r.t. international live from moscow studio with me welcome to the program and we start this hour with breaking news u.s. vice president mike pence has just announced that america's embassy in israel will move to jerusalem next year president trump has directed the state department to immediately begin preparations to move the united states embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and that united states embassy will open before the end of next year the speech he gave to the israeli parliament was earlier disrupted by a brawl. supreme court. citizens of israel. the visit by mike pence has been met by protest over president trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel demonstrators were seen burning the vice president's portrayed and at the same time palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has traveled to brussels where he's been meeting with the e.u. foreign policy chief frederica she says that the e.u. still committed to a two state solution. and look if. he will. actually see for more on this now we have our correspondent in the middle east policy paula how has this announcement gone down ther

r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me welcome to the program the luxury swiss resort of downforce is opening its doors to the annual world economic forum and with this year's focus on creating a shared future in a fractured world it's pulled in a record number of world leaders and heads of government that includes donald trump who is just the second u.s. president to attend the summit as jacqueline bouvier reports. today is the first official day of the world economic forum here in the swiss alps and it has attracted a number of political heavyweights that are going to be in attendance everyone from theresa may to mccraw on merkel justin trudeau and surprisingly enough donald trump he has a speech scheduled for later this week that is much anticipated and it will make him this second u.s. president to ever attend the first being bill clinton back in two thousand now an ill timed government shutdown back at home did put his trip under question for a little while but things are back on track at this point of course many are very curious about how his america first actually fit in wi

r.t. international live from our moscow news hates q just after ten pm here wherever you're tuning in from around the world hello and welcome to our top story this hour as iran enters a sixth consecutive day of unrest twenty one people are now thought to have died in clashes in the country on monday night nine people were killed six during an attack on a police station this is for the aged from that incident arena and media reported that the protesters were trying to steal weapons from the site in the last three days alone there have reportedly been more than four hundred fifty arrests across the country on choose the around supreme leader spoke out for the first time since the un restored you cues foreign powers fermenting the trial. so the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack it can infiltrate look at the recent days incidents all those who are at odds with these the mc republic have utilized various means including money weapons bullet and intelligence apparatus to create bro. for these learning system the islamic republic and these limits revolution. or shortly after that do

r.t. international live from a moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program u.s. vice president mike pence has announced that america's embassy in israel will move to jerusalem next year. president trump has directed the state department to immediately begin preparations to move the united states embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and that united states embassy will open before the end of next year. more on this and we have our correspondent in the middle east policy paula how is this allows weren't going down there. well this is a controversial announcement and decision and no doubt it will cause a backlash much like the backlash that was caused last month when the american president donald trump announced that the united states recognizes jerusalem as israel's capital this is why most of the palestinian leadership has chosen to boycott the visit of the deputy american president mike pence to the region now at the same time when pence of live late last night there were palestinian protesters who were trampling and burning his plaque card and at the same time a da

r.t. international live from moscow with me daniel hawkins whoever you are today you're very welcome on the program. now a space mission already started in secrecy is now grown even more mysterious that some had rumors about the fates of a top secret u.s. government satellite the reusable space x. rocket which launched it if you were worth questions remain though over being over what exactly happened to the payload has the details of the cryptic launch well the intriguing or mysterious thing about this is that ahead of the launch and during it and the media there were so many stories about the top secret spy satellite which belongs to the u.s. government being launched by elan mosques space x. company it was called zoom but now almost two days after the launch everyone is pretty much in the dark about its fate sunday night's launch was life strained by space six but only until a certain stage is sure. we have had successful liftoff of falcon nine. though then the satellites deployment into orbit wasn't shown or reported on at all now if the mission is so secret isn't any fat at some stage i

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r.t. international live from our studio with me in india today welcome to the program the u.s. president has arrived in switzerland for the pro globalist economic forum in davos many a surprise he's attending the event where the u.s. president will promote his famous mantra america first. joins us live from davos so don't try and trump he's arrived what can we expect from his meetings jacqueline . well that's really what the question is on everyone's lips because before the wheels of marine one even took off from d.c. everyone's been discussing what he's going to contribute to this world economic forum here and davos and meanwhile a number of european political big wigs have been sending out a message of europe first and while that's maybe not as nationalist of a theme as america first it's also not a globalist one which is the usual mantra of the forum here. it isn't gentlemen my my my first missy he said france is back france is back it's a call for europe because we will never have any friends successes without a european success if between our twenty seven member states we'

r.t. international live from our studio with me in india today welcome to the program president trump is in the swiss resort of doubles for the world economic forum he's already spoken to british prime minister theresa may. is there for us. after their meeting both donald trump interest in may talked about how wonderful their conversation was how much they appreciated meeting one another and what a wonderful relationship the two countries have with one another donald trump went on to say that he really respects theresa may and that contrary to what some may believe they do have a wonderful relationship. have a. huge. don't generally believe that i'm sure. that if you. like you. love you that idea that the two countries still have a special relationship comes just weeks after donald trump canceled his visit to the u.k. to open the new u.s. embassy there the president said that he canceled the visit simply because he thought that the deal that was brokered to sell the old embassy was a bad one but many did see that as a bit of a dent in that special relationship donald trump is here at the da

r.t. international live. thanks for joining us this hour. space mission already shrouded in secrecy has now grown even more mysterious rumors about the fate of a top secret u.s. government satellite the reusable space x. rocket which launched it has safely returned to earth questions remain over what happened to the payload. of the details of the cryptic launch. well the intriguing or mysterious thing about this is that ahead of the launch and during it and the media there were so many stories about the top secret spy satellite which belongs to the u.s. government being launched by illinois mosques basics company it was called zoom but now almost two days after the launch everyone is pretty much in the dark about its fate sunday night's launch was lifestream to body space six but only until a certain stage. we have had successful lift off of falcon nine carrying those then the satellites deployment into orbit wasn't shown or reported on at all now if the mission is so secrecy it isn't any fad at some stages all of the live stream a sense tha

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r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge 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 tough to get him much of pakistani politician of a biocide surely in my belly is which is a pretty good of much of the. yes that was just the house accommodating health care hurry up and eat here again for all that time paschal the past one that he has yet or at least yet believe that he leaves i do things we have i am glad to see it's yeah with which was that i asked which was which was capital at that flannel 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 working towards the go through hundr

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. groups from all sides of the conflict in the syrian war have been involved in a heated day of talks cheering the peace summit in the russian resort of sochi and it seems they have produced a tangible result ati's what i guess 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 of 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 that will be saved for those that were unwilling or on the 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 envo

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate park ridge and we start with some news from the u.s. where the house intelligence committee has voted to release a controversial classified memo this alleges the f.b.i. and department of justice abused their surveillance powers to spy on donald trump's campaign associates during the twenty sixteen presidential elections artie's samir khan now joins us live with more details. so hi there samir so what more do we know . well republicans of the house intel committee voted to release the memo that we've been hearing so much about and it's been called a scandal worse than watergate but the memo reportedly details the surveillance abuses by the department of justice that happened during the trial campaign and democrats have voted against it before but they believe it's politically motivated to undermine the russia investigation now trump will have five days to decide whether or not it's going to be released so we'll just have to wait and see what happens and we'll keep following up. so america thank you very much lou thank you. now the i

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. a fourth day 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 come in response to a seven day uprising triggered by poor living conditions that engulfed over eighty cities. oh. 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 do with its own internal affairs well that sentiment was echoed by a number of other members of 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. given 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 funda

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate part of. north korea is set to hold official talks with the sas for the first time in two years and there are already some early signs of progress january the surge 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 or face to face negotiations with the north are set for later on choose day and dotty's kind of walk in takes a closer look. well it's hard to tell exactly everything that will be discussed now we know that one thing that is probably going to definitely be on the agenda will be the upcoming olympic games now we've heard from south korea's unification minister and he has said that he hopes that the talks become a place to ease the tensions now if you've been paying attention to everything that's been going on on the korean peninsula over the last few months you can tell there's quite a bit of tension there and you almost can't really imagine it bei

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. 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 spread person has in now it we would call on 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 we're talking 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 boche following and grows fierce reaction washington seems to have backtracked on to senior regional correspondent what does the it 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 pregnant 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

r.t. 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

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. donald trump says there's a possibility 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 meanwhile the goshi ations between the koreas have led to a major breakthrough in their relations artie's morgan has more in this recent interview given by u.s. president donald trump trouble repeated much of his typical rhetoric demonizing north korea betraying 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 of our presidents of our previous presidents to listen to trump's words you would think that the dialogue. currently taking place between the north and the south was irrelevant that nothing wa

r.t. international casting live from the russian capital and nikki erin good to have you with us. north korea and south korea are holding their first official talks in over two years the negotiations are taking place in the dimmick demilitarized zone between the two countries and here's what preceded the negotiations january the first the reopening of a cross border telephone line the following day donald trump agreed to delay military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea auntie's more is following the developments. it went well which is rare to hear these days when it comes to the korea's one north korea agreed to send a delegation to the winter olympics in pyongyang chang sportspeople performance for the cultural events it's simple if the north attends the olympics it's much less likely to stage a provocation launch another missile to family reunions relatives separated by the war that haven't seen each other for decades could be allowed reunions the extra month and three perhaps most importantly south korea has proposed to face meetings betw

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. 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 that then turned political and then violent. while washington has been openly supporting the county government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of iraq. leadership the u.s. also calls for an emergency un security council meeting about the situation but 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. however worrying events of 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 as a council should not discuss

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. the u.k. foreign office has reportedly denied a request from ecuador to grants diplomatic status to julian assange which it follows reports the wiki leaks founder being granted an ecuadorian id card as a step towards ending his five year confinement in the london embassy artie's anastasio as the latest. the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that julian assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to be specifically ans

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm. 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 exclusive footage of aerial strikes on africa over seventy planes conducted sorties with all aircraft now back at base in turkey the campaign which an corrected siege is 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 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 ankara insists all the casualties were among fighters artie's middle east correspondent paula spear is following developments at least eight if sixteen is have been firing from the

r.t. international are watching live from moscow with me daniel hawkins rev you are tonight you're very welcome on the program. as you do in a song that has been granted citizenship by a quid or a country that has been hosting him and its embassy in london since twenty twelve after he requested political asylum and as a spiritual couldn't explain this morning what the motive means for the we can exchange unfortunately for julian assange continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember the rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now and tonight we have got a confirmation of this here is what the ecuadorian foreign minister had to say. this naturalization was granted on the twelfth of december twenty seventeen the ecuadorian government is empowered to grant nationality status to the protected person the big question remains what happens in

r.t. 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

r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. 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 one are primarily focused on that are in 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

lives. as variable welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and we carry. the international paralympic committee has upheld its ban on team russia for the upcoming twenty eighteen winter games however clean russian athletes will be allowed to compete in south korea in march under a neutral flag artie's peter oliver has more from bonn germany the international paralympic committee has extended its ban against team russia that means that. they won't be able to take part in the upcoming winter power olympics in pyongyang in south korea unlike the able bodied athletes in which those taking part in the pyongyang games will be referred to as a limp athlete from russia in the case of power elites they will be referred to only as neutral fleets or leads from a neutral country that means russia completely stripped from uniforms. no russian flags and no russian national anthem games now in hunting down the extension of this the president of the international power olympic committee said there had been st

r.t. 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

r.t. 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

how you live on r.t. international. hello i'd like to ask you what do you make of this latest this speech from james madison what kind of consequences do you anticipate i do apologize to our viewers we seem to have some sound difficulties that will try to get our guests back and bring you some more discussion later on that for now the turkish defense minister has announced his country has launched a military operation in syria's kurdish controlled african region starting with cross border shelling has more on how events unfolded. we're hearing from the turkish defense minister that a de facto turkish military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the white jeep who say that since those day night some seventy shells have been fired by the turkish military on to their villages now it's one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the united states has admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish syrian border any chord

r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and making erin i would start this hour with breaking news from on r.t. north and south korea have agreed to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics opening ceremony there will also be a joint into korean women's ice hockey team holding to a statement made by the representatives of pyongyang and seoul following today's talks between the two countries south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile the western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure came continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to pressure. career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the value of a group could come up with the purpose of our

r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow. u.k. broadcaster the b.b.c. has been accused of providing biased breaks it coverage with the majority of its guests allegedly defending a pro e.u. stance that's according to several recent surveys prompting anger in britain's house of lords. for a tree is a pretty much become the supporter over for organizing with. you dave bricks through mr through the do the surgery recently the history in brussels for this movie even more difficult is every time he makes a small advance for his problems of mind for the b.b.c. . in order because you do a duty of impartiality. let's cross to london now in artie's or laura smith laura good to see you so what are these allegations of b.b.c. bias based on well there have been two reports just in the last week which have looked into how the b.b.c. is representing people who support it in its programming last week's report was from an organization called civic tasks and they intitled it brussels broadcasting corporation rather amusingly and it found that over a period of ten years b

r.t. international we come to you live from the russian capital with the latest world headlines. so you can just go ahead and forget about the war on terror it's russia and china that are now america's biggest threat that's what the u.s. defense secretary james mattis spelt out as he unveiled the country's new foreign policy priorities. picks up the story trump's new defense doctrine could probably be summed up in just three words bring it on future it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game. great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of security. the logic here is that technological and hard power gap between the us and the competition is narrowing and washington simply can't let that happen cannot expect success by the tomorrows conflicts with yesterday's weapons or equipment. investments in space and cyber space nuclear deterrent forces missile defense advanced autonomy systems and resilient and logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win my . that is a new arms ra

r.t. 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

r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital and the karen good to have you with us. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent on rebuilding cities left devastated in the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has earmarked for its continued military operations there are these more advanced you have has more on the story what does this look like to you. mark. resident evil no this is mosul or rather what's left of it quote a sea of thousands of air strikes we film this a few weeks ago and nothing's really changed from when we were there last this is what the aftermath of a classic strike in mosul look like neighborhoods that numbered in the thousands it's been reduced to a handful. the iraqi army and the u.s. led coalition seem to make sure to not leave a square meter and scorched earth it took of precision i haven't yet seen a single house and mine still untouched by fighting the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across rubble the street over there it's the same story wherever you l

r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you with us now we start this hour with breaking news the turkish president has confirmed his country starting a military operation on kurdish held region in syria it was launched on friday when the turkish army opened cross border fire and we can now go to paula all the latest details on this call a turkey is now a shelling syria why. well yes we have received the confirmation that turkey has launched new strikes against the kurdish militia the y.p. in northern syria and now we are hearing from the turkish army that they hit in what they say is legitimate self defense against the camps and places of refuge belonging to the y p g they said that this was in response to a fire that was coming from the athlon region which is an area that is essentially controlled by the white that the turks believe is connected to the p.k. k. and as such with god as a terrorist organization we saw similar such strikes on friday or this comes amid mounting expectations that ankara will launch a cross border ground

r.t. international coming to you live from moscow on cape cod rich 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 are 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 us now to hear it 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 r

r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital it's good to have you with us this hour. now we start with breaking news the pentagon has apparently told the inspector general for afghanistan to hush up how much of the country's territory is under the control of local taliban insurgents that's according to his latest report. the inspector general produces regular reports on the progress of the longest conflict in u.s. history some of which have been quite negative about the u.s. operation his latest comes amid increased violence in afghanistan. now the u.s. treasury has released a declassified list of russian individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august last year the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top tier business figures but the treasury denies those on the list stopping sign and medina cancian of a has the details it is quite a backlist was a lot of names that includes almost all top russian politicians and businessmen including prime minister dmitry me to the differing mi