they are trying to save face and to avoid looking ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something new in this lunch time president putin slams the eighteen month jail sentence of maria buton that for failing to register as a foreign agent attempt by the u.s. save face up to we speak to a lawyer. not of. his activities in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this. hysteria. french media companies joined forces to condemn the country's intelligence service for questioning about a leaked document to saudi arabia. and. a

district attorney in the u.s. state of texas stops prosecuting. essential goods that cost less than seven hundred fifty dollars. between far talking about not prosecuting. clear. is that there is a process. in this country and once that happens people are stuck in or circumference. just one of the afternoon this saturday hi there we're here watching around the world this is alex international live from h.q. moscow with me kevin ho in first the russian. has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent president putin described the decision in the last few

hours as an attempt by the u.s. to save face. trying to save face to grab her seized her put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge her with and to avoid looking ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something. reputed has already served nine months in jail the thirty year old was found guilty of trying to influence the national rifle association and conservative groups in the u.s. and several u.s. politicians who are suspected to be involved in the case to let our correspondent in reports from new york city those who were in the courtroom heard of maria buton and give quite an emotional speech prior to her sentence being handed down she talked about how she came to the united states not as an agent or an operative but what purely good intentions and what a nightmare her family has been through this is some of what maria buton a said to the court my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they're

washed in their rural hollows in a savior and i love them dearly but i harm the morally and financially they're suffering from all of that i destroyed my own life as well i came to the united states not under any orders but with who and now nothing remains but penitence. now the prosecutors in the d.c. courtroom argued that somehow maria buton his activities with the national rifle association had somehow harmed the political process of the united states significantly they argued that by being an unregistered lobbyist and working behalf on behalf of the russian government inside the national rifle association that she was in severe violation of u.s. law and had somehow harmed to the u.s. political system and done a great deal of damage now the judge did then hand down a sentence of eighteen months in federal prison now nine months of that will be time served that will be the time that she's been held since she was initially

arrested so only nine months remaining in federal prison and then after that time she will be deported from the united states back to russia now what's interesting is that maria bhutto was swept up in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections in which talk of russian agents and russian meddling and russian subversion seemed to be quite widespread there was quite an atmosphere of fear and in that atmosphere she was swept up and it appears that now after months of being detained after quite a bit of time in which it was it was reported that she was held in solitary confinement in rather harsh conditions that she now has nine more months to serve in u.s. federal custody before she will be allowed to return home to her family so people are seeing this is kind of a conclusion to the case as at this point her lawyers are saying they will not appeal this verdict it was his lawyer about the case to the president he believes it may no set. i think it's impossible to

separate from from the politics and i think that there is a an underlying crime that he pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s. law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or an arrest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment where in the us i think it's almost impossible to believe that southern politics has a lot to do with the atmosphere of the case and it's one of those things where if the elements of the crime are there they were selectively enforced in the sense dense i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's an intelligence agent literally just doing something for someone else as being their agent none of maria maria's activities in

the u.s. were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by the russian federation her she was supported by americans while she was here financially but she got caught up in this and she rushes hysteria. i would fear that other countries will start applying the same standards and saying that any american who went abroad to another country and it was involved in civil society organizations and social and met people and networks that's really all we're talking about doing are a more serious than that and reported back on those activities some in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt the same as you're going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons i think it's

a bad idea. dozens of french media companies about three journalists have been summoned by french intelligence officials of what's been described as a breach of national defense secrecy it comes off the leaked document was published on the use of french weapons into fully a long civil war there's been terror in yemen and. we express our full solidarity with our colleagues who have done only that job to bring to the attention of citizens information of public interest on the consequences of the sale of french arms since these revelations the government has remained silent on the fact they appear to have exposed a government line but now it's three journalists all the ones being investigated they've been summoned to appear before the french general directorate of internal security or the d.g.a. sali after a feeling of confidential note from the country's intelligence services it showed the french government knew weapons that sold to saudi arabia and the united arab

emirates were being used in the conflict in yemen a fact the government has repeatedly denied that's left thousands died and pushed millions to war to the brink of starvation it's been described by the un the world's worst humanitarian disaster. at the center of all that this storm is a classified by france's military agency the d r i'm real to these journalists it should be forty eight french sees

a terrorist guns were being used along the sound the game and food that tanks and fighters sold to the u.a.e. are in action and it's miss our guiding technology may have been deployed as well in the end of c. the truck mounted home was as had been deployed the year. when the border on the saudi side as of the twenty fifth of september twenty eighth seen about forty u.a.e. leclerc tanks are observed in a fixed defensive position and advance positions in the west the french government has continued to repeat the line that weapons and so to saudi and u.a.e. only being used for defensive purposes to our knowledge the french weapons available to the members of the coalition are mostly in a defensive position outside yemeni territory or on call the shin rights of way but not on the front line and we are not aware of any civilian casualties resulting

from their use and the yemeni theater france is not among the leading arms suppliers of countries in gauged in yemen the concern now is that this investigation by french authorities is about putting pressure on these journalists to break their professions and most saleh. to reveal their sources show that even ski out see paris. show and mention the french authorities in turn have consistently insisted that their weaponry is only being used for defensive purposes or other side led coalition is self denies any deliberate targeting of civilians in yemen political journalist stan elizabeth metate give us her thoughts on the lake why it's cause such concern for the french government right now. i don't think there's any kind of secret that french weapons are being used in yemen and you could very well argue the government has been saying this and preaching about this that since the civil war in yemen was started by rebels against illegally installed government with the support of

a foreign power of iran this is indeed in defense of a state that's a member of the us it's the position of a number of people from you know america britain saudi arabia etc so i think what's different in this specific instance is the detailed the nature of the report which is fascinating reading but it also ate meat makes it easier to place possible french agents on the ground so the french government feels that this has harmed it's not helping and it's their position that's what they're defending themselves the question is you know is this a crime graffiti a state secrets on the one hand of the other is their prerogative of is it the brother to the journalist to reveal something of the public interest. and the big sort of a confidence has been growing in china's massive global trade infrastructure network known as the belt and road initiative is huge is a one point three trillion dollar project that spans asia europe and africa now the

for the just route of a few hours ago in beijing you bought your life over two hundred eighty billion dollars worth of agreements was signed off on course part of their ego is done of in beijing even money so thrust forward and put a couple of quarters of president potent take us through what was said. you know well kevin it's certainly a busy few days here in beijing for everyone but yes as you've rightly pointed out for vladimir putin he wrapped up his official program here quite traditionally for him or he held a media conference and well judging by the number of topics to just by the topics i should say he talked about for him the presence here was dominated by. why three major things trade economy and energy during the media conference he positioned russia as sort of an energy superpower especially when it comes to oil he stressed that moscow is

a key the key player and he revealed he kind of pointed out that most school is ready to bolster and to expand to increase its oil production and consecutively oil exports at any given moment really have a listen. to russia's ready to the oil needs of china and many other partners around the world. well and the only reason he said he has still not done so is because russia has an agreement with the opec of what they have hear it from the russian president not from me. just because we do is to really have an agreement with the opec plus because we haven't heard anything from saudi arabia or any other opec members that were about to intention to withdraw from the opec deal. but will quite

naturally i should say other international geo political subjects couldn't agree in any way couldn't possibly be ignored at the conference after all in the past couple of days vladimir putin held lots of meetings with his counterparts from all over the world and during those missions and he also also talked about such things such problems as combating terrorism the situation in syria and situation in libya and so on and so forth so really very very comprehensive couple of days for vladimir putin he even sort of made a joke as to how he manages to keep his shades will so jam packed and he said that will during these days he slept for five or six hours well it's maybe it's not as funny when you hear it from me and. from the russian president but anyhow this is these are this is the second bolton road the economic forum for your as beijing strives to become the platform for all sorts of business. now asserted

or euro igor thanks times for the air five and a half to six hours and i suppose not to go but when you do a lot traveling who knows thank you now next. in a bid to battle the effects of poverty district attorney in dallas county in texas will no longer prosecute the theft of what they're terming essential items that cost less than seven hundred fifty dollars so long as this is the caviar the crime was not for economic gain. criminalizing poverty is counterproductive for our communities health and safety for that reason this office will not prosecute theft of personal items less than seven hundred fifty dollars and less evidence shows that the alleged theft was for economic gain well as you can imagine quite a few question marks here this essential items are laid out as goods like food nappies baby formula but how do you define whether the theft is for economic gain and of course remains unclear instead lead to most low level marijuana offenses seems will no longer be prosecuted either so it's

a gray area now there's nothing in the official figures audley here to suggest why this move came about the theft rate for a look at the stats shows that dallas doesn't actually did for much of the rest of the us in dallas is slightly more than six hundred cases per one hundred thousand residents are just a tad lower in fact the national average of almost seventeen hundred many of the state though are stunned by the decision they're calling for the district attorney to step down over it those county district attorney's storks crime by refusing to prosecute fifty of personal items worth less than seven hundred fifty dollars if someone is hungry they can just steal some food if cold steal a coat we're does it end its wealth redistribution by fifty. whiskas initiative has political activists on the rajah's right and conservative blogger anthony pryor logan. well i understand is trying to have some reform and a justice system but it's been a little bit too far i mean talking about not prosecuting saft i mean clearly if if anything below like what i thousand dollars seven hundred dollars is

a little bit too far because audrey doing a damn point is making try and some areas of dallas texas which have a lot of client problems making the crime worse because you can a message out there to say i say if you're still a lesbian if in a certain items it's good you won't go to jail vest that how you go about fixing the justice issue by totally ignoring these crimes i definitely understand those concerns are there with me might i certainly wouldn't put them in prison or jail maybe give them community service but the over arching ishi is that there is a process of criminalizing operating in this country and once that happens people are stuck in a circle for an opinion so even after you serve your time and can't get a job after you get out what are those people supposed to do we have a president right now who continues to cut programs meant to help these people so that they can paper is one point five trillion dollars deficit induced tax cuts for wealthy people say so many programs out there and he's low income areas especially

in these big cities all kind of resources you have people live in poverty and a lot of times they have easier access to certain things people who don't live in poverty do because of all the things and here to help them there's no excuse to just go into a store and studio and a.b.n. and first of all what we've already seen with trump budget cuts to education by seventeen million dollars cuts to snap as well went to going to pay for this one five trillion dollars one point five trillion dollars deficit these stores do happen sure and so it's not like they're going to go out of business to bring up if they're not going to be dismissed if they can't sell anymore if you can't get a case on him why does it keep getting stolen from every day if they will go out of business why was he being a place where you're not making any money the insurance. well covered if you continuously stay in a place you keep iraq every day that's it's interesting so you believe that the insurance doesn't work for the stores but for some reason you believe that snapping or working for these people it has not lifted them out of poverty has no success it's a particularly early right now and it's absolutely shameful that someone who claims

to come from these communities doesn't have any other ideas on how to run out of poverty except telling them to go to churches which are underfunded and which are under supply that is not a viable option so the solution is not to do it all down on a policies get training don't just say ok if you could make fry we're not going to sing you to jail you could just do whatever you want to do that will make things worse so don't go down change course. well some thought to leave you with well we go into commercial break right off to the south to know donald trump's promise to pull the united states out of a global arms trade treaty just one of the stories he got lined up here not internationally. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time to sit down and talk. the american politics to the song. and the notion that somebody playing games at the margins of the election. believe it influenced the outcome is frankly frankly absurd if we were to compare russia with the other states to notice age has been far more. in influencing the domestic politics of other countries. than russia.

twenty one minutes past one of the afternoon moscow time this saturday if you're watching the clock next in defense of american sovereignty donald trump says the united states will no longer be part of a landmark global arms control treaty announcement was made during the president's address at an annual meeting of the national rifle association. myers ministration one the other ratified the where arms trade treaty and i am officially announcing today that the united states will be revoking. the a fact. of america's signature from this badly misguided treatment we're taking in our signature about the united nations arms trade treaty able to promote global peace and stability and requires that signatories ensure the weapons they're exporting don't end up in the wrong hands more than

a hundred countries of ratify the deal now is for the u.s. it's signed up to it under barack obama but never fully formally joined the u.s. responded now to the top of illustrations decision to drop its support for the deal than. the arms trade treaty is the only global instrument aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the international arms trade it is a landmark achievement in the efforts to ensure responsibility in international arms transfers this is particularly important in present times when we witness growing international tensions and renewed interest in expanding and modernizing arsenals further during a speech president trouble so that he would never let foreign bureaucrats quote trample on the us second amendment investigative reporter dave lindorff believes trump took the decision to gulf an ice his support base. the biggest supplier of arms in the world is the us and it isn't just a signatory so the fact that trump is cancelling that signature is

a grandstanding actually to his his when he considers his electoral base because the senate never ratified the treaty and so it's not in effect the united states doesn't to be the world court it doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the world court it doesn't feel obliged to follow the geneva convention relating to war and genocide so tearing up the is this presidential signature which obama put on it really doesn't have any significant change in the u.s. position. on if not update on what's happening re the not to don blaze early this month in the cathedral in paris the thing now may have been caused by electrical short circuit or maybe discarded cigarettes and still not quite clear the two theories are being considered by authorities after they were finally able to access most of the building now disputes probing of the restoration of the eight hundred fifty or so because many of the ideas that been put forward seem to be too modern

for a lot of people. then i knew all about you we will rebuild the cathedral all but you're on the bottom we will rebuild notre dumb because this is good if i said that because this is what the french expect soon at least well because this is what our history deserves because this is our the destiny. to rebuild the spire shouldn't be the same adapted to the techniques and challenges of our age and international architectural competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral spire will be organized.

don't touch not to die. halleluiah french president says not saddam should be rebuilt consistent with the modern diverse friends and architect suggest a minaret macron says not or a dam should be rebuilt in line with diversity architects suggested minaret glass roof steel spire the west is sick and france as the dying man a few around. you know what to do now is a huge decision for someone there isn't it well that's the way some of the big stories are shaping up so far this weekend from was aired out international much more goes on i might cite. you to say the coming hours for me i'm all for the day

hopefully see at some point said tomorrow the same times for the rest on g t mirror moscow th q thank you for watching and have a great rest of the weekend. but politicians to do something that. they put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to express an injury. or somehow want to. have to try to be cross this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first of all. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've mattered the u.s.

is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent world market rose thirty percent some with one hundred to five hundred three first second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know bored to miss this one and only boom but. he needs a political a false needs to. try to. but i feel the film and before it got has been. giving political guys to the

process so basically what i'm waiting for he's an alter politically false idea to extend from the moment he feels. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time if we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war and legally get away with. all the fire crawls still. all the trouble to the point it's hollow flying to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they have the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse saul's than the people who destroyed the world trade centers. why.

is this a realistic prospect in ten years and you understand why it kind of creeps people. i think there's there's what i call the creepy line and the policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it i would argue that implanting things in your brain is a is beyond the. innocent yes at least for the moment.

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