again. nature of. this is the world and this is. the headlines this hour an american t.v. network sues one of them s n b c's top posts for describing them as paid russian propaganda we look at her track record when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. a group of independent u.s. journalists hit back after being criticised for a visit to government controlled parts of syria. any time anybody visits a government or the syrian government's side and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked what we've been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative that's been conveyed by western

corporate media and artie's video agency please don't use a special multi-platform project through which you can explore the mystery surrounding the deaths of 9 hikers in the in 60 years ago which spawned numerous theories still being debated today. good morning just gone 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching international now senior u.s. cheerless so once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network now saving the host of another for describing them is literally paid russian propaganda. has more on the story. here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear words like russia or russian from the most obsequiously approach trump right wing news outlet in america really it literally is. page correction propaganda for those who still didn't

recognize that that was really literally rachel maddow speaking about the one american news network on her miss n.b.c. show i'll get to the point of reminding you how she keeps seeing russia everywhere in a moment but don't you think there must be someone out there who won't just swallow what the m s n b c star anchor says without hitting the bag with a decent jab well oh a ed is filing a defamation lawsuit they want 10000000 bucks one america is wholly owned operated and financed by the herring family in san diego they are as american as apple pie they are not paid by russia and have nothing to do with the russian government this is a false and malicious libel and they're going to answer for it in a court of law to tell you about the reason for when rachel maddow said really literally which is supposed to mean definitely no doubt shares staff with the

kremlin that's another thing she said it's just that a one america journalist freelance work for a russian based news agency sputnik she got him busted so bad but as i've said earlier the number of times rachel maddow turned her show into a grand russian paranoia episode is just difficult to carry out. or about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia wants. f.b.i. is under attack from the president the president republican supporters in congress the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still around. what would happen if russia killed the power in fargo today and what would happen to all the natural gas lines that that service in falls just proofed on the coldest day in recent memory. wasn't in our

power over there and turn them back on no wonder that when some folks decided to put the m s n b c hosts russia gate obsession into a mathematical perspective they found she spent more time talking about russia than all other topics combined over a certain period. now you know what it takes to become the most watched hosts in all of cable news she got to that milestone last year but when step by step it gets revealed that a lot of what you were saying was just a flow of blah blah you make up to when views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually went down and then the actual conclusions of the more pro blood to wet is on air this is what the viewers saw when rachel maddow 1st realized the probe wasn't going to russia gaiters way and so we know the logistics of how we got the notification that it did and obviously right now we have mostly just a ton of questions as to what miller's report says how complete it is who gets to

see it who gets to decide who gets to see it and when. now here comes the lawsuit the one i mentioned nothing's decided yet but probably even more people will think twice next on the here really literally in that familiar voice. more than a year after the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal president donald trump says that reaching an agreement with the could actually be a good thing he also commented on his sacking of his whole national security advisor john bolton. they are a much different country right now than they were 2 and a half years ago when i came into office. and i do believe they'd like to make a deal if they do that it's great and if they don't that's great too he made some very big mistakes when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong il and that

was not a good statement to make you just take a look at what happened with khadafi that was not a good statement to make and it set us back. and frankly he wanted to do things not necessarily tough for the mayor of georgia not as a tough guy so tough he got us into iraq. well baltimore's 9th his aggressive approach to foreign policy and he took a particularly hard line with iran as well as the leadership of syria north korea and venezuela iran's president has reacted to the. only. americans have to realize that mongering and not to their benefits should not only abandon woman growing but also abandon their maximum pressure policy john bolton's exit from the white house is a positive sign it's also a sign that u.s. policy towards iran is not working the idea behind maximal pressure was to do whatever they can to damage iran's economy with the aim of overthrowing the iranian

government that was something that both son wanted and the other people. who would like my pump or who are also interested in regime change in iraq probably need we think for his 20 twentieth's actions he doesn't have any even. in foreign policy his policy of trying was really working out. policy with north korea not working he couldn't get the venezuelan government overthrown this was one of the science projects rouhani doesn't need. any need sanctions lifted and. so is meeting with trump doesn't. have any benefit for him personally or for the country as long as the sanctions are. really. something certain that the sanctions will be lifted after the meeting. a visit by independent american journalist to syria sparked outrage from some parts of the media after they travel

to government held areas to assess the country's recovery my colleague new harvey spoke to the. i'm staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate sharkey and i walked across the street across a highway into a neighborhood about a few 100 meters away that had been controlled for 4 months by jaish al islam the wahhabi militia backed by saudi arabia and met residents who had actually lived under their fear craddick rule who described kidnappings rape of women people being executed in the street for violating the theocratic rule and how happy they were to be finally freed from this gang what i was observing was a city and outside of the city that is much much safer since i last was there last and i was in syria was 2 years ago there were still fighting it was still on save there were checkpoints everywhere now that the government has taken back many areas

especially around accidents baskets outside of damascus you can travel to the suburbs and beyond the suburbs without going through a 1000000 checkpoints not being worried about being kidnapped or being sniped moreover our life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people. travel to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to locals and observing series recovery from my sil and they say they received no funding from the country's government were among those angered by the visit journalists from c.n.n. and the intercept to accuse them of white washing and also government support here are some of their reactions. this is sam goebbels presence in your old syrian government luxury tour posting tourist photos near torture centers and maki syrian refugees who can never return to their country with their frisking being tortured to death started to read

a certain journalist's thread from inside damascus this am then found myself getting palpitations which progressed into spasms of rage how can anyone be so blindly credulous on a cosmic sin volved it is such a disgrace. l m a o iranian mocks are in damascus neither of them speak arabic yet they claim to be talking to many syrians there why aren't they disclosing who's translating for them and helping them out. this is to be expected and so they're trying to intimidate americans or europeans and people from the west from coming here they're trying to break a cultural exchange between us and average people who just happen to live in the area controlled by the syrian government where most syrians live and what we've been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative that's been conveyed by western corporate media and a pack of kind of dime a dozen correspondents acting as state department i mean i think the people

attacking us have an agenda they're either convinced that they're right or they're working on behalf of somebody else or both this isn't something we're we're that's new to us we're used to it i think it's why we can recognize an operation when we see one and this is if it's very quantitative you know these people are talking in some d.m. group and coordinating against us and it's quite obvious and it's not surprising we expected it and i you know i think it's something that happens particularly any time anybody visits a government or the syrian government side. of syria and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked but more importantly i think the reason there are so outraged by me and max is because me and max tend to be quite effective in offering a different perspective and offering a reality on the ground kind of perspective. the war on terror launched in response to 911 attacks 18 years ago change not just america but the whole world to

us according to pakistan's prime minister imran khan in an exclusive interview with us he has some of what he said. well had we not participated in the american war you know after 911 we would not have been the world stage this country by participating in the war and i repeat i was against it because you see him in a cheese we were trading these mujahedeen people to do a job against the soviet when they occupied afghanistan so these people were trained by pakistan funded by the american cia and no a decade later when the americans government of honest on the same groups were all in pakistan supposed to say that no not because the americans are there it's no longer job it's terrorism you know it was a big contradiction and i strongly felt that you know pakistan should have been

neutral because by joining in these groups turn against us so we you know we lost 70000 people we lost you know as i said over 100000000000 dollars to the economy and in the end we were blamed for the for the the americans don't see it succeeding of understand i felt it was very unfair on pakistan. well the full interview just touched on a whole range of topics to you from a potential nuclear war between india and pakistan to the prime minister's past as a successful cricketer and what are the specs of that actually helped him in politics you can watch your whole interview on friday on our channel as well as a marti dot com. now the mystery of what happened to a group of soviet hikers in the year mountains back in 1959 is still vexing minds today and that you too can explore the various theories surrounding the past incident thanks to a special multi-platform project launched by r.t.s.

video agency replica here's a quick look. well the project allows you to follow the tracking expeditions 10 day return for each day you can explore to what the group got up to with photographs maps diary entries and also the letters they wrote and for the morbidly inclined to you can even discover what state each team member was found in and the theory surrounding what happened to them but you can also get interactive to by following your own route through the past as one of the team members plus having weighed up all the evidence

you self you can then vote on your preferred preferred theory as to what actually happened and then you can contribute your own you ideas. now still to come on the program experts warn that germany's push for more very new energy could threaten the country's power supply we'll have more on this in a couple of. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we

need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by our own personal there is. no day or thinks. we dare to ask.

again the german chancellor has called for a more proactive approach to climate change the topic dominated to debate in the german parliament on the country's 2020 budget but some experts warn that stricter regulations could actually put europe's biggest economy into of the scale one quarter was male. if there's any country that could be the poster child of a green political agenda it's most certainly germany it's a noble pursuit no doubt but the green vanguard is learning the hard way that everything has a price that's in those 3 shows industrialized countries are also on the frontline we need to do something to overcome our caribbean footprint and stop changes in the climate versus the rise in temperature if you push for climate protection it will cost money this money's well spent if we ignore it i think it will cost us more money that's the truth doing nothing is no alternative the fact is that google didn't pay more the captains of germany's car industry responded to merkel's

request with a resounding yes they unveiled their latest most futuristic electric cars in frankfurt after billions of euros of investment of course perhaps they were trying to take a step towards the flying cars of science fiction at any rate many are saying that paying for the future is only leading to the destruction of the present and i can include the green socialist ideology is running our country and taking away any chance we have for the future your so called climate protection is nothing else than a monstrous d. industrialization program combined with veritable job destruction you waste billions to avert imaginary doomsdays in the distant future we're not just hearing this kind of talk from politicians though a new report says that renewables are threatening shortages in germany's energy supply and the country hasn't even come close to its energy transition goals germany is missing most of its self-imposed targets for the energy transition by

2020 at the same time energy supply security is being jeopardized in the medium term by the decision to phase out nuclear and coal emissions germany's over reliance on wind and solar energy has created a big deficit at times of little wind or sun the government has imported energy from neighboring countries to avoid blackouts and just to. allen's $2900.00 energy budget germany had to foot a bill that skyrocketed to $38000.00 euros for a megawatt of power per hour as compared to just $64.00 euros in 2017 not to mention that every day germans pay the highest energy prices in all of europe we have to highest energy costs in the world the price for energy is the highest in the world because of this change of to supply system a situation is very ridiculous i mean they made a big fuss last year for $2200.00 hectares of forest for a coal mine at the same time they're cutting thousands of hectares of forest

for wind mails killing hundreds thousands of animals i mean this is no green policy i mean right now the situation what we have in germany is that the green party started as an environmental party but now they change. their climate used climate paranoia party which sacrifice everything for the climate situation and you know it doesn't matter human beings nature animals and the losses are all losses are justified this energy crisis may have germany teetering on the brink of recession and to stay afloat it's going to need that world renowned powerhouse of an auto industry it's built instead carmakers are being pressured to produce expensive electric cars that don't even sell that well bolts wagons chief already warned that perhaps this is all going to for the current campaign against individual mobility and conventional cars is reaching and threatening level instead of using federal or diesel will basically use coal even if we're literally powered

and in the worst case we'll even use lignite that takes the idea of electric mobility to absurdity nevertheless environmental organizations are marching en mass on saturday joining them will be a brigade of cyclists calling for an end to the combustion engine hopefully it won't translate to an end to the german. i mean germany was very safe on energy supply and everything everybody's used to energy is always available but with getting more and more of the males into the into the system the system gets more and more in stable and we have seen in the last month several times that. energy supply system we passed by only very slightly governmental policy in germany is destructing our debate but one of our industry which is the car industry of course from germany and for example works they announced already beginning of this year that they want to go to reduce 20000 people just because of the mobility only

in germany it's a big economic game for all competitors i mean plants are closing down here in germany because of their regulations and reopen in china where they can produce either to unlimited. top u.s. lawmakers are set to vote on a key element of the impeachment investigation surrounding the u.s. president but the process still faces for the complications the $41.00 see panel is not voting on impeachment itself but on the parameters of the investigation which supports the probe hope will strengthen their chances of gathering evidence against trump on the allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice but democrats have been sending increasingly mixed signals about it all this kind of explains. democrats seem to be rolling ahead with their efforts to remove donald trump from office the house judiciary committee has just called for procedures related to its

investigation of the president's wrong doing now for a lot of people that seems to put the smell of impeachment into the air their records on the house judiciary committee are expected to vote on expanding the impeachment inquiry into president trump democrats taking formal steps towards impeachment this is an impeachment inquiry in search of something to impeach president trump over so we've got 134 democrats voting to begin an impeachment inquiry but do they really mean it at this point the democrats can't even seem to agree on what's going on with the house judiciary investigation who have been in the midst of an impeachment investigation no we're not in an impeachment investigation. the house is investigating to determine whether or not there should be an impeachment investigation so why might the democrats seem to be a little bit reluctant well in 2020 it's not just the presidential race but there's also some local elections and it seems like impeaching trump isn't the best vote

getter polls show that 72 percent of democrats favor impeaching donald trump but for the country overall 59 percent oppose that seems like bad news for the new progressive socialist wing of the democrats that seem to have that their entire house on it remember this we're going to go in there we're going to use the mother from would love it if the different democrats tried to impeach him it's the kind of battle he loves the public is totally turned off it's not following this ready controversy at all so i think it would definitely play into trump's hands it will do the democrats very little good in the 2020 alexion and probably will actually wind up backfiring virtually impossible if he could be convicted in the senate and removed from office so it's just a it's a lot of hot air over nothing now the problem for the democrats in removing donald trump is that according to the u.s. constitution once the proceedings begin it would be the u.s.

senate that would then vote to convict and remove the president the constitution requires a 2 thirds vote among the senators and the democrats don't come anywhere near that so what would the charges be and all the most common answer you'll get is obstruction of justice but there's a little bit of a problem with that we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime so obstructing an investigation into something that you did not do now you could certainly lock up an average joe for that but it's a pretty weak case for driving a president from office some democrats even think that it would be bad for the country to impeach donald trump it's important for us to think about what is in the best interest of the country and the american people. and continuing to pursue impeachment is something that i think will only further tear our country apart speaker of the house nancy pelosi seems to be pouring cold water on the idea as well but she chooses her words very carefully take a listen when you go down

a path like impeachment which is there egypt i said they could divide the country whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand the democrats have accused donald trump of being a criminal a traitor and a fascist they've got their supporters out for his blood but it looks like if they actually go for it this might backfire in the long term. hard to see new york. some world news in brief. me around 1000 demonstrators tried to storm the parliament on wednesday evening protests in support of independence on the key on the street day for the province in spain with riot police during clashes the rule so clashes today between police and protesters in the chilean capital santiago ahead of the anniversary of the country's military is marking the 973 government takeover by general pinochet previous anniversaries have also seen demonstrations. and international aid efforts are starting to take effect in the

bahamas in the aftermath of hurricane dorian where electricity has been returned to the city of freeport but other areas do continue to struggle with a lack of food power and water u.s. troops are among those helping to distribute yet. back again with more for you in just over half an. twenties you know there were no laws really on wall street and the abuses were huge and them are dead one. and people began to look at the stock market as the proxy for the economy people are getting wealthy because their stocks are going up and they do they quit their jobs they just become speculators and so this is what happens now people are saying look the economy the real economy is terrible we have

no job they've been shipped overseas and i have nothing left of day trading and the market goes up therefore i'm being productive but it's. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped. you know what they kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished the offender and almost 10 year career which

shows very invested in and i give a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. this broadcasting around the globe and covering our 21st century global economy. kristie i is on assignment in singapore here's a look at what we've got lined up for you today there's been a small breakthrough in the us trying to trade war as china has agreed to drop some of its tariffs on u.s. goods professor richard wolf is on hand to break down the breakthrough and how much

trade war pain is still in the pipeline pretty u.s. economy plus we take you back to singapore for our very own christiane who's mansion catch up with mike on an expert in the singapore telecom industry still focused on 5 g. and how asia is leading the way for the world so much important news an interesting content so little time let's go. to a game changing merger proposal between 2 major global stock exchanges leads our global report today as hong kong exchanges in clearing makes a takeover bid of $36600000000.00 for the london stock exchange the offer was specified as $83.00 pounds in cash and stock per share of the elysee stock in a filing by hong kong exchange president laura chachi may long the chairs filing also stated a combination of h k e x n l a c represents a highly compelling strategic opportunity to create a global market and 1st.