an american t.v. network sues one of the m.s.n. bases top post for describing them as paid russian propaganda we look at the track record of the presenter in question when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. meanwhile 2 u.s. journalists hit back after being criticized for visiting parts of syria controlled by the country's government anytime there's anybody visits i government or the syrian government 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. plus to help solve

a decades old mystery artie's video agency ruptly launches a special projects running the strange deaths of a group of hikers in the old mountains 60 years ago which spawn countless theories as to just what happened. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. senior u.s. journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda they are trying to house the story. here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear words like russia or russian 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 and this 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 back with a decent jab well oh a ed is filing a defamation lawsuit they want 10000000 bucks one america is wholly 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 bit 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. about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia wants. is under attack from the president in the presidents republican supporters in congress and 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 what would happen if all the natural gas lines that surface and falls just to fit on the coldest day in recent memory and it wasn't in our power whether or not to 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 win views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually one down and then the actual conclusions of the blood to wet is on air this is what the viewers saw when rachel maddow 1st realized the probe wasn't going the 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 the hear really literally in that familiar voice. a visit by independent american journalists to syria has sparked outrage from parts of the media after they traveled to government held areas to assess the country's recovery the 2 spoke with my colleague neil harvey. i'm staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate of bob sharkey and i walked across the street across the 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 life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people max blumenthal and running a colic travel to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to locals and observing serious recovery from terrorists and they say they received no funding from the country's government among those angered by the visit were journalists from c.n.n. and the intercept who accuse them of white washing and government support here are some of their reactions this is some goebbels prancing around syrian government

luxury tour posi tourist photos. and milky syrian refugees who can never return to their country with that fish can be tortured to death started to read a certain journalist's thread from inside damascus this am then found myself getting pell potations which progressed into spasms of rage how can anyone be so blindly credulous on the cossack's involved 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 off 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 coordinated 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 an offering

a reality on the ground kind of perspective. the war on terror launched in response to the 911 attacks 18 years ago changed not just america but the whole world that's according to pakistan's prime minister in an exclusive interview with r.t. here's some of what we had to say. well had we not participated in the american war you know after 911 we would not have been the words to describe intrigued by participating in the war and i repeat i was against it because you see. we were trading these people to do a job against the soviet when they occupied of understand so these people were trained by pakistan funded by the americans. and no a decade later when the americans come in to have honest on the same groups all in pakistan are supposed to say that 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 turned against us so we you know we lost 70000 people we lost you know as i said over $100000000000.00 to the economy and in the end we were blamed for the for the the americans don't see succeeding in afghanistan i felt it was very unfair on pakistan. the full interview touches on a wide variety of topics from a potential nuclear war between india and pakistan to the prime minister's past as a successful cricketer and what aspects of the sport helped him in politics you can watch that on friday on our channel or at r.t. dot com. the mystery of what happened to a group of soviet hikers in the mountains back in 1959 is still puzzling minds today and now you too can explore the various theories surrounding the past

incident thanks to a special project launched by our video agency ruptly. because if. you're going. the project allows you to follow their 10 day truck for each day you can explore what the group did photos and maps and also what they wrote you'll also discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies and the various theories as to what exactly happened but it's all about interaction as well you can put yourself into the shoes of one of the team members as they walk along the route and then vote on your preferred version of what happened after weighing up the evidence.

really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is visiting russia to meet with latimer putin at the head of staff elections back at home on tuesday there's speculation one reason for his visit is to appeal to russian speaking voters who himself though side of the need to discuss cooperation with moscow in syria. this is a very important trip at this time when we are operating on several fronts $360.00 degrees this trip is designed to continue this important cooperation which prevents collisions between us and the russian forces and to continue to advance the common goal that we agree on which is yet to be achieved and it's fun being achieved the withdrawal of iran from syria. reports now on what else could be on the

agenda when the 2 leaders meet. benjamin netanyahu visits russia's black sea resort of sochi and while fighting a fear is real action complain at home many say meeting was more important here man tracked russian speaking and pro russian voters this will be their. this year alone and their 13th meeting in the last 4 years making putin the leader benjamin netanyahu has met more than any other leader during this time syria will be high up on the agenda during talks between netanyahu and putin in particular iran's activity there and russian israel you coordination on the ground but has become possible and is successful due to mutual respect and openness in their relations as the israeli prime minister put it ahead of his visit here back in 2015 to. set up a special mechanism to avoid accidental questions between the 2 motors on the

ground in syria the prime minister is bringing his national security adviser and the head of military intelligence here to meet russians defense minister said again before making wide mirthful and all this is happening just days before russia iran turkey very important summit on syria next week in ankara but alone strong and long the relations between israel and russia are far from ideal and some disagreements of course will be discussed here as well as you know who's this of comes just days after the israeli prime minister's controversial promise to annex occupied territories in the west bank if he's reelected next week it's already hall basically infuriated palestinians who say that would as good as any chance of peace in that region but it has also brought criticism from the international community including from moscow that fears this move will lead to dramatic escalation in the

region so it is a sunny beautiful day here in sochi but the. titian's will unlike me have time to enjoy the weather all that town with series a very important meetings and extensive talks. just a couple of hours before meeting the israeli prime minister vladimir putin was in the rip russian republic of dagestan marking a key anniversary when militia there managed to repel a terrorist attack today he fulfilled a promise made 20 years ago. was like the medium for over was he really. did slow but you see if you get. these namely these delivered to them that you do what you've. set up legitimate you think you got the. right to move. she would be able to do it because they lose it or leave that to be said to. do. but do they just know that you. look at it but you just

legibility should be. back in the republic came under a massive terrace incursion from chechnya more than 270 people were killed and 800 injured all more than 2500 terrorists were eliminated and seeing 2 decades have passed since the region was freed by joint civilian and military forces for putin it was finally time to raise a glass. to do so much for russian presence because. there was evidence. that you're. a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions and more energy from renewable sources that's what angela merkel wants for the future and she's outlined germany's targets in front of car bosses at a major motor show. listen yes we must reduce transport produce c o 2 emissions by

40 percent that's our twenty's go to target human electrum ability though is just as a truck for the future because cars will only be genuinely climate friendly once a look trysted it comes from renewable sources but we want 65 percent of our electricity supply to come from renewables by 2030. the chancellor speech came a day after she use a key budget debate to call for more action on climate change but some experts warn that more regulation could put europe's biggest economy in reverse artist all quarter takes a look at the gloomy forecast. 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 is industrialized countries also need to be on the front line in terms of doing something to overcome our carbon footprint and stop changes

in the climate or reverse the rise in temperature if we push for climate protection it will cost money this money's well spent if we are going or if i think it will cost us more money if that's the truth doing nothing is no alternative the fact is that we will then 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 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 steel industry nation program combined with veritable job destruction 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 and the government has imported energy from neighboring countries to avoid blackouts and just to balance 2900. 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 the situation is very ridiculous i mean they made a big fos last year for 20200 hectares of forest for a coal mine in 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 oh no it doesn't matter human beings nature animal it's no 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 volkswagen's 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 petrol or diesel will basically use coal even if we're literally powered and in the worst case we'll even use lead night that takes the idea of electric mobility to absurdity nevertheless environmental organizations are marching en masse 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 economy germany was a. safe on energy supply and everything everybody is used to energy is always available but with getting more and more of it mails into the into the system the system gets more and more in stable and we have seen in the last month several times. of 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 for example works they announced already beginning of this year that they want 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 regulations and reopen in china where they can produce either to unlimited. russia has requested through interpol for washington d.c. to provide information about missing russian national. he just disappeared after american media reports claim this week he was a high level spy extracted from russia to the u.s. back in 2017 and go live now to our correspondent for more eager bring us up to speed well basically russia has. as you've said russia has a request with into paul to find out about the whereabouts of

a leg small and called and his family this request stems from the russian foreign ministry because according to the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry marie has a heart of a russian citizen is missing abroad so they just want to find out as to what happened to him and that is this is the protocol but basically what happened is the alleged house the house where allegedly where a leg small uncalled for and his family allegedly resided it is apparently abandoned and reportedly the landlord of that house had said that small and govern his family had left on their both cars and. now this all this whole story started with reports in the u.s. media suggesting that all x. mall and call for a long time was a high level a cia informant and that he previously worked in the russian presidential administration and the reports went as far as to suggest that small and sent over photographs of the documents on vladimir putin's desk some very outrageous claims

especially if true from russia's side the spokesman of lattimer putin did confirm that small and of did indeed work at the russian presidential administration but as for the part whether or not he was a double whether or not he was a cia informant he referred to the jerk here of journalists to world to the security services of russia the denial of the king from the american side for instance might come pale called while he rubbished those reports saying outright that they were factually inaccurate and basically the cia denying that that person ever did any work for them and contributed in any way when it comes to the intelligence but still there's a lot of hype in the media and adding fuel to the flames is the fact that the whereabouts of small and of and his family are still unknown. parties it goes down

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they've all seen what's happened to new up. to the quota collapsed and it's just not. kaddish and now the european need to see. east africa it's already in a very bad state like then they got told us they have been there they still are just to name the ocean so if you look at the situation in somalia the pirates can be argued that they used to be fishermen and by then foreign told us came from the fish they have no income so i think it's just common sense that the country is so waking up.

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