u.s. state department has backed that move we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's top sponsor of terrorism. that comes after iran's ambassador to the u.n. accused saudi arabia of sponsoring terrorism during his address add to the recent

u.s. . state department it's off to a pretty bleak start almost four hundred thousand people killed half of them killed in the conflict the other half dying of hunger and disease now previously prior to this report the estimates had only been in the tens of thousands but now it looks like the numbers of deaths in south sudan are approaching the number that have died in the conflict in syria pretty bleak but it wasn't always like this now in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was no south sudan sudan was one country and it was embroiled in the longest running civil war in the continent. however there were some perks at that point sudan had lots of oil to sell and china was pouring in investments and that is when the sanctions rolled in sudan was declared to be a state sponsor of terror bill clinton bombed a factory in one nine hundred ninety eight that he said was making chemical weapons our forces also attacked a factory in sudan associated with. the factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons but actually the factory was just making medicine no evidence of ch

u.s. state department funded report question where are all the countries which initially supported. is there a plan b. . what does that have to do is. the question i'd like to do the. sexual assault allegations against donald trump supreme court nominee. ranging new trade deal with america's neighbors. germany reportedly greenlights a multi-million dollar arms deal with. keeping pace with european suppliers. over the saudis participation in the conflict. the rest of. from madrid. at one pm here in moscow this choose the october the second wherever you are tuning in from welcome to r.t. international our top story a new report suggests that the death toll from the civil war inside reached almost four hundred thousand people multiple times more than previously thought the shocking figures are a long way away from the hope that surrounded the country's declaration of independence in twenty eleven the u.s. was quick to support africa's newest nation then but how long did that help continue. south sudan is the youngest country in the world and according to a new report from the u.s. stat

u.s. the state department welcomed the decision to lift a travel ban on being. in other news at least eighteen people most of them schoolchildren have died after flash flooding in jordan heavy rain caused the floods near the dead sea where thirty seven children and seven teachers were in a school outing witnesses say the children were travelling on a bus to a resort area when it was swept into a valley by raging floodwaters a major search and rescue operation is currently underway israel has sent helicopters to assist the search jordanian authorities say they were able to save a group of people from the raging waters. so there was a school trip for thirty seven students with certain. people in this location there were people who ended up in the little people who managed to reach the ropes and. thank god we managed to save several people without any injuries. a top taliban commander detained in pakistan for more than eight years has been freed abdul honey but i doubt it was the former right hand man of taliban founder omar better that was among several senior tal

u.s. state department and the u.n.of calling for a full and transparent investigation and to gee's disappearance or sentence as it's concerned over the whereabouts of the journalists. police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a bald garion journalists that year old victoria marin over was raped and killed in the northern town of ruse she'd been investigating alleged fraud with the e.u. funds involving businessmen and politicians the leader of bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister to regret when is the son of the opposition leader as ear he was already in jail when was tried in absentia after he went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight province o'shea katsina who was opposition leader at the time of the attack narrowly escaped but suffered haring loss and his lawyer says the timing of the verdict is aimed at keeping him out of upcoming elections you're u

u.s. state department on the u.n. according for a full and transparent investigation into the case washington says it's concerned over the whereabouts of the list police in germany have charged a man with murder for the death of a bulgarian journalist that year old victoria maher no vote was raped and killed in the northern bowl garion town of ruse she'd been investigating alleged fraud with a u. fund involving businessmen and politicians body was found in a park and said signs of suffocation and blows to the head the leader of bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister trick rahman is the son of former opposition leader. who's already in jail rahman was tried in absentia after he went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight. one of the sons of egypt's former president mohammed morsy has been arrested at his home in cairo a family of most he said they don't know where he's been taken he's

u.s. state department reacted to the s three ha. brit deployment saying it could escalate the situation in the region syria accidentally shot on a russian il twenty reconnaissance aircraft during the tank by is really find her jets the kremlin accused israel of using the larger russian plane as cover israel confirmed conducting the u.s. strikes but sees its jets were outside syrian airspace when the plane was and. you know in a quite extraordinary claim french authorities say before a plan by iran to bomb on the remaining opposition groups rally near paris they've now frozen the assets of iran's intelligence agency the u.s. state department lent its weight to the accusations to. we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's us stop top sponsor of terrorism well as a backdrop to this or run itself accuse saudi arabia of sponsoring terrorism during a speech of the recent u.n. general assembly in new york everybody knows

u.s. state department in the u.n. are calling for a full and transparent investigation into. washington says it's concerned about the whereabouts of the. police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a bulgarian. raped and killed in the northern town of she'd been investigating back to forward with a u. funds involving business and politicians. donald trump says he's investigating is considering five candidates for the role of a u.s. ambassador to the united nations to mickey haley's sudden resignation hayley says she wants a break from public life and has ruled out running against trump in the twenty twenty presidential elections mike hanna reports from the united nations. many in the security council disagreed with the policies that the us representative championed again but during eighteen months at the un nikki haley engendered a great deal of respect forming warm personal relationships with those she supported as well as those she so forcibly opposed the secretary general had a truly very good working relationship with her they worked. to get thr

u.s. state department and the u.n. is calling for a full and transparent investigation and jamal khashoggi it's a parent's washington says it's concerned about the whereabouts of the jobless. and police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a well gary and journalist that's here old victorian era never was raped and killed in the northern town of roos she's been investigating alleged forward with a new funds involving businessmen and politicians. a bangladeshi opposition leader has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister terry graffman was tried in absentia after he went in self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight nineteen other people were sentenced to death lawyers says the timing of the verdict is aimed at keeping him out of the country's upcoming elections donald trump says he is considering five candidates for the role of the u.s. ambassador to the united nations of nikki haley surprise resignation trum

u.s. state department on friday. this is ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage with and participate in the goshi asians with both the taliban and the afghan government and if the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans there's never wanted this and the leadership of the taliban never gave permission to any member to negotiate on their behalf u.s. defense secretary james mattis had a meet and greet with the afghan president in kabul they finally decided to play nice in a bid to get the taliban down to talks but just one day before their words of peace washington dropped a big f. thirty five b. bomb on the taliban looks like the peace process is getting off on the right foot especially when the u.s. has for years led up to this moment promising both talk and terror i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile living a relevance.

u.s. state department has said they are monitoring the situation. what is coming out of d.c. is very inconsistent. the saudi's are in a particular position where they can go about doing this to an extremely prominent figure with good contacts in the west. this does not seem to have affected them. >> thank you for that. cristiano ronaldo has denied accusations that he raped an american model a decade ago. he says his conscious is clear. the model has accused the of sexuallylayer assaulting him -- of sexually assaulting her in 2009. she says the me too movement has given her courage to come forward. >> he is one of the world's best footballers. now his reputation is on the line due to a rate allegation -- rapeay rape -- due to a allegation. 24-year-old then invited her back to his penthouse suite. rinaldo then forced her into a bedroom and raped her. she reported the assault to police the same day. she was examined at a hospital. in hushpted $375,000 money offered by his team of fixers to keep quiet. her lawyers say the me too movement has given her the courage to speak out. >>

u.s. state department has not moved. we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's us stop top sponsor of terrorism like comes after and then really unrepresentative accuse of sponsoring terrorism during a speech of a recent un general assembly meeting held in new york everybody knows very well that saudi arabia supports terrorism and a very blatant and widespread manner in the framework of we key in two thousand and nine hillary clinton is said to have stated that saudi arabia is the greatest donor to terrorist groups around the world. well according to those documents obtained by wiki leaks then secretary of state hillary clinton called saudi arabia the most significant source of funding to sunni terrorist groups worldwide she also allegedly named saudi arabia quote a critical financial support base for al qaeda the taliban and other terrorist groups political scientists counter offer a sabi ses the u.s.

u.s. state department champagne and laughter swapping autographs with the israelis and handshakes with secretary of state christopher then as to that they have an agreement with israel it will bring them closer to washington. and we understand that if you make an agreement it can be grabbed and it will open up relations to the arab world this was egypt. was pretty ticked deal we were accepted by the world relations been us and our board moved the much equally into the softness us embassies its authority this immediately allowed to denise to enter into serious negotiation with is leading a year later into a peace agreement us in jordan we accepted with the palestinians to all sorts of forms of force that we would not accept to be for huge investments came to israel. mega companies in the chinese japanese everybody came. and you're going to host died four months later. your hand holst and norway played an essential part in helping to turn the middle east from a cauldron of hostility into a cradle of hope later in one nine hundred ninety four arafat peres and rabin what all of your did the nobel pe

u.s. state department in order to chill in each of their opinion it's all about it's not enough money and this is a this is a us later apartments report well when it comes to them get into it everyone is entitled to give their own opinion but all i would say is that pakistan is fighting the biggest war on land we have made lot of secure faces approximately seventy thousand pakistanis lost their lives to the economy have suffered enormously but in spite of their resilience speaks and i wore looms every day our law enforcing agencies they have secured facing their lives for whom not for pakistan but for the coming generation and for the entire globe we are fighting the war of for the entire humanity and this needs to be applauded and i would strongly believe in korea message that if somebody somebody has any there is a ration the these do should come and see you simply the honorable senators from us not to zeerust on the initiatives which reach deep pockets on the gum industry can weather prodded by them so ok well speaking of the united states then how would you describe the state of relat

u.s. state department and that is stumble let's start with the white house and speak of correspondent there kimberly halkett. has now been missing for over a week and even though the president had mentioned it perhaps not in a strong terms as some people would have liked are we seeing a different a different attitude to the situation now from the president. we're seeing this white house essentially yield to public pressure the fact that this has registered high on the radar of ordinary americans we've had protests here in washington and later in new york city this is something that has been covered in the news media domestically for almost a week now intensely and we're seeing these continued questions about what the trumpet ministration intends to do about it given it is known that this white house has an established relationship with the saudi kingdom so we know that according to the white house press secretary sara sanders the president has in fact gotten involved he has had his telephone calls being made to high level saudi officials including the crown prince mohammed bin solomon made

u.s. state department officials say they have spoken to saudi arabia over the journalist mysterious disappearance because she spent the past year in the u.s. increasing concern over the fifty nine year olds while fur has seen pressure munt on washington from all sides including american journalists. and it's nearly a week it's his first reports of his disappearance and that statement from secretary pompei oh are you assuming that taking time to put out a statement means that the state department has not been doing anything is that your assumption of what was the state department doing the state department was engaged at the highest levels and also at the working level and having conversations with saudi government officials and i'll leave it up and so what was the reason behind that delay statement i wouldn't i wouldn't call it a delay why has not secretary powell has said that if the reports are true and the saudis our allies turn out to be cold blooded killers that there will be repercussions we're going to wait until the facts come out and we call again for a thorough and transparent investiga

u.s. state department reacted to the s. three hundred deployment saying it could escalate the situation in the region. just to remind you syria accidentally shot down a russian il twenty reconnaissance aircraft during an attack by israeli fighter jets the kremlin accused israel of using the larger russian plane must cover israel confirm conducting the earth strikes but say's its jets were outside syrian airspace when the plane was. live from moscow every hour of the day this is r t international we've got some great programs right ahead it's all made available for you later as well on our dot com up in the midst. of the soon. to be. lucy. meet. somebody that does know that some. you never know what's happening in. libya just think of that in the. it's seems wrong. to me to get to shape out just to come get educated and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. it's just a. simple yes swim if you. look at the sky. he think it will show. you the same thirty. some o

u.s. state department he says netanyahu is trying to improve relations with the arab world. from an israeli perspective this is a this is a big win for netanyahu i think you know he's going to be facing elections next year he wants to show his base and the israeli center that he can continue to be tough on the palestinians. but build bridges with the arab world and so this is a this is a clear boon for prime minister netanyahu from a palestinian perspective. i think it's tough it's a tough one mahmoud abbas is the palestinian leadership is clearly under pressure of up on the ropes they're under a lot of pressure from the u.s. they have water lost a lot of foreign assistance. and so this comes at a time that will sort of increase pressure on abbas to engage and then i should just finally say from an armani perspective i think this came as a surprise to many i just happened to be on the phone with a colleagues in oman early this morning before this news broke and they clearly had no idea what was going on just just at this moment and i think it's very interesting oman has come

u.s. state department. as soon as we heard these reports late saturday that these reports that he could have been killed at the hands of the saudis this is the reports we immediately reached out to the state department and done so several times both late saturday and into early sunday as well if the state department or the u.s. government knows anything they're not telling us they're keeping very close to lips on and we asked them specifically to respond and they said quote we are not in a position to confirm these reports but we are closely following the situation in quote that is all the reaction we're getting from the state department so far but make no mistake that the saudi government the u.s. government have very close relations right now so there is nothing preventing the different security apparatuses or governments from talking to each other that's for sure and he was very well known here in the united states particularly in new york and particularly in washington d.c. let's not forget that he was

u.s. state department and the u.n. according for a full and transparent inquiry into the case washington says its quotes concerned about the whereabouts of the journalist. police in germany have arrested a twenty year old man in connection with the death of a bulgarian journalists thirty year old victoria martin over was raped and killed in the bulgarian town of rose saying she'd been investigating alleged fraud with e.u. funds involving businessmen and politicians of all he was found in a park and showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head. the leader of bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister tariq rahman is the son of the former opposition leader. who's already in jail rahman was tried in absentia after he went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight one of the sons of egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been arrested at his home in cairo the family of a dollar more scenes

u.s. state department he says not that now who is trying to improve relations with the arab world. from an israeli perspective this is a this is a big win for netanyahu i think you know he's going to be facing elections next year he wants to show his base and the israeli center that he can continue to be tough on the palestinians but but build bridges with the arab world and so this is a this is a clear boon for prime minister netanyahu from a palestinian perspective. i think it's it's tough it's a tough one mahmoud abbas is the palestinian leadership is clearly under pressure of up on the ropes day they're under a lot of pressure from the u.s. they have a lot of lost a lot of foreign assistance. and so this comes at a time that will sort of increase pressure on abbas to engage and then i should just finally say from an armani perspective i think this came as a surprise to many i just happened to be on the phone with colleagues in oman early this morning before this news broke and they clearly had no idea what was going on just just at this moment and i think it's very interesting

u.s. state department funded report prompting the question where are all the countries which initially supported. for his newest nation. also ahead. fools big questions about what does that have to do is true i don't mind answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the trick has to do with the other headline in the new sexual assault allegations against donald trump supreme court nominee. the announcement of a wide ranging new trade deal with america's neighbors. germany reportedly greenlights a multi-million dollar.

he is raising this issue with the saudis this echoes some of the statements coming from his state department u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe releasing a statement saying that they are concerned about the disappear as they have spoken with the kingdom of saudi arabia through diplomatic channels and the united states is calling for a thorough and transparent investigation the vice president mike pence saying that the free world deserves answers. outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has ruled out running against donald trump in the twenty twenty presidential election after announcing her short resignation on tuesday she says she wants time out of public office i don't have anything set on where i'm going to go i think that the main thing was i was governor for six years and we dealt with a hurricane a thousand year flood a church shooting a school shooting there was a lot and then to come in and do two years of russia and iran and north korea it's been eight years of intense time and i'm a believer in term limits i think you have to be selfless enough to know when you step aside a