more than 1000000 questions sent in a q. and a lasting over 4 hours president vladimir putin hears from the russian public. that. covered a raft of domestic and international challenges facing russia and its people. the u.k. government suspends new arms sales to saudi arabia the court of appeals rules the previous exports. the case represents a significant victory for peace activists who say it is using british made weapons to devastating effect in yemen. and europe's major powers you know for a last ditch effort to save me

a nuclear deal relations between tehran and washington spiral. first and foremost for us it's important to keep iran compliant fully compliance with its commitments under the just appeal any. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know we'll hello and welcome our top story. the russian president has wrapped up his morath in q. and a with the general public after some 4 hours from utilities and salaries to conflict down sanctions a lot of near putin took questions on just about every conceivable subject with no matter to small the president did not stop there as he then met with foreign russian journalists are to have talks us through from the address all that was

spoken about it. almost like answering questions for hours here in this hall behind me was not enough for him but well one of the 1st things he was asked as he will showed up for a media conference was the 17 and the question was whether or not russia is ready to accept responsibility to bear the brunt of the blame for the tragedy that happened in 2014 well the question on this response came a day after the joint investigation team of the international dutch led investigation presented their new report naming 4 suspects for the 1st time giving names and photographs of people they believe are responsible for giving the order to down the malaysian boeing here's what vladimir putin had to say about that everything we've seen presented as evidence that russia is responsible for everything doesn't suit us we think it's insufficient evidence it doesn't say anything we've presented our version of the events but unfortunately no one wants to hear it until there is proper dialogue here we won't find any answers to the

questions about the plane crash and the deaths of the people on board which remain open really people from all sides of the societal spectrum of view of the broad of the of russia have had a chance to ask their questions we've had questions from ordinary people from journalists from celebrities from bloggers from influences and while the focus was mostly on the internal affairs of russia which is quite expected something like russia's relation with the united states people couldn't help but mention it here's how glad i'm a putin commented on the current. state of relations between moscow and washington when these but if the american side shows interest we are always ready for dialogue we see what is happening in us domestic politics. the president will always look back on the race he's in right now some in the american establishment are speculating about our country's relationship trying to find problems and telling lies also vladimir putin has called the anti russian sanctions american sanctions

aimed at russia's economy a mistake and staying with the subject of the united states glad i'm a putin also touched something when it comes to relations between washington and tehran a week i'd like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u.s. and iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences it's very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used well when it comes to other instances other subjects it wasn't all heavy hearted there were more like an old still where there were some jokes a bit of humor for instance there was a question as to whether or not vladimir putin was an alien to which he said no and that was one of the one of the final questions in that q. and a now this was one of the major one of the 3 major presidential level events. with putin's address to the federal assembly and the annual also q. and a with journalists that happens late in the so i mean we're still early in this

race and we're still there are still plenty of time and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask more questions to vladimir putin. to a big story of the week u.s. government documents have raised questions about the f.b.i.'s conclusion that russia was behind on alleged hook of the democratic party servers back in 26 the the agency never received the final report from private cyber security company crowd strike which was hired by the party to investigate the hack the report was the core evidence for the russian hacking investigation with more on this story here from iraq as they have. faith is a remarkable thing it can move mountains if you believe something hard enough heart and soul it doesn't actually matter if it's real it ot faith in god in family or in russian hackers is russia also who now after having hacked into the d.n.c.

russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy russia is hacking and having gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friend's ex or facts but as with every religion there are the tracks is daoud has one of them is roger stone a former advisor to the tribe paid now indicted for alleged witness tampering and making false statements all related to wiki leaks as part of his defense he has requested evidence that russia was behind the d.n.c. hacks of 2016 so the government gave them all they had a redacted draft report from a cyber security company it is clear that the government has relied on the assumptions made by a source outside of the us intelligence community that the russian state was

involved in the hacking and that the data taken from the various servers were given to wiki leaks the government does not have the evidence and it knew it did not have the evidence when applied for these search warrants crowd strike the d.n.c. cyber security contractors what is amazing is that the draft report was redacted by crowd strike itself they gave the f.b.i. a rough document with parts blacked out the government does not possess the information the defendant seeks and that's all they gave them neither the f.b.i. nor the government gordon and redacted version. why for the security of the d.n.c. of course can't have the f.b.i. knowing everything at the time of the voluntary production counsel for the democratic national committee told the government the redacted material concerns steps taken to remediate the attack and to harden the d.n.c.

and democratic congressional campaign committee systems against future attacks so here's how it is a private security company that was hired by the d.n.c. writes a draft report never getting around to finishing the final one crosses out and that's a bunch of stuff because they're worried that letting the f.b.i. know things might for some unexplainable reason hurt their security and this is the chief evidence of russia's role and the hack of course that has might ask why on earth a private security company was carrying out the investigation in the 1st place why it wasn't the f.b.i. our friends expose would always prefer to get access to the original device or server that's involved so it's the it's the best evidence were you given access to do the forensics on those servers we were not we were a highly respected private company eventually got access and shared with us what

they saw their remarkable faith really can move mountains transform believes politics countries you don't need prophets and miracles all you need is a private cyber security company to blame russia the new democrat testament russia did it of course that is will be doubtless and beulah may be one of those heretics you need 26165 g. or you officers appear to have still in thousands of emails and attachments which were later released by weeks or weeks in july 26th seen now odd hate to be accused of blasphemy but perhaps a little more investigating would be helpful alternatively russia did it so it is written blessid be the word of crowd strike men. well former cia officer ray mcgovern told us he believes the d.n.c.

invented the russia hacking story as a distraction to the wiki leaks revelations and there's no factual basis for the russian hacky into the d.n.c. computers and now we know that the f.b.i. went over went along with the very serious evidence evidence with no chain of custody evidence incompleted redacted the game was this so assume as the democrats realized that julian signage had these messages they composed a cover story which julian a signed release those e-mails went to the press the press was a willing or cockles and they said look the russian to the russians that and so the headlines were not clinton steals nomination from sanders but rather the russians had waited the russians had white this is an act of war it worked like a charm i call it that magnificent distraction. living on a court in britain ruled on thursday about the u.k.

government broke the law by authorizing weapons sales to saudi arabia the judgement comes in response to a legal challenge by peace campaigners who claim that the arms supplied to riyadh have been used against civilians in yemen the british government has suspended new arms export licenses but states have intends to appeal the decision with more on what we know trying to. well a significant victory for cats here at the coup to the field after it's ruled the u.k. all the sales to saudi arabia could be used in the war in yemen a move for lots follows the quashing of a previous decision by the high court back in 2017 that the sales would move for the court of appeal specifically the one element where it said that if you take up with romney even in a significant way and the judge went on to say that that's because the u.k.

government made that move concluded assessment of whether the saudis that coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian rule in yemen in the past and had made no attempts to do so this was the reaction following that judgment this goes to the very top of the conservative party we now need a judicial review in the whole licensing system parliament has been shown to be totally broken we had 4 years to sort this out and the committee failed to meet the 2 years we now need a public inquiry on this matter the government should not waste time in appealing this judgment the government should fix our system all i'm saying is to saudi arabia by the u.k. government significant amounting to around 4700000000 pounds since 2015 and the u.k. is the 2nd biggest exporter of all over to riyadh south to the united states it exports for ne poems and missiles well we've been speaking to cat 2 brought

this case against the government and also to it solicitor who's told us that they will review now not just the u.k. government home steels but also on the seals to saudi arabia from other countries this has been a brutal call damnation of u.k. foreign policy business been a very strong judgment against it we were. and to see action from the government the court has done its job it's time for the government to do its job the decisions that took in relation to existing licenses and make the decisions they took to continue to grant licenses those decisions are unlawful and they have to go back and reconsider well in regards to the war in yemen it's estimated that the death toll direct deaths attributed to the war is now closing in on the 100000 people move while half of the country's 22000000 strong population is said to be in food insecurity let's have

a look now at the conflict of the last few years and the impact it's having on the plans. well in the coalmines following who decision we heard from the secretary of state for international trade liam fox who has said that the government will now review its licenses to sell all of this to saudi arabia but the u.k. secretary of trade did also decide to spend government previous occasions to hold those arms contracts don't about whether the government has made the right or

wrong decisions about granting export licenses but it concerns the rationality of the process used to reach decisions as i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and the secret mission to appeal this judgement won't immediately stop the holds the export of sales to saudi arabia but it is a landmark case and for fact it's a big. day big results and they say that they will continue the fight to stop the arms sales to saudi arabia now with iran under pressure from the u.s. on threatening to pull out of the 2015 nuclear agreement group is now setting its stall out some of the deal we look ahead to that after a look at some upcoming programs. democracies do not deport human rights defenders over there peaceful expression

democracies do not rule over millions of people for another people you know for decades on there is a larger context here in that context starts with the fact that israel has been occupying palestinians for 52 years and that occupation itself has deteriorated the most basic ideas of what a legitimate democratic government looks like inside israel. the accounting fraud at deutsche bank is only now just being revealed. at the tip of the iceberg this they're sitting on a half a quadrillion worth of worth close to rivet of that if the mark to market would would be greater than 5 times global g.d.p.

this isn't in fact the beginning of lehman 2.0. 17 minutes into the program welcome back europe post stepped up efforts to preserve the 2015 iranian nuclear deal the u.k. france and germany are seeking to unite in a diplomatic push to persuade iran not to pull out of the agreement talk me through what we know about this polish leader. well there certainly is an effort by these european countries to try and salvage what they can in terms of the 2015 nuclear deal that the united states withdrew from last year they're also stepping up efforts to try and deep escalate the recent tensions that we've witnessed in the gulf region the japanese prime minister was in the iranian capital recently for talks as was the german foreign minister and france has announced that it is staging

a high level delegation one as they are committed to on the one hand trying to preserve the deal but on the other hand also trying to reach as the european leaders have said some kind of peaceful solution to prevent the situation in the gulf region from complete deescalating we want to unify all efforts so a process of deescalation starts there's still time and we hope all the efforts will show more restraint there's still time but only a little time before you'll be the most important mediator for the jews like. you are trying to do what we come to diffuse tensions open channels of communication to make sure doc's noah and his completion is avoidance but the fact is that time is running out and one cannot discount the possibility of war breaking out and this is despite the fact that the united states has said that it does not want to go to war with iran having said that though the recent shooting down of an american drone over the strait of boards was to quote the americans are not provoked but it is

just the latest in a series of incidents that we have seen an increase in tensions in the region the americans saying that they have been previous ukrainian attains to shoot down its drones you remember that a little over a week ago there were 2 tankers in the straits of hormuz that belong to japan and norway that will also hit now the americans have pointed fingers at the radiance but they still there's no conclusive evidence that to rand was behind that and indeed the rains have denied that they were this also comes as the americans are sending roughly a 1000 troops cheap. the region the u.s. secretary of state had this to say present time does not want war and we will continue to communicate that message while doing the things that are necessary to protect american interests in the region but we can't do that without making sure that we have the capability to respond if iran makes a bad decision now the americans assessment of f. a drone was shot down while it was over international waters however the radian say

that it had already entered the rainy and air space be that as a blazing haze of the rain and revolutionary guards says that their action in terms of shooting down the stroke sends out a clear message that the radiance to do not want to engage in war with the united states but if forced to do so they won't back down. yeah with the tensions over iran's nuclear program gripping the globe a swedish think tank has released a report warning against the modernization of nuclear arsenals but also states that warhead numbers are to creasing at the start of 20 $199.00 states were in possession of a total of 14 thought this new their weapons report also noted israel humming up to 90 nuclear warheads a country which has a longstanding policy of not commenting on its arsenal i spoke earlier with the director of the think tank behind the report. israel has had nuclear weapons now since some point in the landscaping six's. are over 50 years and there's little

commented publicly about the low seam that our estimate is and sample our concerns . but israel's strategy has always been one of promoting uncertainty about how and whether house no nuclear weapons for one reason or another that it regards certainty as being named important to our security and perhaps syrups its reputation but there is really no doubt that it has an actual weapon so we're playing with fire i mean a lot of people over the past 70 or so years of the nuclear have used different matters though the one which i know it's so it was the most. striking one is that we're standing up to our necks in a pool of gasoline in a dark town and in order to see that i have a lighting a match i mean we really are playing with danger and we have been lucky and there has been no you care conflagration for a long time it seemed as if the world was the international community mainstage

a little committed to driving down the numbers of nuclear weapons and now what we see is what looks like a pause in the possible beginning of the numbers will be increasing at a furious. facebook has revealed plans for its own digital currency which is expected to be available as early as 2020 the company sees it hopes libra which will be backed by assets will offer an efficient means of payment with low transaction fees the social media giants foray into the crypto space really caused a long amongst many politicians all over the place who've expressed skepticism with the project they say that such consolidation of power in the hands of a company that has already essentially monopolized the spear of social networks is rather disturbing. let's cross live billeted financial analyst r.t. host marks kaiser the man i turn to on money matters welcome. we are

perhaps the most powerful entity in the world today getting into cryptocurrency what does it mean. it means that the big client protocol that was launched in 2009 is claiming yet another victim with what i call big coin derangement syndrome and other words that the big question protocol with a hash rate or 60 trillion calculations per 2nd the biggest network computing system in the world in the universe by far is claiming another victim and mark zuckerberg the libra project over there at facebook is a stalking horse all it does is it gets more people aware of what bitcoin is what bitcoin does and why libra is not anywhere as good as bitcoin so now they're going to on ramp millions of more people to bitcoin price a big coin as i've been saying since 2011 when it was

a dollar i said i was going to go to $100000.00 it's now back to crossing over $10000.00 again set to make a new all time high very very quickly on the back of this lever a project over at facebook which is just another fee at currency so labor competes with other fee at currencies bitcoin competes with gold it's better than gold because it's more secure than gold and will see the price explode as a result of mark zuckerberg falling to what i call the big coined arrangement syndrome as we've seen so many times before people going mad because they can't understand because they try to compete with bitcoin and it just keeps on going higher and higher so this is a positive development for bitcoin is there any positives for facebook though in terms of the fact that at the moment bitcoin a theory i'm for instance they're not working very very well as a medium of exchange in terms of having 2800000000 users facebook you know have this market but that could perhaps mine into more accessible efficient lower

transaction fees i would imagine anything going for a thought way. oh absolutely it competes with central banks and it competes. with banks on wall street as a as a fee at currency and it will do a better job than the u.s. dollar the u.s. dollar is challenged by libra jamie diamond and j.p. morgan will be challenged by a libra jerome powell at the federal reserve bank will be challenged by a libra those are the guys who were put on notice if you notice the reaction in the financial press was immediate the finance ministers in france and the folks in washington immediately came out and said we need to hold hearings were afraid about this we're not so sure about this because they know instinctively that they're going to be disinterred mediated out of existence because you can create a much better fee at currency that's accessible all over the world as a medium of exchange with 0 transaction fees so it puts the u.s. dollar as world reserve a gemini out of business which is great for big coin great for big coin big coin

now guaranteed goes to $100000.00 and above guaranteed now with the emergence of libra just those government people you're talking about the ministers a lot of criticism they're also saying that 2 currencies the health facility to elicit money flows the overall picture here can libor address those concerns in any way do you think. well when you're talking about illicit money flows and currency the number $1.00 currency used by illicit agents are actors in the global economy whether it's drug runners or terrorists is the u.s. dollar let's be clear the number one bank facilitated global terrorism and money laundering by drug cartels would be h.s.b.c. that's that's demonstrably in provably true they're the bad actors the big quite put out of business in terms of what labor can do to address that market i would

imagine sense they would have a greater oversight into the users they would be able to generate more data and that would possibly help controlling. the flow of illicit use to the extent that they were not being co-opted by the cia or the f.b.i. remember facebook is in bed with the cia they hand deliver information to the cia as part of their quid pro quo exists remember facebook generates a lot of ads a lot of ad revenue that's generated by cia traffic cia generates huge traffic through facebook that looks like they're generating a lot of revenue and then it looks like their stock price should be very high so there's a lot of there's an interesting symbiotic relationship between facebook and the cia the cia is a commercial entity they are by the way and so they have that going for them and once again the bottom line is it helps big going just finally marks one other

aspect being spoken about concerns over facebook's humbling of users personal data has been an ever present this past months years are you worried about its potential involvement in the trip to space with out in mind so much information out there. absolutely facebook is horrible but there are labor a coin would be better than the u.s. dollar and it alleges tens of millions or 100 millions or a 1000000000 about why big coin is better so they are a stalking horse they are a useful idiot mark zuckerberg is big points useful idiot he's going to propel big coin uses higher exe and it was all in the in the genesis block from january 3rd 2009 as we've been saying and guys report for years there is no buddy able to stop big point all they can do is make the hash rate higher therefore make the security higher therefore make it use as gold more compelling and it's playing out exactly

as we've been saying now for almost 10 years thanks so much for your time this are always great having the program financial analyst r.t. host mocks kaiser live on the program. very busy news day this thursday and it's your own have all your global updates at the top of the hour for more great program starting not. greetings in salyut asians june 19th or juneteenth is an important day of remembrance here in the united states of america because on june 1865 the state of texas the balls to abolish slavery marking the true end of african-american slavery across the u.s. and on june 18th this week reparations took center stage in washington d.c. for the 1st time in over a decade congress actually held a hearing on the subject of reparations thanks to house resolution 40 which n.p.r. reports calls for a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for african-americans

including a formal apology by the u.s. government for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on african slaves and their descendants here in the u.s. there are few words or ideas of the truly put the political status quo in a tizzy quite like the idea of reparations take senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who dismissed the idea telling reporters i don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea we've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war and passing landmark civil rights legislation we've elected an african-american president yeah yeah as you can see there's nothing exposes the racial and political divisions in this country faster than the mere mention of the idea that the united states government might actually be held physically and socially responsible for the hardships currently faced by black americans today due to the country's history of slavery in institutionalized racism so today let's talk about reparations and.