i'm. making headlines today the u.s. continues its strong antidrug rhetoric now accusing toronto of attacking saudi oil facilities despite the rebels saying they did it iran is the accusations as a law i. mean while washington stance on iran has softened even after his u.s. national security adviser john bolton was fired this week by talking trump. also in the stories that shaped the week an american t.v. network sues the top percentile of another channel for describing them as hate russian propaganda we look at the track record of the m.s.b. m b c host and question when it comes to making claims about the crowd.

they're watching a weekly hair on r.t. a week out of the biggest stories in past 7 days along with the latest news thanks for joining us. and fast stop u.s. secretary of state mike compare has accused iran of launching a quote unprecedented assault on the wild energy supply saying that terror on is behind attacks on saudi arabia's oil production tehran denies any involvement in the attack quoting the u.s. accusations ally has the exact wording from the u.s. we call on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn iran's attacks the united states without partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression. having failed at max pressure secretary of state compost turning to max to seat the us 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 except april 15th proposal to end the war and begin talks may all refining in saudi arabia has now been hard as a result of fires at 2 major state run facilities as experts expected or prices have jumped significantly more than 13 percent following the incident u.s. president trump has authorized the release of oil from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve highlighting the importance of keeping markets well supplied the 2 saudi facilities damaged by fire were attacked on saturday eyewitnesses shared a video on social media of a huge blaze were gunshots can apparently be heard in the background the u.s. claims it was a result of drone strikes with one of them being launched from iraq while baghdad says there is no possibility its territory was used earlier yemen's who think rebels claimed responsibility for deploying trains 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 backed by the u.s. washington has also previously charged iran with lending support to the who sees how much my solving a professor of political science at the university of tehran believes these latest accusations from the u.s. are most likely baseless. how long michael has a very long history of making accusations without providing any actual evidence booties of 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 know who to use 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 let alone 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 very moment until iran rhetoric from the u.s. continues even after one of 2 ends most outspoken critics national security advisor john bolton was fired by president trump on tuesday 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 a whole cache approach to foreign policy he supported the u.s. intervention in syria and was a staunch against easing pressure on north korea he also adopted a tough stance on iran and backed scrapping the nuclear deal what is done a whole consist 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 in 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 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 go like sanctions for. and

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 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 in april 28th seen 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. and the latter aspect of dan's pieces what we're focusing on later in the program even though the u.s. shut down the heartbroken peace talks the afghan taliban still wants donald trump

to get back to the table as r.t. found out in an exclusive interview with that negotiating team that's ahead this half hour. 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. has 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 apis owed is just difficult to carry out.

1 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 president's republican supporters and congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. well what happened if russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all of the natural gas lines that surface and falls just goofed 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 when views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually went down then the actual conclusions of the more pro blood to whet their 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 on the here really literally in that familiar voice.

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a 10 day trek you can explore what the group did each day through photos on maps and also what they wrote you also discover more about the unexplained injuries on the bodies in the various theories as to what exactly happened added to that 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 off to weighing up the evidence you're presented with. luck.

the leg. length . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy the infantry shouldn't let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development that only we engage in loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical daryn time to sit down and talk.

welcome back in an exclusive interview with the taliban has donald trump to return to the negotiating table over the war in afghanistan they were in moscow for talks with russian officials this week off to the u.s. president shot down a yearlong peace process with the militant group despite hopes that the negotiations might and almost 2 decades of conflict the taliban command was supposed to go to the united states before signing an agreement but deal wants to include washington withdrawing troops in exchange for a commitment from the militants not to shelter terrorists. donald trump justified. by 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 claimed by the taleban in

a 2 week period in addition to the attacks which have taken place over the 12 month period that the peace talks were on cutting altie also the grip how they expect trump to negotiate with them while they telling his troops. the next day when minnesota he's going to cancel this. negotiation he and mr bobbitt with his followers that he says he admitted that he doesn't other well so if big kill thousands of us why we cannot kill one of them were 2 other than what was imposed on us. american soldiers there you know it's not our image of the 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 question but unfortunately i need to which we reached some sort of fidelity when it was considered by the american side sides if if the american side

is not really negotiation and did not want based on the dual so all that we would be compared to defend ourselves i would never do this 500 years. i don't know the reason behind it maybe you can ask them what happened but if we are still committed to the negotiations we see the i would stand our policy from this time the commitment of this time is that they did this most of the mission for of one conflict except negotiations and accept the peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize and we hope to start on his. announcement in he come back to. just. after the fact if you're going to go. american democratic politicians are increasingly speaking out on the issue of fracking with many calling for prices to

be competing band fracking involves drilling deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous environment on top us democrats share those fears to escape more pain 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 be energy 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 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 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 let him open

happier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you're 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 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 culture and energy as 2 to. 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 wider we are 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. and find some pop culture before it's even been released hollywood's latest comic book movie has faced some backlash it's been accused of glorifying violence. the joker starring 1000 phoenix documents the early years of the thetan from the batman franchise and shows him as a known descends and madness it's not yet on public but a screening at the venice film festival people arguing online with many saying it encourages us 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 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 clone millions of children will be taught crime violence and mayhem the stuff of jokes when who how would seek responsibility for promoting you culture of crime we spoke to a filmmaker who believes that censorship should always 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 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 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 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 too much 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 that's all for this hour for myself and the team here moscow thank you for choosing international coming your way you know it's documentaries. you warnings you boys. are.

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