international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the international olympic committee has announced one hundred sixty nine russian athletes will be able to take part in next month's winter games in south korea the i.o.c. hasn't published the names of the athletes but the number matches the size of the team announced by russia earlier this week and it's already known some of the country's top medal hopefuls will be unable to compete. i. was left with a weakness of my. time to speak well of course of a bias i was surely in my belly as much as a material of the time i haven't. yet that was just three of us accommodating elf carry out what he gave all the time paschal the butler one that he has yet at least yet we've got a legends we have i am going to see if there was which was the way us which was kept at that flatly i think before me that is that dawn was not going to ask us to buy and i think in. my thoughts while leaving everything behind and returning home it was my dream to competed in banks and i was working towards the go throug

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. in switzerland where donald trump has been speaking to political and business leaders at the world economic forum the us president used his speech to promote his vision for protectionist trade policies and tax cuts and to take a swipe at the media jacqueline who go reports from davos well probably to no one's surprise whatsoever trump speech did feature his signature phrase of america first and his speech is actually rounding out the end of the forum let's take a quick listen to what he had to say i believe in america i will always put america first when the united states groups so does the world america is growing back america is a cutting edge drama. that's what we're doing in america and the results. on this day america's future has never been brighter i will put america first i believe in america to come to america where you can innovate create and build now that pretty much wraps up his whole speech which centered on progress that's been made in the u.s. in the presence of opinio

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us and we start with news from the u.s. where the house intelligence committee has voted to release a controversial classified memo this is legit as the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse their surveillance powers to spy on donald trump's campaign associates during the twenty sixteen presidential elections artie's samir khan has more. in a partisan vote republicans of the house intel committee voted to release the memo that we've been hearing so much about republicans have called it a scandal worse than watergate and it reportedly detail surveillance abuses by the department of justice during the trump campaign we don't know for sure what's in the document but according to reports that u.s. intelligence officials use the trump russia dossier or that's filled with unproven claims to improperly obtain a warrant to look into the trunk campaign now while republicans think that it's crucial to release the memo democrats believe that it's politically motivated to undermine the trump russia investigatio

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. turkey has begun a military operation in syria against the kurdish held region of afrin the turks have launched air strikes and begun cross border shelling with a ground invasion expected on sunday the news agency ruptly has obtained this footage of aerial strikes on africa over seventy planes conducted sorties with all aircraft are now back at base in turkey the campaign which considers to be anti terror has been named operation olive branch it's aimed at ousting the kurdish militia from afrin which they've held for five years the turks started cross border shelling on friday. injured civilians in afrin were taken to the city's central hospital following the airstrikes the kurds claim that at least six civilians and three fighters were killed with another thirteen people injured while i'm correct insists all the casualties were among the fighters artie's middle east correspondent paula sneer is following developments at least eight if sixteen's have been firing from the skies while o

i'm kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. north and south korea have just started their first official talks in two years the negotiations are taking place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries that have been recent signs of progress january's asserted saw the reopening of a cross border telephone line and the following day donald trump delayed the annual military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea . well that's now across to our reporter caleb maupin caleb hi there sorry what more can you tell us about these talks between north and south korea. well at this point we understand the talks have begun in the shared border village in the demilitarized zone between the two countries now at this point it's not clear what's going to be discussed we know that one agenda item will be the upcoming winter olympic games however at this point we have heard that south korea's a unification minister has actually talked about using the talks as an op

international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. the turkish army is continuing its advance into northern syria with tanks and helicopters ankara is fighting local kurdish militia groups which it considers to be terrorists. well these are the latest pictures of the turkish offensive in syria troops have seized control of the strategic manned bossa according to government media and in this video turkish soldiers are seen with fighters from the so-called free syrian army. well the turkish army entered the african region on january the twentieth president erdogan has vowed to send his troops further east to other kurdish held areas including man beach and on to the iraqi border where the pentagon has been arming the syrian kurds for years due to their vital role in fighting islamic state and many kurdish fighters now feel abandoned by the u.s. . we see that the us doesn't support our friend with thing that's double standards america has no tools to present directly we demand that the us or fills its promises and protects liberated area

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. this week twenty one people have died during a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the government these began as protests about the economic situation but turned political and then violent. or washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of iran's leadership the u.s. also called for an emergency un security council meeting about the situation. some members doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of international security. in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. warning events in the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se the threat to international peace and security every un member state is sovereign but member states cannot use sovereignty as a shield when they categorically deny their people human rights and fundamental freedoms money we disagree with the council should not discuss things s

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the u.s. has urged turkey not to attack syria's african region and focus on fighting isis instead that's according to the state department spokesperson has and now it we would call i certainly on the turks to not take any actions of that sort don't want them to engage in the violence but we want them to keep focused on isis or turkey threatened armed intervention in the kurdish held african region after it emerged the u.s. was planning to work with kurdish fighters in establishing a so-called border force in syria following ankara's furious reaction washington seem to have tracked artie's senior correspondent what i guess theory explains. turkey isn't kidding around day after day it is pulling more tanks and more missiles more troops to the syrian border this is the predator you would to a new war a war within the u.s. led coalition should. now america's acknowledged it's established an army of terror along our country's border it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. one

i'm kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us groups from all sides of the conflict in the syrian war have been involved in a heated day of talks during the peace summit in the russian resort of sochi and it seems they have produced a tangible result more against the of reports. first of all they've agreed on twelve points twelve points along which a future syrian state will be built it's it's a guideline the document itself made the rounds at geneva multiple times but ultimately it got nowhere it was finally side here in sochi and it's a road map that governs everything from syrian from syrian governance itself to syrian sovereignty to how the military will be overhauled the other big thing that was agreed on is a constitutional reform committee to amend or rewrite the syrian constitution the interesting thing here is that seats on it will be saved for those that were unwilling or unable to attend these talks this will be passed on to the u.n. so the u.n. will oversee this new committee and

this is actually international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. a full state of mass pro-government rallies has been held in iran tens of thousands of people have been on marches to show their support for the country's leaders these common response to a seven day uprising triggered by poor living conditions that engulfed over eighty cities. that was. on friday night the united nations security council at washington's request held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in iran russia criticized the move saying that terror on should be left alone to deal with its own internal affairs well that sentiment was echoed by a number of other members on the security council in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute . threat to international peace and security every un member state is sovereign but member states cannot use sovereignty as a shield when they categorically deny their people human rights

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. if you decide to challenge america's experiment in democracy it's going to be your worst day those were the words of u.s. defense secretary james mattis as he unveiled america's new defense strategy which will now primary focus on deterring russia and china. but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of your security first and foremost this america's defense strategy so to speak is so much on the offensive side of the tracks it almost makes you think that someone copy and pasted the old name into the you know into the headline space so it's the first time since the cold war american military is focusing on this great competition of powers so this can really be seen as sort of a that sort of mentality making a comeback what it also means is the infamous war on terror is taking the backseat it is being put on the back burner so to speak instead washington is focusing on russ

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. donald trump says there's a possibility that the north korean crisis won't be resolved peacefully the u.s. president claims that's because having dialogue with pyongyang is next to impossible. and has more this recent interview given by u.s. president donald trump trouble repeated much of his typical rhetoric demonizing north korea for trying them as a threat to the region and from there he went on to say that sanctions and isolation of the country and threats were probably the best approach because dialogue with that country might be impossible this is donald trump's words i'm not sure the talks will lead to anything meaningful they've talked for twenty five years and they've taken advantage progress of our. siddons of our previous presidents listen to trump's words you would think that the dialogue currently taking place between the north and the south was irrelevant that nothing was happening but it looks like some historic breakthroughs have actually taken place this is what's was

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this is an international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the international olympic committee has announced one hundred sixty nine russian athletes will be able to take part in next month's winter games in south korea the i.o.c. hasn't published the names of the athletes but the number matches the size of the team announced by russia earlier this week and it's already known some of the country's top medal hopefuls will be unable to compete. well it was a love hate weakness and much of time attack was a recall of course of a bias i was surely in my belly as much as a material of one of the women. yes that was just me i was looking on a thing at all for her reality a good role that i'm paschal the athlete one. has yet atlas yet leave that he leaves i do with as we have i am glad to see it's yeah with which was the way us which much was kept at that flat i think before me that is that dog was not going to ask us to buy and i think in. my thoughts are leaving everything behind and returning home it was my dream to competed in pigs and i was work

international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. groups from all sides of the conflict in the syrian war have been involved in a heated day of talks during the peace signs in the russian resort of sochi and it seems they have produced a turntable result what i'd guess different points first of all they've agreed on twelve points twelve points along which a future syrian state will be built it's it's a guideline the document itself made the rounds that geneva multiple times but ultimately it got nowhere it was finally side here in sochi and it's a road map that governs everything from syrian from syrian government itself to syrian sovereignty to how the military will be overhauled the other big thing that was agreed on is a constitutional reform committee to amend or rewrite the syrian constitution the interesting thing here is that seats on it will be saved for those that were unwilling and able to attend these talks this will be passed on to the u.n. so the u.n. will oversee this new committee and the u.n. special envoy to syria wi

international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. understand in switzerland why don't trump has been speaking to political and business leaders at the world economic forum the us president used his speech to promote his vision for protectionist trade policies and tax cuts adams to take a swipe at the media. reports from davos well probably to no one's surprise whatsoever trump speech did feature his signature phrase of america first and his speech is actually rounding out the end of the forum let's take a quick listen to what he had to say i believe in america i will always put america first when the united states grows so does the world america is roaring back america is a cutting edge. that's what we're doing in america and the results. on mistake america's future has never been brighter i will always put america first i believe in america to come to america where you can innovate create and build now that pretty much wraps up his whole speech which centered on progress that's been made in the u.s. in the presence of opinion since

the international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. turkey has begun a military operation in syria against the kurdish held region of africa the turks have launched air strikes and begun cross border shelling with a ground invasion expected on sunday the news agency ruptly has obtained this exclusive footage of aerial strikes on our friend over seven. two planes conducted sorties with all aircraft now back at base in turkey the campaign which ankara considers to be anti terror has been named operation olive branch it's aimed at ousting the kurdish militia from africa which they have held for five years the turks started to cross border shelling on friday. injured civilians in africa were taken to the city's central hospital following the airstrikes kurdish officials claim that at least ten civilians have been injured artie's middle east correspondent paula samir is following developments there peace eight if sixteen's have been firing from the skies while on the ground you have the turkish backed syrian opposition rebels have moved int

this the rest assured will be the very latest news headlines at the top of the with my colleague kate partridge. read. but it. was good lord god god revealed. the released a memo moment this upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media holiday a distraction finally the public will decide. this is the kaiser report on max kaiser what the frick is growing on flower. pluckers not here will bring plucky back to what's going on upstairs thanks if you go on totally mad. i love the flowers and the trees and the bee is it's nature it's a forest right here in the middle of los angeles fantastic oh yes we're in a tropical jungle here in the middle of los angeles so you will hear the birds because we're in the tropical forest within los angeles where the sunset marquis but you will hear many sirens because many bad people live in los angeles as well as people like kevin spacey harvey weinstein on the police are chasing bu

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international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. president donald trump has delivered his first state of the union address on capitol hill although his speech centered on the country's economy and immigration policy he also touched upon a number of international issues a correspondent r.t. samir khan joins us live now with the details hi there samir so a lengthy first official address so what were the highlights. well like you said trump went into both domestic and foreign policy but mostly domestic policy bragging about his that trickle down economic policies celebrating police and veterans and exporting on clean energy to the world he also brought up infrastructure proposing one point five million dollars to improve infrastructure in the u.s. but he focused quite heavily on immigration let's take a look at what he said. predict kids open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities they've allowed medians of low wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest americans most tragi

international coming to life from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. i will start the bulletin in switzerland where donald trump has been speaking to political and business leaders at the world economic forum the us president used his speech to promote his vision for protectionist trade policies and tax cuts and to take a swipe at the media r.t. jacqueline berger reports from the. there and the results. one mistake america's future has never been brighter i will always put america first i believe in america to come to america where you can innovate create and build now that pretty much wraps up his whole speech which centered on progress that's been made in the u.s. in the presence of opinion since he came to the white house he touched specifically on the booming stock market on the recent tax reform that he signed and the progress against eisel he also went on to say that leaders should be cheerleaders for their own countries and that he's a cheerleader for the u.s. and that's easy for him because he loves the country so much now of course trump being