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two hundred eighty billion dollars worth of investment. in the country's intelligence service. journalists document on arms sales to saudi arabia. twenty four hour news live from moscow this is r.t. international good to have your company. a top story russian national maria 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 as an attempt by washington to save face. they are trying to save face we grabbed 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 eight months just to show she is guilty of something. rehabilitation has already served nine months in jail the thirty year old was found guilty of trying to influence the national rifle association another conservative groups in the u.s. several american politicians who are suspected to be involved in the case as well our correspondent caleb maupin reports now from new york city those who were in the courtroom heard maria butanol 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 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 we spoke to maria puts his main lawyer about the case and the precedent he believes it makes and. 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 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 u.s. i think that it's almost impossible to 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 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 sense of 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 is very dangerous because if other countries adopted 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 on boots in this case while in

beijing he was there for a forum focusing on china's musset global trade network known as the belt road and mission of the figures really are staggering it's a one point three trillion dollar project it spans asia europe africa and over the past few days alone over two hundred eighty billion dollars worth of agreements were signed off either shit on off is there. 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 a jeep and economy and this is quite well natural i should say 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 moscow 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 someone 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 putin what he thinks of this and what impact this could have on the global market here's what he told me just because we have an agreement with the opec plus bill 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 side. problems as 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 will let him a putin even joked about how he manages to keep his show jewels so jam packed was bullshit. but it is proceeded to school clerk. to put you on that i bought it last summer and you just called it was funny. but you're sort of on the market opposite of the sort of folks feelings

which 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 and we've done of reporting from beijing r.t. . ok let's bring attention back to europe on another story we're focusing on today dozens of french media companies have backed three journalists summoned by french intelligence officials over what's been described as 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 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 a war that's left thousands dead and pushed millions to war to the brink of starvation it's been described by the un 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 to these journalists it should be forty eight french sees a terrorist guns were being used along the sound the yemen that tanks and fighters sold to the u.a.e. 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. when the border 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 and 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 i'll see paris on a short i did mention there french authorities in turn have constantly insisted it's weaponry is being used for defensive purposes only while the saudi led coalition denies any deliberate targeting of civilians in yemen political

journalist elizabeth in the tape gave us her thoughts on the leak and why it's caused 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 illegally installed government with the support of a foreign power you're wrong this is indeed in defense of the state it's a member of the us it's the position of a number of people from you know america britain saudi arabia etc 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 as. it's not helping and it's their position that's what they're defending the question is you know is

this a crime graffiti a state secrets on the one hand on the other is the. broader tip of is it the brother to the journalist to reveal something in the public interest. indeed more trouble for the french president and his long awaited all of branch to the yellow bess protesters appears to have fallen flat there right for the twenty fourth straight weekend protesting social injustice despite the money all my problems promise to cut taxes raise pensions and reform the civil service the march in paris is. last weekend's rallies saw violence after weeks of relative calm on the streets on thursday president mccrone gave a televised address in which he said french democracy needs more decent realized government. rules as well for organizing public referendum and it followed his ambitious three month public feedback exercise known as the great national debate.

plays earlier this month the author dom cathedral in paris may have been caused by an electrical short circuit or a discarded cigarette those two theories are being considered by authorities after they were finally able to access the burnt building now a dispute is raging over the restoration of the eight hundred fifty year old mark. then we knew all about you we will rebuild the cathedral all but you're on the bottom we will rebuild notre dumb because it's going to force it down because this is what the french expect to nucleate well because this is what our history deserves because this is our duty and destiny. should we rebuild aspire and shouldn't be the same deficit to the techniques and challenges of our age and international architectural competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral spire will be organized.

and. don't touch not to die. halleluiah french president marcos says not saddam should be rebuilt consistent with a 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. the u.s. is pulling out of another major arms treaty the president claims it's to defend american sovereignty we break it all down. we need

a political impulse. from. the normandie for. giving. the process so basically what i'm waiting for he's an alter politically. ideally. from the moment you feel. i. go back with our to international a russian university student who fled and attempted to join the ranks of islamic state has been released and paroled after serving more than half of her sentence r t correspondent double quarter joins me live now don it's

a case being closely followed here what do we know. well you know twenty three year old. actually just successfully got out of prison on parole this week and she was sentenced to four and a half years at a penal camp for attempting to join the islamic state now the defense team actually petition for her to be released early back in november and clearly that didn't fall on deaf ears she told r.t. that she was overjoyed to be free again. this is not you. i still can't believe 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 disappointed in my mom take care of your family appreciate everything you have in your life even if you think it isn't significant because they're high priced to realize this. or her saga began with

a. state recruiter who she met in line back in may two thousand and fifteen and she left russia to go and marry him just a week later she was detained in turkey for attempting to enter into the into syria and although she later helped the russian secret service contact her ex fiance she nevertheless was arrested once by russian police in october two thousand and fifteen so prosecutors say that her leaving the country and attempting to join isis is evidence enough to find her guilty but the defense says that she was quote blinded by love and that she didn't actually know that he was a terrorist until after the fact that she went to. go and be with him so they were the lawyers were also very happy about the release. of the conditions with the bill which he was very glad that everything ended this way none of us expected to see things happen this quickly finally we'll see a family reunion with our mari is free to do she's a very happy girl but in prison she was the opposite. her lawyer also

announced that there's a press conference to be held on monday so we'll definitely hear some more information some more details about the trial and her release in the near future. you dimensions are released with a lot of ramifications thanks very much for bringing us more on that r t correspondent double quarter. in defense of american sovereignty well it's a double trump announced that the united states will no longer be part of a long more global arms control treaty his remarks as he addressed the annual meeting of the country's national rifle association. my administration will never ratified the arms trade treaty and i am officially announcing today that the united states will be revoking. the effect. of america's signature from this badly misguided treatment when taking our signature back so the united

nations' arms trade treaty aims to promote global peace and stability and requires that signatories ensure the weapons they are exporting do not end up in the wrong hands more than one hundred countries have ratified the deal the us signed up to it on their barack obama but never formally joined here's the un's response to the trumpet ministrations decision to drop support for the agreement. 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. yeah pretty combative spaced out by president frumpy also said that he would never let foreign bureaucrats quote trample on the us second amendment investigative reporter dave lindorff believes mr trump took the decision in order

to galvanize 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 grin standing actually to his his what he considers his electoral system because the senate never ratified the treaty so it's not in effect the united states doesn't have big 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 we're not a philosopher a slow voice among the gas next on going underground stay close for months and i'm here in thirty.

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being fired because she has a little tricky not literally no but you would expect a prime minister to have hemorrhage that much support to had a visit from the men in gray suits that he wanted to women of course in the age of equality to say here's the poll handed revolver prime minister time to go but does that work anymore because of the i want to get to war going to present a self but of course in tatters time it was different the lady twenty two could be all of those things are off the table there aren't any people who drive over there are actually because the low the tories have used up their one shot at the back benches had one chance to get rid of her you have one vote a year they did that in december and one hundred seventy without their support what can happen is cabinet ministers can withhold their support threatened to resign or mask and i have to tell you during this extraordinary week i have never known a week like it and i've been working at the house of horrors on and off since one nine hundred eighty eight i couldn't find one m.p.

who thinks to reason may has a long term survival rate in downing street the lady is on the way out even away from college green opposite parliament there's a whole section of a kind of leftish bent who say we should be reforming the european union from the inside what do you think this whole process is toward us about if we had tried to reform brussels of the european union from the inside instead of bricks it the some people were arguing that at the time that we should have tried to reform brussels from within look we've had successive prime ministers have been down that route namely thatcher john major people remember him it's beyond reform he has five unelected presidents joke it spending is out of control it's accounts and never written off they are never going to divest power. the mother parliament it is a rotten organization in the any piece there half of their expenses they don't have to account for a single penny of it it's a rotten in my view and the way they have bullied britain shows we joined

a club with the most vicious people running it well for all the alleged corruption there remarkably unified of the twenty seven members against the british different conceptions and ideals and certainly in support for ireland they're united for one reason they're terrified of a country going to follow britain and lead the european union we are one of the biggest contributors and they're trying to say to the rest of your it's not easy to leave us the rules of this cover pretty tough the five presidents all men notice going to do everything in their power and they still are to try to keep britain in that's the game for them they want to drag this process out as long as possible because they cling to the hope they'll be a second referendum in britain and that would result in a different outcome i'm telling you it would know all of this process in parliament seems to be going the way of jeremy corbin's policy curiously reluctant to measure the second round of referendum which you just said is all the gods really do.