknowledgement from the man as well that he was drunk and didn't know her and so if that's the case than anything that does not reflect who we are trying to become as a country as a people it can stand even if we have statements from the woman that was in the picture we don't have a lot of the intent we don't have and we don't have the context of the time that that occurred and and so that's that's the point is that we're taking this we're looking at this from a lens of a perspective that we just don't understand it because we live now in such a divisive time whether she was swept up in the moment or not we do not see this as a fitting activity to celebrate in those moments such as the confederate flag or

the confederate statues that are being taken down by protesters in those moments it's ok for us to look at history and say this is not who we choose to be i mean there are times even in the one nine hundred sixty s. if you look at martin luther king jr and some of the civil rights protests even the protests for women i mean never never would would vandalism have been ok especially for dr king is criminal acts were peaceful they were meant to vandalize to to harm they were meant to prove a point but i do think it is important that we look at the times now lashing out why will or not why i try to find the letters not to do that let's not do that when you have to stand up and disband something that's sometimes an upheaval sometimes violence sometimes things that we don't like will be required don't want to make sure that everyone's placated and comfortable with what we're doing and that it's also politically correct because change see nothing without demand if there has to

be some discomfort momentarily so that justice can be carried out then by all means that's what must be done and it's true that discomfort is going to happen what i bring up with dr king is that that he talked about his his purpose being to change the laws to. changed the laws for the better for just laws and because the laws were unjust we have laws in america today that protect against sexual assault that protect against unwanted advances advances that are not consented to so we have laws today for that even if we didn't back in one thousand nine hundred five and so i think i think it's relevant to bring this up in that context and civil disobedience goes against the law because it's an unjust law there is no law here that is unjust it's the behavior of many. different hats in brussels are being told to watch their words when out in public of recent report warns there are hundreds of russian and chinese. so good luck. for my next assignment i'm going undercover to see if we can expose a neck

a heart of european politics. but now the chew tangled up in a new scandal the european capital brussels is apparently full of spies hundreds of russian and chinese agents are installed there even security services have reportedly suggested that diplomats should avoid a populous steakhouse and to carry new names but it doesn't take a super spook to realize this is the only steak house nearby where the food is apparently being served up with the sight of said information. this is the only steak house in the area so i. see. you this is you know it's no use machine. no you. know i would love to get girls like james bond. but. i'm not convinced i'm sure he knows more what's he hiding.

i was never questioned by the security service but i can imagine they did background checks on us they probably did. you. know. after the interview i'm not going to speak to mr pearson such is the concern about spying stalking the streets of brussels but the e.u. is diplomatic and foreign wing the e.t.a.'s has warned member states embassies that hundred saw the loose so if they know. where all they. told that this city is full of spice if you've seen any yet. and not respond favorably hold stole from the rich and give to the poor and we need to do that in brussels with no emotion or a props have you seen any yes we have you have met the people that you don't know about that are the most important spies they know the most so not russian not

chinese. raided yes we did the right direction but. i have been told that you too might be spies only you i am definitely a spy one that this is. not going to do with. that comment to least also from the m.s.m. . looks like a good spy doesn't cheat the russians. must leave or well after much searching here in the heart of brussels it seems that they've been taking me on a bit of a wild goose chase and no were actually spice. back in the restroom the only tells me that even if they were filling up the seats they probably won't overhear and hoofed you so. it's very difficult to spy

most of noise and you can choose where to sit so you can just arrive here and say that there is the commission and i want to describe brussels as being like a kindergarten. he said. usually pretend to be diplomats and. shock horror journalists so with the trial getting colder and colder it looks like i'm the closest thing to a russian spy now what was that restaurant. do you think ski altie brussels. your program returns in just a moment. i would sit here with you in terms of what obama has done personally i think he has not done enough i think in syria for example in two thousand and thirteen when

there was a threat and we knew that the assad regime was about to use of chemical weapons on a wide scale like he has done in. the obama administration should have responded with force and eliminate the capacity of the syrian regime to use helicopters and other if forced to trouble about it bombs on people that's. what popes who. put themselves on the line begin accepting or rejecting. so when you want to be president. want to reach. out to the right i'm interested in the warnings out. there should.

twenty past here in moscow national security advisor has issued an ominous threat to the lead over the central american country of nicaragua over the recent jailing of opposition activists john bolton tweeted that the country hour of socialist has arrived in our atmosphere and frankly in many many places around the world. the days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in venezuela but in nicaragua and cuba as well thank you this troika of tyranny this triangle of care stretching from havana to caracas to managua is the cause of immense human suffering bolton issued his warning to nicaragua after three prominent figures in last year's antigovernment riots were sentenced to more than two hundred years in prison the unrest started last april after the government introduced reforms are raising taxes and slashing pensions and though the government did scrap the reforms

washington unveiled the act targeting nicaragua's top financial institutions with very tough sanctions now another country whose opposition protests have triggered u.s. talks of regime change is venezuela the u.s. has recognized self-proclaimed interim president one white go and called on the military to abandon venezuela's elected president that however has not worked and nicolas maduro continues to accuse washington of attempting to bring about a coup both nicaragua and venezuela are haemorrhaging on the hefty u.s. sanctions with people still out on the streets and we discussed the situation with antiwar activist ken starr. at 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 pulled into. what about this alleged defection at the u.n. now is part of the playbook first the first part of the playbook as you demonize

the leader the second one is you deal with jitter 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 it looks like the u.s. 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're doing you know to meddle in the affairs of a country of a sovereign country and try to auburn about changing government. a leading spanish newspaper has caused fury after publishing an article praising the heroism of volunteers who fought alongside the nazis against the soviet union the piece by a.b.c. details the many hardships the fighters had to face including brutally cold

temperatures and a lack of professions however in glorifying the struggle it fails to give any context or indeed any balance at the blue division the focus of the controversial piece was a volunteer unit created in one thousand nine hundred one to demonstrate spain's devotion to hitler's cause without drawing the country into the war of the third reich even created a special medal to recognize the heroism of the spanish fighters who served on the russian front during world war two the unit helped nazi germany maintain the siege of leningrad and warning you may find some of the following archive images disturbing.

geopolitics expert fernando morgan told us that many in spain have a false understanding of the events of world war two. this topic is ignored by spanish society people who lived during that period are already dead unfortunately young people nowadays know very little of the topic is only known about by those with special interest in it most people don't know anything about it too only historians and scholars can talk about it and at least have an opinion everyone usually blue division was created by franco after the coup they fought on the side of the nazis that's clear we were their uniforms and forth against the u.s.s.r. especially in the northern regions of the country and that's a fact and there's no doubt about it or the majority of the population know about the war in general terms that it was against the nazi s.s. and they know thanks to american and british prunus that europe's liberators of the u.s. and u.k. so they rewrite history with that room and many people believe it was not the

soviet union that won the war liberated europe but the us spain's you now have a falsified view of world war two it was in fact the us is all that liberated europe and suffered the most of all especially in leningrad. the media freedom representative from the european security organization the o r c e says he's following the situation regarding facebook suspension of several r.t. linked news pages a few days ago facebook blocked a number of math a comedian'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 at the move come and sided with a c.n.n. reporter claiming math fake 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. people connecting with pages shouldn't be misled by out who's behind. and 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 the facebook later reply to my fic media saying it needed to make clear that they are affiliated with r.t. now fix c.e.o. then tweeted that they are now waiting to hear if they'll be allowed back on the site now although it still hasn't contacted r t about the page suspensions facebook's spoken to russia's tass news agency it says it's 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 a screen shot 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 a 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. . when i talk show host jimmy dole 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 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. a huge fire that engulfed a residential block in the bangladeshi capital that's killed seventy people a fifty one hospitalized in

a critical condition the fire started on wednesday afternoon in the city's old quarter which is thought to have been caused by an exploding gas and one of the destroyed buildings was used as a chemical storage facility with toxic plastics i understand fire crews and rescuers are still at the scene though the death toll is expected to rise. there are some your top stories for this hour here live from moscow what are the international but back in about half an hour's time with more of your news. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

talk. greetings and sally. whether it's an intergalactic alien invasion of earth or an asteroid the size of texas bearing down on our planet we're not hark watchers because this week our brand name and cheap u.s. president donald trump a bit silly put the u.s. space force on the launch pad yes on to.