i. know you're trying to save face to avoid looking ridiculous. just to show she is guilty of something president putin's eighteen month jail sentence handed to maria failing to register as a foreign agent as an attempt by washington to save face with her lawyer. in the us were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this. signing up for the twenty first century silk road. comes to a close in beijing with sixty four billion dollars worth.

forces to the country's intelligence service. journalists. international news center in moscow welcome to our team my names you know neal good to have your company in our top story russian national maria has been sentenced to a year in prison in the united states south to she pleaded guilty to conspiring to . registered foreign agent president putin described the decision that's an attempt by washington to avoid humiliation. they are trying to save face 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 eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something. very important has already served half of her sentence nine months in jail the thirty year olds find guilty of trying to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american politicians who are suspected to be involved in the case well bring us up to date with what we know our correspondent killed by been in new york . 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 bootless 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. in their will we spoke to maria buton his lawyer the main lawyer appointed her case and indeed the president he believes that.

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 that 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 this instance i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not 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 she's in her shoes 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 was involved in civil society organizations and social and met people and networks that's really all we're talking about doing are more serious than that and reported back on those activities somewhere in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopt the same attitude are going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons and i think it's about idea. the earlier comments

there by president putin in this case were made in beijing he was there for a forum focusing on china's musts of global trade network known as the belt on route and mission of it's huge it's a one point three trillion dollar project it scans aging europe africa and over the past few days alone agreements with sixty four billion dollars were signed off he said on off is in the chinese capital for us. 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 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 rowdy around exploring new trade routes and global economy boosting global

economy and so lattimer putin position russia as the key energy players sort of an oil exports and superpower he stressed that russia is not only a key player on the market but also most who is ready to increase its production and consecutively exports oil exports any given time and any good. one 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 impact this could have on the global market

here's what he told me yes because it will have an agreement with the opec plus with i haven't heard anything from saudi arabia or any other opec members who were about to turn 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 such 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 lattimer putin even joked about how he manages to keep his share jewels so jampacked was bullshit. but it is possible to school cook. the correct course to put you on the speech on that i bought it last summer just called it was funny. on the right 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 i'm done of reporting from beijing r.t. . ok. it said diabolo deeper into the story now we're joined by alexander county and economist and financial expert welcome to the program how fruitful do you think vladimir putin's visit to china has been in terms of the summit how much will moscow and beijing alexander benefit from closer ties do you think. well i think those you know mosco and b.g. are already very tightly connected on the bones and they think this initiative is only the strong bond between the two countries or especially in this.

environment where you are. trying but mystery sure is. putting this to the higher and that is showing. protectionist stance so i think in this environment the the the others between china and russia. show that there is a and the authority of to this go in the eyes of the nation its policies and also over the long term i think it's turns a strong message that there is a shift from these world that is led by you were. on all levels and that eventually we would see the drawing of the institutions of the of the markets and i think especially for oil for example this is also something that we should take into account just on oil president putin stressed that russian oil is an open

market available essentially to everyone i put it to you though is that not being overambitious can russia for instance become the dominant player in asia for energy where there is an ever growing thirst for it. well i think it depends a lot of the on the first rock sure that russia can build the i think it's not realistic to say for the moment that russia. you know take over from all the major supply sources like the middle east. oil maybe it will have this capacity in the next or twenty years but not right now right no athlete can do is that it. if you wish as a producer of last resort to fill the gap when there is a gap in the market alongside other players and i think this is this kind of buffer

all that russia wants to you know implement and to reinforce especially in the. geopolitical environment they would see though plans were also mentioned by connecting alexander the chinese silk road with the northern sea route if that is possible one how a second impact in the new belt and road and a lot of aspects there. you know well you know i think this these are long term plans i think everybody though is interested in the potential of this area including the chinese the americans the canadians europeans and so on because there are those who are resources and there are these facilities to link these continents but overall i don't think it will

really play out in the near future you know or because there are very complicated the obstacles those to establish these trade routes are given the harsh conditions and the need to invest billions of. in the first searchers and and ships too to sail across this area so basically i think these are plans for the long term basically how do you see just the belt and road initiative it's got a lot of press a lot of negative press so far in in europe how big do you think it's actually going to go it's stretching into latin america could it we know it's in africa. asia europe could south america be the next market is this going to be a global enterprise that's going to stay for ever. well nobody really knows because this was something that was close the associated

to the to the rise of the current leadership in china to president c.g. being more specially saw. critics tobe also in showing of this initiative because they feel some people feel that it's over stretches the current capabilities of cho you know but i think overall there is a learning curve from the chinese and from their partners they see the positive. side of it terms of capital in terms of expertise they also see the negative side in terms of in terms of the reliance on the world one major part though so this is a lonely process i think there will be some adjustment and the new generation of project will not be the same as do ones that have already been implemented for example in seoul to asia. or the locations where you know that you know america it

will depend on the needs of the countries but also on the capacity of the chinese to reinvent this strategy all right it's very much a case of watch this space isn't it alexander count up economist and financial expert life on the program this island i think. the u.s. is pulling out of another major arms treaty the president claims that's because it's going to defend american sovereignty but will it reaction next. what politicians do sometimes even. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good.

i'm interested always in the waters in the house. should. be neat politically. needs to come. from. the moment before. the house. giving. to the process and so basically what i'm waiting for he's an author politically. ideally stemming from the moment you feel.

right just approaching your team minutes into the program hello to dozens of french media companies have box three journalists summoned by french intelligence officials over what's being described as a breach of national defense secrecy it comes after a link 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 says 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 to these

journalists it shows 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 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 it's sold to saudi and u.a.e. were 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 this in 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 don't let out to reveal their sources challenged even ski ulti paris. any story being closely followed here a russian university student who fled and attempted to join the ranks of islamic state has been released on parole after serving more than half of her sentence she spoke to r.t. on double quarter of the story. twenty three year old. girl 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. 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 they're high price to realize this her saga began back in two thousand and fifteen with an isis recruiter she met online she left the country to go and marry him in just a little 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 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 interest of which she was very glad that everything ended this way none of us expected to see things happen this quickly finally will see a family reunion varvara is free to do she's a very happy girl but in prison she was the opposite her lawyer also mentioned at 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. in defense of american sovereignty that's. the united states will no longer be part of a global arms control treaty his remarks kane he addressed the un you will meeting of the country's national rifle association. my administration i will never ratified the u.n. 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 we're taking in our signature back or let's go through with 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 and more than one hundred countries have ratified the deal the us signed up to it under barack obama but never formally joined the un's response to the trump administration's decision to drop 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

arsenals. well president trouble also said he would never let foreign bureaucrats quote trample on the us second amendment rights the right to bear arms investigative reporter dave lindorff believes mr trump took that position 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 korean standing actually to his his what he considers his electoral and a specific industry because the senate never ratified the treaty so it's not in effect the united states doesn't a big the world court it doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the world court it doesn't feel obliged to followed the geneva convention relating to were 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. and is suddenly a lot means our weekly catch up no with the red ducted tonight crew keep it right here on twenty four seven our team international. saying the number. they matter to us is over one billion dollars that more than ten white collar crimes happen. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old rich eight percent world market rose thirty percent somewhat four hundred to five hundred three first second per second and if we rose to twenty

thousand dollars. china is building two. point one billion dollar industrial park but don't let the numbers open. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you know forward to this one and only. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war illegally get away with. all the fire crawls stillbirth all the troubled history failed to point its hollow playing the k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse off than the

people who destroyed the world trade centers of the scroll. like. welcome to the deck to the night the comedy show where americans in america covering american news called foreign agents welcome to the sexy time version of redacted the night i got rid of the live audience of you and me could be alone right it's just you and me baby now as you can tell i only have half a voice which is why we don't have an audience we weren't even sure we were going to tape the show but you know what the show must go on there's a lot of important news so we're going to get through it like this good good glad you glad you're in it with me it's been over a week since the mahler report came out and

a lot of us thought. after it showed most of the mainstream media had been packed full of for two years they might back off and focus on oh i don't know the other hundred ways is corrupt rather than sticking with a cold war era conspiracy theory but nope they are devoted to the lie so i want to show you a little of m s n b c s morning joe and how they continue to deal with the mole the report and i didn't pick up this i don't pick this clip because it was something special or unusual i picked it because it's standard this is the standard pathetic bullshit but watch brzezinski's opening exasperated statement before she even gets to the first question kathleen hall jamieson. the president's attorney proceeding to go on television and in the wake of the mahler importance saying it's ok to talk

to russians oh my god it's ok to talk to russia you know it is not they breathe fire and skin diseases talk to russians are cute nuts next terms lawyer is going to say it's ok to have sex with the zombies ear hole during a full moon no one speaks to russians and that's why the washington capitals star player alex ovechkin is forced to wear the silence of the lambs mask when he plays it's a cut down on the talking there are so many things in this report that go against everything that this country is based upon what do you make of the reaction and the continued manipulation of the truth why it manipulating the truth goes against everything this country was founded on oh it doesn't the founding fathers claimed they didn't have slaves they just have very tanned friends who happen to enjoy god .