broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas we have a very interesting hour for you or a bulletin or rather the u.s. president is about to give his annual state of the union address to congress donald trump is expected to set out his agenda for the year and ask voters to give him a 2nd term in the white house. and this year's event coincides with the final stage of trump's impeachment trial on wednesday evening the senate is expected to deliver its verdict let's now cross live to our t. america's special coverage which is in progress. in the report about the city my book there's a lot of people that are all here when i would argue that a book of after that is you know one that you know i got a rug last year and some of that there was no i mean i think this is right there's no difference between bloomberg and trump i mean trump goes the system is rigged against us and he's broken i'm coming in as the outsider yeah it's coming in and saying oh it's all going to be right i'm very years and it's the system we have 60 minutes and screw you

studios in moscow this is arch international and sean thomas certainly. all right the president of ukraine vladimir voiced his anger over the hostile reception given to evacuees returning from china over the coronavirus alberich riots broke out as a group of ukrainians were driven to a hospital and put in quarantine none of the passengers had tested positive the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured. actually. you know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we are all human beings. the flight of from the chinese city of han where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of kharkiv on thursday and before that roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up parties during the quarter comments. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it would

is most of this is arch international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us and supporters of have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned wiki leaks founder a hearing on his possible extradition to the u.s. gets underway on monday. as more. i'm here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assange to the u.s. we launch from australia house. to parliament square and you can see behind me there's a lot of talks going on in entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of democracy and support as they gather to. ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. serious this. is a crazy. is more freedom of the bombing future of. journalism. of. journalists. have to be able to scrutinize the wrong to be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u.s. he could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. accusing him of hacking a u.s. government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporter

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right following mounting tensions things have turned hot between israel and the palestinians the israel defense force says that they have launched air strikes against multiple targets in the gaza strip. this video purports to show the moment of the strike the i.d.f. says their war planes and helicopters hit underground facilities of the hamas and other assets the strike was said to be in response to an attack on saturday with a rocket fired from gaza an exchange of fire between the 2 sides has been ongoing over the past few days and this comes as the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the announcement came at an emergency meeting of the arab league in cairo following the release on tuesday of the trumpet ministrations a long awaited peace plan. we inform you here that we are cutting all relations with you and with america we have said the same thing to america inclu

broadcast direct from our studios in moscow this is art international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us for us a democratic senators are urging the trumpet ministration to impose additional sanctions on russia following the reports alleging the country is meddling in the 2020 presidential election. a letter from congressional democrats was presenting a sensually calling for more sanctions to be imposed on russia in response to allegations of russia trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election which will take place in november here's some of what was included in the letter. we urge you to immediately draw upon the reported conclusions of the intelligence community to identify and target for sanctions all those determined to be responsible for ongoing elections interference including president putin the government of the russian federation any russian actors determined to be directly responsible and those acting on their behalf or providing material or financial support for their efforts now as you heard the letter even called for directly sanctioning the russ

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the race to become the democratic candidate for the white house is now officially under way the caucus vote in the state of iowa which has just started is seen as a crucial early indicator of who will run for president for the democratic nomination at the iowa caucus is that the start of the primaries and usually a litmus test for what is to come bill and hillary went on from victory in iowa to run as the democrats' candidate and barack obama as well and ahead of the vote here is what the latest polls indicate outsider bernie sanders now shares a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden who is leaving behind a few other centrist hopefuls up and comments now on why washington might be wary of a senator's victory. the iowa caucuses are upon us and monday as the 1st primary contest takes place and jaws are dropping because the front runner isn't one of the sexy centrists favored by the d.n.c. but an elderly socialist from vermont 2 is technically no

right broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. had a knife wielding suspected terrorist has been shot and killed by police in south london authorities say 3 people were stabbed in this assault which happened on 3 thumb highroad the man now being named as amman had been reportedly released from prison only days before after serving just half of his 3 year sentence for terror offenses. was. was. was. on the metropolitan police's say they are treating the incident as an islamist inspired terror attack 20 year old a man had been in prison for spreading extremist material it is believed to be grabbed a knife from a shop before carrying out the frenzied assault the perpetrator had reportedly been under armed police surveillance british prime minister boris and johnson has thanked the emergency services for responding to the incident and has expressed sympathy to those injured witnesses described what they saw. somebody. like us. put us going to. go to them in the. dead of the talk show. it was one of. the light

international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. a partial results are now in from the democratic caucus in the u.s. state of iowa after a long delay and presidential hopeful pete but a judge has taken a surprise lead ahead of bernie sanders with 62 percent of precincts counted for more on this we can now across 2 artes and in new york. it's been an interesting process watching it all play out what do we know so far. well we still do not have complete results of the iowa caucuses the 1st vote or caucus i guess in the presidential primary of the united states now in terms of candidates and the results we have 62 percent of the precincts reporting and at this point in terms of state delegates in terms of delegates representing candidates pete buddhist has 27 percent of the vote with 2527 percent of the delegates with bernie sanders with 25 percent of the delegates behind him is elizabeth warren with 18 percent and joe biden in 4th place with 16 percent now bernie sanders is ahead in the popular vote however in terms of the the delegat

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us syrian militants backed by turkish forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in the province but they were pushed back by russian airstrikes after he was gone off has more on the developments. basically what happened terrorist factions launched an offensive on the syrian forces who were holding one of the villages a village in that northeastern province a very large scale offensive supported by artillery strikes by the turkish army so that offensive or that was of such scale that the troops of syrian troops on the ground could not withstand it on their own so the ask the russian air force to help out so it did but again that offensive that terrorist offensive was supported by turkish artillery so moscow had to intervene and reach out directly to ankara and ask them to stop the support to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into the 24 aircraft of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out air strikes

international i'm sean thomas. my partial results are now in from the democratic caucus in the u.s. state of iowa after a lengthy delay and pete but a judge has taken a surprising lead ahead of bernie sanders with 62 percent of precincts counted art he's been as commentary. we still do not have complete results of the iowa caucuses the 1st vote or caucus i guess in the presidential primary of the united states now in terms of candidates and the results we have 62 percent of the precincts reporting and at this point in terms of state delegates in terms of delegates representing candidates pete british has 27 percent of the vote with bernie sanders with 25 percent behind him is elizabeth warren with 18 percent and joe biden in 4th place with a 16 percent now bernie sanders is ahead in the popular vote however in terms of the the the delegates representing the state at the party convention is in the lead despite the lack of results we had both bernie sanders and people to declare victory so we don't hear results. by all indications we are going on to new hampshire victorious. due to th

international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the race to become the democratic candidate for the white house is officially underway a caucus vote has just wound up in the state of iowa it is seen as a crucial early indicator of who will become the democratic nominee. now the iowa caucus is the start of the primaries and usually a litmus test of what is to come bill and hillary clinton went on from victory and i want to run as the democrats' candidate and barack obama as well according to opinion polls before the iowa caucus bernie sanders shared a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden leaving behind the other centrist hopefuls artie's caleb mop and reports now on why washington might be wary of a sanders victory. the iowa caucuses are upon us and monday as the 1st primary contest takes place and jaws are dropping because the front runner isn't one of the sexy centrists favored by the d.n.c. but an elderly socialist from vermont 2 is technically not even a democrat but a registered independent can imagine any woman watching last night and saying i be

broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas we have a very interesting hour for you or a bulletin rather the u.s. president is about to give his annual stay.

let's ask republican strategist sean thomas and democratic strategist, laura fink.ra, we talked about this, that bloomberg had a rough, rough time in las vegas. he has been off the grid. we really haven't seen him. do you think he's ready? >> you know, we will see. there's no telling at these debates, they're always a bit of a surprise. his sights are trained on sanders and he'll be on offense at the debate. the thing that will be on the debate stage tonight is trump's record and we heard him talking about it for several minutes while you covered the live feed and the reality is, $845 billion in cuts to medicare and social security and his record on healthcare more broadly by going to court, trying to take away people's pre-existing condition coverage. i think it won't just be sanders and bloomberg on the menu. donald trump will be there as well. cheryl: and joe biden, pete buttigieg might show up. i'm joking. bernie sanders comes out, he tells us how he plans to pay for these multi hundreds of billions of dollars of plans he's proposing. he's going to raise taxes,

sean hannity's show. recommended. a list that the wife of clarence thomas handed this list to president trump.r counter sayterrorism a senior white house security council role. >> and talk about the inner workings on this administration. the notion that a sitting president of the united states would have some kind of political hit list to remove adversaries or people who don't agree with him from office raises a lot of serious ethical questions about how our government functions. i'm curious to get your thoughts from your reporting. do you know if any of these individuals that have been targeted by the president tend to fight back in any way, shape or form? have you spoken to them about what their next steps are in the names mentioned maybe on that list? >> i'm not getting into any conversations i may or may not have had with people on the list but i'll tell you that's unusual about this is with, apart from the fact the list exists, three years into a presidency and most of these people are political appointees. meaning president trump appointed them. he allowed his cabinet secretaries or his

clarence thomas, ruth bader ginsburg would not necessarily be on the same ideological spectrum as they view the law and thefo constitution. they are supposed to be cordiality, congeniality, even? >> seanay go after each other on policy but not name or personal attack. here is what happened, they had to stay think that the trump decision went to the supreme court to try to get an p injunction by federal judge lifted. that judge had blocked a rule which allows immigration officials to take into consideration whether a green card applicant has or will become dependent on government benefits. the government granted the request but, it is hard to say whether troubling, she wrote that the government would seek this extraordinary relay seemingly as a matter of course or that the court would grant it. she went on to accuse the courts majority up being more prone to grant emergency requests like these from the trump administration then to grant execution of irreparable harm is a loss of life. now the trump administration has gone to the supreme court a number of times asking the justices to lift these nationwide injunctions issued by a single judge who under the current system has the power to