online you guessed that is the end of it for the city but for now the mountains of moist only grow high. 11 am making headlines right now moscow time the us continued strong until round rhetoric now accusing to rattle of attacking saudi oil facilities despite the rebels saying they did it around slams the accusations meantime as a law in. washington stands on a random house and saw from the even after in the week just gone hawkish u.s. national security advisor john bolton was fired by donald trump either would cover it. and evolve the news review pulp fiction russian government's described to c.n.n. report about the cia withdrawing a high level spy from moscow. so

put it talk about good morning starts international on sunday the 15th of october live from moscow with me kevin no it's the weekly our news review of the week of the last 7 days 1st story happening right now u.s. secretary state my pompei was accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world's energy supply saying that iran is 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 allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression so as it stands at the moment this oil output in saudi arabia has been hard as a result of fires at 2 major state run oil facilities eyewitnesses shared a video on social media of a huge blaze were gunshots could apparently be heard in the background surround denies any involvement in the attack calling those u.s. accusations a lie earlier yemen's who 3 rebels have claimed responsibility for deploying nearly

a dozen drones to attack that saudi oil processing facility and also 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 is also previously charged around with lending support to the who things too how would you solve a professor of political science at the university it around believes these latest accusations from the us are most likely baseless. our mike 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 tees have launched drone attacks deep inside saudi arabia for months now so i think there's 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 severe 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 committed so the vehement rhetoric from the u.s. continues this weekend even after one of the rounds most outspoken critics national security advisor john bolton was fired by president trump on choose day it was one of the big headlines of the week trump claimed he disagreed with bolton on several key foreign policy issues there's no word yet on who the next national security adviser will be 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 tehran he also supported the u.s. intervention in syria was staunchly against easing pressure on north korea don't

hawkins takes a closer look 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 the question of rush hour 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 and views himself as a skilled dealmaker who talked tough when needed 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 moderate government using any means necessary all options on the table ready to go this troika of tyranny this triangle of care 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. his 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 missile test in 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 in the u.s. have 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 speculations been rife on possible talks between trump and the rain in 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 at camp 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. related meantime to fulfill a to the program even though the u.s. . brokered peace talks with the taliban still wants to get back to the negotiating

table as this channel found out it is. of interview with the negotiating team and they came into moscow it's ahead this of. the next. russian government describe 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 the u.s. spy inside the russian government was successfully returned to america in 2017 of the concerns about the way the donald trump handled classified information but both the white house and the cia say the story is incorrect says could 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 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 vague 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 give an inkling of the identity of the informant but the russian media was willing to give it a chance and landed on one morning cough it's been reported that he. i 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 us media about someone urgently extracting someone and saving someone etc 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 crime to suggest it was the russians not the american public who elected trump and then showing that washington had successfully outwitted moscow by sneaking a legit spy out but what could make this revelation who are more delicious how about trump also being shown to be an unreliable slipped 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 a spy are so just to clarify the cia gave up its most important source on the tons that might spill the beans a source that's been cultivated for over 10 years and the country it read to me says it's almost impossible to infiltrate i could even buy into that if the cia gave me something to what quids i mean they aren't exactly trumps 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 drove an alleged x. filtration operation is inaccurate i love a good story but anonymous sources classified information which is impossible to

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depending where you're watching around the world 15 past the hour now the afghan taliban is aging donald trump to return to the negotiating table in the exclusive interview with us now here in moscow as part of regular talks with russian officials this week and i spoke to r.t. to trump shut the yearlong peace process with the militant group that could have seen and then told most 2 decades of the u.s. war in afghanistan the taliban negotiators were supposed to go then to the united states before signing an agreement the deal was to have included america withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from the militants not to shelter terrorists from justified then to

negotiations citing in islam mr attack in the afghan capital that resulted in the death of an american soldier in fact it was a suicide car bombing that left 10 dead and injured dozens more r.t. asked the taliban direct how it expected trump to negotiate with them when they're killing his troops. the next day when mr parker canceled the sort of. negotiation he had mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good $1000.00 well so if big killing thousands of us why we cannot kill one of there were 2 other daughters imposed on us. american soldiers there you know it's not our immediate soldiers are going to be in washington they are out there there was a lot of us but still we. proposed and we were keen to bring peace and i want some political situation but unfortunately i need to which we reached some sort of finality when it was cancelled by the american side cites if the if the

american side is not really negotiation and did not want peace on the day it will so all that we would be compared to defend ourselves it would never produce 500 years. i don't know that the reason behind it may be you can ask them what happened but if we are still committed to the leadership issues we see that i would stand our policy from this particular kind of understands that there's no solution for of what conflict except it was sheer sions and accept the peace on the table so if we don't want to revitalize we hope that mr tung read his. announcement in he come back to where we were and we just the sight of the draft after the fact it could be a dramatic on the go. next story for you in from the kyi cartoon fireman has been

criticized for failing to keep up with modern equality standards the classic children's t.v. character has been axed from his job as a mascot for one local brigade of the bosses there said he could discourage women from joining. friends need him more than ever. in the country the risky team managed to save the day. first back in 1970 s. not to mention about ponting pandy a firefighter in that small wells village since then he's been widely used to promote fire safety and services across the u.k. but now it seems his numbers up at least in some parts as polly boy explained in the week. 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 dates and community events don't think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision lincolnshire as chief fire officer. fired fireman sam has been getting roasted for it duration does a great job for you as a one writing life as a one to write this new year's eve live i think you should do is to far yourself that it is a leaf i'm a sahm alone this isn't the 1st time that firemen 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. no i think you got it right i think it's just somebody taking it to consider and stickery really and i think 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 been renamed firefighters and 1st some to then become a non gender specific person over here but why not some sort of gender specific name that street yes how muslim and yet exactly exactly they could be put in here because no rubbish it could be so just do. it was just

a children's cartoon taking things too far as that you see 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 fly you dress like. i'm going to the mummy's fire engine practice come on peppa pig we've not been fireman 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 that anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishers freddy filled but and penelope. from the small screen dramas to the silver screen next before it's even been released hollywood's latest comic book movies facing a butler but accused of glorify violence. creepy well the joker starting work in phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the batman franchise shows him as a loner who descends into madness it's not yet on public release but a screening at the venice film festival got people arguing online again with many say it encourages viewers to sympathize with problematic themes i don't want to

have sympathy for a man best known for his robbery murder in arguably reap shoved down my throat for 2 hours it was not that long ago when a socially isolated this crunch old white man who felt wronged by society quite literally dressed up as a joker and shot up a movie theater in colorado joke of 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 are the stuff of jokes when we were to take responsibility for promoting a culture of crime well we spoke to a filmmaker who believes that censorship should be a last resort. problem with criticizing

a film before it comes out for what it's supposed to say is that we're starting to see 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 that 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. finally from the weekly with the us budget deficit expected to hit one trillion dollars next year questions are being raised again over how american taxpayer money is being spent on a new report kentucky senate says added to those calls some of the more bizarre examples of government spending.

and that was the way there was. some of the big news stories around us over the last 7 days if you want to know what's happening right now. here in moscow is kevin owen saying thanks for watching this program and have a great rest of this week. since . we was a cattle republic because we think it would be geared to our people and we want to

contribute to the wealth of europe into the european values of democracy of equality of dialogue of peace and we think that we are ready to contribute. to this new europe. of the euro mean the european community constituency what's the big deal what's the problem why can't we accept that possibility in the 20 percent. 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 told to shut up they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he raped me with his birthing 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 us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing 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 and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave 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 when.

he. felt good. well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science

political engineering is real. one of the most important things done or stand is essentially creates what we call. an ice cream cone ready and it's like petrol motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promised as performance under promise it's costs we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in this state or people like the largest defense contractor in the world more than they would die before they see it. going to change the world that. we're probably already working.