making headlines not. strong rhetoric using. oil facilities. saying they did it around the accusations us ally. washington. didn't soften even after a hawkish u.s. national security advisor john bolton was fired this week by donald trump. also in the stories that shaped the week on american t.v. networks all of this and top post for the scribing the most. we look out the track record of the presenter in question when it comes to making play by the.

with the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome. u.s. secretary of state mike accused of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world's energy supply saying that iran is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production around denies any involvement in the attack calling the u.s. accusations a lie here's the exact wording from u.s. we call on all nations 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 the rand is held accountable for its aggression. having

failed at max pressure secretary of state pump turning to max to seat the u.s. and its clients are stuck in yemen because i'm illusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory blaming iran won't end disaster excepting our april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may or refining in saudi arabia has not been done as a result of fires in 2 major state run facilities eyewitnesses shared a video on social media of a huge blaze where gun shots counterpart to be heard in the background the u.s. claims that it was a result of drone strikes with one of them being launched from iraqi territory while buying down denies any possibility that its territory was used earlier yemen's hooty rebels claimed responsibility for deploying nearly a dozen drones to turkey saudi oil processing facility and a major oil field they say the strikes were in response to the saudi led war in

yemen and are demanding an end to riyadh's 4 year long intervention in the country backed by the us washington has also previously charged the iran with lending support to the g.'s. a professor of political science at the university of tehran believes these latest like his ations from the us are most likely baseless. how am i going to how has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence the hudes have 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 is no surprise there the us 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 committed. so the vehement rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after one of terrans most outspoken critics national security advisor john bolton was fired by president trump on choose the it was one of the big headlines of the week mr trump claimed he disagreed with both and on several key foreign policy issues there's no word yet on who will be the next national security advisor john bolton is renard for his aggressive hawkish approach to foreign policy he supported the u.s. intervention in syria a little staunchly against easing pressure on north korea he also adopted a tough stance on iran scrapping the nuclear deal daniel hawkins has been taking a closer look at his 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 of 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 the trump views himself as

a skilled dealmaker who talked tough when 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 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 for 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. in 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 offer a missile test and may trump downplay 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 us 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 through any it would have thought that possible after so much hostile rhetoric perhaps the final straw was trump's plan to 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. specter of duns peace is what we're focusing on later in the program even though the u.s. shut down the hard brokered peace talks. all about still wants to get to the

negotiating table as r.t. in an exclusive interview with their negotiating team it's ahead this hour. senior u.s. journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v. network know suing the host of another for the scrapping them paid russian propaganda artie's a trunk of brings us more on 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 having a bag with a decent jab well oh a ad 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 top. rachel maddow turned her show into a grand russian paranoia episode is just difficult to. 1 are 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 from the president's republican supporters in congress from the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still around. but what happened if russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all the natural gas lines that surface and falls just goofed 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 went down and then the actual conclusions of the molar pro 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 thing. twice next here really literally in that familiar voice. to a mystery that has puzzled minds for the past 60 years in 1959 a group of sulfate hikers in the your own mind tins disappeared 9 bodies were eventually found various theories are on the past that's via a special project launched by our tease video agency ruptly we chronicle the fateful incident.

this project by ripley allows you to follow the hikers 10 day trek you can explore what the group did each day through photos and. also what they wrote you'll discover more about the all mix planed injuries on the bodies on the various theories as to what exactly happened it's all interactive to you can put yourself into the shoes of one of the team members as they walk along the route and then vote on your suspected version of what happened after weighing up the evidence you're presented with. get the inside track on the failed peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban when the weekly returns after the break.

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of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. 16 minutes into the program welcome back in an exclusive interview with r.t. the taliban has urged donald trump to return to the negotiating table over the war in afghanistan they were in moscow for talks with russian officials this week after the u.s. president shut down the year long peace process with the militant group. i was despite hopes that. might end almost 2 decades of conflict but the taliban

negotiators were supposed to go to the united states before signing an agreement the deal was to include washington withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from the militants not to shelter terrorists although trump justified ending the negotiations citing an islamist attack in the afghan capital that resulted in the death of an american soldier that suicide car bombing killed 10 people in total and injured dozens more it was one of the 3 assaults claim by the taliban in a fortnight period in addition to attacks that have taken place over the year at the peace talks were on going r.t. asked the group they expect mr trump to have with them while they're killing his troops. the next day with mr. so this is a. negotiation he mr bobbitt with his followers that he says he admitted that he had a good $1000.00 blow so if big dollars off us why we cannot kill one of them or

2 of them know what is the cause mass. american soldiers don't want to it's not i would even if it were the soldiers who were going to be. there there was one of us but still we. propose a key piece of that with some political solution but unfortunately i need to which we've reached some sort of. it was constant inside a sense if the american side is not really and it was usually who did not want peace on the day it will. be compared to a different us it would have to do this what everybody is. i don't know the reason behind it we can do what happened but if we are still committed to the leadership issues we see that. i would only see from this very minute whether this was the most of. what conflict.

and it's a piece on the table so we don't want. to. come back to. what we were just. after the fact if you're going to go. to a topic it seems that most u.s. politicians can get behind fracking with some not calling for the drilling to be completely beyond the process in volves drilling deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous for the environment on top us democrats share those fears. and us a story. the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency booming shale production has allowed the u.s.

to close in on and briefly overtake saudi arabia as the world's top oil exporter president trump says that this is a huge achievement he's ready to celebrate success becoming more and more energy dominant i don't want to be energy free we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares donald trump's energy market and susie yes in fact most of the people who want to run against him in the 2020 alexion want to outlaw the practice of hydraulic fracking that's the reason the usa has so much oil and gas any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands. on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist got all the harris there's no question i'm in favor of

banning fracking so at this point roughly 59 percent of america's oil is extracted from the shale so if you outlawed the practice of hydraulic fracking you would knock down the oil sector of the u.s. economy pretty hard the same for natural gas now check out this headline. kremlin kemal or harris and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's preferred u.s. energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter many in fracking and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make lead to more prudent heavier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you are being pro russia pro putin and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senator isn't the only 2020 democrat calling for this from russia with love ban on fracking the most reliable of k.g.b. useful idiots bernie sanders is even clearer that this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking is all

a big plot from moscow is nothing new in fact we've even heard it from the halls of the u.s. congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting culture and energy as 2 to. industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we have seen anti fracking narratives so it seems like nowadays the only way to really play it safe in american politics is to find out what the why we're putting once and do the exact opposite so let's hope that the russian president doesn't talk about say fixing up america's crumbling roads and bridges or addressing the opioid epidemic tabletop and r.t. new york. before it's even been released hollywood's latest comic book movie is facing a box lush it's been accused of glorifying violence. the

joker starting a walk in phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the front charlie's and shows him as a loner who descends into madness it's not yet on public release but a screening at the venice film festival is called people arguing online with many saying it encourages viewers to sympathize with problem like. 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 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 of the stuff of jokes one will howl with take responsibility for promoting a new culture of crime or we spoke to a filmmaker who believes that censorship should be the last resource. 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 that 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 the 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 entertainment 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. the u.s. budget deficit is expected to hit one trillion dollars next year and questions are being raised over how american taxpayer money is being used a new report by kentucky senator has highlighted some of the more bizarre examples of government spending.

interesting report some of the stories that ship the 2nd week of september i'll be back with more in just over 30 this is art.

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the world is changing our tactics i changed things and now we are looking to look to get that we've government needs to tie for them to wait like i'm sure they've all seen what's happened in europe i'll go fish is gonna be at my biggest and he called the collapse there was just nothing to cabbage and now the european lead to see the east africa is already in a very bad state like then they got told us they have been there they still are just emptying the ocean so if you look at the situation in somalia the pirates can be argued they used to be fishermen and then foreign told us came to fish they have no income so i think it's just common sense that the country is so waking up.