headlining this hour the west is failing to admit the loss of its dominance. russia's foreign minister in his address to the un in new york an update on the way . u.s. democratic house committees issued subpoenas. seeking to compel him to hand over documents concerning the transfer ministrations contacts with the ukrainian government. also this hour rights campaigners accuse the u.k. government of failing in its commitment to protect young girls from female genital mutilation britain's high court accepted it was powerless to prevent the home office from deporting a 10 year old deemed to be at risk of being forced to undergo the procedure.

called in for a start this the washington led west has been given a rebuke by russia at the un general assembly speaking in the past couple of hours foreign minister sergei lavrov hit out of the undermining of international law by countries pushing their vision of the world on others or face consequences. lucia's up with mr belknap at the meeting western countries are trying to impede the development of the multi-polar world in order to regain their privileged position to impose standards of conduct another because it's based on the narrow western interpretation of liberalism in another show with liberals and so everything is permitted in pursuit of this policy the west has been increasingly loath to recognize international law and more often and more insistently than a rules based would. say across developments in new york for us is kind of open. to

the west especially the united states again. take away from russia's contribution to the un assembly this year. yes during the general debate the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov used his remarks to essentially to lay out the russian view of the world the russian world view and argue that russia is trying to deescalate conflicts around the world that dialogue is necessary this is some of what he said in his speech before the general assembly. in the. problem started when the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and told everyone else to stop abiding by its 2 promising sanctions over trade with iran i believe these actions were destructive to the situation around iran's nuclear program but it's also for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and the whole situation in the region. just.

now in his speech criticized the united states for basically ignoring the interests of other countries and replacing the rule based international order with new rules that were convenient for them in the moment now in the press conference that followed his remarks before the general assembly seemed to hit on similar themes he talked about many instances around the world where it seemed like the united states was not helping to stabilize international tensions and he pointed to the situation with iran where the united states you know. laterally pulled out of the jay c.p.o. way this is a survey lab rob in the press briefing briefing room. with the wonders of so many i do not believe the president. had anything to do. but assuming it's true that a question of how decisions being made in the u.s. especially those directly linked. to ensure the know the functioning of. the sort

you are. now that was his response to a question that was raised about the fact that members of the russian delegation for the u.n. general assembly had their visas pulled at the last minute and as you just heard him say he was told by mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of state when they met that it was not actually a decision that was made either by president tom or by the secretary of state mike pompei oh so he asked the question who is responsible for making these decisions now a number of countries were touched on during the press conference and many questions were asked about syria about venezuela about the situation in the middle east he emphasized that russia is working with different arab states to try and resolve the tension and deescalate the situation in the gulf and there was even kind of a humorous note one point a reporter asked a question regarding the rumors that lavrov had been smoking cigarettes inside the u.n. building he said that was not the case that these rumors were false it was kind of a humorous moment there in the press briefing room so it was quite an interesting

interaction touching on many different situations but emphasizing that russia is committed to deescalation and dialogue not stirring up and exacerbating international tensions or domestic conflicts within countries. thanks for taking us through that reporting from outside the u.n. in new york thanks a lot. more joe sling in the impeachment push the new this 3 democratic led house committees have subpoenaed the u.s. secretary of state. seeking to compel him to hand over documents concerning contact with the ukrainian government says democratic party leaders claim the us president has betrayed his country and is no longer fit for office. this occupant occupant of the oval office poses a clear and present danger to our future to our democracy he's in date. by putting his personal and political interests ahead of the interests of the american people place that i hoped we would never be and never thought we would see

a president take the actions that he has it's not about politics it's not about partisanship it's about patriotism on tuesday democrats in the house of representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump it came after a whistleblower claimed wrongdoing during a phone call between the president and his ukrainian counterpart bloody maids about selenski is the latest in a slew of impeachment attends the mr trump's face since he took office in january 27th. but the walls feel like they're closing in on the truth and this ratio right now and i'm not sure they could hold them off for much longer than the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast on donald trump back then if you remember the democrats onslaught was mostly dominated by

a russian collusion probe senior correspondent takes a closer look at the moves against the president from now. if you're a democrat the hardcore liberal type you knew in your heart the trump would be brought down the only question was how long it would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty no people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trunk team and the russians and trump knew about it that would truly be impeachable it's miss prison of treason and so far his response has been exploding and unfortunately proved entirely fabricated but to hell with it obstruction of justice a federal system in the united states that ought to do it the president trying trying to block the f.b.i.'s rush investigation commit an impeachable offense are

we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process no dodges that to come on let's go in on the guys slept with the porn star media told us and paid a hush money to keep it silent no way he'd survive that bicycle you see the trump team stepping into every trap that she and her lawyer set for them having a president knowledge that he was actually meant to be a party to the nondisclosure agreement and now of course she's got a an avenue and a way to fire back at it cohen what is going on how many get out of jail free cards does trump have you can keep this up surely every excuse to get rid of trump was brought up the sky just dissected in this guarded nothing would stake until now it seems like ukraine is the 1st nail in trumps political

coffin blood hounds democrats smell blood weakness at long last. trump is vulnerable i think focusing on this he crean scandal singularly is important i think we have to act quickly but not with haste of the more able to speak with one voice on that subject than on some of the other we've got to go narrow no question about it i would hope within a 6 week frame we could get the evidence on the table so the american people can see it just one phone conversation and trump signed his political death warrant and if you thought it was about russia you thought wrong even a russia was discussed in that very call i would like to find out what happened with this whole situation with the ukraine they say crowd strike i guess you have one of your wealthy people the server they say ukraine has it that sounds crazy

democrat servers hacked by the russians allegedly somehow ending up in ukraine but these things are so secure crowd strike the d.n.c. as computer security squad warden let the f.b.i. look at them would threaten their security if the f.b.i. investigated they claimed all that the agents received were redacted draft reports all the information about russian hacking was pushed amongst others by crowd strike and the f.b.i. putting him politely said this isn't how things easily done it's not the way we would prefer to do the investigation 2 years have passed than trump still hasn't been able to find those servers from may or may not have reason to think that the servers are in ukraine it is trumbo after all whatever they know in washington it's clear that the democrats won't let go of this whole ukraine

business they finally got solid ground for their long awaited impeachment oh and russia. forget it when anymore the democrats are desperate. they're terrified of losing the election joe biden. is a disaster as a candidate if if he is the nominee he will i'm almost certain he will lose to trump and the democrats are hoping to bring trump down through this whole impeachment process this idea of. finding a scandal and running around hysterically where 'd there really is no criminal offense so they're hoping to bring trump down but i just can't imagine it will work . next quarter in the u.k. says it's unable to prevent the home office from deporting a 10 year old girl the risk of female genital mutilation after her sudanese mother's asylum application was rejected he has the story. putting aside his

enthusiasm for war and its cozy relationships with despots and dictators the british government self the staunch defender of human rights around the world the latest crusade they've taken up in the fight against of g.m. in other countries they've pledged 50000000 pounds by 2030 to combat the issue. the bible at least 3 days into any requirement it doesn't make. sense in the state of god but the british home office is pushing ahead with supporting a woman and her 10 year old daughter to potty train from where lawyers fear then be deported on to the done but the mother is originally from the country has one of the highest rates of conducting f g i mean the world and the risks being another victim they are happy to prosecute female genital mutilation they're happy to give money abroad to stamp it out but they're failing to protect women who are at risk

if deported a british family court earlier ruled that the coal face the risk of being circumcised against will if sensible. but it was overruled by the home office which said immigration issues are none of the court's business perhaps the most high profile attempt by the u.k. to deport someone it was the case of abu qatada a radical cleric the u.k. accused of having ties to al qaeda it took 12 years and 1700000 pounds to remove him and was a victory for the british government yet since his deport taishan britain has spent almost 200000 pounds protecting his wealth in jordan and the question now is whether the mother and her little girl would also get that much protection from u.k. authorities if she ends up back in sudan he said we've asked the u.k. home office for comment on this case we're still awaiting a response from them meantime a lawyer for the girl's mother told us that the british government is not doing enough to protect young women at risk of f.p.m. . her mother says that her little girl is

a high risk if she am so her mother was cut and she suffer type 3 f c m which is the most physically severe type of f. she and that any woman or child can undergo and in fact the mother says her sister has also died whilst enjoying this most brutal practice so she certainly says is a high risk of f. g.m. and we know from the social services who took this occupation to court to stop this little girl from being deported that they also believed as a high risk of f g m and also the national f c m sent to her an expert organization working with families in this country who are at risk if she and also believe that this little girl is at risk so there's a while 5 expertise here that says she is at risk of f g m but unfortunately the home secretary and also the immigration authorities say the immigration courts don't feel that the risk is this is high my real concern here is that we have a government that appears to be committed to prosecuting cases of effort and

throwing the book ethnic minority families when this extreme in this country but when it comes to protecting girls the terrorist abroad and legitimately claim asylum the government's all too ready to refuse that claim because in my view if a so-called hostile immigration environment and they're not given the status that they so desperately need so i suppose real contradiction in the government's approach time and time again played out in numerous cases sadly this is all true for moscow are. some of the bold new initiative long overdue waters to talk to rico tokenism and take a look about for you after the break. actions or a little bit messed up by our d.n.a. in some way or another the complete i'm not sure it isn't such

a great thing you know i'm sure you are better now than when he had hair come on it's nice of you to say so but i but i went bald when i was 25 animals and so great that. like richard marles worst nightmare is. dead planet everything on planet earth is dead because securitized we can see well there's a teenager in the us or a brother heartbroken crying her eyes out because she's going to grow up on a dead planet. secured and sold and resold and repackaged. with nothing except a dream. the

global climate change clampdown is picking up steam with a number of planet protecting moves being set in motion right now for one swedish daily newspapers banning all advertisement of fossil fuel based products and services with immediate effect the paper's editor cited environmental concerns for his decision a week after the biggest mass climate protest in history separately a 3rd of the world's banks have signed up to a un initiative on efforts to tackle climate change such as cutting back on investing in fossil fuel projects among them a major players like deutsche bank city group and barclays in total $130.00 institutions in $49.00 countries have signaled that they're on board but notably 7 of the world's 10 biggest banks are absent from that list the un initiative calls on banks to harmonize their strategies with the paris climate agreement and work towards a sustainable future over being seen as an overdue move to mobilize the influential

financial sector to a fad that will cause more problems than it solves we put it up for discussion here on r.t. . what we really need to be looking out looking at is eliminating the funding of fossil fuels as quickly as possible and the key thing here is not to focus too much on the banks they will do whatever they can within what is profitable and and legal key thing is to put pressure on governments to utterly change the rules in terms of what banks do to get rid of anything that is destroying the future for our children the green technologies that are presented as growing are not a toll in many instances in the energy sector today say no to nuclear energy there is no reason to see no to say no because nuclear energy doesn't make any c o 2 and they say yes the electric car is an awful and see life cycle analysis if you look at their environmental footprint it is much worse than my diesel car today and it will be for the next 50 years so because of the production of the batteries so this is solved rubbish this is perfect rubbish frankly and it is enough you know

having 16 year old girls like the one we had a system at the united nations explaining to adults that they are stupid i mean this isn't often you know she's supported by the person's family of billionaires that have invested in the green technologies i mean this is who writes her texts this is a disgrace really it's time to stop and the gulf numbs progress of course in the reduction of c o 2 emissions but they should do it normally at a normal pace and for bidding the use of coal of fuel or gas is stupid especially for example in germany because of their choice for supposedly renewable energy such as wind energy they need coal plants to to produce the energy when there is no went so crazy but identified you know perhaps correctly perceived problems with some of what is being pushed forward is green at the moment as a reason for carrying on burning fossil fuels when we know it is already

a crime against humanity in the form of catastrophic drought. blood's typhoons like clones hurricanes you know and the strength of these things is absolutely vastly greater than before and you know so to try and identify some of the problems with what's being put forward by you know the mainstream green narrative as a reason to carry on destroying ourselves this is just madness that we need to do the right thing at the right time it's not people why are extreme extreme activists that need to decide governments cannot allow this and the united nations should not allow this the only reason that the solutions required to deal with these problems are now so extreme is that well we've had 30 years of people like luke saying oh well we need to wait till we know more until the technology is about or what has happened over that period is that we have produced more emissions in the last 30 years than the entirety of human history before so the very very tempting rationale which is that anything that looks greener than before is

a step in the right direction we must go at the normal pace we cannot stop planes from flying from today on because that's what the extremists want to paraphrase god given to explode progress with your question i'd say well you know obviously it's like progress on this. united states announced on thursday that it's sending 200 military personnel the patriot missile battery to saudi arabia to help defend its allies or production facilities it comes after those are 2 major attacks on installations in the gulf state which knocked out 5 percent of the world's oil supply a couple of weeks back saudi arabia already had a number of patriot missile systems in the area when the attacks took place they were rendered useless as at least 17 drones and cruise missiles hit the oil producing facilities u.s. secretary of state my pompei or give the following explanation as to why the batteries weren't able to thwart the attack look any time we've seen air defense systems all around the world have mixed success some of the finest in the world don't always pick things up. security experts tell shoe bridge tolls he doesn't

believe the additional patriot missiles will bolster saudi defenses against the sort of attacks that we saw earlier this month. and there's no mixed success really about this is almost no success if any ever has been recorded by patriot systems against low flying targets such as the drones and the cruise missiles that were being used in these incidents the patriot system is primarily designed to be flying to be used against high speed high altitude targets such as ballistic missiles it's more of a symbolic gesture than anything that's going to practically add to the defense capabilities of saudi arabia ironically perhaps our much more. much more effective systems perhaps more low tech systems perhaps more old fashioned systems that could be used more effectively they're nowhere near as expensive as the patriot systems and perhaps cynic might suggest therefore using those as a poise opposed to selling and deploying more patriots wouldn't be as much benefit

to the u.s. arms industry. as high level anger in germany or the united states which is being accused of trying to bulldoze a major russian gas pipeline project by repeatedly threatening sanctions the chairman of the german parliament's energy committee told r.t. at a conference in berlin that the penalties if there are imposed would violate international law. if you think yes it is the 1st it seems to me these sanctions extraterritorial and therefore unacceptable under international law 2nd based on the conversations in which i took part i have the impression that the gas pipeline will be built it will simply become more expensive does us sanctions will increase the price of the project for companies involved in the construction of the gas pipeline and the project will not play on the interest of americans in a sense is very simple they want to sell their own gas in europe to do this they need to weaken the economic ties between germany in europe and specifically between germany and russia that's the whole point or they've only part. succeeded as we

know for many years russian gases flow to europe especially germany without interruption so the construction of this gas pipeline is in the interests of germany and it will be built but i think the behavior of the us president is encouraging europeans to change their minds about america of course the us is a major economic part of europe for germany partners do not behave as the americans are behaving because germany and europe are not a colony of the united states one of the hurdles closer to home though north stream 2 is currently suing the european union for imposing regulations which the project's lawyers argue will jeopardize investment in the scheme. north rim to a g. has now decided to ask the arbitral tribunal to determine that the european union is in breach of its international law commitments under the energy charter treaty and to make orders requiring the e.u. to discontinue is a breach the e.u. is extending its jurisdiction to cover offshore pipelines beyond the blocks borders the gas directive designed to open the market and encourage competition by

revealing details such as operating costs north stream to says that will discourage billions of euros of investment and launched a disputed april paving the e.u. is violating the energy charter treaty that regulates the industry's cross border co-operation including investment but both sides failed to reach an agreement leading to the company launching a legal action today almost 3 quarters of the pipelines are already been laid and it's expected to come on stream later this year when it's complete north will stretch for 1200 kilometers and will dramatically increase the amount of fuel supplied from russia into europe the gas direct it would only apply to the section on german territory but it's got implications throughout the network journalist thomas fassbender told us there's a geopolitical tug of war playing out over the supply of energy to europe. is not a legal problem this is not a legal issue this is a political issue which is going to be decided by legal means which always creates an unfortunate situation because it makes this. plea should be that should be

left at odds we have a strong. interest by the us that this project must not be and we must not forget that even the law of the present law is just a step in the tire by the us government we we are still have the proposed sanctions against the companies participating in the building the construction on the table by watching ok that's your r.t. world news for now you next update from me in the moscow news team follows politics .

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this edition of. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king on tuesday speaker nancy pelosi announced that the house was moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of president donald trump this after hearing mr trump's own words describing a now infamous phone call he had with the president of ukraine regarding u.s. aid for that country and mr trump's desire for the ukraine president to investigate joe biden and his son hunter biden it's a fast moving story with many angles but for legal analysis of the house inquiry and what we've heard so far from president trump we turn to richard painter a professor of law at the university of minnesota and the former chief white house ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration he joins me now from minneapolis welcome to the program. thank you so there's a lot to discuss but 1st your reaction to speaker pelosi is announcement about the

new pietschmann and 3 against the president. it's about time this impeachment inquiry should have been open a long time ago and this latest instance of abuse of power by president trump is yet one more grounds from beijing him we already have the obstruction of justice that's outlined in the 2nd part of the bowler report the unconstitutional amal humans foreign and domestic he's receiving we already have his being a coconspirator in the campaign finance violations in the southern district of new york the stormy daniels payoff he's individual won the unindicted coconspirator we already have him violating the 1st amendment and threatening the freedom of the press and his contempt of congress refusal to respond to subpoena.