abroad really shows how far saudi arabia still has to go on on its women's rights record adam google for human rights watch in amman jordan thank you thank you. russian president vladimir putin has made a thinly veiled threat directed at the united states in a state of the nation address aimed at boosting his falling approval ratings while putin warned washington against supporting any new missiles in your following the u.s. withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty saying moscow would consider it a quote serious threats. a sharp warning to the u.s. and its allies from russian president vladimir putin after washington announced it was withdrawing from a landmark arms control pact earlier this month. to retaliate if the u.s. places new intermediate range missiles in europe. so i'm saying this clearly and openly russia will be forced to create and deploy a new types of weapons that could be used not only against the territories were a direct threat to us comes from but also against the territories or decision making centers directing the use of missile systems threatening us are located. making his state of the nati

abroad really shows how far saudi arabia still has to go on on its women's rights record adam google for human rights watch in amman jordan thank you thank you. and next we shift our focus to russia where in his annual state of the union style address the russian president vladimir putin has made a thinly veiled threats directed at the united states while porton use part of his address to say that moscow will respond to any u.s. deployment of shorter intermediate range or nuclear weapons in europe by targeting not just the countries where they are stationed but the united states itself but while he took a combative tone with the west the president reached out to his domestic audience promising russians improved living conditions. it's one of the most important domestic political events for the russian president in his fifteenth state of the nation address but a mere putin promised a raft of measures to improve economic and social conditions for his people above all families should benefit putin promised them tax breaks as well as better child care. but are there. thanks to the many years of joint efforts a