i. tell them the morning sunday morning moscow time making headlines right now the u.s. continues its strong rhetoric now accusing of attacking saudi oil facilities despite the rebels saying they did it for its part of iran is slamming the accusations as a. washington stance on iran didn't soften even after the hawkish u.s. national security adviser john bolton. donald trump would go back one. whole picture so the russian government is for the c.n.n. report about the cia withdrawing our levels from moscow.

very good morning to you is this a just turned 10 am now this is us international this 15th of october live from moscow with me kevin and it's a weekly around of the big stories that brought you over the last 7 days one happening right now this weekend the start. accusing iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world's energy supply saying that iran was behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production. we call on all motions to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states will work with our partners and our allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and the round is held accountable for its aggression so as the start of the smaller oil production the saudi arabia has not been harmed as a result of those fires at 2 major state run oil facilities by witnesses share this video signal on your screens on social media as a huge blaze where gunshots could apparently be heard about grown as well to run

denies any involvement in the attack calling those u.s. accusations of their lie earlier yemen's who 3 rebels in fact claimed responsibility for deploying nearly a dozen drones to attack that saudi oil processing facility under a major oil field they say the strikes were in response to the saudi led war in yemen and they're demanding an end to riyadh's 4 year long intervention in the country backed by the us washington and also previously charged to run of course with lending support to the huth used to i would reserve a professor of political science at the university of tehran believes these latest accusations from the us are most likely baseless. how are my kind how has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence they who deserve already claimed responsibility for these attacks and although the scale of these attacks are on precedented we have to remember that the who t.f. have launched drone attacks deep inside saudi arabia for months now so i think

there is no surprise there and the u.s. has accused iran of sending weaponry to the who tease but we also have to remember that yemen has been under a very sea year a military blockade by the saudis with the help actually of the americans for over 4 years now making it very difficult to even send food lead to loan weaponry so i think he's just trying to come up with excuses to charge iran of crimes that iran has actually not commit. so this weekend the months and see around rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after in the week one of the rounds most outspoken critics the national security advisor john bolton was fired by president trump tuesday it was one of the big headlines that claimed he disagreed with bolton on several key foreign policy issues no word yet on who's going to be the next national security adviser as for john bolton he was well known for his aggressive hawkish approach to foreign policy he backed scrapping the iran nuclear deal as well as supporting the

idea of regime change in turan he also supported the u.s. intervention in syria and was staunchly against easing pressure on north korea than the hawkins' takes a closer look back at bolton's track record. scandals resignations and dismissals are part and parcel of trump's presidency a few policy disagreements a swift tweet from the presidents and another administration official bites the dust it was clear from the outset that trump and his national security advisor would have their disagreements i'm the one that tempers him but that's ok i have different sides i mean i have john bolton and i have other people that are a little more dovish than him and ultimately i make that decision we can speculate on which exact what will lead to bolton's exit the failed talks on afghanistan on the question of russia or or perhaps iran but it seems the animosity lasted until his final day in office i offered to resign last night and president trump said

let's talk about it tomorrow i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration views himself as a skilled dealmaker who talked tough were needed for bolton but wasn't enough he needed to walk the walk and actively consistently show strength on all fronts the middle east russia north korea latin america you name it he held out on compromising stance on sanctions military action and regime change. bolton was one of the key advocates of toppling the madeira government using any means necessary all options on the table ready to go this troika of tyranny this triangle of chair stretching from havana to caracas to managua is the cause of immense human suffering this is a time for action. trump showed he was willing to meet to negotiate with

even the greatest perceived u.s. adversities even if it meant just a symbolic photo op the right intentions seems to be their bet it will make it clear that they won't i don't like sanctions because. this country i think they want to make peace i think it's time for bolton though this was unacceptable so it could be a long and unproductive meeting or it could be a short non productive meeting we have very much in mind the libyan model from 20032004 while bolton boiled that north korea had violated u.n. sanctions after a missile test and may trump downplayed the incident saying he wasn't spooked north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. taking on iran was perhaps bolton's priority number one within a month of his appointment in april 28th team the u.s. had pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and advocate of preemptive strikes he

pushed for military action against iran after a u.s. drone was brought down and as ever his thinly veiled threats centered around regime change we hope that these new measures directed at the arabian dictatorship will compel the government to re-evaluate its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he is on the verge of making a mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction ironically just as bolton prepared to depart speculation has been rife on possible talks between trump and the iranian president rouhani it would have thought that possible after so much hostile rhetoric perhaps the final straw was trump's plans of wind down the longest war in u.s. history including hosting talks with taliban leaders account david it's speculated that bolton this was in comprehensible it seems that with or without bolton's presence u.s. foreign policy may have more surprises in store during trump's 1st term and

meantime just tipping off later in the program even though the u.s. shut down the brokered peace talks the taliban still wants to get back to the negotiating table as our t. found out. exclusive interview with the negotiating team will show you some of that to recap the news of the week later in the program. the russian government to scribe to c.n.n. reporters pulp fiction after the news channel aired claims about the cia withdrawing a high level spy from moscow c.n.n. reported that a covert source inside the russian government was successfully extracted in 2070 other concerns about the way donald trump handled classified information but both avoid tell us on the cia say the story is incorrect so let's get taylor's been delving deeper. secret missions exfiltration of spies top level intelligence it sounds like the makings of a thriller and in

a way it is because this is an elaborate tale recently had by c.n.n. multiple trump administration officials tell me that these are officials with direct knowledge that in a previously undisclosed to secret mission in 2017 the u.s. successfully extracted from russia one of its highest level sources covert sources inside the russian government the c.n.n. report claims a man at the highest level of the kremlin was secretly feeding theeye a information for over a decade that he was so ensconced within the kremlin wall so friendly with and trusted by president putin's inner circle but he even managed to photograph documents on the russian leaders desk u.s. intelligence officials had already expressed concerns about the safety of this by other russian assets given the length of their cooperation with the u.s. this according to a former senior intelligence official the report is peppered with think mentions of

secret sources mysterious interviews and skips a bit on the facts facts make a thriller indeed the c.n.n. report doesn't even given in playing of the identity of the informant but the russian media was willing to give it a chance and landed on one smiling cough it's been reported that he previously worked at the russian embassy in washington before becoming up to stay counselor at the presidential administration not really the pinnacle of influence which is true that smiling cough worked in the president's administration but several years ago he was fired his position wasn't that of a top official all the discussion in the u.s. media about someone urgently extracting someone and saving someone it cetera it is part of as you know a sort of pope fiction genre but c.n.n. probably felt it had a bombshell report on its hands it found yet another. unverified crum to suggest it was the russians not the american public who lacked a trump and then showing that washington had successfully outwitted moscow by

sneaking a legit spy out but what could make this revelation for more delicious how about trump also being shown to be an unreliable slip president now that would be called a person directly involved in these discussions said that the removal of the russian was driven in part by concerns that president trump in his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and that that could contribute to exposing the covert source as aspiring so just to clarify the cia gave up its most important source on the off chance that trump might spill the beans a source that's been cultivated for over 10 years in the country is readily says it's almost impossible to infiltrate i could even buy into that if the cia gave me something to what quits i mean they aren't exactly trump's cheerleaders their response that must have come as a bitter blow at c.n.n. h.q.

misguided speculation that the president's handling of our nation's most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day driven alleged exfiltration operation is inaccurate i love a good story but anonymous sources classified information which is impossible to verify trump is incapable of dealing with the discreet demands of office and washington being a step ahead of everyone well it just fits all too neatly. suddenly a very different next the mystery of what her prove to a group of soviet hikers in the ural mountains way back in 1059 is still puzzling minds today and now you too can explore the various theories surrounding the persons of the 1st things to unique investigation launched biopsies video agency ruptly we're going to tell you about.

stunning pictures there this probe. to follow the 10 day trek you can explore what the group did each day through photos and maps and also what they wrote discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies and various theories as to what exactly happened to them is to say it's still a mystery is not solved but it's all about interaction 2 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 may have happened to them to weigh up all the evidence you're presented with.

it's coming at 40 minutes past 10 but to our news this is the weekly beloved british cartoon character of firemen some has been fired as revealed in the week as brigade must go for not being inclusive enough just one of the stories ahead. you know world of big partisan movies a 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 bats 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. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round. the one percent. nor middle of the room. again watching the weekly for months international next the afghan taliban is a. donald trump to return to the negotiating table in the exclusive interview with

r.t. they were here in moscow as part of regular talks with the russian officials this week trump shut down the year long peace process with a militant group that could have seen an end to almost 2 decades of the u.s. war in afghanistan the taliban negotiators were supposed to go to the united states before signing an agreement the deal was to include american withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from the militants not to shelter terrorists dollars from justified ending negotiations citing an islamist attack in the afghan capital that resulted in the death of an american soldier it was a suicide car bombing that left 10 people dead in fact injured dozens more r.t. us the taliban direct how it expects trouble to negotiate with them when they're killing his troops. next year administer a chance of this. negotiation he mr barak his followers that he says he admitted that he. doesn't other will so it did kill thousands of us why we

cannot kill one of the of the the what is imposed on us is american soldiers you know it's not. soldiers. should be out there there was one of us but still we. cause keen to bring peace and i want some political solution but unfortunately i need which we reached some sort of. it was cancelled by the american sense the american side is not really good wishes of it and did not want peace on the day it will. be compared to a different course it would have to do this for a number of years. i don't know the reason behind it really. what happened but we are still committed to the leadership issues we see that i would stand and i would only see from this very critical of the. but there's no solution for what conflict except.

it's a peace on the table so we don't want to talk to. the. group in here compared to what we were just the sound of the day after the fact that if you're going to go. in the u.k. a cartoon fireman no less has been criticized for failing to keep up with modern equality standards the classic children's t.v. character has been axed than from his job as a mascot for one local brigade after bosses there said he could discourage women from joining. his friends need him more than ever. sam the phone to the rescue team managed to save the day far when the sun still going strong well till now 1st aired in 1970 s. not a mation about firefighters in one small village since then has been widely used to

promote fire safety and services across the u.k. but though it seems as numbers up at least in some parts as polly boy here explains . generations of kids may have grown up with him but legendary children's t.v. show character fireman sam needs to get with the times that's according to the lincolnshire fire and rescue service for years he was their mascot helping to recruit new fina fighters bots now lincolnshire fire and rescue service say that fineman sound is outdated and non-inclusive and he's putting off potential female recruit firefighters nationally and residents locally have raised some concerns that firemen some doesn't reflect the fire service today in terms of both the job itself and our workforce it's important to us that our open days and community events don't think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision lincolnshire chief fire officer. fired fireman sam has been

getting roasted for it direction does a great job for you as a one man live as a wind away that's not yours it's not acting like you should do is to far yourself that it is a leaf i'm a sahm alone this isn't the 1st time that fireman sam has been in hot water many argue that while the show is politically correct and features plenty of female characters it should be renamed to firefighter. oh no i think you got it right i think it's just somebody taking it she took it so that and stickery really enough and come quite happy with what it is he is the epitome of straight. to my mind. may not be terribly appealing to people who want to be. firemen however if you're to be a farmer you should want to know. why didn't you just stick to the basics and

enjoy and get back to the basics so we might have a nicer place to live. very very happy to have him renamed firefighters and 1st some to then become gender specific person. but why not some sort of gender specific name that's true yes. yes exactly exactly they could be put in here because no. just do. it was just a children's card. that music and another british cartoon icon peppa pig was recently been rated by none other then the london fire brigade whose head is by the way a woman for featuring an episode where mommy pig pretended to be a fire man and not a fire fighter mummy pig is dressed as a fireman on a well you just like. i'm going to the mummy's fire engine practice

come on peppa pig we've not been firemen for 30 years you have a huge influence on kids and using out of date stereotypical gender specific wording prevents young girls from becoming firefighters join our fire fighting sexism campaign women make up just 5.2 percent of firefighters in england and with that in mind lincolnshire fire and rescue service have come up with 3 original new characters to help attract more diverse recruits there anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishes freddy filberts and penelope. for big screen. have been released hollywood's latest comic book movies facing a backlash it's been accused of glorifying violence.

or the joker starring walk in phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the batman franchise it shows him as a loner who descends into madness not yet on public release but a screening at the venice film festival got people are going online again with many saying it encourages viewers to sympathize with problematic themes. i don't want to have sympathy for a man best known for his robbery murder and arguably rape shoved down my throat for 2 hours it was not that long ago when a socially isolated described chilled white man who felt wronged by society quite literally dressed up as a joker and shot up a movie theater in colorado joker a film where you're supposed to sympathize with a mediocre white man radicalising to do range violence will no doubt be appealing to the wrong audience for the worst reasons millions of children will see the

upcoming film joker to laugh at a clown millions of children will be taught that crime violence and mayhem that the stuff of jokes one will howl with take responsibility for promoting a culture of crime. well that the way we spoke to phil make you believe that censorship should be a last resort. the problem with criticizing a film before it comes out for what it's supposed to say is that we're starting to as a lot of people like to do in this country self censor art and creative expressions of art and i have a big issue with pure and simply because it's really difficult to comment on something that you've not seen and if you're already saying that something is going to be the way you think it's going to be and you don't want to see it then we have a problem we have a problem that we have in this country with polarization at a political level at a cultural level we don't want to see what we think is going to be different from

what we think about what we support i don't think that video games or movies will encourage people to to commit acts of violence i think the issue is at the source of education of many things that are going on in this country when it comes to mass shootings and role violence i think intertainment if something is an expression of something that is happening in this society that we need to deal with and it's a reminder as there is a lot of issues that are not dealt with and i feel that a lot of people like to put those issues under the carpet instead of dealing with them head on. with the u.s. budget deficit expected to hit one trillion dollars next year questions are being raised about how american taxpayer money is being spent and a new report kentucky senate is added to those calls highlighting some of the more bizarre examples of government spending.

so we'll do some brief right now clashes erupted in the french city of leone where yellow 1st protest is about force again rally against french president among them across his policies demonstrators gathered despite a reported battle in certain areas of the city the protest against turned violent

with police using tear gas yellow vests been marching now since last november and mass protests across the country. level elsewhere to anti-government activists of right outside the british consulate now in hong kong singing god save the queen in a play for help from britain for its former colony it follows months of chaotic protests that were triggered by a proposed extradition bill that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland china bill was eventually recently suspended but the protests quickly turned into a broader pro-democracy movement and in the bahamas yet more bad weather warnings now a tropical storm on top of everything else is battering the islands it comes just 2 weeks after hurricane dorian ravaged the region killing 50 and leaving thousands in need of aid and shelter about 1300 people still missing there the own estimates the financial cost of the damage there in billions of dollars if that take care thanks for watching this program that's the way some of the big world news stories. and that the last 7 days this is all it's international morad r.t.

dot com and for me kevin owen have a great rest of the weekend. you're . still. we are at war. i'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young americans to battle in a distant land. some will kill. you some will be killed.

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