continue to come under heavy shelling in syria's eastern grew to one week after he commanded turn corder was set up a to allow noncombatants a chance to leave so far only two children have managed to escape. our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping week's top stories with our weekly program does r.t. international and president putin outlined his vision of russia's future on thursday delivering the annual state of the nation address to parliament he also revealed details about the country's new nuclear arsenal which he said includes missiles that are too advanced to to be intercepted by any existing air defense systems our senior correspondent have explains more about the hardware that is getting the western news outlets so worked up. if you aren't russian the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a ru

continue to come under heavy shelling in syria's eastern corridor one week after he commanded turn corder was set up at.

recently, carol corder cox bay, excuse my pronunciation, said the attack could have been carried out by people including president putin, but no longer under his control. do you find that a plausible explanation? johnson: i would go back to what i just said. of ait comes to the use trump type of nerve agent in attempt toto assassinate somebody who would be identified by the russians, a target for liquidation, not long after, president putin said such people would choke on their own dirty pieces -- deserve to be poisoned, no matter how exactly it came to be done. the pathway, the chain of responsibility seems to me to go back to the russian state. >> foreign secretary, why do you think putin, russia felt able to undertake such a despicable, illegal attack? secretary johnson: well, i think there's several reasons why the attack was made, the unlawful force, as the prime minister has directly to find -- correctly defined it. that president putin, the russian state wanted to give to potential sectors in their own agencies. this is what happens if you decide to support a country with diff

senator corders master? >> thank you, mr. chair. and like senator wicker, i appreciate your patience, us coming in and out. that's why your testimonies are so important, your written testimonies as well are very helpful. thank you for being here today. i know that my colleagues who manage the congressional transportation appropriations, namely senators collins and reid, have recently written to secretary chow about the need to get moving and spending down millions in fiscal year 2017 funding to help facilitate progress on the ptc at the fra. as a matter of course, the fra reported to our staffs that there are only eight railroads with conditionally certified ptc safety plans, four more under review, and more than 25 who haven't even submitted. so mr. anderson or mr. mayer, what is the average size and complexity of either these ptc safety implementation plans generally? can you talk about that? >> so our railroads have submitted ptc implementation plans. our next step will be in the months ahead as we submit revenue service demonstr