so basically what i'm waiting for politically. i d.l.d. . from the moment you feel. you're trying to save face and to avoid looking ridiculous. just to show she is guilty of something president. the eighteen month jail sentence handed to maria failing to register as a foreign agent was an attempt. to save face we've spoken to her lawyer. and none of. his activities in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this and she rushes to start. signing up for the twenty first century. rude forum wraps up in beijing with over two. billion dollars worth of investment. in french joined

forces to contend the country's intelligence service for some. document on. the arabia. just seventy seven pm in hong kong on three in the afternoon here in moscow welcome to our to international i'm in. our top story russian national marie have been sentenced to a year and a half in prison in the u.s. now after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent president putin described the decision as an attempt by washington to avoid humiliation. trying to save face to grab her seized her put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge to. and to avoid looking

ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something well some background to this maria already served nine months in jail the thirty year old was found guilty of trying to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american politicians were suspected to be involved in the case to our correspondent killam up and brings us more on the entire story now from new york. those who were in the courtroom heard maria buton 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 with 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 house 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 harm 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 would 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 but we spoke to maria goodness me lawyer about the case and the precedent he believes it may set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics 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 and the rest 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 and so i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not an intelligence agent it literally is just doing something for someone else as being their agent not 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 because really all we're talking about doing are anything 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 that i think it's a bad idea. well president putin made his comments in this case while in beijing he was there for a forum focusing on china's must global trade network known as the belt and road

and it is just in terms the figures really staggering of one point three trillion dollar project that spawns asia europe and africa and over the past few days alone over two hundred eighty billion dollars worth of agreements were signed off on off reports from their. well busy few days here in beijing as for the russian president he wrapped up his official participation quite traditionally with a media conference and judging by what he focused on for him these few days were heavily dominated by several things trade and the jeep and economy and this is quite well natural i should see given the very nature of the belton road initiative which is centered i should say a routing around exploring new trade routes and the global economy boosting global economy and so lattimer putin position russia as the key energy players sort of an

oil export in superpower he stressed that russia is not only a key player on the market but also who is ready to increase its production and consecutively exports oil exports any given time at any given moment that russia is ready to meet the oil needs of china and many other partners around the world the only reason it has not done so yet according to vladimir putin is because there's an agreement in place between russia and opec by which moscow has promised not to do so at least until summer now also recently the american president donald trump said that he managed to get an agreement from another player saudi arabia to on the contrary increase their oil output and so i asked him a putin what he thinks of this and what his impact this could have on the global market here's what he told me yes because we have an agreement with the opec plus i

haven't heard anything from saudi arabia or any other opec members about the intention to withdraw from the opec deal. now quite naturally i should say there was no way other international geo political agenda could be ignored within the frameworks of the forum here vladimir putin has met with a lot of his counterparts with those whom you discussed so. problems is combating terrorism the situation in syria libya and so on and so forth so while he obviously did have his focus on energy economy and trade not a tool was it the only thing on his list lattimer putin even joked about how he manages to keep his show jewels so jam packed. that it is proceeded into the school clerk. to put you on that i bought it some would you describe it was funny. but you're sort of the. opposite of the so far. which the

government will support. so here's the second belton road forum for you as china strives to become a platform for all sort of business of reporting from beijing r.t. . del world but deeper into this story the ramifications to be ties between the nations as well because we're told by. is the director of the international business ethics center in a chain welcome to how the fruit fall or putin's visit to china been in terms of the summit how much do moscow and beijing stand to benefit from closer ties in that regard. well the fact is it's very obvious. this new round of discretion of the bill a role for him because so far right now we have talked about how three major roads for connectivity that it has the china mongolia and the russian corridor all

the infrastructure is being progress to her wrist mostly i have a loan which. it is expect that there can be more industrial products that can be more small export and also discussion over the to enlarge the e-commerce business together so this is really a milestone that we can really move ahead with. the partnership. mr putin stressed that russian oil is an open market available to to everyone pretty big statement is not being yeah we've just lost their little bit of a connection and probably less trying just cross back by chang how it's union again here in moscow p. can hear me my point being i'm not mr putin stressed that russian oil is an open market available to everybody is stopped though being over ambitious can russia

become the dominant player in the energy is that i first see a bull prediction here. oh. oh market their assistance to any sort of a major response is from the most important oil export or the russian place in cuisine only important a role in this oil market and he say. to a very big and therefore the world are really. looking at the russia and given the china russian relationship on the supply. therefore china is really counting on russia as an alternative through. this rupture has really taken place but oh the moment whether a russia can really if they are very long with the opec or the plus alliance in terms of the. curbs on oil supply that's

a different story but of course you know china looks very sincerely to increase the call not only in the oil supply but also a new refinery on the entire the flight chain to work morse mostly it was russia all right interesting developments especially in the past few days coming from that forum in beijing we've been speaking to by cheng li director of the international business ethics center in beijing. dozens of french media companies have box three journalists summoned by french intelligence officials over what's been described to us a breach of national defense secrecy it comes after a leaked document was published on the use of french weapons in the four year long civil war that's been tearing yemen apart. 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 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. s.l.i. after appealing a 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 a war that's left thousands dead and pushed millions to war to the brink of starvation it's been described by the u.n. as 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 the by these journalists it showed forty eight french sees a teller a 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 its missile guiding technology may have been deployed as well in the end of seize a truck mounted how was this had been deployed the year. many borda on the saudi side as of the twenty fifth of september twenty eighth see 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 coalition rights of way but not on the front line and we are not aware of any civilian casualties resulting from their use in the yemeni theater france is not among the leading arms suppliers of countries in gaged 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 so love. to reveal their sources show that even ski ulti paris one of the aspects charlotte was just going through there french

authorities have constantly insisted that its weaponry is being used for defensive purposes only while the saudi led coalition denies quote any deliberate targeting of civilians in yemen well political journalist. give us her thoughts on the leak and why it's cause such concern for the french government. 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 now since the civil war in yemen was started by rebels against a legally installed government with the support of a foreign power you're wrong 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 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 is harmful it's not helping and it's the opposition that's what they're defending themselves the question is you know is this a crime proceeding a state secrets on the one hand on the other that is out for order to end of this is it the brother to the journalist to reveal something in the public interest. still to come this hour donald trump promises to take the u.s. side of another global treaty reaction to dance coming up after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and scary dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be

successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. imagine that you run a blood bank and you know one room are dead patients they've been dead since two thousand and eight that would be j.p. morgan and god. b.n.p. societies generali h.s.b.c. except her and in the other room you have living middle class people and the point of blood bank is to take blood from the living middle class people and to transfuse that blood to the dead banks next door that they've been dead now for more than ten years the people that are in the middle class are going to start to suffer and suffer horribly and many of them will die by the way they won't be getting any of the blood from the other middle class people to keep them alive all the blood all the plasma goes to the dead but.

twenty minutes past the hour welcome back to the program a russian student who fled now the attempt to join the ranks of islamic states has not been released on parole after serving part of her sentence corresponding quarter joins us now with details on this. this story is being garnering a lot of attention here in the country what is the latest what do we know and who indeed issue well union the union like you said twenty three year old of of our karl of a successfully got out on parole earlier this week and she was sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony for trying to go and join the islamic state now the defense team actually petition for her early release back in november which clearly didn't fall on deaf ears and she told r.t. that she was overjoyed about her new found freedom. yes it's not you

it's a. i still can't believe i'm free everything is so different i have no idea how to describe my feelings i don't remember the fishing idea to guess i wasn't dissipated my mom take care of your family appreciate everything you have in your life even if you think it isn't significant because you play a very high price to realize this. person began back. in two thousand and fifteen with an isis recruiter a recruiter she met online she left the country to go and marry him and just a little a week later she was detained in turkey for attempting to cross the border into syria now although she later helped russian security services contact her ex fiance she was nevertheless still arrested back in october two thousand and fifteen by russian police and prosecutors say that her leaving the country with the intent of joining islamic state was enough to find her guilty but the defense says that carla was was blindly in love with someone that at first she didn't actually know to be a member of islamic state and they too were very happy with regard to her release.

we could interesting. i'm very glad that everything ended this way none of us expected to see things happen this quickly finally will see a family reunion is free to do she's a very happy girl but in prison she was to. use her lawyer also mentioned that a press conference will be held on monday discussing further details about the trial and are released on parole so we're bound to see new details in the near future all right thanks very much bring the very latest on that r t correspondent double quarter. in defense of american sovereignty that's true the united states will no longer be part of a landmark global arms control treaty his remarks. address the new will meeting of the country's national rifle association take a list. my administration will never ratified the u.n.

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 when taking our signature back to so what is it will the united nations arms trade treaty aims to promote global peace and stability and requires that signatories ensure the weapons they're exporting do not end up in the wrong hands more than one hundred countries have ratified the deal the us signed up to it under barack obama but never actually formally joined at the un has responded to the trumpet ministrations decision to drop its support for the deal. 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

our. was during a speech president trump also said that he would never let foreign bureaucrats quote trample on the u.s. second amendment investigative journalist dave lindorff believes mr trump took that decision in order to galvanize his support base. the biggest supplier of arms in the world is the u.s. and it isn't just a signatory so the fact that trump is canceling that signature is a green standing actually to his his what 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. it's been a nother deadly day in sri lanka police there say fifteen people including six children are among those killed in an explosion during a raid on militants allegedly linked to the easter sunday bombings authorities also say they have identified a prominent member of a local extremist group among that. sticks of dynamite and batteries helping recovered along with islamic state lines joint polling some military operation was conducted in response to the easter suicide attacks. last sunday in which more the . two hundred and fifty people died. sunday afternoon just coming up to half past three here in moscow take a run if you count for some more great program skating there start in moments this is our team international.

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american politics its own. senses and the notion that somebody playing games at the margins of those election. influenced the old guy is frankly frankly absurd to food to compare russia with you know the states to notice states has been fall or. in influencing the domestic politics of other countries in the. beneath the politically falls needs to come. from. but ideally the moment before. the house. giving political guidance

to the process so basically what i'm waiting for these and other politically polls ideally stems from the moment you're. broadcasting around the world covering all aspects of business and finance and how it affects you this is them but i'm christi paul bar in washington d.c. on board coming up the dollar is on the decline across the pacific as china is leading the change for the end to replace the dollar with a gun and international investor jim rogers joins us to discuss the currency

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packages under two thousand euros to protect pensioners from inflation and promise to take out income taxes by five billion euros he seemed to risk disappointing the country with few policy details and a defense of stubborn tone in a national address mr micron posed a rhetorical question how we've gone in the wrong direction and then he confidently judged his own performance informing the french i don't think so a founder of the yellow bus movement responded to president micron's address. i am disappointed very day but he was in my point of view emanuel most. important. he didn't announce. expected by the yellow vests. france has been going as usual have five months if you don't mind it. moving from paris to beijing the chinese president saying no to world leaders attending this.