the united states could potentially be smuggling weapons to militants in syria this according to leaked of documents obtained by journalists. by the board meets asian leaders on the 2nd day of the eastern economic forum and with the nuclear deal on the agenda. speaks exclusively with the malaysian foreign minister on the sidelines of the forum expresses his country's concerns over the probe into the downing of flight m.h. 175 years ago. some people will. be making accusations against should. already. have.

this. a particular country. and at least 7 people are killed in violence against migrants in south africa sparking a regional boycott of the country. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our chief international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now a trove of leaked documents has seemingly exposed the u.s. as a major supplier of illegal weapons a bulgarian journalist claims america has been buying serbian weaponry which has ended up in the hands of terrorists across the middle east and washington allegedly purchased weapons from 2 serbian state owned arms companies apparently for police in afghanistan but those arms were then seen in an islamic state propaganda video showing militants in yemen. you know watch our report on that in full on our you

tube channel in the meantime these photos show some of the serbian made weapons and ammunition produced by the same companies we mentioned this time in syria the 2nd part of the report claims the weapons procured by washington have also been ending up in the hands of rebels and terrorists. r t is going to down after takes a closer look at the evidence. from the start of the war in syria anti-government factions have been enjoying well a gun before all inclusive some pieces fell into their hands as spoils of war where the others came from nobody knew it seemed until now because apart from a deep blowing hatred towards assad all these rebels i saw and self-governing jihadists they could have another thing in common a big wealthy arms dealer lurking in the shadows.

able gary an investigative journalist has claimed to have exposed an elaborate network of private american companies which have been buying weapons from serbian manufacturers and shipping them to the middle east the journalist managed to get through a labyrinth full of fake trails and dead ends designed specifically to cover the tracks to the network's command center the pentagon. in one instance an american company 04 industries used a british broker as its middleman to buy mortar shells from serbian manufacture acoustic and this e-mail says a learner is a direct proof of that and it was business as usual up until the moment one crew sick was about to get paid because none of the companies that dealt with wanted to wire the money instead they wanted to finish the transaction and through a nother 3rd party british company and this raised all sorts of red flags. bearing

in mind that the payment will be affected by the company that is not the buyer according to our law and foreign exchange operations we will need the consent of the serbian government i.e. the ministry of finance in order to be able to apply at the ministry of finance we necessarily need a tripartite agreement verified and signed by the buyer sierra 4 industries the seller holding corp crew sick and the legal entity that will affect the payment charles kendall and partners limited. it was so suspicious the serbs even questioned if the final destination for the armaments would indeed be the pre-agreed location which was no not the middle east but harmless innocent romania. the draft in jesus is to pick it states the following place of delivery. to china and

a base rumania according to the above it should be clearly mentioned that the goods will be used in romania including the purpose of use and the goods will be shipped to romania they weren't used in romania it seems once the money was finally wired of washington's memory was void clean instead the ammunition was flown to qatar and ended up in syria according to the journalist that they have gone so far there are private american companies or your company is. very far off from bikini if they feel so you know are they still think. these are the really like you like. using different place after the websites like this that people are like you problem finding information because they are oh oh you think the things i love are they like the

skin if you think you. and you might like their berthing their weapons by of their proud. nation would be syria or react to americans these 2 they even visited crusade to troubleshoot any potential insurgence on behalf of the seller i also can't buy for that you are and that arm of the some of the united states the european that are in what is not is a government itself and proud that there is this is the serbia back in the or the letter box. and laying around. organizing their ship much less than a year on the same 2 men were awarded. arming rebels in syria. the little affair with the serbs was far from

a one night stand type of deal for the u.s. they shipped tens of thousands of munitions into syria drowning the country in arms for years we've worked to stop the civil war in syria and leave the human suffering we wanted to reach out to syria for industries remember the american company that initiated the deal with the serbs and imagine our surprise when we found out that the company barely even exists it has no listed phone number no email and just 5 yes 12345 employees. not exactly a shock. aside from the company you were just mentioned we contacted the pentagon and crusade. for comment and are waiting to hear back from them in the meantime former british army officer charles troubridge says there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of those leaked documents. it's an impressive piece of journalism by

any standards i think to produce what share the travis she's produced and apparently convincing evidence if these documents such genuine and so far at least there's been no indication whatsoever despite the opportunity to given to people so far showed them as not genuine if that genuine these documents are indeed as daily on herself suggests they are indeed explosive in a revelation it's really what it shows is that long after we all know of course or many of us know about this operation timber sycamore busy that was launched by the us was run by many years by then a covert arming and training project for syria's rebels supposedly moderate rebels . but of course invariably many of these weapons and it up in the hands of what even the us deems terrorists in syria that was all supposedly ended in 2017 when it was finally disclosed that it's actually publicly acknowledged that it existed and

so now we've got evidence quite clear evidence if the documentation is true and again there's nothing to indicate that it's not that actually this program in another form has continued. to russia's far east now where 5 key leaders took to the stage in vladivostok on day 2 of the eastern economic former russian president vladimir putin was joined for discussions by the indian japanese malaysian and mongolian leaders on how to move forward on trade technology and the environment as well as avoiding global military escalation only put trying reports now from the former. that was quite a company in that room the leader of the 2nd most populous country in this world and as we began to realize in the last few years a staunch ally of russia and the plus the leader of japan an ally of the u.s. in the 1st place but as puts it himself a great friend of the russian president vladimir putin and finally the heads of 2

asian men go and malaysia a lot was said about what's left of global security now that the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty is gone because the u.s. administration thought that was the way to go in the 21st century mr putin said that he believes the world will have plenty of reasons to worry about after all a potential new arms race is a very big deal which wasn't the reason it was a serious challenges facing humanity imagine if the some weapon maybe a nuclear weapon in a little bit over our heads. this could drastically change the security situation across the globe as for my own american partners keep silent when we suggest continuing to negotiate the summons there's nothing new in that. another key message from the russian president was that moscow will keep up with all the

missile r. and d. that the west will get itself involved in but when it comes to the deployment that won't happen on the part of russia when it comes to the weapons previously thought by the i.n.f. treaty until america starts taking the boxes on their deployment plans no matter how difficult and serious this issue is though vladimir putin decided it's worth adding a bit of humor and jokingly suggested that america should waste money if it can buy some of the arms technology from russia. but i still don't know do you want us to sell you those weapons they are saying they will soon produce their own that might be so but then why would you spend the money if we have already spent it wouldn't breach of security but would create balance. another landmark international agreement that is now in real jeopardy because of the new diplomatic methods of the u.s.

administration is the so-called iran's nuclear deal well judging by what the japanese prime minister said at the plant of recession donald trump and shinzo abhi aren't the same page in this regard despite them being allies. we have long told the us we have our opinion concerning iran and the nuclear deal i wish it would be resolved through negotiations i talked to the supreme leader and he said that iran isn't going to produce or use nuclear weapons he said it very clearly believe it or not before shaking hands and vladivostok mr putin and mr abbay met $26.00 times before and the japanese leader was keen to point that out once again after all they don't call each other great friends for nothing and he even entertain the audience with his knowledge of a russian prover that suggests the. you have to eat a lot of salt together to become real friends. the audience here might not know

that the summit meeting we've just had was our 27th meeting ladies and gentlemen it's important for you to know that president putin the 9 you have had so many meals together time and time again that one might say we've even keel lives of soul together it was clear that the prime ministers of india and japan wanted to be good guests and show a bit of admiration for the country that they're visiting and that's when the names of russian pole would send riders started coming up and even quotes around remote indian prime minister even compared to the russian writer leo tolstoy with someone who is known as the father of the nation and in the mahatma gandhi so it's this kind of warmth respect and the desire to hear each other's opinions that there is for him and vladivostok will be remembered for on the sidelines of the economic forum in vladivostok the malaysian prime minister has again criticised the ongoing

investigation into the downing of flight m.h. 17 all 298 people on board died when their plane blew up over eastern ukraine in 2014 it was bound for malaysia from the netherlands the dutch led joint investigation team blamed a russian backed rebels in eastern ukraine a preliminary report claims the rebels used a russian made to book missile system basco though has repeatedly said that the anti-aircraft system was left in ukraine after the breakup of the soviet union and a separate experiment looking at how the plane was brought down a russian air defense company and concluded that the missile could not have been fired from the region alleged in the report those results were ignored by the joint investigation team are to spoke with the malaysian foreign minister you told us why his country was so concerned from the very start of the investigation. i think the concern that very early in the investigation. we eventually becoming well off in the age of 80 but not at the initial stage and

that was one of the reason why we have a lot of concern. the other is the nice when. some people will very quick in making accusations yes the investigation was still going on already there were some effort by some quite. to accuse a particular country happens to be pressure i'm not seeing the da da it's not doing its work but as i have said earlier it is premature and i don't think it is so right to make accusation specific accusations to if particular country or a group of people mob violence against migrants in south africa has caused international law or more that after a short break this is argentina. well

you know the thing we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long . i mean they're in this small ball and sniffs it hard push it and it's. the little self to big fish already 90 percent of the dot and ball and connor. concept 15 scoops 17 tons and they do it several times a day with a big fleet now you get an idea on why. we have to understand we can still use to just. be with them this is

going to go out. i'm doing this because i want them for the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. open back the seas are. a wave of deadly attacks and looting in south africa has sparked a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the continent the violence has targeted migrants from other african countries who flocked to one of the continent's most developed nations such as possibly are reports now from johannesburg. south africa's still reeling off to 4 days of bloody violence have resulted in some 7 people being killed as a figure as we've received from the police and some 300 people being a wasted the violence was triggered last week in the country's capital petrolia

when a south african tech 6 rival was elated to have been killed by a nigerian drug dealer now as part of a protest against a south african taxi drivers who took to the streets because he soon that protest evolved into a demonstration against foreign is inspired to add the same to around the country and the result has been violence hundreds of foreigners have been days to shoot off to the businesses were attacked the police were forced to use white control mazes such as tear gas and rubber bullets and the situation is still rather unstable now because of the nationality of that a major drug dealer being nigerian a lot of the focus has actually been on nigerians now south africa has temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in at bouchet and lagos in nigeria for fear of reprisals against its stop south african businesses have also close their doors temporarily in nigeria and the south african foreign minister has said that this is an embarrassment for south africa and she has expressed her great for violence

against foreign as nigeria has pulled out of the african economic summit being held in south africa and the nigerian foreign minister has also expressed concern received and depressing news of continued burning and looting of nigerian shops and premises in south africa by mindless criminals with an effective police protection in. definitive measures the last time they was in a phobia outbreak like this in south africa was back in 2008 but this is a country where you have an unemployment of 29 a saint which means that very often the distress of people who don't have jobs turns against foreign as often instead of at. being directed against the government and its lack of delivery the 2011 census is the last official senses in terms of how many foreigners are in this country and the puts the figure of 2000000 dead at the waist and it suggests the figure is closer to $5000000.00 out of

a population of $56000000.00 who have the south african president who's also expressed along over what is happening saying that there's no place for us in a phobia in south africa now i'd like to condemn the violence that has been spreading over our own a number of provinces in our country in the strongest. i've been talking to a lot of foreigners here in south africa who are very afraid of what is happening there is a lot of fake news that's been spreading on social media with pictures that are not actually even south african showing people being burned people jumping out of buildings with the caption foreign is it leaves south africa's so we are in the process of verifying another the media along with the experts but the situation certainly is dire at the moment. under the u.s. now where a crowded field of democrats is vine to challenge donald trump for the presidency next year 20 candidates have thrown their hats into the ring so far but the 3rd round of debate will feature just half of them notably 2 anti-war candidates

marianne williamson until the did not make it into the debate both are known to have criticized u.s. military spending or to scale up and have. among the 2020 candidates vying for the democratic nomination is self-help guru marianne williamson she's one of the most googled candidates and known for her oddly spiritual approach i'm going to her love a false god this dark psychic force she's certainly trying to grab the attention of certain voters but it may surprise you that she actually has a strong appeal among a broad selection of rank and file liberals we don't have a health care system in the united we have a sickness care system in the united states this is part of the dark underbelly of america. now she has criticized us foreign policy and particularly the pentagon with nearly $740000000000.00 military budget but only $40000000000.00 proposed for the state department budget our outsize commitment to

brute force and never with her in commitment to so forces of this well no limelight for her she has been pushed off the stage of the upcoming debates along with antiwar candidate tulsa gabbert all thanks to the new rules of the d.n.c. there is a well strategized effort to smear me there is no doubt about that there are some very powerful forces that want to make sure i'm not in the 3rd debate so i must be doing something right if they work so hard to create that in this crowded campaign the antiwar democratic candidates seem to stand out however it's those centrist pro-war hawkish democrats that get all the spotlight take a recent poll from amman and a plus pollster in the united states now the results from this polling agency actually showed bernie sanders in the lead ahead of joe biden but inconvenient poll results like that just end up getting shunned he's clear that the moment university poll published on mondays and i understood when we released up all the picture it

paints a diversion from us and the media has a role in helping the d.n.c. to they target those who don't fit in with the establishment narrative they pull out the label gun. marianne williamson well she's a faith healer who doesn't believe in vaccines gabbert she's a pal of bashar al assad bernie sanders well he's just a silly old man who can't really be taken seriously he took on the bag but the bag clobbered him isn't that not a good message i think that would be a not a good message and i've never given that when you say false pretenses though u.s. officials determined that aside d.d. use these chemical weapons against his own people use if i hear that about iraq right unwritten rules are becoming ever more clear for the democrats step outside of that pro-war box and you're labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you. marty new york.

some world updates for you now starting in the afghan capital kabul where the taliban has claimed responsibility for a powerful car bomb blast which killed at least 10 people incident took place near the u.s. embassy and reportedly claimed the lives of a u.s. and romanian soldier on a nato mission it comes amid peace talks between washington and the taliban as the group also claimed to be behind a number of other deadly attacks in afghanistan there's. in russia's far east hundreds of emergency workers have been taking part in rescue operations severe flooding hit the area surrounding the river in the region in early august where then 100 residential buildings still remain underwater. social costs and an austerity program in argentina have triggered yet more protests in the capital. demonstrators set up the camps and set fires outside a ministry building this comes with heightened political instability in the south

american nation as recent polls put added pressure on the ruling party. 35 minutes that's when i'll be back with another look at your headlines this is our international stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. i'm.

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a few in the cupboard let's throw that to the peasants and maybe that'll shut them up. last month u.s. manufacturing shrank for the 1st time in 3 years what impact will this have on donald trump's 2020 reelection bid we're taking a look on this edition of. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king recent data from the institute for supply management's manufacturing index shows that sector of the economy shrank for the 1st time in 3 years the index is a widely watched gauge of factory activity in the u.s. and its august numbers show the lowest reading since 2016 is this a cause for concern regarding the health of the u.s. economy and is this coupled with the recent talk of looming recession more bad news for donald trump heading into the 2020 election let's talk about this with chris lew the former deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he also

served as the former white house cabinet secretary for president obama he is in washington d.c. chris welcome to the program matthew always a pleasure so let's jump right in is the u.s. manufacturing sector. for the 1st time in 3 years since august so is this a cause for concern it absolutely is a cause and it needs to be looked at in the context of other economic data that has come out last. week we saw that consumer confidence fell by the largest amount since december of 2012 and so when you have an economy where manufacturers are trying to deal with uncertainty from the trade war and perhaps aren't producing as many goods or not hiring as many people you have consumers that are possibly pulling back on their spending that's not a good recipe for economic success going down the road so is this are these new numbers a direct result of the u.s.

china trade war or are they just about is it a psychological effect can you break down what this actually means and what what causes it well it's a little bit of both i mean we let's also remember that we are now 9 years into this economic recovery and that's a historically long period of time we probably regardless of where we were on trade tensions were probably nearing the end of this economic cycle but what happens when you have companies that aren't sure of their exports not only to china but other parts of the world because we certainly have trade tensions with europe as well canada mexico but aren't as aware or aren't as certain about the supply chains and what's they're able to source products from they're not going to produce as many products they're not going to hire as many people and that's the direct consequence and you see that playing out right now in these numbers but it's also more broadly just based on uncertainty in the world right now you've got your a possibly going into.