i. mean. nothing to do you. mean little. pakistan says it has an. air force jets over disputed. capturing two pilots the nuclear rivals of violence escalates. the claim that wiki leaks founder julian assange met with the trumps of former campaign chairman paul could take a new turn as are two receives a response to a freedom of information act request to the london police. and the issue of wiki

leaks is also raised in the u.s. congress has disgraced former lawyer michael cohen tells lawmakers and the president was aware of plans clinton's e-mails. that was definitely i believe so yes mr reported to the media and twelve. so i'm not saying you have fake news. made the world championships including elite athletes in a joint operation against what police say is a global network. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international thomas glad to have you with us. 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 this video which we here at r.t. cannot independently verify is said to show a downed in the twenty one fighter jet pakistan claims it shot down two aircraft in its airspace over kashmir and that it arrested two pilots india says it was one plane and a single pilot found later closed its airspace. outlines the discrepancy between the two sides quote. 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 it 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 and captured two pilots and says that its 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 use peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back the bugs but this was it was to do. and for this point. in the. course. of the. order to do.

this is. going to go. by that 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 a 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 the aerial

attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war in one 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 are you in the sun who would say i want to ask a question of 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 want to get tell you the better sense should prevail now and we should resolve our issues by sitting together and through talks . with them on tuesdays get the spikes in tensions have a kashmir they have been up and down over the years and a fresh wave of violence really took hold in

a sum 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 some of what they

told us. i'm from that box on air 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 a mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it will not remain a fight 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 going to action today and retaliate and. i'm hoping that we let it go our back and be sit down and talk to each other and if india has actionable intelligence ah prime minister has a cure or even a big different action i don't know where there will be no response from india because there was a response and this is like a call to response which is it was part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their tertiary day it will have to respond and since to want to a nuclear powers country and leaders know just to sort of very high and we just

can't afford a full fledged gone truly so the hope is that change for the not spin out of control and the science was sort of kind of dead last of so to say and decided. let's modi distractor i'm going to look forward to some of the marines being off and doing the war my own means maybe to a diplomat do you could create it can all be going on because. there are no winners and the military don't know who are as we have seen so far. our team 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 can leaks founder julian assange had met with trump's former campaign chairman paul metaphor and to see it you're going to 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 there trump's former attorney michael cohen claims the us president was aware that we cue leaks would be dumping the infamous clinton e-mails that hillary claimed played a part in her not being elected among a bunch of other allegations trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wiki leaks drop of e-mails to 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 songe 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 when that the great was that in you said late july do you know the exact day. i believe it was either the eighteenth or 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 mass right here 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 weak you believe that it's wrong when from the president the founder julian the function you are not. simply job that they could do in member states who did or didn't visit him in the time leading up to the major

leak 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 all the resulting implications surrounding it are to be 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 july 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 our call function of law enforcement or yes or no from the police on what did or didn't happen to be embassy would have potentially turned out a geisha certainty but until all lebanon is on the table all that's left is to pick and choose who's claims can be trusted more and if they are blunt. just mentioned of donald trump's disgraced former lawyer testified on wednesday

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 con man calling was a trump a confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank fraud as well as lying to congress cohen's accusations against the president did not go down well with republican members of the committee who aggressively challenge his credibility today i am here to tell the truth about mr trump he is a racist he is a con man and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump ladies and gentleman how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness is 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 near 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 in the state of new york to spar they pulled 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. nine people have been arrested in a joint austrian german operation against a doping network at the nordic world ski championships here is our europe correspondent peter over. on wednesday police 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 are 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 your work record an athlete in action who 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 that swelled this doping scandal that they believe they've been 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 keen 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 built 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 feel about doping in cycling. media and sports consultant alice cashmore believes this case should be considered a wake up call. most of the standards are well cost sports are supported by dope of one kind or another i think it would be claimed 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 it

ends in russia no it austin the world is really involved on the kind of scale the russians been involved and now we have new evidence that they don't learn 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 knowing some contras the kind of dope that 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. day two of the summit between the u.s.

president and north korea's leader has kicked off in the vietnamese capital trump and kim have left their hotels once again meeting in the historic hotel metropole to continue their talks on wednesday the two men held a thirty minute conversation before retiring for a private dinner with close advisors of trump and kim appeared optimistic about the first day's discussions involving language so that a lot. donald

trump does is put his other hand on top 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 though he is feeling dominant and naturally trying to dominate him so look he's also trying not to do it he's trying to make him comfortable i suspect it's a head of the main set of talks that are going to take place tomorrow. and peas in the british parliament have voted on a number of amendments and the prolonged fight over the future of bragg's it two out of five amendments were passed as a result of the vote delay to britain exit seems possible now if may's deal for

leaving the e.u. gets rejected again on march twelfth tempers flared in the parliament throughout the debate here's a taste. parliament will not be bullied into a full choice of accepting her very bad deal or no deal at all. 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 turn to position has been weakened i mean that's the reality of the situation i'm can we have an assurance in terms of any possible extension this is the bank of england forecast growth for 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 these 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 it 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 breck's it and a no deal is voted down by m.p.'s in parliament. david blunt lecturer in international relations at city university of london thinks that maser briggs a 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 and it will be theresa may feel unmodified except for some minor cosmetic changes versus no deal i don't think the ease going to give her concessions now that nothing substantial the europeans have said they're not interested in reopening the backstop no reason to open the stop again they might get some light assurances in the future relationship but i'll be the extent of it playing for time nothing will change and this is her entire point they'll give us one extension maybe 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 to resign they will have won the game which is basically get the choices to to either no deal or her deal. one of the favorites to win this year's much anticipated euro vision song contest has pulled out ukraine struggled to find a replacement for the public's chosen entry after the singer quit blaming political pressure but that was just the start of the organizers problems. in the time of the gresham and hostilities of the russian federation against ukraine the state must represent worthy artists patriots of ukraine who are aware of that responsibility. i just say wash the keeper that was

who i was your patriotism here in the studio in washington today you think it will become your vision was created after the second world war to unite countries to have a joint celebration to get people to share their culture. i am my citizen of ukraine pay taxes and sincerely love ukraine but i am not ready to come up with slogans and turn my participation in the contest into a promotional activity for our politicians. will lead lag to announce his decision not to take part in your vision twenty nineteen. already mission is to unite people by you're already using but not displayed so our position is solid we want participate in your a vision trying to nineteen. by

the dozen for me i'll be back with headlines in thirty three minutes stay with us you're watching our children. the trumping ministrations attempts to impose regime change in venezuela appear to be faltering this self-proclaimed interim president won by dope hasn't gain much traction this me explain the administration's escalating rhetoric after all we're told a military option is still on the table. the

worldcon to forward to return to the unrestrained nuclear 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. of countries gone into a nihilistic fever. thank god it hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point from which hollywood has gotten something we always are on the courage to step up this. culture is moving forward because. we're starting last with. we're going 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. it may be completely different but the end of this. time after time they were going on the ground and as supremely of north korea kim jong un and u.s. president all trump attempt to forge peace nuclear armed india uses french warplanes to bomb nuclear armed pakistan coming up with a show a long time called an ally former mayor of london ken livingstone on why british media have suddenly learned of the bricks and policies of jeremy corbin's labor

party and as parliament gets evidence of a britain on course for wreck or child poverty a member of the government's social mobility commission reveals the ukase plus feeling plus in the headlines the indian that strikes bordering on war and the balanced way the music promotion which could be a billion as self promotion all this more coming up in today's going underground but first the british government may have long forgotten its ambition to overthrow the government of syria today london is walking to sort out breakfast and support each defacto coup attempts in venezuela but according to the latest murdoch's sunday times british ground troops have been sent to syria despite elected m.p.'s voting against but aside from the russians jokes and iranians one force has been key in battling isis station al qaeda lebanese party has bulla even time warner c.n.n. used to accept this yes it's just a man on a hill but the dead even let us film it was pretty remarkable hezbollah are the most secretive of militants but the u.s. government still lists as a terrorist organization taking journalists on

a victory lap they say they.