some with one hundred twenty three first first and we rose to twenty thousand. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need remember one one you know you miss one and only. pakistan says it has shot down two indian air force jets over disputed. islands as the nuclear armed rivals violence escalates. the claim that wiki leaks founder julian assange met with trump's former campaign chairman paul metaphor could take a new turn as our team receives a response to a freedom of information act requests sent to london. and the issue of wiki leaks is also raised in the u.s.

congress. disgraced former lawyer michael cohen tells lawmakers the president was aware of plans and. knew. about. it was definitely july i believe so yes mr science reported to the media on june twelfth. so i'm not saying you have fake news cable news. and. arrests are made at the world championships including five elite athletes in a joint operation against what police say is a global doping network. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international. glad to have you with us. right there has been a. dramatic escalation in tensions between india and pakistan india is demanding

the return of a fighter pilot arrested by pakistan accusing it of violating the geneva convention by harming him pakistan earlier released a video of the pilot with blood and bruises on his face the pilot was captured after pakistan shot down an indian war plane in this video which we cannot independently verify here at r.t. is said to show a downed indian big twenty one fighter jet. claims it shot down two aircraft in its airspace over kashmir and that it arrested two pilots india for its part says it is only one plane and a single pilot project on later closed its airspace. outlines the discrepancy between the two sides. but what we have absolutely so we see now is the culmination of tensions that have been building with more regularity in recent years and essentially things have now come to a head to the importance and consequence of how things play out from here is very

significant not just because these are two very powerful countries but because they are a nuclear armed enemy is so if this does continue to spiral downwards this doesn't just impact the region this could have an effect on the whole well it's pakistanis claimed claiming to have shot down two indian ass force jets in compton two pilots and says that it's jets have launched air strikes in the indian territory a move that they claimed was in self-defense. pakistan is a responsible country and we don't want to endanger lives of masses we have yet retaliated to india all being done is just what irresponsible country does for its defense our message is peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back. this was supposed to do. and of course this part isn't. in the. course. of the hour. or that you do.

in this ng. because unfortunately lost. is missing in action. because. he is in their custody this comes just one day after india claims it hit a militant training camp and killed a very large number of fighters from the militant group jayashri mohammed which took responsibility for that suicide bombing earlier this month which killed forty indian troops now in a bizarre twist pakistan rejected india's claim saying that indian fighters were confronted before they conducted those strikes on the training camp and actually just dropped four or five bombs in an empty field and then fled back across the border so what's making the situation all the more hard to follow is how the two sides have these conflicting media campaigns both sides are pushing their own narrative and so was single source of contradictory information online and in the news but at the core of it what is very clear is what we're seeing is the first of

the first aerial attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war in one thousand nine hundred seventy one now speaking in the past hour the pakistani prime minister imran khan has called for a responsible approach he said noting how both of them are nuclear powers they really couldn't afford a miscalculation. and there are so while you understand what i want to ask a question to the indian government that considering the nature of the weapons that both of us have is can we afford any miscalculation should we not think at this moment that if the situation escalates then where will it go it will not be in my control or narendra modi's control i will again tell you that a better sense should prevail now and we should resolve our issues by sitting together and through talks. with them are. now spikes in tensions i have a kashmir they have been up and down over the years and

a fresh wave of violence really took hold in the summer of twenty sixteen but kashmir has always been contested territory even before india and pakistan won their independence from britain and nine hundred forty seven. there is now a multinational appeal for both sides to show restraint and to conduct talks we

have been getting reaction from experts on both sides here is what they have to say . i'm from that box and i have false but i would like to see peace in the region because both india and pakistan are nuclear weapons equipped and we do not want this to escalate to have mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it ought to remain a forthright action it wouldn't definitely escalate into a full scale of all it would be norms barred but you see india took an action yesterday and box than going to action today and retaliation and. i'm hoping that we let it go our back and have you sit down and talk to each other and if india has actionable intelligence ah prime minister as a cure or even take different action i don't know where there will be no response from india because there was a response and this is like a response which is part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their three d. it will have to respond and since to order

a nuclear powers country and leaders know it just takes out a very high and we just can't afford a full fledged gone truly so the hope is that change sort of not spin out of control and the science was sort of caught dead loss of deceit and decided. let's distractor i'm going to look forward to some of the marines being off and doing the war my on the marines maybe to reduce the amount to you could create economic and on because. there are no winners and the military and i don't know who are as we have seen so far. r t has received a response to a freedom of information act request we sent to london police the request was made following a guardian newspaper article published back in november it broke the uncorroborated story that we keep leaks founder julian assange had met with trump's former campaign chairman paul metaphor and associates has more. sources say anonymous

sources say well placed sources say one source multiple sources and on and on and on goes the merry go round the game of he said he said a staple of journalism and politics alike these days when so often so much is at stake across the atlantic action in congress is stealing the show or their trump's former attorney michael cohen claims the us president was aware that we would be dumping the infamous clinton e-mails that hillary claimed played a part in her not being elected some of the bunch of other allegations trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wiki leaks drop of e-mails mr trump mr stone on the speakerphone and stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian a song and that mr starr told mr stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign mr

trump responded by stating to the effect wouldn't that be great was that in you said late july do you know the exact day. i believe it was either the eighteenth of the nineteenth and i would guess that it would be on the nineteenth but it was definitely july i believe so yes you know that was public knowledge in june this was mr assad like to submit this you know with this for the record without objection so mr science reported to the media and june twelfth that those emails would be leaked. we have a massive great healer hillary clinton which. painted a publication that is correct so i'm not saying you have fake news have old news one of the pieces of this puzzle is week you read that it's rolling from president to founder julian the function here not. simply talking at their core dorrian empathy who did or didn't visit him in the time leading up to the major week and

from what the guardian reported in november that trump's then campaign manager paul mann a fourth had been at the embassy in twenty sixteen months before the emails were released something both man a fort and we can leaks deny the paper reported that man of ford's visit was not logged as would usually be normal protocol but let's not forget that london's metropolitan police had kept a watchful eye on the embassy twenty four seven from twenty twelve until twenty fifteen when nonstop surveillance ended but a so-called covert plan was bolstered it is no longer proportionate to commit officers to a permanent presence the m.p.'s will not discuss what form its continuing operation will take or the resulting implications surrounding it marty filed a freedom of information request with the metropolitan police service to find out more since the confirmation of any controversial visits from the police would provide at least some certainty something that washington too had requested details

on. it's no secret that you have been conducting surveillance of the equador an embassy in london since june in the sunshine and treated back in june two thousand and twelve can you please provide any documents relating to pull men affords entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy since two thousand and twelve until the present and this is what we heard back to confirm or deny whether the m.p.'s holds any documents in relation to pull manifold entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy would cause operational harm to the m.p.'s and affect our ability to fulfill local function of law enforcement a yes or no from the police on what did or didn't happen at the embassy would have potentially turned out to geishas into certainty but until all lebanon is on the table all that's left is to pick and choose whose claims can be trusted more and if they hit churkin are. blunt. as you just heard honest mention donald trump

the disgraced lawyer of formal wear on wednesday testified before congress about his ex boss and he did not hold back michael cohen called the u.s. president a racist a cheat and a comma after his moment in the spotlight michael cohen will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank fraud as well as for lying to congress he claims he lived out of loyalty to trauma but admits the president never directly asked him to do so that also came up in the republican criticism of cohen who was a trump confidant for more than a decade it a line about it actually he lies to banks all of those laws were done on fraudulent documents apparently he even lied about delivering his own child which his wife had to correct the record somewhat certainly as mr cohen was lying then. why should we believe him now ladies and gentleman how on earth is this witness credible he's

a fake witness his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in search of the truth i don't believe michael cohen is capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements in written statements he lied to congress through his testimony even amplified his false statements by releasing him repeating his lies to the public as we call it in the united states when election season comes here we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is a little early with something that you'd see in the silly season cohen is willing to use the word racist and criminal and liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that absolute in that strongest terms in washington will always have an audience on one side or the other there was just an angry man who wanted to be chief of staff who didn't get to be chief of staff who was furious he couldn't make a ton of money off the trump name after trump was elected president has decided

after all that he needs to get even in a vicious new york stupid sort of way and so he's going to come to congress and lie some more he's been disbarred for lying that the state of new york despite of the polls his law license because he's a liar a man who took their promise who took that oath and then took another oath in front of congress and has lied constantly can't be trusted ever to tell the truth even if he is telling the truth it will require cooperation substantiation and some backup and none of that was provided today. when a landmark summit is underway between the us president and the north korean leader in the vietnamese capital the two men met briefly in front of the cameras before retiring for a private dinner with close advisors of trump and kim appeared optimistic about the talks their body language says a lot. donald

trump does is put his other hand on top of that is dominant so he is asserting his dominance we see it when he's sitting down and he puts his hand in a downward steeple position that again is dominance it's that confidence but he's trying to pull it back and from what i'm seeing here is all though he is feeling dominant and naturally trying to dominate tim sherwood he is also trying not to over do it he's trying to make him comfortable and i suspect it's a head of the main set of talks that are going to take place tomorrow. british

m.p.'s have passed two amendments which could lead to a delay to bragg's it more on that after a break this is our transgressions. the world can't afford to return to the unrestrained competition of the cold war was

the plea made by the u.n. secretary general earlier this week with the u.s. pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty and russia rolling out new nuclear weaponry should we be more worried about the weapons themselves or the people who have the codes. and welcome back this is our international and nine people have been arrested in a joint a austrian german operation against a doping network at the nordic world ski championships here is our europe correspondent peter oliver. on wednesday pleas carried out raids on sixteen addresses across germany and austria resulting in nine arrests linked to

a blood doping scandal in the sport of nordic in cross-country skiing and what we understand is that five elite athletes are among those that have been arrested we know that two of those austrians two of those are a stone ians and one is from kazakstan we also understand that two others being named as cadets in the austrian police force who were also members of australia's national nordic nordic skiing team well the arrests may well be in connection to revelations about blood doping in the sport that were made by this dirt the thirty one year old made his claims in a documentary aired here in germany back in january of this year he admitted to using e.p.o. in carrying out blood doping in fact when he was talking about the sport of nordic skiing he said it does not work without doping that's a direct quote from him but the austrian police say that these arrests are part of

a long time and wide ranging investigation. based criminal group is strongly suspected of having carried out blood doping on elite athletes for years to increase their performance in national and international competitions and thereby to gain illegal income one of the athletes arrested in austria was well pretty much caught red handed according to the authorities you're a new record an athlete in action he was undergone a blood transfusion in his arm when the police arrived of the arrests that were made in germany one was a forty year old man described as a sports doctor by the austrian authorities have been far more forthcoming with information than their german counterparts the austrian saying this well this doping scandal that they believe they've own covered it could well extend beyond. nordic in cross country skiing and may well extend to other sports as well the world anti-doping agency wada say they're paying kane attention to the news coming

out of austria and germany and say that they're cooperating with the police now the reaction that we've heard from this well as you can imagine it's been coming in loud and clear how do you think the federal broadcasters are reacting now it was russia that iridium city air force continuously discredited by in terms of doping well or for as the lynchpin of doping is already in the studio have they finally learned that doping is not only part of cycling still i would like to see equal limits and rules among all sports doping is rampant in sports but our biased media is still obsessed with a cold war see that it's only russian athletes as they've been forced to never start in the program if you will about doping in cycling media and sports consultant cashmore believes that this case should be considered a wake up call. most of the standards well cost sport are supported by dope

of one kind or another i think would be claimed it again for the past two or three years a blame game that has been pointing the finger at russia and say that this is the source of all evils when it comes to doping in sport it all starts in russia and ends in russia no else in the world is really involved on the kind of scale the russians been involved and now we have new evidence that hate going on it it's not just in russia this is happening elsewhere in europe and probably beyond europe the truth is that it's going on everywhere and i don't think anybody's going to start accusations that austria or germany are involved in state sponsored doping but we could say that the something rather more sinister force here because if there are these so-called international global criminal gangs who are at work then they could be supplying potentially anybody in the world illegally now and some contras the

kind of dope that's use habitually by athletes is not illegal what is illegal is to deal in and maybe that's what they're going to pin on this particular gang. m.p.'s in the british parliament have voted on a number of amendments in the prolonged fight over the future of bragg's with two out of five amendments were passed as a result of the vote at the lane to britain's exit seems possible now if may's deal for leaving the e.u. gets rejected again on march twelfth tempers flared in parliament throughout the debate yesterday. parliament pulled not bullied into a full choice of accepting her very bad deal or no deal at all it was an extension to article fifty or a second referendum that doesn't actually solve the problem doesn't deal with the issue the issue is very simple do we want to leave with the deal or without a deal the prospects of the prime minister being able to achieve the necessary changes have been. done turned

a good shooting position has been we couldn't i mean that's the reality of the situation i'm can we have an assurance in terms of any possible extension this is big the bank of england for cost growth through this year will be the slowest over a decade does the prime minister blame her shambolic handling of bricks it or. policies for this down would you feel you know mighty u. turn on her breakfast it starts and what it all means essentially is that theresa may has effectively changed her position from it's my deal or no till two it's my deal or a delay so she's given a vote not only on her deal but also what happens next now is her deal fails to get past parliament on march the twelfth or potentially even before that date and peace will then be off for two separate votes the first. set on march the fifteenth which could remove the immediate threat of crashing out of the block without a deal and then on the very next day with a vote on

a short extension of article fifty which would delay britain's departure beyond march the twenty ninth now the prime minister has categorically said that she doesn't want to see an extension but it seems like he's made being dragged into this position by her cabinet ministers who are threatening resignations if indeed she wouldn't take any scenario off the table now effectively putting that to a vote almost does do that but crucially one thing that hasn't been clarified is what happens if both delaying breaks that. and a note. by m.p.'s in parliament. david blunt a lecturer in international relations at city university of london thinks may's budget plan is headed for the rocks. to come clean tonight is that we're not going to be leaving the european union on march twenty ninth we're going to have an extension but the prime minister is looking down the road is going to be a brief extension we'll be back here in june it will be theresa may feel unmodified

except for some minor cosmetic changes versus no deal i don't think the easy going to give her concessions now there's nothing substantial the europeans have said they're not interested reopening the backstop no reason to open the backstop again they might get some light assurances in the future relationship but i'll be extended it playing for time nothing will change and this is her entire point they'll give us one extension. but at the end of that ninety days she can't go back and say well can we have another extension for me to do nothing for the opposition to do nothing. will say no and which case theresa may well have won the game which is basically get the choices to to either know deal or her deal are there does it for me this hour i'll be back in let's say thirty three and a half minutes with mourners rushing to international students.

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a guy who given unlimited credit at zero percent and is exempt from the rule of law still can't seem to make money for his shareholders which is sad. my son is doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse sort of going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. when the war on drugs was on the stand there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for our own or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're

walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world uncovering world of business and finance of the impact on all of us i'm part children washington d.c. and we could not be more happy you are with us there's lots to get to today. coming up there are lots of geo political news and in addition to company news today and we hit it all hard at a mash of the atom as trading group will help us take a look at some key companies and from moscow our to correspondent only a shop with a low helps us look at the particulars of a team's pipeline from russia to china plus with only thirty days until breakfast what happens with u.k. training agreements if there is no deal or delay the c.e.o.

strome are still record which joins us to discuss and later do you want to leave the c.e.o. of the next change group joins us to talk about the upcoming twenty nineteen hong kong walk change conference and why hong kong is a walk chain hub all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. to conflict in south asia leads our globe report today as the indian air force attacks targets in pakistan two weeks after a suicide bomber hit an indian military convoy and that is two disputed territory of kashmir a longstanding flashpoint between the two nuclear armed nations earlier today pakistani officials said their defense forces had shot down two indian planes in kashmir and captured both pilots pakistan's civil aviation authority and their counterparts at the airport authority of india have now halted all flights between the two countries and placed a moratorium on all civil aviation along the border of kashmir pakistani prime minister imran khan warned in

a national television address quote all big wars have been.