and. the more difficult it is to keep in the communities of people the ripples for the way. making headlines today the u.s. continues its strong hand to your own rhetoric now accusing iran of attacking saudi oil facilities despite the rebels saying they did it iran slams the accusations as a lie. while washington stance on iran didn't soften even after hawkish u.s. national security advisor john bolton was py this week by donald trump. also in the stories that shaped the week an american t.v. network says the top presenter of another channel describing them as a paid russian propaganda we look at the track record of the m s n b c host in

question when it comes to making claims about the kremlin. is the weekly or not international with mena day or 2 to live from moscow it was our roundup of the top stories from the last 7 days and the latest news welcome to the program. the u.s. secretary of state to my compiler has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the world and if you supply saying the tirant is behind attacks on society arabia's all production terror on denies any involvement in the attack calling the us i can say sions a lie his exact wording from the u.s. . we call on all nations to publicly unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states without partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is how the council for its aggression. having failed at max

pressure secretary of state pompei is turning to max to seat the u.s. and its clients are stuck in yemen because i'm allusion that weapon superiority will lead to military victory blaming iran won't end disaster except in our april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may all refining aside your neighbor has now been harmed as a result of the fires of 2 major state run facilities i witness it showed a video on social media of a huge place where gunshots can apparently be heard in the background the u.s. claimed it was a result of drone strikes with one of them being launched from iraqi territory while baghdad denies any possibility is territory was used. earlier yemen's has the rebels claim responsibility for deploying drones or to attack that society or processing facility and also a major oil field they say the strikes are in response to the society led war in yemen backed by the u.s. washington has also previously charged iran with it lending support to the hoodies

how medlar sofie professor of political science at the university of toronto believes these latest accusations from the u.s. are most likely baseless. how long my company has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence they who t.f. 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 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 commit. so the vehement anti iran rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after one of trance most outspoken critics national security adviser john bolton was fired by president trump on cheers day it was one of the big headlines of the week mr trump claimed he disagreed with bolton on several key foreign policy issues there's no word yet on who will be the next national security advisor john bolton is renowned for his aggressive hawkish approach to foreign policy he supported the u.s. intervention in syria and was staunchly against easing pressure on north korea he also adopted a tough stance on iran and backed scrapping the nuclear deal 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 president's another administration official bites the dust it was clear from the outset that trump and his national security advisor would

have disagreements i'm the one that tempers him but that's ok i have different shots i mean i have john gottman i have other people that are a little more dovish than him and ultimately i make that decision we can speculate on which exact squabble 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 the trump views himself as a skill deal maker who talked tough where needed for bolton but it 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 sanction. 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 chairs 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 perceive the u.s. adversities even if it meant just a symbolic photo op the right intentions seems to be their bed and we like each other they won't i don't like sanctions because on 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 libya model from 20032004 while bolton boiled that north korea had violated u.n.

sanctions offer 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 and i 2018 the u.s. had pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and advocate of preemptive strikes he pushed for military action against iran ofter us drone was brought down and as ever his thinly veiled threats centered around regime change we hope that these new measures directed at the iranian 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's been right. possible talks between trump president rouhani 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 term. not latter aspect of the piece is what we're focusing on later on in the program even though the u.s. shut down the vote could install the afghan taliban still wants to get back to the negotiating table as artie found out in an exclusive interview with their negotiating team it's ahead this half hour. new u.s. journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t.v.

network host of another describing them as russian propaganda. has a 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 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 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 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 apis ode is just difficult to kill. 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 from the presidents republican supporters and

congress from the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. what happened if russia killed the power in fargo today and what would happen to all of the natural gas lines that surface and falls just on the coal to stay 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 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 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. the mystery that has puzzled minds for the past 60 years and 959 hikers in the mountains disappeared 9 bodies were french confirmed. and

now via a special project. and chronicle the fight for incident. romney's interactive project allows you to follow the hikers 10 day trek you can explore what the group did each day through photos and maps and also what they wrote you'll discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies and the various theories as to what exactly happened added to that so 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 to weighing up the evidence you're presented with. by the way putin is again the name being drawn into the crossfire of the us presidential race but this time it's a blue on blue assault because democrats don't offer each other as we it's full.

join me every thursday on the all excitement show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back to the weekend in an exclusive interview with l.t.

the taliban has tried to return to the negotiating table over the war in afghanistan they were in moscow for talks with the russian officials this week after the u.s. president shut down a year long peace process with a militant group despite hopes that the negotiations might end almost 2 decades of conflict the taliban command was 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 don't try to justify the 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 3 assaults kind by the taliban. in addition to attacks which have taken place over the 12 months that the peace talks are ongoing altie else the group how they expect trying to negotiate with them while they're killing his troops. so this is.

mr bobbitt what is the problem is that he says he. doesn't want it so if. those of us want to kill one of them or one of the. american soldiers. just roll over. soldiers are going to be in washington they are never there was a lot of us but still we. proposed and we were keen to bring peace and i want some to negotiation but unfortunately i need to which we reached some sort of finality when it was canceled by the american side sides if the american side is not really a negotiation in did not want based on the deal so although we would be compared to defend ourselves i would never do this 500 years. i do know that there. is

a behind it maybe you can ask them what happened but we are still committed to the league mission as we see the i would stand our policy from this time we committed to understand is that there's no solution for the one conflict except negotiations and accept the peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize the whole day to mr tung read his. notes made in he come back to where we were and we just sat there. after that we practically a domestic on. topic it seems that most u.s. politicians are agreeing on now fracking with increasing numbers calling for the process to be completely banned fracking involves drilling deep into the ground to recover or the natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad thing firemen and top u.s. democrats to kind of open reports. 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 give you free we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares donald trump's energy market enthusiasm 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 murder term on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling off shore and on

public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist come 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're being pro russia 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 now 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. an energy as to 2. industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we've 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. r.t. new york. before it's even been released hollywood's latest comic book movie is facing a backlash he's been accused of glorifying violence. the

joker starring joaquin phoenix documents the early years of the villain from the batman franchise and shows him as a loner who descends into madness is not yet on public release but a screening at the venice film festival got people are looking online with many saying it encourages viewers to sympathize with problematic forms. 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 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 . 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 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 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. back at the top of the hour with more with us.

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a soft and dick washed the independence referendum to pradelle on your remains bull f. the or in and him bargaining chip in spanish politics and that's think acting governor mend in meant 3 pad just average clone so to this worth the action see in 4 years what isn't believe the secession if coffee i'll be putting this question joe alford bosch minister for foreign action institutional relations and transparency off to tell on am all for bush it's good to talk to think you very much free of time thanks for inviting me i introduced to your as a minister of but see and the spanish authorities you're more like a counselor with an outsized manned they'd be crist the spanish authorities don't believe that cup i want me a supposed to have any for in the action of foreign policy it's and then dade over independent state why this could to loney need to have for in the action the tio are responsible for oh we're not going to argue about words we simply translated alike that an english show the the your understand that i'm part of

a government the cuttle and government it's dull the of independent government the longing to reckon most state but still we do have a gun went in a survey like lenders and germany's a of or of there are governments also half and yes sir a we've been seeing holes these spanish government especially the ministry of foreign affairs leg is a book greatly has been trying to stop from making any foreign action we think we're entitled to that because. nowadays in the 21st century you go to be competitive and have a place in the world otherwise you will prosper i'm sure would agree that the lonnie's not like any other city in spain this dispute has been plaguing this country for 3 centuries and if you look at the recent polls it's not evident that the majority of cut the line support independence i wonder how do you frame this issue right there is it still about full if independence or do you stop way at

self-determination and the right to vote the regardless of which way the boat goes from a pro independence party and our ideas that we can have a better country and better welfare for all people with a cow to learn republic so that's what we're pursuing. regarding how many people support that you have all kinds of polls some of them were a majority and some of those perhaps not but that's exactly why we want to vote we want to know the real numbers we want to know who's supporting in the pens and who does not and there's no way the kingdom of spain can agree on such a referendum like the u.k. did it for scotland or the so we don't think we're better than any other nation but we're not less than any other nation but the you know that the problem with referenda and i think the bracks it situation shows that the independents moment it's called support is that as well is that people may change their mind the circumstances may change. are you sure that if you have.