an alleged time for attack on the british institute that seeks to counter the russian descent permission is now being investigated by the u.k.'s crime agency despite having no forensic evidence the head of the institute already insists that russian intelligence is to blame. for him to prove. the cia will no longer need to say how many civilians its drone strikes kill after a new order by president trump. i'm. fans of pop legend michael jackson vent their fury over a new documentary alleging the star committed child abuse. should not be talking about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades

of also a lot of suffering every time michael jackson song comes on i know for myself i'm going to think differently about it. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour a suspected cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian descent from ation is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency the suspect as usual the russian intelligence agency of the g.r.u. life now to london and our correspondent there and it's just so and to see what more do we know about this story so far. well jacqueline it seems that here in the u.k. very highly likely formula is back in the spotlight as reports circulate citing white hole sources that it is quote highly likely that russia's military

intelligence or the g.r.u. hacked the not so well known until recently british based institute for state craft now we now know that the national crime agency is investigating a cyber attack into this think tank and while this investigation is ongoing a former senior ministry of defense civil servants and co-founder of the institute for statecraft seems to believe that it could have been nobody else but russia despite not having proof. beyond a thing we said through the roof of our assessment that it is up for and the proof is that you are you well just a reminder that this institute for state craft and its integrity initiative program has been in the headlines recently and this program is aimed at tackling so-called russian this information and exposing think news this is

a program that's been funded by over two point two million pounds by the u.k. government in the last two years and this institute's files are understood to have been hacked and posted on a third party website back in november and of course if you remember the russian g.r.u. and this highly likely term have been in the headlines ever since the solsbury scandal. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible all quarrel is with putin's kremlin and we think you're likely to do it was his decision what russia was doing when it come comes to slide with not only the interference not proven. in the american presidential campaign the referendum last year we didn't have the evidence for that yet but i think it's one of the brother of the russian president's spokesperson to me to put scores has said the russian state has nothing to do with cyber attacks and in fact offered to cooperate internationally when it comes to any such developments but to

no avail but our understanding is that there is in fact an investigation now going on into that cyber attack so hopefully we will be finding out more proof or evidence if that comes in. and associate checking reporting live from london then. u.s. intelligence agencies like the c.a.a. will no longer have to make public the number of civilians killed by the drone strikes that's after an executive order from president donald trump rescinding an obama era directive requiring annual reports on noncombatant casualties however the military will have to keep revealing those figures. is across this development. a new executive order from the white house is reducing the amount of transparency when it comes to u.s. drone strikes now the executive order basically revokes regulations made by the obama administration in twenty sixteen essentially the director of national

intelligence will no longer be required to release information regarding un classified u.s. strikes and the non civilian deaths that are associated with them and that would be in areas outside of active hostility the pentagon will still have an obligation to report on civilian casualties in compliance with the national defense authorization act of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen that was very clear in trump's executive order now this is certainly not the first time that donald trump has indicated frustration with the level of information related to military activities that has been made public with fighting force and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public the public believes the enemy the enemy returns reports i study every line of those reports should be private reports lead them to a report but they should be private reports the history of drone strikes is quite shocking there have been a number of rather tragic incidents that have taken place over the years.

so what we're basically doing is telling the american people these wars are so important but they're nestle important that we actually have to tell you about them is so important but in fact we can't carry them out with clandestine a-t. under the cover of darkness i think what it really means is that donald trump wants to be able to have the pentagon commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and do so with completely immunity in. i think that they want to make sure that lockheed martin raytheon and boeing you know their major defense contractors can continue to sell that june soon to sell their weapons this is a very very foolishly but we do schoolish and it's dangerous in his erratic incentive to go into all of those things don't contribute toward. so-called

collateral damage from drones has long made their use contentious r t documentary spoke for one of its films to those whose lives have been forever altered by unmanned strikes the full version is on our website. but it is. these days that matter where you are in the world the chances are you're being watched. in the deaths of innocent people you can strike and it's anywhere like it's over ten thousand feet since you probably won't have the slightest idea. and if you won't see it coming. what. would you have seen in the post nine eleven scenario. when given

a license to kill. villages villages that sometimes the terrorist on the new cd is alive so who are the kill. children for a country for profit. how can you smile. the pentagon has announced it's revising its arctic strategy in light of a perceived threat from russia and china picks up part the geo political rivalry on the north pole. we take what comes to mind when you hear that word sea fish ice it's always russia isn't it russia because that is one that follows most closely to their to their borders they've begun to move on periodic

times to the different weapons systems of control of the area dated our plans as a response as a result of that we've had to change the posture of some of our forces so that we in fact deter and we send a signal of the importance of the arctic to us but there is a new gold rush brewing thanks to global warming it is opening the arctic up around fifteen percent of the world's undiscovered oil thirty percent of natural gas may be there perhaps more important though is the northern sea route by two thousand and forty there should be suitable eyes that ships will be able to pass year round terrible for the environment rate for shipping it would have the journey time for ships travelling from east asia to europe a journey that usually takes them through the suez canal it would save billions upon billions for consumers companies governments ergo the gold rush

contenders have been quick to make and file their claims and oil their guns the united states is going at it intensely with military war games reportedly to train military forces to fight and win in the arctic speaking of russia it hasn't been idle either during the recent exercise that successfully tested a new hypersonic antiship cruise missile thats it. because there's also the flag which russia planted exactly at the north pole seabed a decade ago still annoys other contenders that norway another big claimant they're spending hundreds of millions rebuilding old the cold war facilities in the north perhaps symbolically norway also moved its military

headquarters within the arctic circle in fact norway was so involved and enthusiastic about recent nato war games that one of its brand new warships ended up colliding with an oil tanker which is neither very covertly nor very fast people are still wondering how that happened then there are the spoilers great britain for example nations with no arctic claims but rather an each to get involved we need to protect our national interests we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy in the u.k. has unveiled a new arctic strategy where they plan to defend the arctic which may be difficult to do with britain's couple of ice breakers but they go to make up they've even sent a royalty to the arctic great for the cab or is. also

china it has potentially hundreds of billions at stake just in trade chip transport costs it recently launched the snow dragon to an ice breaker that doubles as a research vessel the least goes on and on. and frankly the degree of militarize ation is alarming but what choice is that russia for one filed its claims that the un backed by geographic data year is years ago and nothing has beat almost no progress on the diplomatic front the jew to political pressure or incompetence the fact remains that when diplomats have paralyzed the military

but pays every nation state wants to grab all they can grab and go some are much worse than others so we have the us putting all their military in there because allegedly. there are afraid of the russians doing so us of course is as good its its troops as everyplace and all over africa over asia all of a lot of america they're going to have i guess mr trump would like to have the more in latin america this is all terrible. the us military budget is far too big it's as much as all the other countries in the world put together and of course they keep needing more and more more more more more killing machines it's a sad thing to see this happening in what is actually the spectacular beauty of the arctic but of course the. military is never mind destroying destroying things. and the former american pop star michael jackson have protested outside a top u.k.

t.v. channel over its documentary alleging child abuse. i mean they've come to voice their anger over a new documentary featuring interviews with two men who claim they were abused by jackson as children since the movie premiered back in january a global reaction has followed with radio stations in canada and new zealand dropping jackson songs. secret. you feel so alone i want to be. able to speak the truth. as loud as i had to speak a lie for so long leaving neverland is a joint production between channel four and h.b.o. both alleged victims featured in the movie wade robson and james safe check for years denied they had been abused they were called as witnesses for the defense of jackson's trial in two thousand and five when he was accused of molesting a thirteen year old boy now the new revelations immediately sparked outrage in the

public the film has been condemned by the jackson estate which earlier issued a statement saying the accusers have testified under oath that none of the allegations are true our guest abated whether an artist's work can be evaluated separately from the person. this is still pending and investigation and also the whole outrage is happening because of a documentary that is obviously one sided because we only have the version of the victims i really have a huge issue with curtailing access to arts and to things that have been created in the past by somebody like i said who is dead and who cannot do anything about this at the moment if radio stations want to ban the music i think if the listeners of those particular radio stations are calling up and saying you know what this is criminal behavior that r. kelly and michael jackson have actually engaged in. and we're not ok with that i think that's perfectly fine it's

a scary area if we all are judge him for ourselves with very limited facts with facts that we don't really quite cross-examine with actual evidence or other than you know interviews and documentaries that. those are just your mantra is show a lot of evidence. while it's in evidence that it's not been again cross-examined in the court of law it's irrefutable we should not be talking about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering but actually i think maybe the real lesson in all of this is that you know every time michael jackson song comes on i know for myself i'm going to think differently about it i mean i'm not going to say i'm never going to dance to a michael jackson song again because you know maybe it'll play at a wedding or vomits but i might start dancing but at the same token i said i am never going to think about michael jackson in the way i used to and maybe that's the real lesson so let me ask you this when you look at a picasso painting or you read a hemingway book or or you can look at

a stop to that was created during the renaissance period where like you know the catholic church was you know torturing and killing people in the name of god are we not able to separate the our that was created. the best moments of these artists from the person who was a human being on the flight some of them admitted those fair just good argument but i think also i think we're entering. a new era where i think people that engage in criminal behavior and sexual abuse shouldn't be rewarded in this society and i don't think there's anything wrong with that and if their music doesn't get played so be it still to come in the program one way hits back at a u.s. spam will tell you the details after this short break. place.

i think the number. they matter to us is the one trillion dollars debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich with six percent of the world market grows thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred three per second per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business you know for the mid one and only boom but.

you're watching art international welcome back to the program it's been an exciting couple of days and football's champions league title holders real madrid crashed out on tuesday or wednesday saw porto and man united through to the quarterfinals all three teams have one thing in common they were all once banished by just a marine you know his back on our team with a new show on the touchline the show will permit later today but for now here's a small taste. they were not afraid to to play at the bit of oil do you guys a short group. attitude in all that put the needle in the wind when sings go wrong. everybody goes in the direction of the

guilty man there's a. much lesser not the results of phenomenal results eventis man city barcelona bind to take the last electrical of it i would go with that that the call before them just lost the job say and everybody speculates about where you are going next can you give us any hints now i'm going home. i hope to be working in the in the summer promises one day that is unsing to say i read that in no. way has filed a lawsuit against the us over what the chinese telecoms giant calls an unconstitutional federal ban on its products the company is seeking to reverse the ban which it says has affected its ability to compete on the american market the u.s.

authorities accuse wall way of trying to bypass international sanctions on iran and have requested the extradition of its c.f.o. from canada the company's also been accused of industrial espionage after allegedly trying to steal trade secrets from its competitor t. mobile washington also claims the tech giant engaged in espionage on behalf of beijing a ban on the chinese telecom company was imposed last year or in federal agencies from purchasing or using one way products eventual success picks up the story. well it seems that while we is now all the counterattack the chinese still a communication company is suing the united states government the lawsuit comes after a bill was passed in the united states last year restricting while ways business in the u.s. the chinese telecom firm claims that the national defense also known as the n.b.a. is in on constitutional legislation the united states government has long accused wall way of sealing certain secrets and spying for the chinese state but whenever

they were asked if there was any evidence they cannot provide any us as you know on the british street if. you. find these cus. you think this. is easy. joses this these. there is no. charge. but it's not only the wall weighs on the counterattack it's. the company's c.e.o. fall after she was announced that she would face extradition to the united states she filed a lawsuit against comedian the forty's claiming that her constitutional rights have been violated and the one she claims the washy was all detained none of her constitutional rights of an advisor and another is that her luggage have been searched even though she had no idea she was under arrest now this the united

states have been pressuring a lot of the employees and the people that are dealing with while we in the tour last month all u.s. top officials michael pale and mike pence born its european allies that if the proceed on using any of the equipment while building any of the infrastructure in the in the continent they will face consequences when dealing with the united states in january one of the employees in poland was arrested for allegedly spying for the chinese state and in the same month the united states government filed to criminal. charges against wall weight claiming that they were stored in u.s. sanctions on iran and that there were stealing trade secrets from american telecommunications companies now this is very interesting because both of the officials from the countries from china and the united states claim that this was one thing to do with politics but critics are on the world believe that they are much closer than what they look. as islamic state continues to make its last defiant stand in syria those who fled its remaining stronghold near the iraqi

border faced new threats hunger and illness. i didn't leave to join i.c.l. i left seeking jihad for god because we are all muslims and we have very since about jihad in the qur'an. of what about the killings let's return to a truth that i let someone experience for me and madge and their religion they left these clinics tanks but especially in the beginning it had divisive. the conditions are definitely dying in the come the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped.

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a great show coming up korea specifically today there is a new government report saying the u.s. trade deficit is the highest ever and two additional reports both of which say the impact of the trumpet ministration trade care for hitting u.s. consumers the most the c.e.o.'s are all mark hillary for which we are the corresponding now it's my halo that you're standing by to dig into the data and the details and we look at a key energy commodity natural gas and a huge longest natural gas joint venture in the news today with energy historian doug ellin bought plus a pin company's be invigorated by the resignation of the hard liner food and drug commissioner who just announced he's leaving and has kraft heinz been cooking their books we'll catch up sorry with adam nash of the administration group to look at those companies and more all that directly ahead but first let's get to a few headlines let's go to. a european endorsement for china's belton road

initiative leads our globe report today as the italian government considers becoming the first g seven nation to join and risking angering the united states italy's deputy industry minister michel garage confirmed on going to go for a tell you inclusion in the built in road initiative or the b.r.r. as it's known the talks reportedly are at a point where it's feasible that initial framework could. the signed when president xi jinping of china visits italy on the twenty second and twenty third of this month the caution that there is no commitment yet to sign the draft memorandum of understanding a spokesman for the white house disparaged the b r i telling the financial times of london quote we view b r i as a made by china for china initiative it only is recession seems to be pushing the government to seek greater economic ties with china overriding any concerns about alienating the u.s. or its european allies.